Jan Bosschaert
The Illustration House, a gallery in Chelsea, New York had a wonderful exhibition and sale going on for the past 5 weeks. It is titled: Sequential Art: The Universal Language. Five Belgian artists have their work on display until tomorrow and everything is for sale. The artists are: Jan Bosschaert, Ilah, Nix, Olivier Schrauwen and Judith Van Istendael, all comic book artists.
I have always been a fan of Ilah. I think her Cordelia comic is just sheer genius and I've had similar emotions many many times :-)
I wasn't in the city for the opening of the exposition with all the artists present, but I found some picture online on the fansite of Jan Bosschaert.
When I was younger, I liked reading Sam, the comic about the girl with the mechanical skills. I was probably already to old to be the real target group, but nevertheless, I liked it very much. Jan Bosschaert has so many skills. His comic books are funny, inventive and interesting, his pin-ups for Che Magazine are gorgeous and his paintings are just wonderful. When browsing through the catalogue of the work on display in New York I fell in love with two of his paintings. So I decided to buy one (the other one was a bit above my budget). So I went to the gallery this weekend and my first art-buy in New York is reality. This is what I bought:
What do you think?
Nice painting. Jan Bosschaert is really great. How much did you pay for this one? I like the big one in the middle of the top row on this photo. But I guess it would be very much out of my budget range: http://users.skynet.be/bosschaertfansite4/NY%202008/met%20nikkie%20aerts%20radio%201.jpg
Posted by: Fery Vanhemelryck | Aug 19, 2008 at 06:48
Sorry Claudia that my comment is off topic.
But plz listen....I'm looking for the serie "Topmanager" flemish version with you and Koen etcetera. Do you know anybody who can copy this for me on dvd ?
I'll pay for it for sure...
Maybe you can pass my email-adres to him/her...
Thx in advance !!!
Keep up the good work !!
A Limburger in Antwerp :)
Posted by: Geert | Aug 20, 2008 at 16:51
@Fery: that was the other one I liked a lot. Price 7500 dollars... just a bit too much for me.
Posted by: Claudia | Aug 21, 2008 at 15:12