Oostende - Ensor 13.02-29.082010, Belgien

Följ med på en stadsvandring som ger en bild av konstnären James Ensor i hans hemstad Oostende. 

Je crois être un peintre d'exception - I believe I am an exceptional painter.... wrote the artist James Ensor in 1899 to his friend and contemporary, the Bruges painter Jules Du Jardin and that statement immediately conjures up a picture of James Ensor. His imposing physical appearance, unusual lifestyle and original ideas made him a myth even during his lifetime; his death only reinforced this image.

In 2010 it will be 150 years since James Ensor was born in Ostend. For the Mu.ZEE, which in 2008 took charge of the former collection of Ostend's Museum of Fine Arts, including work by James Ensor, this was the perfect pretext to devote an exhibition to this talented master. In 2009 the MoMA in New York and the Musée d'Orsay in Paris each organized a James Ensor exhibition. Mu.ZEE follows in the footsteps of these illustrious international institutions by mounting Visiting Ensor which opens on February 13th 2010. But.... in Ostend a rather different story is told!