THE VAN HOE COLLECTION GRAMMAR OF TEXTILES

"The Van Hoe Collection Grammar of Textiles" presents a selection of approximately 80 studies and drawings from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century from from the collection of designer, textile designer and artist Marc Van Hoe. A small A selection from the collection will be exhibited in Brussels (Horta Museum) and in Riga (Lithuania) in 2020. With this collection, I try to make it clear that it is not It's not just about designs for textiles, there's more to it than that: making links with developments in art, culture, politics is logical and at least as important. Above all, my collection aims to awaken curiosity to (learn to) read images. Marc Van Hoe" ... Man, or rather the artist, who hides behind this rich collection composed of fragments, sketches, drawings, enlargements for fabrics and papers painted, is not the type to keep his collection under lock and key. Sometimes, the drawings are simply hung on the wall using magnets, without a frame or glass. Their skin is in contact with air and light, they are alive. They are not not put away in drawers. Van Hoe enthusiastically lets them bud, a term which the dictionary says: to open the chalice, to unlock. Because This collection starts a conversation. Marc Van Hoe, creator of patterns and fabrics, in permanent dialogue with the drawings he saved from death certain. Sometimes, the collector also becomes a creator. And lets it blossom his designs, from thistle to dahlia. Behind the collection, a garden where the patterns flourish, are the artists and artisans with whom Marc Van Hoe dialogue. He no longer stylizes and draws plants, he scans them literally before working on them. From the layer to the scanner, from the pixel to the pigment. Stylization doesn't matter, as long as there is passion."