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There are several galleries and small museums in Mechelen and it's always a lot of fun to visit their exhibits. If you visit one you can usually find information on other exhibits close by too and that's how I saw a leaflet for an exhibit about Marcel Mariën.
Marcel Mariën was a Belgian surrealist. He was one of the last 'real' surrealists (he died in 1993!). I had seen some of his work so I thought it'd be fun to see some more. And indeed it was!
This exhibit is in a 'normal' old house in a 'normal' street in Mechelen. The lady of the gallery told us that it was done on purpose because the artist also was as middle-class as he was surrealist. The work shown is mostly photography and is very erotic and funny. I like his other works better but it's good to see what else was going on in his mind. And indeed the setting works great!
This exhibit is still running un till april the 15th (see www.francelejeune.com). But if you don't want to come to Mechelen you might consider going to the 'Surrealism in Belgium'-exhibit in Mons which promises to be quite good and will include Mariën's work too (one of his works is on the poster!).
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