Jean-Claude Vantroyen’s mood post.
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Published on 04/25/2024 at 7:09 p.m.
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I hate turning the pages of the books I read. To know where I am when I temporarily give up reading, I use a postcard. And particularly postcards purchased in museums or during exhibitions. I’m reading at the moment Being a mother, from a collective of authors including Julia Kerninon, Adeline Dieudonné, Victoire de Changy. My postcard is a reproduction of a small painting from the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, The little girl with the dead bird. It’s both dramatic and serene. Like the collection of stories. Before that, I used a photo by Cas Oorthuys, where we see men clinging to a tram, in 1946 in Brussels. In my small collection, there is also The empire of lights by Magritte and All the lights of Delvaux, the Venus by Lucas Cranach, a portrait of his wife Nel by Rik Wouters, or a photo by Maria Gilissen showing Marcel Broodthaers in front of the entrance to the Palais des Beaux-Arts with a camel, in 1974.
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