Program and activities 2013

We reserve the right to alter this information if circumstances so require.[Last update 27.04.2012]
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until 6 January 2013 > DOUBLE EXHIBITION ‘Images of Mary. The Madonna in the patrimony of Bruges’
From4 May to 25 August 2013 > EXHIBITION 'Fabienne Verdier'

until 6 January 2013 > DOUBLE EXHIBITION ‘Images of Mary. The Madonna in the patrimony of Bruges’ Top

> Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-ter-Potterie
   open every day from 09:30 to 17:00 | closed on Mondays
    € 2 (indiv.) | € 1 (red. et 6-25 years) | free for children under 6 years
> Sint-Walburgakerk (from 19 april until 30 septembre 2012)
   open every day from 10:00 to 13:00 and from 14:00 to 18:00
   free

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The old infirmary of O.L.V.-ter-Potterie (Our Lady of the Pottery) houses a temporary exhibition, offering a representative selection of Madonna and Child statues from the various collections of Musea Brugge. With this small exhibition, it is intended to focus attention on a less well known aspect of the city’s artistic patrimony, but an aspect that nonetheless deserves to be (re)discovered. The location is perfect: the Virgin is everywhere, even in the name of the building.

The St. Walburga Church is the setting for a display of eight ’dressed’ statues of the Madonna and Child, all of which are on temporary loan from various church councils in Bruges. The tradition of dressing Madonna statues in fine ceremonial robes dates back to the period of Spanish rule fromring the 17th century. This type of devotional statue was often carried in religious processions.

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From4 May to 25 August 2013 > EXHIBITION 'Fabienne Verdier' Top

Groeningemuseum
Every day from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., except on Monday
€ 8 (indiv.) | € 6 (red.) | € 1 (6-25 years) | free until 5 years
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In 2013 the French artist Fabienne Verdier (1962) will pay homage to the Flemish masters in the Groeningemuseum with some new paintings. In her often monumental abstract paintings, she uses a very wide and extremely subtle range of colours. She gets her inspiration among others from the works of Jan van Eyck, Hans Memling and Rogier van der Weyden. The glaze, transparency and depth of colors greatly fascinate her. Fabienne Verdier uses selfmade giant brushes which can be up to 2 meters high and can weigh - steeped in ink - 70 kg. The canvases are put horizontally on the floor and the brushes are attached to the ceiling of her studio through a hoist, so she can freely paint in a vital movement.
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