The World Expo 2010 will take place in Shanghai. The Belgian Pavilion is focusing on a few major Belgian specialities such as chocolate. This has inspired Lieve Dejonghe to create an installation (4 m high, 1,3 m wide) consisting of four paintings, a picture and a commercial slogan, which will be shown at the Expo from May 1st on. She integrates elements of Chinese and Western culture and uses chocolate as a subject, as she has actually already been doing for a number of years. She plays with the ambiguous slogan ‘The Art of Chocolate’ in the four paintings linked by it, asking the question ‘What is Art?’ The fourth painting addresses the essence of the ‘Art of living’. The picture forms a stark contrast with the busy scene of the World Expo; it remembers the spectator that creating art remains an individual experience, realised in the intimate atmosphere of an artist’s studio. To learn more about the installation, see on this website ‘about her recent works’.

35 paintings of Lieve Dejonghe will be shown in two beautiful galleries in Shanghai (discover some of these paintings on pages: 2009-2010 and 2006-2008)

• May 26th till June 30th: Shanghai Spring gallery.
  No 5, lane 209, Nanchang Road, Shanghai, China
  (invitation)
  
  
  
• September 3th till October 3th: Tangram Art center.
  2F building 17, 50 Moganshan Road, Shanghai, 200060, China
  

And there is more. For those of you visiting the Grand Place in Brussels, there is a chance to see some of her paintings in a private exhibition at n° 4, the ‘Maison des Maitres Chocolatiers Belges’.
They will be on display till the end of the World expo on October 31st . Call +32(0)487.615.145 for a visit.

Lieve is in love with China since 20 years, passionate with painting since 30 years and has a sentimental link with chocolate since always. Obviously she is delighted to participate in these major events.

 

The location of Lieve’s installation in the Belgian pavillon at the World Expo, with the Chinese slogan; the four paintings (50x50cm) and the picture (30x30cm) that are part of the installation of 4 m high and 1,3 m wide.