On 14 June a retrospective of the work of the Flemish painter Roger Raveel (1921), who will be 90 this year, will open in the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Santiago de Chile.
Fifty to Sixty top works will be on display, including paintings, drawings and objects from seven decades of production.
This is Raveel’s first retrospective in South America since he participated in the São Paulo Biennale in 1971.
Every facet of Raveel’s work will be featured, from the development of his own typical imagery in the years spanning the transition from the 1940s to the1950s, the so-called abstract period from the end of the 1950s to the early 1960s, the return to figuratism in the 1960s and 1970s, the plastic evolutions between 1980 and 1990, to the more ethereal and modest art of the early 21st century.
There will also be a book published in Spanish about Raveel.
Even more exhibitions
Raveel’s birthday will have echoes elsewhere too.
In the Raveel Museum in Machelen-aan-de-Leie, in East Flanders, the Albisola exhibition will run from 3 July - 30 October. It will portray Raveel in an international context with well-known artists like Lucio Fontana and Asger Jorn, whom he met in Italy in the 1960s.
The Dutch Museum of Modern Art in Arnhem will also show a major retrospective from 8 October. Here the emphasis will be on his drawings. A film about Raveel’s life and work will also be premiered.
Read about Raveel in the first issue of The Low Countries Yearbook.
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