Exhibit review: Fantastic Art in Belgium, Kobe, Japan

Fantastic Art in Belgium
The Hyōgo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe

One hundred twenty pieces of the fantastic, mostly sketches and paintings, with an emphasis on Hieronymus Bosch.  Given the nature of the work, which typically features detailed illustration filling up all corners of the canvas, close inspection was necessary -- but unfortunately often not possible. The weekend crowd made viewing a laborious exercise of standing in a slow moving queue, or dancing around the room trying to find spaces in the crowd in order to get a glimpse of at least a few pieces.   Layout was fairly typical, each painting or drawing in it's own frame, hung eye level, perhaps 50cm apart. No photography was permitted within the exhibit. Jet lag drug me down more quickly than I anticipated and the visit was mostly a disappointment.

(Poster for same show after it moved from Kobe to Tokyo.)

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