Koen Broucke: De kunstenaar die detective wilde zijn
Annick Lesage (Ed.)
Artha, 2026
€34,95
Deep down, Belgian artist Koen Broucke (b. 1965) is a detective. His investigation serves as the perfect alibi for creating new artworks. Author and podcast maker Annick Lesage has followed and documented this process for a year. She looks, as it were, into the artist’s mind and heart and allows herself to be carried along into his fascinating labyrinth of Knossos. Both are receptive to the historical sensation; together they get lost in crypts and ancient ruins, archives, auction houses, and libraries. Navigating between intuition, humor, and deadly seriousness, they search for connections.
What is real and what is fake? Is there a code to crack here? What needs to be revealed? Is the truth hidden in the crumpled parts of history?
The ultimate crime case is reopened: the theft of the panel from *The Just Judges*. At the same time, Lesage traces the origins of the monumental anti-war painting *My Guernica*, Broucke’s version of Picasso’s most famous work. Curious connections between Guernica and The Just Judges are coming to light, and new, unsettling leads to the lost panel are being explored. Perhaps, amidst anger, hope, and humor, a resolution awaits us?
‘I think the central theme of my work is historical research and reconstruction. And further searching for absolute romantic beauty. And then, of course, the impossible combination of both.’ (Koen Broucke) IN DUTCH!
ISBN: 9789464368345
