This was very handy, thanks.

No conclusions yet.

Art of Darkness?🤔

The statue was featured at the 1937 World Expo in Paris*

An image of the statue is prominently featured on the cover of Stanard, Matthew. 2023. The Leopard, the Lion, and the Cock Colonial Memories and Monuments in Belgium. Leuven: Leuven University Press. A summary of its history can be found on pages 160-162.

Via library.oapen.org/viewer/web/v...

Paris before it was installed at its current location in Etterbeek in 1962, two years after Congo’s independence. It’s one of the most contested displays of Belgian colonial art in the public space. Via collections.heritage.brussels/fr/objects/5...

Dupagne was an agent of mining company Société internationale forestière et minière du Congo (Forminière) between 1927 and 1935. Upon resettling in Belgium, he became one of the country’s most productive sculptors in the field of colonial propagandist art.

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Op dit moment werk ik een artikel af waarbij ik, onder andere, laat zien hoe het Belgische kolonisatieproject in Guatemala niet losstond van andere vormen van Europees imperialisme. Zo werd het Belgische experiment in Santo Tomas zelfs aanzien als een "model" voor de Franse kolonisatie van Algerije.

Needless to say, it was never realised. This is what the "city" looked like in 1844.

🗺️via uurl.kbr.be/1824398, digitized by @kbrbe

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On the bottom of Lake Aswan. Powered by the Dam. Imagine.