7 arts, 1922-1928

Stéphane Boudin-Lestienne, Alexandre Mare, Yaron Pesztat, Iwan Strauven

In 1922, three very young people created a revue of the name of '7 Arts'. As its name implies, it intends to promote all arts but above all their synthesis, in view of the architecture and cinema, which have this particularity of meeting them all. Pierre Bourgeois, the poet, Victor Bourgeois, the architect and Pierre Louis Flouquet, the painter, will soon be joined by Georges Monier, the musician and Karel Maes, but also an engraver and furniture creator. 100 years ago, the avant-garde flourished in Brussels. In 1922, Pierre and Victor Bourgeois, Karel Maes, Pierre-Louis Flouquet and Georges Monier launched the influential magazine 7 Arts. The Brusselsers were ardent advocates of plastic pure (or: geometric abstraction) and promoted a synthesis of all arts. Painting, sculpture, decorative art, literature, music and film were henceforth viewed from architecture and urban planning. Very...