1918 - 2018 / Creation Theret

This 2018 creation by Jean-Marie and Vincent Theret is located at the 'centre d'interprétation d'art' in Vresse-sur-Semois.

It was placed there on the occasion of the centenary of the end of the First World War and was inaugurated by veterans, among others.

Since July 17, 2006, the art interpretation center (centre d'interprétation d'art) of the "Ecole de Vresse" is open to the public. It is located at the back of the town hall and is housed in the reconstructed rooms of the museum part of the former Tourist and Cultural Center, which was completely destroyed by fire during one night on All Saints' Day 1998.

At the beginning of 2015, the art interpretation center was equipped with audio guides, an interactive terminal and audiovisual screens, a plus for visitors!

The Interpretation Center has about two hundred works of art, mainly paintings.

The artists represented in the collection include: Baron Léon Frédéric, Albert Raty, Marie Howet, Yvonne Tellier, Jacques Vander Elst, Johnny Schuddeboom, Albert de Villeroux, Géo Warzée, Marcel Hubert, Henri Spitsaert, Guillaume Edeline, Jeanne Portenart, Louise Boxus-Chevy, Marie Lambrexhe, Mariette Koch, Christian Brasseur, Benjamin Gourmet, Claude Collignon, Francis Clébant, Jean-Marie Lambot. ... and several other painters who exhibited at "La Glycine" and who formed the "Ecole de Vresse".

Many of these artists can easily be classified in what has been called the "School of Vresse" for almost forty years, in the same way as the Schools of Tervuren, Sint-Martinus-Laethem, Barbizon or Pont-Aven. Of course, this is not "school" in the narrowest academic sense. There is no question here of a master and his disciples, or an artistic doctrine, or a single style, or an exclusive source of inspiration. Indeed, what could be more different than Albert Raty and Johnny Schuddeboom, Jacques Vander Elst and Albert de Villeroux, Geo Warzée and Marcel Hubert,... and so on! But, as we have long said, the Ecole de Vresse is above all a school of friendship and openness. It brings together all the artists who were drawn to and inspired by the Basse-Semois, all those who surrounded Albert Raty, then all those who accompanied José Chaidron in his adventure of La Glycine, and finally all those who - during the last twenty years - have continued this fabulous artistic epic: the former Tourist and Cultural Center, the Academy, the Art District, the painters of Laforêt,... In short, all who bear witness to the fact that the history of art in Vresse does not end , but that the future is full of promise and talent.

Open daily from 30/3 to 11/11 from 1pm to 5pm on weekdays and from 2pm to 6pm on weekends. Groups by appointment.

Prices (2022): 5€ adult - 3€ seniors/groups/students - children -12 years free

Willem Vandenameele