Jan Theuninck visiting Ghent: Statue of Jacob van Artevelde in the background, October 19, 2025

 

Jacob Van Artevelde was born in Ghent of a wealthy commercial family. He married twice and amassed a fortune in the weaving industry. He rose to prominence during the early stages of the Hundred Years' War. Fearful that hostilities between France and England would hurt the prosperity of Ghent, he entered political life in 1337. He set up an alliance with Bruges and Ypres (later the Four Members) in order to show neutrality. Van Artevelde gained control of the insurrection against Louis I, the Count of Flanders who had abandoned his father's anti-French policies. Louis I was forced to flee to France, while van Artevelde served as captain general of Ghent from that time until his death. During a riot on July 24, 1345, Jacob van Artevelde was murdered with an axe by the weaver Thomas Denijs in the courtyard of his house on Kalandeberg, as he was returning from negotiations with the English king in Sluis. The most likely explanation for the murder lies in the notorious intolerance of the people of Ghent and the conflict between weavers and fullers.

ASOCIACIÓN DE ESCRITORES Y ARTISTAS DEL ORBE AEADO- ASEADLO - JUNTA DIRECTIVA 2011-2013 - VICEPRESIDENTE ARTISTA : Jan Theuninck (Bélgica)

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x04OCJrSHJg

2 nov 2010

*PRESIDENTE: Samuel Cavero Galimidi (Perú) *VICEPRESIDENTA: Gloria Dávila Espinoza (Perú) *SECRETARIO ORGANIZACIÓN: Manuel Lozano (Argentina) *VICESECRETARIO: Santiago Risso (Perú) *DIRECTOR DE PUBLICACIONES: Jorge Aliaga (Escocia) *VICEPRESIDENTE ARTISTA : Jan Theuninck (Bélgica) *RELACIONES EXTERNAS : Mavi Marquez (Chile) *BIBLIOTECARIOS: -Mérida Cruz-Lascano (Guatemala) -Bettoven Medina (Perú) *TESORERA: Sara Vanegas (Ecuador) *VICETESORERA: Laura Olalla (España) *SECRETARIO DE PRENSA Y PROPAGANDA: Roy Davatoc *ASESORÍA JURÍDICA Y LEGAL: -Dr. Froylàn Solano Capcha -Dr.Raul Gàlvez Cuellar -Dr. Cesar Augusto Salomon (Italia) *ASESOR: Gerardo Alcántara Salazar *Comité de Lectura: Rubén Domínguez Alvarenga (Suiza) *Dirección de Comunicación: Jeton Kelmendi (Yugoslavia) *Espacio web y blog: Segundo Llontop *Vocales -Francisco Gabriel Lopez Fuentes -Remisson Aniceto (Brasil) -Waldina Mejia (Honduras) -Juan Hernández Jover -------------------------------------------------------------------

Jan Theuninck visiting Antwerp: MAS in the background, October 12, 2025

 

The MAS aims to be an international and pioneering museum about the global connectedness between people and collections from different cultures and environments. With a river of tales, viewed from multiple perspectives, we engage everyone to be curious about the present, past and future of Antwerp and the world.

you never walk alone - Jan Theuninck in De Panne, Belgium, October 9, 2025 (artwork Christophorus by Gerhard Lentink)

 

Jan Theuninck visiting King Albert I monument in Nieuwpoort, Belgium, October 1, 2025

 

Jan Theuninck in Ostend, the 1932 built sailing ship Mercator, in the background. September 23, 2025

 

Jan Theuninck with Joseph Saverino(left) and Paco Perez(right) in Marche-en-Famenne, September 20, 2025

 

Je MARCHE-rai les yeux fixés sur mes pensées... (Victor Hugo) 

"Un trio de choc, de coeur et de grands artistes" (Mylène  Fricot)

"Ils restent authentiques à eux-mêmes malgré les honneurs, les distinctions et médailles reçues à travers le monde" (Theogallagher de Clermont)

Jan Theuninck at Atomium in Brussels, Belgium (September 16, 2025)

 

Jan Theuninck visiting "Pikkeling" International folkloric harvest festival in Aalst, Belgium

July 25, 2025

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"Jan Theuninck" uploaded image transformed into a sculpture by Bobolito for the MACHINA installation at Zebrastraat, Ghent

 

Bobolito's (Tom Dekyvere) MACHINA project with:
more than 600 unique selfie sculptures created!
Visualising human reflections.
Machina is a series of private&public light art sculptures that show how light and shadows can generate effects. Just like the human thoughts are inspired by their given perspectives, light also forms and reforms due to objects and infiltrating parameters on different surfaces. The artworks play with the link between those parallel principles. The human brain has always been effected by external influences, and in today’s world we see a lot of “boosted” ways to penetrate into that thinking mechanism. Digital media, publicity, cookies or the neighbors talk all have a specific effect on how we formulate our ideas. In style, but also in the creation of our thoughts, mood and on a next level our physical body language. The artwork “Machina” wants to materialize that principle and literally exhibits the effects of other people’s positions on the individual. The works partially explore the source, the parameters of effect, the contours and the final projection of human contemplation and expression.

https://bobolito.com/machina
https://www.zebrastraat.be/