AQUALEX Concept Store Knokke

AQUALEX' first concept store dedicated to drinking water.

While you hear the sea bubbling in the background, you can discover works of art with water as their theme, buy exclusive objects and, of course, discover the AQUALEX drinking water taps in a beautiful setting.

Practical information

Location:

AQUALEX Concept Store Knokke
Kustlaan 249
8300 Knokke-Heist
+32 499 92 92 95
knokke@aqualex.eu

Opening hours

Monday: from 10:00 to 18:00
Tuesday and Wednesday: closed
Thursday to Saturday: from 10:00 to 18:00
Sunday and holidays: from 11:00 to 18:00

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AQUA V: Nature and Destruction

When artists depict nature, they usually show it in all its glory—vital, colorful, and teeming with energy. Think of the cave paintings of Lascaux, the flower paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe, or Monet's water lilies.

However, that same creative nature also has a dark, destructive side that is inevitably linked to life. Instinctively, the sight of that dark side—death, decay, disfigurement—repels us, yet we are equally drawn to it, as illustrated by the film clip of the cliff divers of La Quebrada by Hannelore Vandenbussche. There is little doubt that better-trained divers can be admired at the Olympic Games. But the fact that these cliff divers throw themselves from dizzying heights into a wild sea and a narrow, shallow bay surrounded by sharp rock walls adds an extra dimension to their act, which can only be explained by our fascination with (self-)destruction.

Fascination, moreover, is not the only positive emotion we experience when confronted with images of destruction, vulnerability, and decay. We are also capable of deriving aesthetic pleasure from them. And especially when artists, such as Kris Martin, Bram Coppens, and Marco De Sanctis in this exhibition, open our eyes to them and enrich our experience of them.