Description:
Since the early 1980s Hugo Voeten has been collecting works with a special predilection for sculpture. At present, the collection contains over 1,500 works. Modern sculpture from 1880 is very well represented with works by Rodin, Maillol, Archipenko, Barlach, Zadkine, Caro, Breker up to contemporary works by Tapies, Panamarenko, Ai WeiWei, to name but a few. A part of the collection is dedicated to modern and contemporary Bulgarian art, with a remarkable assembly of the interventions by Christo. Hugo Voeten has totally reconverted an ancient industrial building into a climatised art and exhibition centre: the old "Flour Mills" in Herentals along the Campine Canal - a building dating from the 1950s. The Art Center will gradually extend its accessibility for visitors. On a regular basis, temporary exhibitions will highlight special selections of the collection, which still keeps growing