Cultuur Gent

The cultural service of the city of Ghent
Vincent Glowinski ©Michiel Devijver

Vincent Glowinski

The city organises an annual car-free Sunday in September to make room for a highly varied and festive programme. In 2018 the B401 viaduct was the place to be for art, food, music and sustainable dreams for the future. The organising partners wished to collaborate with an artist who sees the street as their studio and works on a large scale.

Vincent Glowinski took up the challenge and wanted to create a series of prehistoric birds (a recurring topic in his oeuvre). The bird wants to set Vooruit symbolically in motion from Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat to the flyover. He painted this work not under his alias Bonom, but under his real name.  Next to De Vooruit, he created an artwork on the rear wall of Nest, but it has faded over the years.  A third mural can be seen on the flyover.

What will happen to these works of art? This question is an essential part of his work. Should the murals be preserved or removed? Or will they be effaced by time and if so, how quickly? These questions are characteristic of street art. Vincent Glowinski consciously integrates these questions into his art: he works with ordinary interior paint which gets washed off over time.