Tag: Koenraad Tinel

EMBRACE – Speech Herman Van Rompuy


Herman Van Rompuy – former Prime Minister of Belgium and first President of the European Council. Speech during the inauguration of Koenraad Tinel’s new work of art ‘Embrace’ , Friday, October 26 – in Ganshoren , Brussels , Belgium.
EMBRACE is a translation of the remarkable friendship between the artist Koenraad Tinel and lawyer Simon Gronowski, who both carry a heavy war history with them.
Embrace is a realization of the De Zeyp community center on the occasion of the 40th anniversary, and is part of the Grundtvig project ‘2WARdS-Europe’ .
EMBRACE – Speech Herman Van Rompuy (20181027) film by Michel van der Burg – Miracles.Media | michelvanderburg.com

Embrace


This new work of art ‘Embrace’ was inaugurated today – Friday, October 26 – in Ganshoren , Brussels , Belgium. At the foot of the Basilica Koekelberg, at the beginning of the Van Overbekelaan, the corten steel sculpture was placed last monday and filmed in this panoramic view from the Basilica. This work is a translation of the remarkable friendship between artist Koenraad Tinel and lawyer Simon Gronowski, who both carry a heavy war history with them.
Embrace is a realization of the De Zeyp community center on the occasion of the 40th anniversary, and is part of the Grundtvig project ‘2WARdS-Europe’
Embrace (20181026) artwork panoramic view by Michel van der Burg – Miracles.Media | michelvanderburg.com

Miracles


① memo 20180215 ~ Miracles ~ Today ‘Miracles’ is announced : our title for the upcoming documentary on Simon Gronowski and Koenraad Tinel !

Today, also, we announce the birth of the Miracles•Media site and new film house !
Miracles•Media is first and foremost for promotion of the Miracles documentary film, and will further serve as platform and online portfolio of other productions.

“Ma vie n’est que de miracles” – My life is only miracles – Simon Gronowski.

Good Night


① memo 20171025 ~ Good Night ~ Flowers last night , from the ASF België / Belgique (Belgian ASF association of Action Reconciliation Service for Peace) and the Atelier , for both the Piano trio Vincent Tohier, Daniela Giovanna Becerra Pérez, and Elisabeth Sturtewagen , and for Koenraad Tinel & Simon Gronowski after the interview by Walter Pauli at the Atelier Marcel Hastir in Brussels , Belgium

KRAKÓW – OŚWIĘCIM

① memo 20160524 ~ KRAKÓW – OŚWIĘCIM ~ Train from Kraków Główny to Oświęcim visiting the Auschwitz-Birkenau camps – together with Simon Gronowski , Koenraad Tinel , and Marianne Soetewey’s Belgian TV (VRT) film crew – May 24, 2012

Sculptor’s Monument Transport XX

① memo 20160427 ~ Sculptor’s Monument Transport XX ~ Sculptor Koenraad Tinel looks at the corten steel work of Etienne Desmet – the Transport XX monument in Boortmeerbeek , Belgium, during the commemoration April 27, 2014. Both Belgian visual artists were born in Ghent.
The sculpture commemorates the heroic attack in Boortmeerbeek April 19, 1943 on the deportation train ‘Transport XX’ – a cattle car train crammed with 1631 Jewish passengers, heading for Auschwitz – by three young men from Brussels – Youra Livschitz, Robert Maistriau and Jean Franklemon – who succeeded in opening one of the cars and liberate 17 people.