'Omdat ik geen beeld ben'

All his life, the Belgian literary genius Hugo Claus was also a passionate and prolific painter and draughtsman, and a member of the Cobra group. He destroyed many of his drawings and paintings, but some three hundred works spanning a period of fifty years have survived. Many of them are illustrated in this sumptuous catalogue with essays by Jef Lambrecht, Rudi Fuchs and Remco Campert to accompany the major retrospective of this consummate artist in Muzee, Ostend. Exhibition: Muzee, Ostend, Belgium (21 Sept., 2013-5 Jan., 2014).