elliott erwitt (brussels)

Following its huge success in Paris (Musée Maillol) and Lyon (La Sucrière), with over 300,000 enthusiastic visitors, the Elliott Erwitt exhibition is opening in Brussels. Thanks to a close collaboration with Exhibition Hub, it will be held at the emblematic Grand Place. With over 215 photographs, this exhibition is a retrospective of Elliott Erwitt's work, the most comprehensive to date and the last to be designed with the photographer, who died at the end of 2023. The result of a dialogue between Tempora and the Magnum Photos agency, the exhibition attempts to present the many facets of his work and to identify its distinctive features: humor, irony tinged with tenderness, an ever-inquisitive curiosity, an emphasis on emotion, which this cultivated man favored over a dryly intellectual approach. Above all, it highlights the humanism that permeates the whole of his work. In his own words: “In reality, to say that there is humanity in my photos is the greatest compliment I have ever been given. If my photos allow people to see the world in a certain way, it's certainly to see serious things in a non-serious way.” His business, he says, is “the human condition.” And ours, too.