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    "There are no tyrannies that would not try to limit art, because they can see the power of art. Art can tell the world things that cannot be shared otherwise. It is art that conveys feelings."

     - Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the President of Ukraine 

    Jan Cox

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    ©Collection Province of Antwerp
    La porte des arbres, Pincio, Rome, 1955
    Jan Cox
    Painting , 130 x 52 cm
    oil, canvas

    “Perhaps we’ll open the day’s doors. And then we shall enter the unknown.”[1] 

    Art can open doors to the unknown for the artist, but also for the viewer. Some things we suspect or feel, but often we are grasping at straws. Fiction will let you approach the field, which is only marginally present, and shed light on the dormant and vaguely determined. Jan Cox points to fiction’s strength in removing the factual reality, while also gaining an increased understanding of that reality. Some phenomena or diffuse feelings are best communicated through images.[2]

    [1] Octavio Paz, A Draft of Shadows, and Other Poems, A New Direction Books, New York, 1972, p. 161

    [2] Clair Van Damme in Jan Cox, Snoeck-Ducaju & zoon, Gemeentekrediet, 1996, p.80

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