The exhibition “Harry Gruyaert. A World in Colour” shows around 120 images by the Belgian artist and European pioneer of colour photography. Harry Gruyaert created most of his extensive body of work during his trips to countries such as Egypt, India, Morocco, the US, Russia, Spain or France. With his extraordinary sense for composing colour and space, he captures landscapes and urban scenes, emphasising contrasts: the play of light and shadow in an airport terminal, the intense yellow of an American vintage car, the vibrant colours of Moroccan streets or the muted tones of Belgian landscapes. Gruyaert (* 1941, Antwerp, Belgium) discovers these mostly cheerful, occasionally melancholic splashes of colour even where they would go unnoticed by most passers-by and applies them to shape his motifs’ compositions.
