After studying Art History and Philosophy of Art, Piet decided that for him the creation of an image was more important than the word. Passionate about film and music, he combines his work as a film and art critic with photography. :: Piet Goethals (born in Ghent 16/03/1959, Belgium) is a master of History of Art and Art Philosophy and a bachelor in Dutch and English literature and language. He made his paper about Fiction and Reality in Film, illustrated by Zulawski’s ‘L’important c’est d’aimer’. After university he studied photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent, Belgium. Piet Goethals works as a film- and art critic. As well as a photographer. As a critic, he wrote articles in: ‘Screen International’, ‘De Morgen’, ‘De Tijd’, ‘Trends’, ‘Apollo’, ‘Feeling’, ‘Stijl/Talkies’, ‘Knack-Focus’. ‘Filmmagie’, ‘Variety’. He published and publishes photographs in several newspapers and magazines in Belgium and abroad, such as: ‘Knack’, ‘Feeling’, ‘Trends’, ‘Gentleman’, ‘Weekend’, ‘Deng’, ‘Teek’, ‘Cahiers du Cinéma’, ‘Parkett’, ‘Studio’, ‘Première’, ‘Wire’, ‘Notes’, ‘De Standaard Magazine’, ‘De Tijd’, ‘De Morgen’, ‘Deze Week in Brussel’ en ‘Télé Moustique’. He specialises in portraits of directors (theatre and film), choreographers, artists, actors and musicians. In 2011 he directed the videoclip ‘Getting Old’ for the Belgian band Barefoot and the Shoes. Since 2015 THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, LONDON owns six of his black and white portraits of British filmmakers/actors (Peter Greenaway, Lynne Ramsay, Derek Jarman, Jane Birkin & Dirk Bogarde, Stephen Frears, James Marsh) He exhibited in: Salzburg (Festspiele); Antwerp (FoMu - museum of Photography); Amsterdam (Brakke Grond); Ghent (Caermersklooster; Kunsthal Sint-Pietersabdij; Filmfestival Ghent; Vooruit, during 'Vooruit Geluid Festival'); Berlin (Berlinale); Cannes (Cannes Filmfestival for its 50th birthday); Bruges (Bogardenkapel; all over Bruges during Cinema Novo Filmfestival); Nijmegen; travelling Group exhibition through Flanders and the Netherlands with pictures of Meg Stuart organised by VTI; travelling exhibition 'BusteHouder' with portraits of women (a project about women and breastcancer); Brussels (St.Gorikshallen; Flagey).
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