'Thank God for the Gift' tells the story of Jan Hoet, one of the most striking figures from recent Belgium art history. | dG1fV045ZElCNl8wSms
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00:00When you enter the room, it's definitely charismatic presence, you know, everything moves.
00:26It's about movement.
00:28You arrive and there was another dynamic and dynamic change in two seconds.
00:42He was the only curator that looked at work in a local, somatic way.
00:58You know, and it was absolutely unique.
01:12I am an employee of the city, and not executive, you understand?
01:29And so the museum has this piece, you understand?
01:33And if you like it or not, it is 15 million D-Mark worth today, and I bought it for 30,000
01:39D-Mark.
01:40That's it.
01:41I think that every art project that was born in Ghent should pay tribute to the birth
01:52of art in Ghent, namely from the Lambos.
01:55You can't completely decipher it, it's the mother of all masterpieces.
02:02And Jan Uyt also thought so, and he could hurt it if artists or people from the art world
02:08came to Ghent.
02:09They wouldn't have visited the Lambos.
02:10He didn't understand that.
02:11If Jan had it for you, it would go through fire for you.
02:12If he didn't have it for you, then he could sometimes, I've experienced that, he could
02:13sometimes really break down in tears.
02:14And when he started to cry, he would start to cry.
02:15He would start to cry.
02:16He would start to cry.