accrochage «Voyages Intérieurs» april - june 2013
Born in 1981 in Belgium. Lives and works in Ghent.
The immediate surroundings of Steven Baelen are the most important source of inspiration for his dense filled drawings, that he rather calls ‘notes’. Although at first glance his drawings appear very accurate and full of details, they are always a subjective interpretation of the reality he depicts. According to curator Francesco Bernardelli, his creations are characterized by a certain quiet, introspective attitude. “Baelen's ensemble of works is rich in little hidden surprises (when not almost treasures), not so easy or immediate to be recognized.” His drawings are works of art by themselves, but they might also be the basis for more abstract paintings.
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accrochage «Lightness?» january - march 2012
John Baldessari was born in 1931 in the United States. He lives and works in California.
Combining images, paintings and words, Baldessari creates visual juxtapositions that challenge meanings. He upends commonly held expectations of how images function, often by drawing the viewer's attention to minor details, absences or spaces between things.
Throughout the whole of his career, Baldessari's sharp insights into the conventions of art production, the nature of perception and the relationship of language to mass-media imagery are tempered by a keen sense of humor.
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accrochages «Voyages Intérieurs» april - june 2013, «Rouge» september - december 2012
Born in 1974 in Belgium. Lives and works in Brussels.
Stephan Balleux’s work is articulated around pictorial perception and the conceptual idea of painting. Working with different techniques (drawing, painting, sculpture, video and special effects) creates various experiences. From these experiences emerges an image, in constant change, erasing any temporality. The artist deals with how painting is positioned in the digital age. He investigates the relationship between a traditional form of representation – painting – with contemporary forms of images’ production such as 3D virtual images and computer-manipulated images. His approach is historical and thematic, analytical and emotional, all together reflecting on the present and the future of painting.
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accrochage «Struggle(s)» april - june 2012
Gilles Barbier, born in 1965 in Vanuatu, lives and works in Marseille.
His work – which includes sculptures, drawings, photographs and installations – is based on principles of doubt, polysemy and ambivalence. Barbier is inspired by disciplines as diverse as philosophy, plastic art, psychoanalysis and comic strips. With his creations, filled with humor, the artist questions notions of reality, identity and copy.
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accrochage «Lightness?» january - march 2012
Jurga Barilaite was born in 1972 in Lithuania. She lives and works in Vilnius.
From painting and assemblage, she gradually moved to video art. The language of painting, history and myths form the basis of most of her works.
Barilaitė’s video art is distinctively performative, and reveals strategies of feminine construction. The artist employs her body to deliver messages varying from erotica to aggression, sentimentality to irony.
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accrochage «Origine(s)» may - june 2011
Martin Barré, abstract painter, 1924 - 1993.
His paintings are mostly white, off-white or clear, with only a few lines or arrows. He painted with tubes, wooden sticks or aerosol paints, all in search of reduction and concentration. The artist created entire series of works and geometric assemblies. Barré brought together triangles, squares and rectangles, sometimes truncated or tinted, and hung then according to their geometric shape. He also produced photographic installations.
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accrochage «Voyages Intérieurs» april - june 2013
Born in 1959 in Ireland. Lives and works between France and UK.
Neal Beggs pursues the aim to endlessly push back the boundaries of the art arena until they disappear altogether. By the suppression of borders between art and life, he re-invents the art practice and these unlikely objects that we call ‘art’. What pinpoints Beggs’ work, and what makes it recognizable, is what we might call the motif of climbing; climbing as personal practice – he climbed numerous mountain peaks - and climbing as representational matter or even as life style. The artist, indeed, has adapted his sport practiced to his art-making process.
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accrochage «Voyages Intérieurs» april - june 2013
Born in 1975 in Denmark. Lives and Works in Berlin.
Nina Beier’s body of work, which includes different practices, like sculpture and performance, follows her long-standing interest in the social and political problematics of representation. She is particularly concerned with objects that are ‘translated’ from their original context to another one. By staging actions and introducing shifts in an existing context and material, Beier challenges viewers to consider the traditional viewing spaces’ aspects, and to acknowledged audience behaviors about institutional conventions. Her creative process comes from a frustration she feels about the art system: how to fit a living and changing practice into a final framework?
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accrochage «Rouge» september - december 2012
Born in 1964 in France. Lives and works in Paris.
Valérie Belin’s photographs of banal items such as glasses, silverware, cars or animals, achieve an unsettling balance of being both abstract and representational. «Much more than a figurative medium, photography offers me the possibility of probing the evanescent frontiers between reality and illusion, to reveal the profound supernaturalism of my work.»
Close scrutiny of objects and beings is central to her work and partly accounts for her unfailing attachment to photographic recording. It is a device seen as a special tool for capturing, not reality - too complex and terribly unstable notion - but, more modestly or lucidly, the outer casing of a world reduced to subjects. With no explicit denunciation or critique, Belin’s photography hunts down the presence of things. The name ‘untitled’ is tirelessly trotted out to designate each picture: every photograph by Belin is invariably and explicitly ‘untitled.’
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accrochage «Féminité 0.1» september - december 2011
Hans Bellmer was born in 1902 in Poland and died in 1975.
In his œuvre, one can find object-sculptures, photographs, paintings and drawings, most of them full of erotic variations on the female body. In the 30’s Bellmer began to construct his life sized female dolls, with mutated forms, unconventional poses and filled with provocative eroticism.
During the Nazi regime he fled from Germany to Paris, where he met other Surrealists artists that appreciated his ‘dolls’ as an ideal Surrealist object because of its conjunction of desire and revolt.
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