accrochage «Voyages Intérieurs» april - june 2013
Born in 1987 in Belgium. Lives and works in Brussels.
Painter Alfred d’Ursel had an abstraction background, but was feeling uncomfortable with the trends in contemporary art. He then decided to develop the daily studio practice as a personal diary, with the intention of “diffusing an inner physical sensation through a broad range of media”. His interest lies in the pre-18th century painting and its timelessness: he tries to relocate these pictures in different, modern contexts. D’Ursel’s works are often based on a dialogue between various elements such as paintings, sculptures or photographs.
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accrochage «Struggle(s)» april - june 2012
Dexter Dalwood, born in 1960 in England, lives and works in London.
Dalwood's works depict imagined and constructed interiors or landscapes, usually devoid of figures, that act as memorials or descriptions of various people, places or historic moments. There have been several shifts in his work, most notably towards painting events of a political nature and increasingly explicit references to art history.
Almost all of Dalwood's paintings initially start out as small collages - compositions he assembles by literally cutting and pasting from the pages of magazines and art history images. In the subsequent large-scale canvases the abrupt disjunctures and solid edges are faithfully reproduced. The way that Dalwood constructs his pictures, juxtaposing both image and content, is highly sophisticated. He weaves together personal, social and political histories with art history and popular culture, to produce provocative and complex new meanings.
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accrochages «Voyages Intérieurs» april - june 2013, «Sexe, Argent et Pouvoir» janvier - mars 2013
Born in 1971 in Belgium. Lives and works in Brussels.
Dany Danino has adopted the blue ballpoint pen is his medium of predilection. His large and intricate drawings explore the possibilities of representation, with a wide range of references, like mythology and symbolism. Danino deals with existential questions and human concerns.
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accrochage «Voyages Intérieurs» april - june 2013
Born in 1980 in the USA. Lives and works in New York and New Mexico.
N. Dash creates wall pieces that show materials usually hidden in a canvas: stretcher, jute, white cotton, and linen… By using what is behind a painting, she makes varied structures that have more in common with sculpture than with painting itself. She explores the material elements upon which painting and sculpture are built and try to find how to embed meaning into them.
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accrochage «Voyages Intérieurs» april - june 2013
Born in 1977 in Canada. Lives and works in New York.
In the complex artworks of richly textured paintings and sculptures, Julia Dault is testing the limits of her own physical strength revealed in her experiments with various materials and utensils. By pushing the boundaries of her practice, using unexpected, unusual and sometimes even trashy materials, such as pleather, silk and spandex instead of canvas as the painting's ground, Dault is considered to be a daring and adventurous artist. Experimentation is one of the keys to Dault’s art; she is constantly looking after new connections between her hand and the surface of the painting. Her textured canvasses can be seen as multi-layered illusions that play with our sense of depth, by both removing and re-applying paint.
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accrochage «Voyages Intérieurs» april - june 2013
Born in 1965 in Cuba. Lives and works in Havana and Mexico City.
Angel Delgado’s work is based on the limitations, restrictions, prohibitions, controls and other losses of freedom that are constantly imposed on people within society. After being sentenced to prison in 1990, the artist began a new period in his career. He chose, like in Munch’s “The Scream”, to remain outside, rather than to be a voice crying out from the crowd accepting and not reacting to censorship.
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accrochage «Lightness?» january - march 2012
Wim Delvoye was born in 1965 in Belgium.
He is known for his often provocative and shocking projects, like the Cloaca, a machine reproducing the operation of the digestive system, or his tattooed pigs. Delvoye is interested in and explores the idea of what makes an object become art.
He doesn’t work alone in his studio, but is surrounded by a group of technicians and specialists. Each product is designed, tested and tried out in different variations. An important production line consists of his ‘gothic’ works: a series of monumental metal models or replicas, sometimes on a scale of 1 to 1, of industrial equipments or machinery in ‘gothic style’.
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accrochage «Rouge» september - december 2012
Born in 1965 in Switzerland. Lives and works in Zurich.
Andy Denzler’s works – paintings, sculptures and drawings – is developed between action painting and photorealism. With classic means such as oil painting, the artist attempts to understand the borderlines between fiction and reality, equally focusing on technique and subject. Between the realism and dynamism of gestural abstraction, the artist creates lonely and dreamy paintings, inviting the viewer to penetrate his singular psychological vision of the world.
He has created a signature style encompassing bands of pigment that alternate between static, thick marks and blurred, flowing sweeps. Denzler frequently alludes to other media in his paintings. His Motion Paintings are divided into four groups of works: «Portraits;» «History Paintings;» «Figures & Landscapes;» and «Urban Figures.»
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accrochage «Rouge» september - december 2012
Born in 1942 in France.
Photographer, journalist and filmmaker, Raymond Depardon started his career in the early 1960’s. He is co-founder of the photography agency Gamma, and in 1979 he became member of the famous Magnum agency. One of the most significant characteristics of Depardon’s photographic work is his claim for the photographer’s subjectivity. In many of his books he frequently combines photographs and texts written in first person, mingling journalism and autobiography.
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accrochage «Rouge» september - december 2012
Born in 1937 in France. Lives and works in La Châtre.
Gérard Deschamps started his artistic career by being an abstract painter. In the 1960’s he exhibited with other artists from the «Nouveau Réalisme» movement that proclaimed new ways of perceiving reality, along with the critique of mass-produced commercial objects. Deschamps gave up oil painting which, according to him, lacked flexibility, and started to experiment with collages and assemblages, using female underwear as well as armor plates and metal enclosures. In recent years, he has been using balloons, beach pools and rubber rings that he piles up in nets or showcases, joining skateboard decks or using windsurf sails as metaphors of leisure society.
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