accrochage «Rouge» september - december 2012
Born in 1956 in Scotland. Lives and works in London.
Sculptor and installation artist David Mach creates artworks based on assemblages of mass-produced objects like magazines, teddy bears, newspapers, car tires, matchsticks and coat hangers. He brings diverse items together in large-scale installations filled with humorous and social comments. Some of his installations are temporary and constructed in public spaces.
Mach believes that «an artist must be an ideas monger responding to all kinds of physical location, social and political environments, to materials, to processes, to timescales and budgets. I also believe that sculpture just about encompasses everything – a painting can be a sculpture, a TV ad can be a sculpture, a dance, a performance, a film, a video.»
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accrochages «Voyages Intérieurs» april - june 2013, «Sexe, Argent et Pouvoir» januari - march 2013
Born in 1966 in Portugal. Lives and works in Paris.
The sculptures Monica Machado creates are inspired by her memories, her artistic culture and religious background. Everyday objects such as tables, wardrobes, shopping trolleys, miniature fountains or whispered sound machines, are transformed into works of art. Whether her material is common, like broken pieces of ceramics or more daring, such as electric motors, all produce surprising and humorous works based on her wildest dreams.
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accrochage «Voyages Intérieurs» april - june 2013
Born in 1937 in France and died in 1980.
Robert Malaval was a multi-faceted artist; painter, draftsman and writer, he created a large body of work, permeated with ruptures between the very different series he created. He explained that these radical changes were due to his urge to “escape the boredom of repetition”. The first concept he explored was the aliment blanc, a formless material he created from papier mâché to express a proliferating and unavoidable evil. In the late 60’s, Malaval returned to painting with a more pop aesthetics. Passionate about music, he has embedded rock culture to his work and conducted researches about the connections between sound and image.
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accrochage «Origine(s)» mai - juin 2011
Sally Mann est née en 1951 aux États-Unis.
Elle photographie le plus souvent en noir et blanc.
Ses sujets de prédilection sont les membres de sa famille et ses amis proches, la nature qui l'entoure, les natures mortes et plus récemment les effets de la mort et de la décomposition.
Ses photographies jouent sur des contrastes profonds, conférant aux sujets de la vie quotidienne un caractère sensuel et mystérieux, parfois mystique.
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accrochage «Rouge» september - december 2012
Born in South Africa.
Graffiti artist Mantis has been contributing to the street art landscape for over a decade. With a sense of bold irreverence and a keen spirit of contemporary culture-mining he has ornamented street walls of international locations including Los Angeles, Sydney and Berlin. Mantis uses the stenciled-aerosol technique to create images that comment on the contemporary consumer culture.
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accrochage «Sexe, Argent et Pouvoir» janvier - mars 2013
Born in 1920 in Belgium and died in 1993.
Marcel Mariën was not only active as photographer, collagist and filmmaker, but also as author and publisher, having written and published numerous books. He was an important personality in the Belgian Surrealist scene. In 1937 he started making collages and photos in the surrealist tradition. His two- and three-dimensional collages explored physical and metaphysical connections between things. For his photos, he arranged scenes usually with a woman’s body as canvas, interacting with objects and words. During his whole career Mariën was more concerned with the ideas behind his creations than with the execution or technical aspects.
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accrochage «Struggle(s)» avril - juin 2012
Marino Marini est né en 1901 en Italie et est décédé en 1980.
Il débute sa carrière artistique avec la peinture et le dessin, mais, tout au long de sa vie, il va principalement se consacrer à la sculpture. Ses créations ont toujours cherchées à interpréter des thèmes classiques – les nus féminins, les portraits en buste et la figure équestre - à la lumière des préoccupations modernes et avec des techniques modernes.
Le contenu de ses œuvres est déterminé par la conscience de la nature humaine, nature aussi bien spirituelle qu’esthétique. La variété des techniques employées par Marini offre un témoignage sur l'intérêt que l'artiste porte sur la recherche de différentes formes d'expression.
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accrochage «Légèreté?» janvier - mars 2012
Tony Marsh est né en 1954 aux Etats-Unis. Il vit et travaille en Californie.
Marsh travaille de façon intuitive en créant des céramiques qui ont tendance à être extrêmement abstraites. Fasciné par l’histoire de la céramique, il ne produit pas de pièces utilitaires, mais tente de viser à l’essentiel de la poterie – conserver, offrir, embellir – dans ses créations.
Ses expériences personnelles vis à vis de, la création, la mort, le mariage et la fertilité, sont des sujets souvent exploités par Marsh.
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accrochage «Struggle(s)» avril - juin 2012
Helen Marten, née en 1958 aux Etats-Unis, vit et travaille à Londres.
L’œuvre de Marten est sous-tendue par un intérêt pour différents matériaux et pour les objets faits main. Elle aborde la sculpture et l’installation d’une manière digitale: elle fait glisser et dépose, comprime et démonte. Ses créations, pleines d’humour, sont remplies de références à la culture pop.
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accrochage «Voyages Intérieurs» april - june 2013
Born in 1972 in Belgium. Lives and works in Ghent.
Kris Martin practice is set within the traditions of conceptual art, working with diverse media such as drawing, photography, collage, installation, sculpture or ready-made. His creations are meditative and yet, humorously, materialize his reflections on major issues about life: morbidity, beauty, destruction and time. In an art of appropriation and revelation, he alters found objects, with minimal interference and reduced means, to create blank spaces, which the viewers can fill with their own interpretations. Material and immaterial concerns are delicately balanced in the artist’s work.
Sculptural materials and objects are used to intervene in the constant motion of time. They remind us of the brevity of human existence, of its fleetingness. Martin is fascinated by the way interventions into the daily uses and understandings of things enable the loosening of fixed identities, the subversion of established systems and hierarchies, and the opening up of a new space for reflection, resistance, and creativity.
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