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 «Lichtheid?» januari - maart 2012
John Baldessari werd in 1931 in de Verenigde Staten geboren. Hij leeft en werkt in California.
Baldessari creëert visuele juxtaposities die betekenissen betwisten. Hij vecht algemeen erkende ideëen aan inzake de wijze waarop beelden werkzaam zijn door de aandacht van de toeschouwer te vestigen op ondergeschikte details, de afwezigheid van of ruimtes tussen elementen.
De scherpe inzichten van Baldessari in de conventionaliteit van de kunstproductie, de natuur van de perceptie en het verband tussen taal en beelden verspreid door de mass media worden verscherpt door een zekere vorm van 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)» avril - juin 2012
Gilles Barbier, né en 1965 à Vanuatu, vit et travaille à Marseille.
L’œuvre de Barbier – qui comprend des sculptures, dessins, photographies et installations – s’articule autour des principes de doute, de polysémie et d'ambivalence. Il s’inspire de disciplines aussi diverses que la philosophie, l’art plastique, la psychanalyse et la bande dessinée. Avec ses créations pleines d’humour, l’artiste questionne les notions de réel, d’identité et de copie.
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accrochage «Lichtheid?» januari - maart 2012
Jurga Barilaite werd in 1972 in Lithuania geboren. Zij leeft en werkt in Vilnius.
De kunstenares begon aanvankelijk met schilderen en het produceren van assemblages, maar geleidelijk aan ging zij over tot video art. De beeldtaal van schilderijen, geschiedenis en mythologie vormen grotendeels de basis van haar werk.
Haar videokunst is kenmerkend van de performance art en onthult strategieën van vrouwelijke constructie. De kunstenares gebruikt haar lichaam om berichten over te brengen die gaan van erotiek naar agressie, van sentimentaliteit tot ironie.
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accrochage «Origine(s)» mei - juni 2011
Martin Barré, abstract kunstenaar, 1924 - 1993.
In zijn werken die zeer uitgepuurd zijn, overheerst de witte kleur waarop enkele lijnen of pijlen met mes, borstel, tube, spray of stokje werden aangebracht. Hij heeft tevens enkele fotografische installaties gerealiseerd.
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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 werd in 1902 in Poland geboren en overleed in 1975.
Hij werd vooral bekend met zijn poppen, die hij uit verschillende onderdelen van bestaande poppen samenstelde. Deze erotische en licht sadistische poppen behielden ook vaak nog een deel van hun oorspronkelijke onschuldige karakter. Foto's van deze poppen verschenen het surrealistische tijdschrift Minotaure.
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