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)» avril - juin 2012
Dexter Dalwood, né en 1960 en Angleterre, vit et travaille à Londres.
Les œuvres de Dalwood dépeignent des intérieurs ou des paysages imaginés et conceptualisés, généralement dépourvus de personnages. Ces derniers ont pour rôle d’être la commémoration ou la description de personnes, lieux ou moments historiques. Son travail a connu plusieurs changements. Plus particulièrement, il s’est dirigé vers la représentation d’événements de nature politique et, de manière croissante, vers des références explicites à l’histoire de l’art.
Au départ, presque tous ses tableaux commencent comme des petits collages – compositions qu’il assemble en coupant et en collant littéralement des pages de magazines et des images de l’histoire de l’art. Ensuite, dans ses toiles de grand format, les disjonctions abruptes et les arêtes solides sont fidèlement reproduites. La façon dont Dalwood construit ses tableaux, en juxtaposant image et contenu, est extrêmement sophistiquée. Il tisse, à l’aide d’histoires personnelles, sociales et politiques, un lien avec l’histoire de l’art et la culture populaire. Ce faisant, il produit de nouvelles significations à la fois provocantes et complexes.
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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 «Lichtheid?» januari - maart 2012
Wim Delvoye werd in 1965 in België geboren.
Hij staat bekend om zijn vaak provocerende en schokkende projecten zoals de Cloaca, een machine die het functioneren van het spijsverteringsstelsel nabootst, en zijn getatoeëerde varkens. Dat wat ervoor zorgt dat een object kunst wordt of kunst is, is een idee dat Delvoye fascineert.
Hij werkt niet eenzaam in zijn atelier, maar met een groep van technici en specialisten. Elk product wordt bedacht, getest en uitgeprobeerd in verschillende varianten. De ‘gotische’ werken zijn een belangrijke deel van zijn oeuvre. Het gaat om een reeks van monumentale, soms op een schaal van 1 op 1 uitgevoerde metalen modellen of replica’s van industriële apparaten of machines in ‘gotische stijl’.
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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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