accrochage «Voyages Intérieurs» april - june 2013
Born in 1975 in South Korea. Lives and works in Busan.
Tae Hun Kang’s body of work reflects an interest in representing repressive social realities. With his sculptures and installations, he explores relationships and interactions of objects and people within their social, political and cultural contexts. His art practice is focused on the transformation of objects that he empties of their practical dimension and original function to give them a new meaning. In this sense, faucets became important elements in his creations, symbolizing mechanisms through which violence is carried out between the society and the individual.
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accrochage «Rouge» september - december 2012
Born in 1925 in Greece. Lives and works between Paris and Athens.
Vassilakis Takis, known simply as Takis, has always been interested in incorporating and exploring natural phenomena is his creations. He is father of an artistic expression based on the functional exploitation of nature’s laws. In 1958, Takis got interested in magnetic fields, which will constitute the basis of his oeuvre. His musical sculptures are based on the simple concept of using magnetic waves caused by electricity as a means to activate repeated musical sounds.
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accrochage «Origine(s)» mei - juni 2011
Rieko Tamura werd in 1977 in Japan geboren en studeerde in het Japanse Instituut voor Fotografie. Zij leeft en werkt in Tokyo.
Tamura vindt haar inspiratie in mystieke vormen uit de natuur en staat open voor het shintoïsme en boeddhisme en andere, wereldfilosofieën die ijveren voor respect jegens de natuur.
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accrochage «Voyages Intérieurs» april - june 2013
Born in 1966 in Germany. Lives and works in Berlin.
For over ten years, photographer Frank Thiel has been depicting Berlin. Having witnessed the historical events that changed Germany, he methodically documented the transformations of his city, especially East Berlin. He has also been interested in surveillance devices that have gradually emerged in public areas, reminders of dark Orwellian scenarios. Nevertheless, his true subject matter is, essentially, the incomplete: he prefers the process of construction to the end result, and persistently pursues the aesthetics of temporality and change. His photographs, which focus on details, give his works an abstract painterly quality, thus exploring the relationship between painting and photography.
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accrochage «Rouge» september - december 2012
Born in 1986 in the USA. Lives and works in New York.
Young artist Kyle Thurman creates paintings that explore materials like enamel paint and techniques such as organic pigment dying. Besides dedicating himself to his creations, Thurman also puts together group shows to promote the work of other young artists.
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accrochage «Struggle(s)» avril - juin 2012
Sadegh Tirafkan, né en 1965 en Iraq de parents Iraniens, vit et travaille à Téhéran.
L’œuvre de Tirafkan met l'accent sur les traditions iraniennes et les rituels religieux. Sa compréhension de cette culture lui permet d’explorer sa propre identité. En utilisant des photographies comme point de départ à son travail, il emploie ensuite différentes techniques tels que l’installation vidéo et le collage. Ses premières créations reflètent la tristesse et le désespoir engendrés par les conflits dans son pays natal: nombre d’entre elles ressemblent à des photographies de processions funéraires; comme des commentaires sur l’obsession iranienne vis à vis de la mort et du martyr; comme un hommage rendu aux camarades tombés.
La présence significative du symbolisme dans l’œuvre de Tirafkan pourrait provenir de son origine Perse dans laquelle le dialogue direct est rarement utilisé mais souvent remplacé par un langage allégorique. Ces dernières années, l'artiste a mis l'accent sur les effets de la présence accrue des sensibilités et influences occidentales sur la jeunesse iranienne.
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accrochage «Lichtheid?» januari - maart 2012
De tweelingbroers Gert en Uwe Tobias werden in 1973 in Roemenië geboren. Ze leven en werken in Keulen.
In hun handen krijgt de techniek van houtsnede een heel nieuw elan. De houtsneden, die vaak grote formaten hebben, worden gecombineerd met collages, tekeningen, gouaches en keramische beelden. Hun onderwerpen zijn zowel duister als uitbundig, vol monsterachtige, komische en bizarre gezichten.
De Tobias broers verwijzen regelmatig naar de Oost-Europese volkscultuur in hun werken en wisselen klassieke en expressionistische vormen af met concrete vormen.
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accrochage «Rouge» september - december 2012
Born in 1967 in Cameroon. Lives and works between Paris, Bandjoun and New York.
Barthélémy Toguo use of many artistic expressions - drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, performance, and video - reflect on psychological, familial and political questions such as the absurdity of borders. He is inspired by people and places he encounters through his numerous travels. A versatile artist, Toguo’s command of materials is extensive. His watercolors provide strong visual beats, using a limited repertory of images and colors to depict a dreamy world of metamorphosis - human, animal and vegetal.
The artistry of his large-scale installations is generally rough, quick and underlines human’s conflicts, paradoxes and extremism. Deeply proud of his origins, Toguo is also an active promoter of cultural activities and preservation of art in Africa.
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accrochage «Sexe, Argent et Pouvoir» janvier - mars 2013
Born in 1945 in the USA. Lives and works in New York.
Betty Tompkins creates photorealistic paintings and drawings, on a large scale, with detailed images of penetration, masturbation, and the female genitalia. Her first Fuck Paintings were created between 1969 and 1976. Her controversial subject matter generated divergent reactions from both critics and public. As an example, in 1973 two of her paintings were seized by the French customs. It was only in the late 1990’s when she rediscovered the Fuck Paintings that she realized that: “what I had been trying to do had never left me at all. I had never given up on the idea of marrying the abstract with the image itself so that they have to duke it out on the canvas. I go for the stand off.”
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accrochage «Féminité 0.1» september - december 2011
De Frans-Viëtnamese fotografe Nicole Tran Ba Vang werd in 1963 geboren. Ze leeft en werkt in Parijs.
Deze modeontwerpster is overgestapt van modestilering op fotografie en presenteert haar foto’s in serievorm als modecollecties. Haar werk draait om het vrouwelijk naakt. Dankzij een computerbewerking lijken de modellen een naakte huid te ‘dragen’, die losgeknoopt of gerekt kan worden en die als een kameleon op kan gaan in de omgeving.
Door met dit klassieke thema in de beeldende kunst te werken, relativeert de fotografe het belang van kleding als identiteitskenmerk.
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