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A long silence.I return to painting, for distraction.
The act of painting, he replies, is at once inevitable and perfectly inexplicable.The visible world frightens me. I am always escaping - except when I'm front of the canvas.There should be no models.At first, my paintings were ridiculous. I used to think that painting meant imitating what I saw in museums.Such an effort towards life demands the involvement of one's...
. read more. comments (0)Presentation of a new film by Belgian artist Jean De Lacoste, made during his residency at WIELS in 2011.
Collections slumber in the graveyard of art, no longer available to sight and cast away from the space of exhibition. These artworks, storage rooms and museum corridors offer Jean De Lacoste the opportunity to test out his gaze and explore the trouble zone of introspection. Places are treated on a formal, semantic and...
. read more. comments (0)Coating a piece of paper with a thin layer of veneer is sufficient to synchronise two substances into a spatial unit. Subsequently plane depth is created, a moment in/of space, delay. 'Flexionen' is an operation on different planes in which this gesture is accumulated. Paralleled surfaces become timeframes, points overlap. Axes fluctuate, perforate and contain. Holes make stacks.
WIELS artist-in-residency...
. read more. comments (0)Kjersti G. Andvig (b. 1978 in Oslo, but grew up in the north of Norway)
As an artist, her work often takes the form of long-term commitments to situations that demand complete personal dedication. They are both conceptual and emotional.
For information on the works go to: http://kjersti.andvig.free.fr/
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born in 1983, France
. read more. comments (0)Established in 2010 on the initiative of Adrien Tirtiaux (BE), Antoine Turillon (FR), and Hannes Zebedin (AT), the name of this project convenes a fantasy that befits the context while sounding remarkably like an aporia. Indeed, Hotel Charleroi is the story of an unlikely encounter between young artists whose experience is marked by dealing with indefinite spaces of ...
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1996-2000 Kunstakademie Münster (Prof. Timm Ulrichs)2000-2003 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Prof. Albert Oehlen)
. read more. comments (0)Press House (documentary installation on 3 screens)
My interest for the Press House started in 2009 when I created a light installation for the light festival Staro Riga. Using 176 spotlights and custom made lights, I lit the dark and abandoned building, which had been built during the Soviet era as a "source of light" (watch the video). Recently, video footages...
. read more. comments (0)Laura Wiedijk b. 1985 in Wageningen, Netherlands, lives and works in Amsterdam.
The images on this blog are part of the ongoing project "Notes". For documentation of my work and further information please go to www.laurawiedijk.nl
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