500 volunteers answered an invitation by the artist to pick up a shovel to displace by a few centimetres a large sand dune near the slums surrounding Lima. The project constitutes an ‘epic answer’, […] Read more »
Screen consists of a mobile of six milky white, opaque Plexiglas plates. They appear to serve as projection screens for a yet to materialise image or thought – an image of sorts of the dynamics of ‘projection’ […] Read more »
The projection shows a closed, still image of a man and a child at a table. When the viewer approaches the image, photography and video merge. For a few seconds the viewer is admitted into and involved […] Read more »
A large, rectangular piece of furniture houses several portraits that Vaast Colson painted of Helena, the daughter of the artist Martin Kippenberger. The paintings are intended to stay together as a whole. […] Read more »
Five life size casts of horses, wholly covered in horse fur and adorned with manes, lie on the ground or balanced on trestles. Inspired by photographs of battlefields during the First World War, the artist […] Read more »
These five watercolours from the MD–light Series are all about pleasure and enjoyment: they are visible in the subject matter but also visible in the manner of painting. They are about what is beautiful, […] Read more »
This panoramic colour photograph shows the landscape of Sarajevo (former Yugoslavia) shortly after the siege. The foreground and background intermingle. The details are identical in scale. Kempenaers […] Read more »
A cartoonesque painting depicts a triangle that limps along on one wooden leg. The triangle is symbolic for the unassailable authority of God within the Christian doctrine. Here Swennen seems to illustrate […] Read more »
Personage has the appearance of a rebus. The combination of image signs, letters, photographic images and mirrors seem to make a story with a singular meaning impossible. Tordoir plays with our viewing […] Read more »
A series of slides [accompanied by a book] alternatingly shows portraits of a woman and questions. They refer to the trial the English held against the historical-mythical figure of the French heroine […] Read more »
At first sight the painted image seems to merely represent a typical Flemish village. When you look closer, you see that windows and doors are missing. Upon closer inspection, however, the feeling of […] Read more »
The artist-photographer selects photographs which resonate most for him. With the selection he carefully composes personal ensembles. The result reads as a personal diary in which the viewer is allowed […] Read more »
At first sight, we seem to be dealing with a wholly abstract work with a diagonal composition and large, orange, grey and green planes. The title Orange border, waylays this thought and makes the viewer […] Read more »
Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven transposes her thoughts into images. Captions or titles lead to language-associations which force the viewer to contemplate existing conventions. Undermining and drawing into question […] Read more »
With flourishing, fast movements, what the artist applies to the canvas exists on the junction between figuration and abstraction. Despite a stilled image, it is the dynamic that becomes most palpable. […] Read more »
