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THING
Anouk De ClercqAn architect talks about the city he has built. Gradually we realise that the city is imaginary. His account is an attempt to give his ideas a fixed shape. This, in a nutshell, is the story of Thing...
INDUCTION
Nicolas ProvostMain Entry: in· duc· tion 1 a: the act or process of inducting (as into office) b: an initial experience: 2 a (1): inference of a generalized conclusion from particular instances -- compare 3: a preface, prologue, or introductory scene especially of an early English play 4 a: the act of bringing forward or adducing (as facts or particulars) (Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary...
L'OMBRELLE DESCENDANT UN ESCABEAU
Jacques Louis NystIn 'L’ombrelle descendant un escabeau’ (a title directly quoting Marcel Duchamp’s 'Nu descendant un escalier’) Jacques Louis Nyst appears once more as the explorer who discovers for the first time a common and well-known object, the paper parasol this time. He tries to explain its origins, way of life, and even reproductive techniques...
HOMMAGE À … IV
Lili DujourieThe five videos of Hommage à … deal with the same theme as repetition-in-difference, as a continual tracing and retracing, of the figure fold and unfold in the visual field. Everything is centred on the concept of self-observation and an exploration of the body. Dujourie develops a recurrent strategy of her work: drawing attention to the space beyond the visual field...
FRON'T
Charley Case“Democracy with a military brain is the same thing as art without a brain. In the world of political twilight, where art along with life loses its place, war is imposed as a natural catastrophe because "there is no other solution"...
REVOLVER
Jacques Louis NystAs in 'La mort d’une poule’, sound plays a key role in 'Revolver’. A real hand confronts a sculpted one. It imitates its gesture, proposes new ones. Then what we have interpreted so far as a human hand suddenly turns into a revolver....
La famille, 2010, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
LA FAMILLE
Angel VergaraImages of lions in the wild are combined with media images of Dutch- and French-speaking politicians, journalists and media personalities. On the soundtrack, lions roaring can be heard sporadically while the artist traces the movie images with gestures as though painting...
ORIENTATION
Sirah Foighel Brutmann - Eitan EfratLooking at two locations— the public sculpture White Square commemorating the founders of Tel Aviv, and the shrine of Palestinian village Salame in today’s Israeli Kafar Shalem—Orientation focuses on the ability of architectural material, and of sound and image, to register collective experience. In 1989, the Israeli sculptor Dani Karavan, completed his sculpture White Square...
JEANLOUP SIEFF
Jef CornelisA report on several exhibitions taking place in Belgium: painter Raf van Cauwenberghe’s, Jack Goderis’s – a member of what was the ‘jeune peinture Belge’ at the time – and the selection of work by French photographer Jeanloup Sieff shown at the Museum for Contemporary Art in Ghent...
