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LIED VAN MIJN LAND
Koen Theys - Frank TheysThe German 19th century composer Richard Wagner wrote the operas Ring des Nibelungen and Parcifal in order to shape his vision on the relationships in society. Koen and Frank Theys have treated Wagner’s Ring with an immoral curiosity and have enriched it with personal and contemporary themes...
La sortie des usines VW, 1987, Angel Vergara Santiago. © the artist(s)
LA SORTIE DES USINES VW
Angel VergaraAt the Volkswagen factory, Vergara shot hours of material of workers leaving the building. He filmed most of the images indirectly: the artist had set up his camera in front of shop-windows and other windows, which causes a reflection or a multi-layered image. With its purpose and its title, the work echoes ’La sortie des usines Lumière (1895)...
LANDSCHAP VAN KERKEN
Jef CornelisBased on the 1987 book with the same title by Geert Bekaert, which explores the enigma of the Belgian historical church buildings...
EXTINGUISHERS
Messieurs DelmotteDelmotte empties the contents of two fire-extinguishers on his costume. When the job is finished, he wipes the white stains off his clothes and walks away, leaving behind a powdery trail. This work is part of the series Brokendown Dream...
PARADE
Hans Op de BeeckParade is an art video staged by Hans Op de Beeck on the scene of a theatre. The red velvet curtain opens, a slow waltz, composed especially for this film, starts playing, while a seemingly endless cavalcade of people comes walking by, in slow motion, like a stream of passers-by in a street...
DIASPORAS / TAZARTÈS
Ghédalia TazartèsGhédalia Tazartès – Diasporas / Tazartès Label: Alga Marghen – T 7TES.053 Format: CD, Album, Reissue, Digipak Country: Italy Released: 2004 Genre: Electronic Style: Experimental (source: https://www.discogs.com)...
OOG EN HAND ALS UITDRUKKING 02
Jef CornelisFor the art programme 'Openbaar Kunstbezit' Cornelis made two essayistic television reports in 1972 about the use of hands and eyes in the visual arts, “a way to look and to communicate.” Once more, 'Oog en hand als uitdrukking 02' ('Eye and hand as expression 02') is particularly free with regard to its format, bearing in mind the television standards of the time...
L'ÉNIGME DU SPHINX
Jef CornelisThe work of architect Charles Vandenhove is an exploration of architecture in its fundamental simplicity and inevitable variety of form. His work, and in addition today’s architecture, is explained in the Liège Hotel Torrentius, a mansion from the 16th century being renovated, and this document’s focal point...
IJSBREKER 01: PANAMARENKO
Jef Cornelis - Freddy Coppens - Jackie ClaeysThe first Ijsbreker (’Icebreaker’) on water: a transmission, created before the eyes of the viewer, aspiring to tear down the high walls around the art world, breaking through the ready-made and brushed up ways of television at the same time. This edition evolves around the artist Panamarenko, speaking from his living laboratory in Antwerp...
