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Historia de C, 2007, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
HISTORIA DE C
Angel VergaraA cinematic diptych shows brief fragments of landscapes, historical sites and classical drawings, sculptures and inscriptions. The video deals with Castelló’s history....
THE BREECHES (1)
Messieurs DelmotteA person – Messieurs Delmotte himself ? – stands with his back in front of the camera. He is wearing white, almost transparent underwear; the only part filmed is his mid section. Slowly something brown and sticky is filling the underpants. An early Dadaistic piece, definitely not suited for the faint of heart. Part one of two....
ZEEDIJK KNOKKE-HEIST
Danny MatthysThe video starts from four videotapes, shot from a car (left, right, front and back) leaving the sea-front promenade at Knokke-Heist. The perception of this straight street is first of all analysed into four components by four cameras...
PARE-BRISE SÉRIE
Emilio López-MencheroPare-brise série is a series of video sequences recorded at various locations around Brussels, filmed with a steadycam through the windowpane of a stationary car. In this early video production, Emilio López-Menchero is concerned about the logic of statements of fact, time and the notion of waiting....
EIDERDOWN
Messieurs DelmotteA white quilt is repeatedly being dropped from a window onto the street. On its way down the quilt follows a whimsical route along the outer wall. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 2...
UNCERTAIN MENTAL IDENTY(IES)
Messieurs DelmotteIn this compilation of short works, the dandy Messieurs Delmotte delivers a mild critique on the art world by nodding to famous paintings and performances / actions of the twentieth century. At the same time, he also slashes and destroys unknown paintings such as a shoddy still life of flowers...
OUR CITY
Maria TarantinoThis is Brussels, the capital of Europe, a city of concrete cages wrapped in glass, planned by businessmen and politicians, set in motion by construction workers, and animated by office people. But there, in the narrow spaces just beyond the reach of bureaucracy, lies the Brussels that still breathes...
TANIA, MODÈLE POUR PHOTOS DE CHARME
Jacques LennepVideo, apart from photography and holography, was but one of the media Lennep made use of during the 1970s, as he was adding on to his ‘museum of men’. His human models were derived from all layers of the populations, but they shared a common obsession for collecting things or, at the very least, an unusual passion...
ULURU, AUSTRALIA, NEAR KANGAROO'S TAIL MEN'S SACRED SITE
Anne-Mie Van KerckhovenWhen visiting Uluru, the large sandstone rock in Australia, Van Kerckhoven asked Danny Devos to lay down naked on his stomach with his legs open, a piece of wood tied between his ankles, his hands tied behind his back...
