COLLECTION

ETIENNE ELIAS

Jef Cornelis
The artistic style of Etienne Elias is very wide and it has taken various turns over the course of his life, with new forms and other accents. But his art is always driven by his colourful imagination, drawing its inspiration from his immediate surroundings, his friends and his habitat Ostende. Pictorially he visualises all of this as he sees it with his shifting artistic sense...

Shelly Silver, SOUTHSIDE, 1978 © the artist

SOUTHSIDE

Shelly Silver

THE TREE

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte is attached to a tree with a string. He starts to move, jumping up and down until the string breaks. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 1...

GALLIC PORK-BUTCHERY

Messieurs Delmotte
Delmotte wears a viking helmet covered with pork. The slices of meat also cover his face. Slowly he starts pulling the slices off his neck, face and helmet, putting them in his mouth. Then he drops them from his mouth. This work is part of the series Brokendown Dream...

Silent Letters, 2009, Mira Sanders © the artist

SILENT LETTER 22012009

Mira Sanders
The fourth 'Silent Letter' was written on January 22nd, 2009. While we see people playing volleyball on a beach, the narrator reflects on water, and how it changes from rain, moving through man's world and back to cloud again. In the end she refers to the seaside, where clouds are best viewed...

BAVURES D'ESCARGOTS

Jacques Lennep
Snails crawl over the artist’s body and are turned into a green mush. The sludge is skilfully spread on the ground in the shape of a spiral. The work appears to be a reference to Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jelly....

AUTO-FIEBER

Wolf Vostell
A registration of Vostell’s legendary 1973 happening/ performance ‘Auto-Fieber’, an assignment of Neuer Berliner Kunstverein and Akademie der Künste. For this happening at a Berlin open terrain, cars were placed in close rows...

CONCRETE & SAMPLES I: WOTRUBA WIEN

Aglaia Konrad
Concrete & Samples I, II, III is a series of 16mm films on sculptural architecture. What the buildings and site in all films have in common is the idea of ‘architecture as sculpture’ and a very distinct use of concrete that seem to depart from the free form of the whole in a sculptural manner...

DE 4 UITERSTEN

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
Using the principle of collage and multiple screens, Van Kerckhoven creates a computer animation with several layers of meaning. She has her own free associations around the words "death", "judgement", "hell" and "heavenly glory". Flashing animated images of dogs, a dancing man, devilish faces, dead bodies, etc...

COME TI AMO

Marie André
In Come ti amo people appear and disappear again to meet or not to meet a person, or to wait for a meeting while frequently looking out of a window. Although from time to time a story seems to develop, it is merely an affective description of people who are in the production for just that reason. Gestures receive an extra dimension from the rapid succession of repetitions...