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Le mecanisme secret qui guide le créateur dans son aventure périlleuse, 2006, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
LE MÉCANISME SECRET QUI GUIDE LE CRÉATEUR DANS SON AVENTURE PÉRILLEUSE
Angel VergaraWhile we are hearing Pablo Picasso and Henri-Georges Clouzot in his film Le mystère de Picasso – the title paraphrases his voice-over – Vergara is, as is alter ego Straatman, applying similar strategies, like in Peinture radiophoniqe numéro 1 of 2005: the images have been bleached by means of a digital effect, and while drawing, Straatman is inspired by listening to a me...
DIEPER
Anne-Mie Van KerckhovenThis is the subtitle for Dieper: “deeper into matter, further away from hell.” What used to be the exclusive domain of interest of philosophers is now taken over by scientists: the research into the essence of matter. “The anti-strategy of each modernist rule of reduction loses its force in the inevitable confrontation with the abstract systems of radical negation and refute...
LINGUA IGNOTA
Edith DekyndtHildegard von Bingen lived during the 12th Century. She was a Benedictine and a precursor, a poet and a doctor, who invented a language that she alone could write and speak, the lingua ignota. This language who has survived thanks to the description given by the Holy Roman Catholic Church in an eponymous book is the title of a video of Edith Dekyndt which features a hand mirror...
CASSEURS DE CAILLOUX
Michel FrançoisA video made in Brazil shows three men trying to split a rock with a wedge and two sledgehammers. What is involved is not just the desire to live a physical relationship with things, but to find forms to make that relationship visible....
TU NE VERRAS PAS VERAPAZ
Didier Volckaert - An van. DienderenThere is an old song from Ghent, ‘Wie goat er mee noar Verapas?’ (Who goes along to Verapaz?), that was popular at the beginning of the last century. It refers to an unfamiliar piece of Belgium’s history: the former Belgian colony in Guatemala, Santo Tomas de Castilla...
PANIQUE AU VILLAGE, ÉPISODE 10 : LA COURSE CYCLISTE
Stéphane Aubier - Vincent PatarCowboy, Indian and Horse go to see a bicycle race and Horse has brought the Big Trophy that will be given to the winner. Everyone is much impressed by the first prize—Cowboy and Indian even to such an extent that they attempt to steal it. Fortunately the police foil their plans. Indian reflects that he should come up with a more cunning plan and decides to take part in the race...
FROM [ TO ]
Peter DownsbroughIn FROM [ TO ], the image slides past a motorway, past countless trucks, petrol stations and containers. Objects are isolated from their environment and articulated in a repetitive, almost architectural structure....
JAMES LEE BYARS, ANTWERPEN 18 APRIL – 7 MEI 1969
Jef CornelisDocumentary on James Lee Byars’s exhibition at the Wide White Space Gallery, Antwerp (18.04.1969 / 07.05.1969). James Lee Byars, his whole body covered by a robe, talks to Walter Van Dijck about the meaning of art, the new meaning of clothes, the beauty of ’Natural Landscapes In An Urban Situation’, the role of museums and his idea that a show is a translation of his ideas...
