COLLECTION

PANAMARENKO, ANTWERPEN 1940

Jef Cornelis
In a gallery in Bergeyk (the Netherlands) young Panamarenko elucidates on Donnerwolke (1971) and other models of flying objects. The result is an image of Panamarenko the dreamer, the small boy who likes to put together abstract puzzles, trying to get a grasp on how things work, on the infinite universe of miraculous variations...

COWS

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte starts chasing the cows in a field, while clapping his hands. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 1...

MELENCOLIA, EEN HOMMAGE NON-STOP

Stefaan Decostere
An essay which is at the same time a very personal homage to cinema and the history of visual art. Using early film footage as illustration, Decostere unfolds his reflecting piece in a setting that calls to mind pictures by Escher and Magritte...

THE PRINCESS PROJECT

Vincent Dunoyer
After his first solo work (Vanity, 1999), The Princess Project was originally intended to be a duet man-woman as a tribute to the classical pas de deux, for which Vincent Dunoyer reworked the traditional figures: pirouettes, portés,... . As a partner Dunoyer had chosen a female friend with an androgynous physique, about his own height and build...

PEINTURE AU BLANC

Jacques Lennep
Lennep paints the word Brillo with white paint on a white canvas. In the background there is a landscape and one would precisely expect him to paint the landscape....

IDÉALE AUDIENCE : UN PAYSAGE TÉLÉVISUEL EN FRANCE

Joëlle de La Casinière
Idéale audience is a television ‘commedia dell’Arte’, written in TV. The composition of the work presents variations on three themes: the self-promotion of TV channels, the ideal audience filmed in a listening attitude, and ecstatic female announcers. All these stanzas are interspersed with McLuhanesque questions about the television medium, posed by cartoon characters...

TIME STICKS TO THE WALLS

Krassimir Terziev - Tsvetelina Hristova
As I breathe, as I sleep, as I eat, as I swim, as I shiver - I am haunted. (Pause 1) I am haunted by places and times. (Pause 1) I am haunted by other mes that have refused to stay quietly in the domain of the past and are clinging to memories of corridors, laughter, fear, the deep sadness of a present that slowly sinks into the cold dark swamp of a futureless past...

THE DOUBLE

Roy Villevoye - Jan Dietvorst
An exacting sculpture of a white, middle-aged male is hammered out. Voiceovers breathe life into the man whilst his appearance is accurately reconstructed. The empty shell becomes a personality thanks to the voices from the Netherlands and Papua, but who is this man really? The impression created and substantiated is simultaneously mysterious and revealing....

PAUL VAN BOSSTRAETEN, CULTIVATEUR D’ORCHIDÉES

Jacques Lennep
Video, 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...

SYLVIA KRISTEL - PARIS

Manon de Boer
Between November 2000 and June 2002 Manon de Boer recorded the stories and memories of the actress Sylvia Kristel, best known for her role in the 1970’s erotic cult classic ‘Emmanuelle’...