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il y a pas de fumée sans feu, 1989, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
IL Y A PAS DE FUMÉE SANS FEU
Angel VergaraVergara’s alter ego Straatman seems to be sitting on a compost heap. However, white smoke is escaping from underneath the white canvas, and eventually the canvas catches fire. The smoke refers to the work of Marcel Broodthaers, who frequently used smoke as a motif....
OBJETS PERDUS TROUVÉS
Mira SandersEarly 2018, Mira Sanders created Théorie des Objets—a series of inkjet prints and drawings that translate her observations of objects, based on the book Théorie des Objets (1972) by Abraham A. Moles...
ROOKGORDIJN BOVEN BRUSSEL (HET INNO-DOSSIER HEROPEND)
Bram Van PaesschenThe cause of Europe’s largest department store fire remains unsolved even today. On May 22, 1967 the Brussels branch of the chain ‘A l’Innovation’ burned down to its foundations. The reason for the fire, which claimed more than three hundred lives, was arson, as far as one can tell today...
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 76. MICROSCOPE
Steve ReinkeWhenever I look into a microscope, I feel like I’m looking inside of something. A barrier seems to have been broken....
VIVE LA PEINTURE
Jacques LennepIn this short conceptual film by the Belgian pioneering video artist, Lennep films himself while he paints. We notice the canvas, the easel, the artist’s palette and his brushes, the artist in profile. However, on the white canvas no contours or colours appear...
M. EL GIGANTE
Emilio López-MencheroWhen Cécile Wagner invited Emilio López-Menchero to exhibit in Ath, Belgium, the artist proposed to realize a faceless giant called M. as any Mister or Modern person. Recognized by the UNESCO, Ath is known as the City of Giants after the Ducasse festivities which take place every year on the fourth weekend in August...
S.O.L.
Edith DekyndtA violet shirt is hanged/ draped over a swing in the playground. While the light and weather conditions are changing – wind is coming up – the swing and the shirt start moving, like they have a live of their own. As in much of her work, Dekyndt investigates in this piece a method of perception for physical phenomena on the verge of the invisible with a touching and surprising result....
TORERO / TORPEDO - LE COL D'AUBISQUE
Emilio López-MencheroTorero / Torpedo - Le Col d’Aubisque (2007) is the third video recording of the series of performances by Emilio López-Menchero. The bullfighter is confronted with the hors catégorie stage of the Tour de France, the Col d’Aubisque which is a mountain pass in the Pyrenees in the Aquitaine region of France...
MIC MAC: AH, VOUS VOILÀ JOËLLE MILQUET! [PRÉSIDENTE DU PARTI CDH]
Claudio PazienzaThe magazine Mic Mac, conceived by RTBF and ARTE, offers a perspective on the present as it is confided to artists. Current events are rendered with a non-journalist, personal approach. Each of the sequences is an encounter in a polling booth with a Belgian personality. The texts are projected onto a prompter, objects, sounds are offered to the guest as a cause for ironic exposure....
