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VU’CUMPRA? - BIENNALE DE VENISE 99
Emilio López-MencheroVu’cumpra? - Biennale de Venise 99 is a report of a performance realized in Venice in 1999. In the frame of the project En attendant l’année dernière (Waiting for last year), curated by Laurent Jacob, Lino Polegato from Flux-News organized a parallel project called No Milk Today on the notion of churn...
PAINTING WITH PICASSO
Koen TheysThe image of Picasso, wearing only a swimsuit while painting a few masterpieces a day, became maybe the biggest myth of 20th century art. In any case a lot of photographers depicted him that way. Koen Theys rassembled different of those photographs of Picasso while he was painting, and erased the painting as well as the interior of the photo, so that only Picasso with his brush was left...
CONSEILS POUR JEUNES COUPLES
Hänzel & GretzelStuff yourself with lead, have a sip of mercury and get high! This is some of Hänzel & Gretzel’s piece of advice for young lovers....
FOOTBALLEUR
Michel FrançoisFor Michel François, beauty is to be found in everyday life, where emotion and astonishment are waiting. Begging in the Barcelonian Ramblas is a true matter of art and genius as Footballeur’s protagonist proves. This old soccer player sitting on the sidewalk keeps the ball bouncing in the air with his feet. For as long as he wants. Come rain or shine....
nocturne (lampedusa - fort europe), 2006, Pieter Geenen © the artist. Courtesy of Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp
NOCTURNE
Pieter GeenenOn the Italian island of Lampedusa, nighttime has gained a tragic connotation over the past several years. This pile of rocks (less than 20 km2) south of Sicily is Europe’s closest point to North Africa. nocturne (lampedusa - fort europa) captures the island’s schizophrenic, tense nocturnal atmosphere. An infrared camera monitors several spots on and around the island...
INGAHY KAMA
Bie MichelsIn the film Ingahy Kama, inhabitants from Madagascar and its capital Antananarivo read aloud (fragments of) the correspondence of James Cameron and other missionaries. The fragments refer directly to the series of 34 photographic prints of letters that are on view at the exhibition (the work Letters of Cameron and his Fellow Missionaries between 1825 and 1875 (2018)...
FUTUR ANTÉRIEUR (A.K.A. DISCIPLES OF THE HEINOUS PATH - PART 1: THE PAIN OF EVERYONE)
Herman AsselberghsClocking in just under twenty minutes, Herman Asselberghs’ Futur Antérieur is, for the most part, a decidedly ‘anti-retinal’ affair: it consists of fifteen minutes of utter, stifling blackness filled with quasi-intolerable noise and an occasional glimmer of distant, shimmering twilight...
VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II - MAGNÉTOSCOPE
Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La Casinière - Jacques Lederlin - Enrique AhrimanThe androgyn-looking sales man in this video clip tries to sell the viewer a device that can record the sounds and images of every television....
JEANLOUP SIEFF
Jef CornelisA report on several exhibitions taking place in Belgium: painter Raf van Cauwenberghe’s, Jack Goderis’s – a member of what was the ‘jeune peinture Belge’ at the time – and the selection of work by French photographer Jeanloup Sieff shown at the Museum for Contemporary Art in Ghent...








