COLLECTIE
Zoek collectie
MONUMENTS
Redmond EntwistleThe artists Robert Smithson and Gordon Matta-Clark are revived from the dead and ejected from their makeshift mausoleums in New York by the forces of redevelopment. Led through New Jersey by a young Dan Graham, they debate their artistic positions with the ‘non-actors’ they encounter at the sites of their work in New Jersey...
DER FLEXIBLE UNTERNEHMER
Alexander KlugeAs indicated in the subtitle Tiehrmehlfabrikant Dr. Fred Eicke weiss Auswege, this work centres on the animal food producer Fred Eicke (a part played by Peter Berling). The title refers to The Corrosion of Character (translated into German as Der Flexible Mensch), a book from 1998 by the American sociologist Richard Sennett...
THE PERFECT WAVE
Nicolas ProvostThe Perfect Wave is a fascinating looped video of a surfer who keeps going and going on what indeed looks like a perfect wave. It’s a metaphor for what the artist calls the human desire for an endless orgasm....
STAGING SILENCE (2)
Hans Op de BeeckHans Op de Beeck's film Staging Silence (2) is based around abstract, archetypal settings that lingered in the memory of the artist as the common denominator of the many similar public places he has experienced. The video images themselves are both ridiculous and serious, just like the eclectic mix of pictures in our minds...
Poison Petals, Peter Finnemore, 2005. Courtesy the Artist
POISON PETALS
Peter FinnemoreTwo young girls in camouflage battle dress try to break all the glass panels of a greenhouse....
TANIA, MODÈLE POUR PHOTOS DE CHARME
Jacques LennepVideo, 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...
SHEHERAZADE IN THE FOREST
Bernard MulliezA video made during the confinement of April 2020 for the magazine Amour & Sagesse. At dusk, Sheherazade walks under the plane trees and chants the ancient dance of life. A dance that wards off illnesses and gives strength to those who fight. A dance from the bottom of the heart. An evening song that gathers the villagers on their balconies...
DANIEL BUREN
Jef CornelisGeorges Adé (1936-1992) interviews the French artist Daniel Buren (°1938) at the occasion of his solo exhibition – simply entitled Buren (11 May - 5 June, 1971) – in front of the Wide White Space Gallery in Antwerp. As in his previous show with the same title (17 January - 6 February, 1969), Buren applied his renowned motif, namely the alternation of white and coloured 8...
QUOD
Alexis Destoop‘Quod’ is based on medical macro pictures of the eye. Through animation techniques the inner depth of the perceived “object” was accentuated. Then the animation was integrated into a 3D model, which was conceived as an unfolding surface. Contradictory principles are bundled together in a slowly transforming dynamic, a hypnotic dance of micro movements....
