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LE PETIT JEUNE HOMME DE BINCHE
Jan VrommanCarnival in the Belgian town of Binche is not just a revel and an orgy. It’s subject to strict rules. Every male inhabitant of Binche can become ’Gilles’. Every Gilles puts on a colourful suit and is accompanied by a drummer wherever he goes. On top of this the Gilles all wear the same wax mask during the afternoon of carnival...
LE PLASTIQUE C'EST FANTASTIQUE
Karen VanderborghtIn this very early film — the artist made it while she was still studying at Sint-Lukas in Brussels — Karen Vanderborght deliberately plays with lo-fi aesthetics, abstraction and blurred focus. Though her editing is inspired by free association, in this work the focus is on the naked body...
VERSION ORIGINALE01
Joëlle de La Casinière - Michel BonnemaisonTwo Japanese actors read passages from ‘L’Empire des signes’ by Roland Barthes. His structural meditations on specific aspects of oriental culture – in this case specifically on the Japanese language and kitchen – are illustrated and substantiated by an entanglement of words, writing and image...
MUSÉE DE L'HOMME
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...
OUR CIRCUMSCRIBED DAYS
Hans Van den BroeckIn 1999 Hans Van Den Broeck made this rhythmical portrait of Moscow. He did not focus on the real Moscow, but rather on the myth of the metropolitan city, with its inhabitants as actors. He wanted to capture the Russian spirit, in all its absurdity. Conflict situations, incongruities, funny or absurd situations, however minimal, drew his attention...
Between Two Walls, Ria Pacquée, 2009. Courtesy the Artist
BETWEEN TWO WALLS
Ria PacquéeThe work of Ria Pacquée contains narrative aspects, firmly rooted in a social awareness, which do not seem to take shape until the final stage of the editing. ’Between Two Walls’ is a montage of clips showing the worship of people of different faiths in Jerusalem – in the streets, in the temples, at shrines...
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...
LES 3 MARIE
Charley CaseA painting on which a woman is depicted breastfeeding a child. The image refers to the well known iconographical pose of the Holy Mary holding Jesus. The gently moving image of a real woman breastfeeding her child appears in this painting, as a second layer. Slowly it slides to the foreground. The second painting is that of Mary as a young girl...
