COLLECTION

DICK BRUNA

Jef Cornelis

WANDELEN IN BINNENLAND: PORTRET VAN DE FOTOGRAAF JULIEN COULOMMIER

Jan Vromman
The Belgian photographer Julien Coulommier doesn’t deal in the exotic, the eccentric, the technical performance; he penetrates the depth of banality, he is profoundly connected with his subjects. An Inland Walk is not only a portrait of a photographer, but also a portrait of the artistic context, the spirit of the time in which the work was developed (Cobra, etc.)...

QUELQUES SÉQUENCES D'ART SANS TALENT

Jacques Lizène
‘Quelques sequences d’art sans talent’ (‘Some sequences of untalented art’) was completely recorded at the studios of the Belgian-French network RTBF, as an edition of the program Vidéographie(s)’ that focused on video art during the 1976 to 1986 period...

RISING FALL

Lukas Marxt
Rising Fall is a three-part study on nature as its spectacle, on what Spinoza termed natura naturans, or “nature naturing.” Something happens without the need of a guiding agent. Filmic images are content to quietly watch and listen and wait. And they expect the same of how they are observed. In other words an immanence of nature confiding a secret...

YA RAYAH

Claudio Pazienza
A working man, his traces and memory games. Based on a song by Dahmane el-Harrachi, the film evokes the frame of mind of a displaced person, someone to whom ‘here’ and ‘there’ balance out....

MAX BILL

Jef Cornelis
Max Bill, an artist who worked with plastics and member of the Swiss ’Zurich Concrete’ group, spent many years investigating mathematical abstractions – and sculpting, in his way, another life. "Is it necessary to say that a mathematical approach to art has nothing to do with any ingenious system of calculation based on ready-made formulas?" he wrote in 1949...

HERE

Peter Downsbrough
A video triptych (‘And’, ‘Here’, ‘As...’) fully recorded in the area around Lille and Tourcoing, commissioned for the exhibition ‘La ville qui fait signes’ at Le Fresnoy (autumn 2004)...

Document for the right to the everyday, Ria Pacquée, 1999. Courtesy the Artist

DOCUMENT FOR THE RIGHT TO THE EVERYDAY

Ria Pacquée
This is a recording of a performance, a protest by the faceless, anonymous artist, in the city of Ghent, in reaction to the position she finds herself in, due to the attitudes of the state toward artists in general and to herself in particular. ...

HOE WAAR VALS KAN ZIJN

Stefaan Decostere
Working under the cover of imitation and parody, Jacques Charlier has allways set out to expose the perverse use to which images are put by art and society. Decostere’s film demonstrates this in an exemplary manner...

RUE FRANCIS

François Vogel
From the balcony of an apartment at the Parisian rue Francis a camera embodies the fixed centre of a visual journey: an immobile eye which, due to variable focus, is mobile at the same time. The result is a whirlwind of perspectives, edited in a way that is not apparently subject to rhyme or reason...