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SAGA SACHETS, LÉGENDE DU VAL D’OURTHE ET DE L’AMBLÈVE
Jacques Louis Nyst - Danièle NystSaga Sachets are light envelopes that are carried on air currents. They arrive shortly before spring at the Ourthe and Amblève valleys, where they land upside down. In this position, they murmur the stories that they have collected during the year to the planet. Our narrators attempt to uncover their mysterious origin....
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Pieter GeenenOn the walls of the local Belgian Club in Delhi, Ontario (Canada) hangs a banal painting portraying Saint Catherine's Square, a square in the heart of the Belgian capital Brussels. Depicting this specific place the painting evokes the memory connected to it for the many Belgian immigrants in this particular Canadian region, which helps defining and enhancing the community's identity...
OLD CLOUDS
Charley CaseA cloudy sky can be seen through a circular form and, closer by, flames and black smoke can be discerned. A view of the sky through an exhaust pipe? Or is the viewer is looking down into a trash can into which Case has effectively tossed both clouds and sky — and set them on fire....
RICHARD HAMILTON
Jef CornelisThe British painter Richard Hamilton talks and with students of different art academies, at the occasion of an exhibition at the Palais des Beaux-Arts/Paleis voor Schone Kunsten in Brussels in 1971, about how he works and his sources of inspiration...
JAMES LEE BYARS: WORLD QUESTION CENTER
Jef CornelisThe work of the American artist James Lee Byars (1932-1997) resists any strict definition or categorisation. He was greatly influenced by his many travels, as well as by for example Zen philosophy and Noh theatre, which he discovered during the years he spent in Japan. While his oeuvre relates to conceptual, minimal and performance art, it is not limited to any of these genres...
Not a matter of if but when: brief records of ... , 2006, Julia Meltzer and David Thorne © the artists
NOT A MATTER OF IF BUT WHEN: BRIEF RECORDS OF A TIME IN WHICH EXPECTATIONS WERE REPEATEDLY RAISED AND LOWERED AND PEOPLE GREW EXHAUSTED FROM NEVER KNOWING IF THE MOMENT WAS AT HAND OR STILL TO COME
Julia Meltzer - David ThorneNot a matter of it but ... when was developed in 2005–06 in Damascus, Syria...
WALKER, LA VALSIÈRE
Thomas Bernardet - Florent MulotWalker 3 is a survey of the Domaine de Valsière, in the suburbs of Montpellier. This unbuilt "natural" space, encircled by dwellings, was ravaged by a fire during the 2003 heat wave. In this lunar space that evokes a deserted battlefield and a western movie, the two artists scrutinize the terrain, searching for traces of a former state, evidence of a past life...
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...
ROLAND VAN DEN BERGHE
Jef CornelisAn interview with Belgian visual artist Roland Van Den Berghe, as part of the exhibition ‘Free as the Air and Function’. Van den Berghe, wearing a Queen Fabiola mask, discusses the way icons and doctrines are created in an artificial way and the role art plays to break through these straitjackets...
