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THE NAMES HAVE CHANGED, INCLUDING MY OWN, AND TRUTHS HAVE BEEN ALTERED
Onyeka IgweThis is a story of the artist’s grandfather, the story of the ‘land’ and the story of an encounter with Nigeria—retold at a single point in time, in a single place. The artist is trying to tell a truth in as many ways as possible...
THE LADDER 2 (ALONE)
Messieurs DelmotteLike in a scene out of a surrealist painting, a lonely ladder is standing in a park and seems to be reaching for the sky. But this illusion is shattered when the ladder drops to the ground. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 2...
RED TAPE - ORBIS TERRARUM
Cel CrabeelsRed tape stuck in straight lines on the floor, ceiling and walls creates an hermetically closed route through them. Two camera movements follow this line, one s an intact circuit and the other as its dismantling. This marking with tape can be seen as the equatorial contraction of an inner space....
ETIENNE ELIAS
Jef CornelisThe artistic style of Etienne Elias is very wide and it has taken various turns over the course of his life, with new forms and other accents. But his art is always driven by his colourful imagination, drawing its inspiration from his immediate surroundings, his friends and his habitat Ostende. Pictorially he visualises all of this as he sees it with his shifting artistic sense...
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....
BLACK RAIN WHITE SCARS
Lukas MarxtBlack Rain White Scars depicts a twilight of reality. With the steady shot of a Gotham-like cityscape, Lukas Marxt guides us between vestiges of visionary architecture and narrow planted apartment buildings. As we’re searching for our relational point within it, the overwhelming murmuring of the human, car, and boat traffic, at the same time marginalises our position...
UN PIED DANS LE JARDIN DE MIEL
Bernard MulliezWithin the framework of Europalia Europa festival (2007-2008), the CIVA in partnership with a supermarket group organized an exhibition called Supermarkets of Europe 1957-2007 in La Cambre Architecture School.Initially a mere financial supporter, the trade group became the very object of the exhibition, which illustrates the final outcome of the privatization of the cultural public services...
BERLAYMONT DREAMING
Justin BennettThe Berlaymont building, seat of the European Commission, is a symbolic centre for the European quarter of Brussels as well as for Europe itself. Formally interesting is the fact that the original modernist architecture has been renovated and forseen with a new ‘skin’ or rather an armour plating, changing the outward appearance while preserving the inner form...
VLAANDEREN IN VOGELVLUCHT
Jef CornelisAn outlook on Flanders from the air. The familiar landscape is explored as it could never be explored before and this liberating experience makes it even more familiar in many ways. The spaces, plains and roads are taken up as part of a bigger unity – like on a roadmap, if it weren’t for the fact that the movement could make the exploration take place in a much more physical way...
