SIMPLE PRESENT

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“The bizarre cityscapes of Bert Danckaert deal with the same paradox of abstractive simplicity and a complexity of meaning and metaphor. Danckaerts still lives breathe a superficial flavour, a strangeness that is found in the familiar.” Inge Henneman

Stieglitz 19, Anvers. 26.01.2013 > 03.03.2013


THE MEANING OF COLOUR

Filed under: Art contemporain, Design, Graphisme, Photographie | Tags: , |

The work of Raw Color reflects a sophisticated treatment of material and colour by mixing the fields of graphic design and photography. Selection of other Websites: Krijn de KoningFien MullerLucile SouffletPhilippe Van Snick, Tamara Van San and Pieter Vermeersch.

Valerie Traan, Anvers. 06.09.2012 > 27.10.2012.


4 SOLO EXHIBITIONS

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Objectif Exhibitions reopens with four solo exhibitions within four distinct spaces: in the office, Cabinet d’Ignorance by Parisian event France Fiction (visit the blog); in the basement, Wasn’t There Yesterday by Estonian artist Triin Tamm; in the gallery, Curtain by American artist Will Rogan (Altman SiegelLaurel Gitlen); and in the residential windows above the courtyard, Four Stomachs by Danish artist Nina Beier.

Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp. 21.04.2012 > 01.04.2013.


DOUBLE FEATURES

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Barbara Visser’s practice has been occupied with the uncertain relationship between registration and dramatization. Many of her works deal with the notions of original and copy. The Exhibition is produced in collaboration with Elsa-Louise Manceaux.

Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp. 28.01.2012 > 10.03.2012.


INTO THE LIGHT 2011

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International exhibition project by ERROR ONE, with video and light installations. A tour from the Zuiderpershuis, along the M HKA and Cinema South to galleries and private spaces and the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp. Selection of Websites: Sarah Corynen & Wim Wauman, Simona Denicolai & Ivo Provoost, Mounir Fatmi, Jerry Galle, Katie Lagast, Gabriel Lester, Lieven Segers and Max Sudhues.

Antwerpen. 02.12.2011 > 11.12.2011.


IAMLEAVING

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Lieven Segers started as a photographer but drawing became an essential element of his installations. The most impressive exhibition was She ran away over the mountains and under the valleys where he made drawings in an abandoned school building.

Maes & Matthys gallery, Antwerp. 08.09.2011 > 22.10.2011.


INVOCATIONS OF THE BLANK PAGE

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Both Vlatka Horvat and Ignacio Uriarte re-work blank sheets of paper, cutting, ripping and reassembling their fragile forms to create new geometrical patterns. Selection of Websites: Martin Creed, Michel François, Ryan Gander, Gareth Long and William Wegman.

NICC, Anvers. 22.04.2011. > 05.06.2011.


LONELY AT THE TOP — GRAPHOLOGY

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In four episodes, Graphology explores the automatisms that may show themselves in drawing.
A series of exhibitions set at the intersection of drawing, photography, printmaking, film and computer graphics. Selection of Websites: Ulrik Heltoft, William Anastasi, Julien Maire, Jerry Galle and William Wegman.

M HKA, Anvers. 18.02.2011 > 27.03.2011.


PREDICTABLE FEELINGS

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The contents of Becky Beasley‘s Website are organized alphabetically rather than chronologically, in keeping with the archival nature of the work. Groupshow with Matthew Brannon and Dan Peterman.

Office Baroque Gallery, Anvers. 06.02.2011 > 19.03.2011.


KEIKO SATO — REWORKING

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The title of Keiko Sato’s exhibition refers to the act of revising something in order to improve or reuse it in a different context.  Sato uses materials and objects made for consumption, which she transforms into works of art. Their meaning and character are emphasized, as well as destroyed in their new environment.

Annie Gentils Gallery, Anvers. 31.10.2010 > 15.01.2011.