Exhibition

// KLEDZE HATAL //

D+T Project Gallery presents the latest works by Sébastien Bonin in which the Brussels based artist continues to explore the limitless levels of reading related to the stories associated with the Native American Navajo society.

 Through the photographic technique of the photogram Bonin focuses on the essence of the pattern-design in the Navajo’s unique clothing – the colours and the structure – to create complex geometric compositions by projecting luminous rays of light onto photographic paper through a set of colourful gelatine filters.

 The final images, hand cut and with visible traces of fixing lines and scotch, are enclosed in raw, untreated and stained brass frames, reminiscent of the material used by the Navajo to manufacture their jewellery.

Sébastien Bonin - Kledze Hatal

D+T Project Gallery

Brussels

17.3.2016 – 7.5.2016

 

 

© Sébastien Bonin. Pictures by Ludovic Beillard Courtesy the Artist & D+T Project Gallery.

 

 

/ by Kim Poorters /

// MARTYRS //

During the remainder of the Klara Festival, BOZAR presents the video installation Earth Martyr, Air Martyr, Fire Martyr & Water Martyr (2014) by artist Bill Viola, at the Cathedrals of St Michael and St Gudula in Brussels.

 Departing from the perspective of the ‘witness’, which is the original Greek meaning of the word martyr, Viola confronts the visitor with the suffering of four martyrs subjected to the extreme, invincible forces of nature. The video, which is shown on four plasma screens, ends with a blinding light that shines on the four dead martyrs, The artist encourages the audience to reflect on themes like death, the hereafter, compassion and sacrifice.

Bill Viola

Earth Martyr, Air Martyr, Fire Maryr & Water Martyr

Cathedrals of St Michael and St Gudula

Brussels

9.3.2016 – 24.3.2016

 

 

© Bill Viola. Courtesy Bill Viola Studio and Vanhaerents Art Collection.

 

 

/ by Kim Poorters /

// DRIFT //

David Zwirner opens later this week with an exhibition centered around a group of twenty-two paintings by Belgian artist Raoul De Keyser which were completed shortly before his death in October 2012.Known as The Last Wall, the series is shown here in its entirety for the first time.

 Revisiting some major themes that occupied the painter throughout his career, such as the landscape of the Belgian lowlands, the inconspicuous things at hand, and the partition of the picture plane, the works remain formally and materially restrained in their colourful compositions, subtly evocative and at once straightforward and cryptic, abstract and figurative.

 

Raoul De Keyser - Drift

David Zwirner

New York

18.3.2016 – 23.04.2016

 

 

© Raoul De Keyser. Courtesy David Zwirner and Zeno X Gallery.

 

 

/ by Kim Poorters /

// RICHARD & ANDY //

Gagosian pairs works by Richard Avedon and Andy Warhol, whose most memorable images, produced in response to changing cultural mores, are icons of the twentieth century.

The works of both Avedon and Warhol are juxtaposed throughout the exhibition, emphasizing such common themes as social and political power, the evolving acceptance of cultural differences and minorities, the inevitability of mortality, and the glamour and despair of celebrity.

Avedon Warhol

Gagosian Gallery

London

9.2.2016 – 23.4.2016

 

 

© The Richard Avedon Foundation.

© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

 

 

/ by Kim Poorters /

// DONOGOO TONKA //

SMAK Ghent opens tonight with the latest solo exhibition by Rinus Van de Velde in which the artist shows a series of nine new, monumental drawings on canvas, based on the 1920’s screenplay ‘Donogoo Tonka, ou Les miracles de la science’ by French writer Jules Romains.

 The museum space is transformed into a giant décor with the story of the geographer who actually ends up building the phantom city he claims to have discovered visualised through a nine-sequence storyboard of image and text in which the artist himself portrays the protagonist of the story he aims to tell the visitors.

Rinus Van de Velde - Donogoo Tonka

S.M.A.K.

Ghent

5.3.2016 – 5.6.2016

 

 

© Rinus Van de Velde. Courtesy Tim Van Laere Gallery.

 

 

/ by Kim Poorters /

// GOLDSTEIN HOUSE //

The 1963 John Lautner-designed Sheats-Goldstein house has been donated by fashion and basketball aficionado James F. Goldstein, owner since 1972, to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

 With the donation of the exceptional home, its content and the surrounding estate, including a James Turrell Skyspace set in the tropical gardens of the property, opens a new area of collecting for the museum, which envisions using the house for fundraisers, exhibitions and conferences.

 

John Lautner - Sheats-Goldstein house

LACMA

Los Angeles

17.2.2016

 

 © Tom Ferguson Photography. Courtesy LACMA.

 

 

/ by Kim Poorters /

// NEW PAINTINGS //

Foam shows New Paintings by Belgian photographer Vincent Delbrouck, a meditation on the beauty of bright colours, simple objects, plants and the human body, as encountered during his travels.

 “We wander confused through the landscapes of our own minds, sometimes thinking about nature and art so seriously that we forget to observe their beauty.”

 Inspired by painting, he brings together form and colour in print and collage to create new, associative compositions through his photography, photobooks and installations.

 Vincent Delbrouck – New Paintings

Foam 3h

Amsterdam

5.2.2016 – 13.3.2016

 

 

© Vincent Delbrouck. Courtesy STIEGLITZ19.

 

 

/ by Kim Poorters /

// PHOTOGRAPHS //

The first exhibition devoted to Ellsworth Kelly’s photography opens today at Matthew Marks, featuring over forty gelatin silver prints of his photos taken between 1950 and 1982. Kelly finished preparing the exhibition shortly before his death last year.

 “I’m not interested in the texture of the rock, or that it is a rock, but in the mass of it, and its shadow.”

 The artist’s enthusiasm for the visible world and the compositional possibilities within it is clear.Unlike his sketches and collages, his photographs were never part of the process of making a painting or sculpture, but simply a record of his vision.

Ellsworth Kelly - Photographs

Matthew Marks Gallery

New York

26.2.2016 – 30.4.2016

 

 

© Ellsworth Kelly. Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery.

 

 

/ by Kim Poorters /

// BLANCO //

Awoiska van der Molen starts off the new year at Foam, where she presents Blanco, her first major museum-based solo exhibition showing a broad selection of her hand-printed gelatin silver prints.Parallel to this, Purdy Hicks presents their first solo exhibition of the Dutch photographer.

 The series of monochrome landscape photography she has been working on since 2009 is the result of long periods of isolation in which she penetrates into the remote world in which her photographs are created. Hushed and devoid of people, her work remains shrouded in mystery.

Awoiska van der Molen

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FOAM – Amsterdam

22.1.2016 – 3.4.2016

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Purdy Hicks – London

12.2.2016 – 12.3.2016

 

 

© Awoiska van der Molen. Courtesy the artist.

Sequester, van der Molen’s first photobook, was published in September 2014.

 

 

/by Kim Poorters /

// LOST DOWNTOWN //

 

The Peter Hujar exhibition features over twenty portraits by the late photographer, predominantly in black and white and taken with a medium format camera in the intimacy of his studio or familiar indoor spaces where he could quietly compose his pictures in a one-on-one with his models.

 Ranging from casual acquaintances to close friends and intimate lovers, his portraits offer a fascinating glimpse into New York City’s downtown scene of the late 70’s and early 80’s, a coterie of artists, performers, drag queens, misfits, writers and musicians living on Hujar’s Lower East Side blocks.

 “That Downtown is forever gone. Time, gentrification, disease and death took their toll. But before it vanished, its extravagant cast sat for Peter Hujar’s camera – and is now alive again in front of our eyes.”

The exhibition’s catalogue, Lost Downtown, is published by Steidl.

 

/ by Kim Poorters /

// NO LIFE LOST //

De Bruyckere’s largest and most ambitious work to date, created in collaboration with novelist J M Coetzee for the Belgian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Art Biennale in 2013, travels to New York. The darkly beautiful ‘Kreupelhout – Cripplewood, 2012 – 2013’ forms the centrepiece of an exhibition of recent sculptures and works on paper by the acclaimed Belgian artist.

 Working with casts made of wax, animal skins, hair, textiles, metal and wood, she renders haunting distortions of organic forms, wounded and scarred, reflecting on man’s fundamental search for transformation, transcendence and reconciliation in the face of mortality.

 Parallel to the exhibition and inspired by the works created for it, contemporary dancer Romeu Runa presents the performance piece ‘Sibylle’, his second collaboration with Berlinde De Bruyckere. After meeting at Belgian choreographer Alain Platel’s company les ballets C de la B in 2010, Runa went from posing for a sculpture to an unanticipated and intimate performance, adding another dimension to De Bruyckere’s series of sculpture and drawing with ‘Romeu, my deer’ in 2013.

Berlinde De Bruyckere – No Life Lost

Hauser & Wirth

New York

28.1.2016 – 2.4.2016

 

© Berlinde De Bruyckere. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.

Pictures of Runa’s performance ‘Romeu my deer’, 26th October 2014, S.M.A.K, Ghent, by Kim Poorters.

 

 

/ by Kim Poorters /

// THIS IS ME, THIS IS YOU. //

 

Albeit offering a fairly broad overview of her oeuvre, the Roni Horn exhibition at De Pont focuses on the artist’s more recent work from the past ten years, and more specifically on a number of photographic series and recent glass sculptures.

 Androgyny isn’t two things, it’s everything. It’s synthesis; not this and that. It’s a state of integration.

 Often working in pairs, her portrait photographs are reminders of the early iconic photo series and reflect on recurring interests in Iceland’s enigmatic landscapes, mythology, androgyny and youth. The cylindrical sculptures in blue, green, brown and white glass contrast with her photographs, drawings and texts in their minimal appearance and careful arrangement.

Roni Horn

De Pont

Tilburg

23.1.2016 – 29.5.2016

 

 

© Roni Horn. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.

 

 

/ by Kim Poorters /

// XYZ //

Part of a series in which the gallery invites guest curators to rediscover the photographer’s work, Thaddaeus Ropac has invited architect and designer Peter Marino to bring forward his personalized vision on Mapplethorpe, following such curators as Sofia Coppola (2011) and Hedi Slimane (2005).

 Working in close collaboration with The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation based in New York, Marino has selected some 17 Polaroid’s and 60 photographs to revisit themes he believes fundamental to the photographers’ work: X for sex, Y for floral still lives, and Z for male nudes.

Robert Mapplethorpe – XYZ

curated by Peter Marino

Thaddaeus Ropac

Paris

28.1.2016 – 5.3.2016

 

 

© Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac.

 

 

/ by Kim Poorters /

// SEA LEVEL //

Almine Rech brings together a series of works by two Brussels based artists, which both of them created in California in the aftermath of a mutual trip along the West Coast’s national parks.

 Jeap-Baptiste Bernadet’s Black Paintings are composed of a diluted mix of black and coloured paint, spread across the canvas with a sheet of paper, while Benoît Platéus’ negative sculptures form when horizontal layers of pigmented resin in vivid colours are poured into empty chemicals containers.

 Both series depend on a degree of randomness and unpredictability in the act of making to reveal a landscape of endless variations in colour and textured surfaces, open to projection and interpretation

Jean-Baptiste Bernadet and Benoît Platéus – Sea Level

Almine Rech Gallery

London

8.1.2016 – 23.1.2016

 

 

Courtesy of the artist and Almine Rech Gallery.

Photography by Melissa Castro Duarte.

 

/ by Kim Poorters /

 

// DEAR FRIENDS, … //

For his first solo show in Brazil, Belgian artist Rinus Van de Velde presents a site-specific work, composed of large format charcoal drawings and text captions.

Together they guide the viewer through the story he wants to tell, evoking the illusion of places, populated by characters spanning from a hallucinatory outsider living on an isolated island, to a 19th century sculptor.

Rinus Van de Velde

Kunsthalle São Paulo

São Paulo

11.12.2015 – 9.1.2016

 

 

© Rinus Van de Velde. Courtesy Tim Van Laere Gallery.

 

 / by Kim Poorters /

// YELLOWBLUEPINK //

With yellowbluepink, Ann Veronica Janssens launches States of Mind: Tracing the edges of consciousness, a year-long investigation into the experience of human consciousness.

 Invading the gallery with coloured mist - an ongoing experiment since her first fog-sculpture in 1997 - any detail of surface or depth within the space is blurred, and the viewers’ attention drawn to the process of perception itself through the medium of light and colour.

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 “Nothing is more beautiful than a person’s own perception. I try to push it to its limits."

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On the occasion of the planned installation of two permanent sculptures for the City of Ghent, S.M.A.K. invites both the Brussels based artist and her Turkish counterpart Ayşe Erkmen to elaborate on their proposals in a duo exhibition.

Ann Veronica Janssens - yellowbluepink

Wellcome Collection

London

15.10.2015 – 3.1.2015

 

© Ann Veronica Janssens. Courtesy the Artist and Wellcome Trust.

 

Ayşe Erkmen and Ann Veronica Janssens - .A

S.M.A.K.

Ghent

31.10.2015 – 14.2.2016

 

 

/ by Kim Poorters /

 

 

// GENESIS //

Alexandra Beirnaerdt is a real art and fashion aficionado and for the last 20 years she has been involved in a creative partnership focusing on reflection, conception and creating visibility.

This partnership resulted in a large number of successful campaigns in the most diverse areas and today she adds another string to her bow by combining the photographic works of two artists, Ruben Tomas (US) and Gert Motmans (BELGIUM), into one exhibition "Step One".

 

 

Step One

Opening / 26 November 2015  / 7.30 pm // Exhibition 27-28-29 November 2015 2pm-6pm

Jan Van Rijswijcklaan 17

2018 Antwerpen

 

 

 

/ by Michael Marson /

 

 

 

// PHREATIC ZONES //

Cristina Iglesias brings the city plaza and London’s river Thames into Marian Goodman’s Gallery with three new horizontal sculptures, lined with bas-reliefs cast in weathered aluminum.

After large scale works in the public realm with Deep Fountain in Antwerp in 1996 and Tres Aguas in Toledo in 2014, she continues to explore the concept of the underground and the well as an allegory of life, sex and death in the contemplative setting of the gallery.

Cristina Iglesias – Phreatic Zones

Marian Goodman Gallery

London

30.10.2015 – 19.12.2015

 

 

© Cristina Iglesias. Courtesy the Artist and Marian Goodman Gallery.

 

 

 / by Kim Poorters /

// LATE PAINTINGS //

In its third exhibition of his work, Gagosian New York presents over twenty-five paintings made by Bacon in London and Paris during the last two decades of his life.

 Different from his visceral brushwork of the 1940s to 1970s, Bacon sprayed his paint to add a chiaroscuro and refinement to his familiar figures, forever caught in a sense of primal fear. 

Francis Bacon – Late Paintings

Gagosian Gallery

New York

7.11.2015 – 12.12.2015

 

 

Study from the Human Body, 1981

Triptych, 1991

© The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved. / DACS, London / ARS, NY 2015.

Courtesy Gagosian Gallery.

 

 

/ by Kim Poorters /

// PLATYPUS //

After the Bear, Eric Croes introduces a panoply of animals and random objects to his playful and totemesque reinterpretation of the Surrealists’ exquisite corpse drawings.

 The Platypus, once mistaken for a mythical assemblage of different animals in itself, leads the way.

 

 

Eric Croes - Platypus

Galerie Albert Baronian

Brussels

30.10.2015 – 19.12.2015

 

 

 

© Eric Croes. Courtesy Albert Baronian.

 

/ by Kim Poorters /

 

 

 

 

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