// DONOGOO TONKA //

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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.

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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 /

// STRANGER IN A ROOM //

Dior Homme launches its SS 2016 campaign, photographed by Willy Vanderperre with Singer and lyricist Oliver Sim from the XX, actor Alain-Fabien Delon, artist Rinus Van de Velde & model Victor Nylander.

 The still images are accompanied by a film which is titled “Stranger in a Room” after a song of the same title by Sim’s bandmate Jamie xx, which actually features the bass-player’s vocals.

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/ by Michael Marson /

// DEAR FRIENDS, … //

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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.

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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 /