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// It’s my OWN //

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Starting this week, MAD Brussels welcomes you to the universe of OWN. The former fashion designing duo invited a bunch of artists to dive into their archives.

For little less then a decade, Thierry Rondenet and Hervé Yvrenogeau had a shop in Brussels, thought at the prestigious fashion academy La Cambre and collaborated with high end brands like Maison Martin Margiela or Acne Studios.

The guest artists range from Thierry Boutemy to Leonardo Van Dijl and will guide you through the duo’s work via re interpretation, and turning it into their own.

 

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Exhibition from

16th March 2018 until 17th June 2018

MAD, 10 place du nouveau marché aux grains

1000 Brussels - Belgium

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/ by Gaelle Van Lede /

// ALCHEMIST. ARTISAN. DESIGNER //

Gemologist, artisan, dreamer, curious, insatiable…many words to portray Ado Chale, the craftsman in wrought iron. No round, no square, no rectangle, just a hand that digs and traces raw material and vigorous forms to show a window open on a dream journey to the heart of the earth.

To celebrate his first monograph (released on September 14th) Bozar is hosting a retrospective of his work from August 18 to September 24. These two events will retrace the odyssey of Ado Chale from 1966 to 2015.

/ Images Gilles van den Abeele /

 

/ by Xavier Bourgeois /

// DAVID HOCKNEY //

Tate Britain presents an unprecedented overview of the impressive body of work of British artist David Hockney. Currently entering its final week, the exhibition will tour internationally to Paris’ Centre Pompidou and New York’s The Metropolitan Museum.

Gathering an extensive selection of the artist’s most famous works to date, the touring exhibition demonstrates how he continuously questioned the nature of pictures and picture-making and challenged their conventions throughout his achievements in painting, drawing, print, photography and video across six decades.

The exhibition is presented as a chronological overview and lays bare how the roots of each new direction lay in the work that came before: from his portraits and images of Los Angeles swimming pools, through to his drawings and photography, Yorkshire landscapes and most recent paintings at London’s Royal Academy and beyond.

As he approaches his 80th birthday, Hockney still continues to change his style and ways of working, embracing new technologies as he goes. This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see these unforgettable works together.

David Hockney

Tate Britain

London

9.2.2017 – 29.5.2017

 

© David Hockney.

 

/ by Kim Poorters /

//MARSEILLE JE T’AIME//

"My name is Simon, I like blue and white, stripes, the sun, fruits, circles, life, poetry, Marseille and the 1980s."

"Marseille je t'aime" is more than a traditional fashion exhibition as the artist will not only showcase his collection “Les Santons de Marseille”, but also photos, videos, sculptures and his new book. The idea is to show his work from various perspectives. So for the first time, Jacquemus got off the beaten track and produced other forms of art.

The project is a part of the Open My Med festival and is divided in two sections: “Maisons” and “Archives”at the Musée d'art contemporain, and "Images" at the Musée des civilisations et de la Méditerranée (MuCEM):

The book features poetic images created by French and international photographers, painters and contemporary artists.

For the fashion show, models walked on the MuCEM bridge wearing "Les Santons de Marseille," a collection inspired by the famous figurines, echoing Jacquemus' love for the provencale culture.

The video, for which the book is an accompaniment, shows personal and inspirational images. It will play from 13th May to 31st July.

For the sculptures, the artist played with the structure of circles and squares, which is a characteristic of his label.

"Marseille je t'aime" is an assemblage of creations forming an ode to the designer's beloved city.

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Marseille je t'aime

Until January 13th, 2018

Musée des civilisation et de la Méditerranée (MuCEM)

7 Promenade Robert Laffont

13002 Marseille

http://jacquemus.com/

Photos ©Jacquemus

 

 

/ by Souria Cheurfi /

 

// THE COMPANY OF MEN //

In his series The Company of Men, currently on display at The Ballery, young Swiss photographer Alexandre Haefeli continues his ongoing personal work centred on an intimate representation of the male body.

 Through a selection of over 70 recent works, the viewer, at once reduced and elevated to the status of the voyeur, looks in on scenes that range from intimate studios portraits to elaborately staged interactions between male - or in this case often androgynous – ‘subjects’.

 “Torn between romanticism and open sexuality, between suggestion and revelation, the spectator is invited to look, to imagine and to desire”

Hovering between suggestive and explicit, Haefeli’s body of work remains highly coherent in the differences that exist between its composing images. Often set against an idyllic natural backdrop these come both in extremely vibrant colours and in black and white, are either raw and untouched or highly manipulated, and are either of a transcendent or direct nature.

 

Alexandre Haefeli - The Company of Men

The Ballery

Berlin

30.9.2016 – 30.10.2016

 

 © Alexandre Haefeli. Courtesy the artist and The Ballery.

 

  / by Kim Poorters /

// 82 PORTRAITS AND 1 STILL LIFE //

The Royal Academy of Arts presents an exhibition of recent portrait paintings by David Hockney, executed over the last couple of years in the artist’s Los Angeles studio. Considered by Hockney to be seen as one single body of work, each portrait is painted on the same sized canvas, in the same time frame of three days, and shows his subjects seated in the same chair, against the same vivid blue background.

  An intimate snapshot of the LA art world and the people who have crossed his path over the last two years, his sitters include friends and family, office staff, fellow artists, curators and gallerists such as John Baldessari and Larry Gagosian.

David Hockney - 82 Portraits and 1 Still Life

Royal Academy of Arts

London

2.7.2016 – 2.10.2016

 

 © David Hockney. Courtesy the artist.

 

 / by Kim Poorters /

// A RETROSPECTIVE //

Foam presents a major retrospective exhibition of the work of German artist Helmut Newton featuring over 200 of his photographs, ranging from monumental photos to vintage prints from the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin.

 Influenced by the social change that took place in the 1970s, an era of female emancipation and looser sexual morality, the depiction of women and underlying themes such as power, violence, eroticism and desire became key to both his commercial work for French Vogue and the portrait photography for which he is best known.

 All too aware that eroticism, seduction and desire primarily amount to a game of perception and of displaying an unattainable reality, his women are powerful, seductive, dominant, and often nothing less than intimidating.

Helmut Newton - A Retrospective

FOAM

Amsterdam

16.6.2016 – 4.9.2016

 

 © Helmut Newton / Helmut Newton Estate.

 

  / by Kim Poorters /

// I CRIED BECAUSE I LOVE YOU //

Lehmann Maupin and White Cube present ‘I Cried Because I Love You’, a joint exhibition by Tracey Emin taking place across both gallery spaces in Hong Kong and marking the artist’s first solo presentation in Greater China.

“I look at myself, and I paint myself, but they’re portraits of my mind, of my deepest thoughts.”

For this major project, Emin has envisaged a continuous exhibition of painting, embroidery, and neon across two spaces that reflect the diversity of her challenging and deeply poetic work across a wide range of media. She draws on subjects that are intimately bound up with her own biography, recalling events, dreams or emotional states in works that are starkly honest and personal, yet familiar and universal.

Tracey Emin - I Cried Because I Love You

White Cube HK

Hong Kong

21.2.2016 – 21.5.2016

 

© Tracey Emin. Courtesy of Lehmann Maupin and White Cube.

 

 

/ by Kim Poorters /

// ICONIC LAMPENS //

Starting today architecture and art lovers alike can book a 3-day stay in Lampens’ iconic House Van Wassenhove, conceived as an open-space shell made of concrete, wood and glass in which basic geometric shapes structure the interior: a circle for the sleeping area, a triangle for the kitchen and a square for the office.

 Designed and built for a teacher with a passion for contemporary art and architecture between 1972 and 1974, the house marks a highpoint in the Belgian architect’s shift from traditional architecture to a concrete modernism likened to the works of Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe, and to Japanese and Scandinavian architecture.

 After it was given on a long-term loan to the museum Dhondt-Dhaenens following the death of it’s owner in 2012, the house was carefully renovated in 2015 and opened to a residency program for artists, writers and researchers to develop their work in the calm of it’s concrete architecture, set in the region of the river Lys. Starting 2016 the house will additionally be opened for summer short-stays, as well as for occasional individual and group visits.

Juliaan Lampens – House Van Wassenhove

Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens

Deurle

29.4.2016 – 2.10.2016

 

 

© Juliaan Lampens. Courtesy museum Dhondt-Dhaenens. Photographs by Rik Vannevel.

 

 

/ 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 /

// 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 /

// 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 /

// INSIDE / SERIES 3 //

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