Johan Creten - Fire-Works / Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens
Johan Creten, Fire-Works
Exhibition from October 21st 2012 to January 13th 2013
Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens
Museumlaan 14
9831 Deurle, Belgium
09 282 51 23
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Johan Creten: Fire-Works / Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens
Johan Creten
21/10/2012 - 13/01/2013
The oeuvre of Johan Creten (b. 1963 Belgium) is laden with double entendres, suggestions, symbolic links, ... His very personal work resolutely resists the typical twentieth-century modernist idea of progress in art, including through the use of historically charged motifs, tactile materials, and sensual shapes. The sculptures of Johan Creten invariably invite different narratives to be created between them; in this way, every exhibition appeals to the imagination of the spectator in new and changing ways.
Recently, Johan Creten has been the recipient of much international recognition and the Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens is therefore very happy to be the first Belgian museum to present a solo exhibition of his work. Johan Creten presents an exhibition in which very recent and older sculptures are placed in dialogue, using both the garden and the interior spaces of the museum.
Kris Martin ?DO GEESE SEE GOD?
MARCH 21 - APRIL 27, 2019
Sean Kelly is delighted to announce Kris Martin’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, ?DO GEESE SEE GOD?, an unprecedented exhibition and artistic intervention occupying two distinct venues. This groundbreaking two-part exhibition will occur simultaneously at Saint Bavo’s Cathedral in Ghent, Belgium, home to the world-renowned painting by Hubert and Jan van Eyck, Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, commonly referred to as the Ghent Altarpiece, and at Sean Kelly Gallery in New York. In a unique collaboration, Martin has been granted exclusive access to work in St. Bavo’s, integrating his site-specific artwork into the very fabric of the cathedral. Remarkably, he has even been allowed to insert an art work into the armature of the Ghent Altarpiece itself. In parallel to Martin’s extraordinary access in the cathedral, he will install corresponding works in the front and lower galleries at Sean Kelly, New York. This unique dual exhibition juxtaposes Martin’s work in both a historic Gothic site of worship and a 21st century contemporary art gallery.
It is also the most stolen. Since its completion in 1432 it has been the target of 13 different crimes; it has been smuggled, censored, ransomed and attacked by iconoclasts. The altarpiece, which is currently undergoing extensive conservation and restoration has, since World-War II, been reconstructed and is on view with the exception of one crucial missing element. The lower left panel, known as The Just Judges, is currently represented by a high-resolution photographic reproduction. For his exhibition, Martin will cover this panel with a mirror, at once inducting the observer as an active participant, while simultaneously implicating the viewer as one of the “just judges.”
This type of gesture is typical in Martin’s lyrical and conceptual practice which engages, amongst many ideas, that of the readymade. Through subtle acts of appropriation and intervention, Martin radically shifts the meaning of an object. He once stated, “I see every piece as an invitation for the viewer to reflect: trying to activate one’s individual thoughts about one’s own life, without having any intention to force one’s thoughts to go in a certain direction.” Throughout the exhibitions there will be a series of objects at once familiar, and uncanny. The duality of mirroring—literally and conceptually—is at the crux of this exhibition: each work on view in Ghent will have its “double” on view at the gallery in New York. Conflating the sacred space of the Cathedral in Ghent with the secular space of the New York Gallery, Martin creates a compelling and subversive group of works infused with humor and wit that continue his ongoing investigation into major questions of human experience and spiritual belief.
Kris Martin, born in 1972, lives and works in Mullem, Belgium. Martin has been the subject of solo exhibitions at international museums including the Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany; the Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland; Kestnergesellschaft Hanover, Germany; the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany; the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria; the Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany; the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, California; the Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado; the Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium; and MoMA P.S.1, New York amongst others. His work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions including the Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany; the Louvre, Paris, France; the Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom; the Centre Pompidou, Paris France; the 4th Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany; the Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany; the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany; and The Jewish Museum, New York. His work is included in prominent public and private collections such as the Burger Collection, Hong Kong; The David Roberts Art Foundation, London, United Kingdom; K21, Dusseldorf, Germany; the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; the Olbricht Collection, Berlin, Germany; Sammlung Boros, Berlin and Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf, Germany; the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent, Belgium; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; The Warehouse, Dallas, Texas; and the Zabludowicz Collection, London, United Kingdom.
台北當代藝術館_城市之眼_藝術家特寫 尼可拉斯．弗拉克
台北當代藝術館
第六屆城市行動藝術節／城市之眼
藝術家：尼可拉斯．弗拉克(Nicolas Floc'h)
本次參展作品：深海之塔&安娜的生活
Nicolas Floc'h
1970 born in Rennes, France. Currently lives and works in Paris, France
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2008 Matucana 100, Santiago, Chili
2006 Structures odysséennes, MAC/VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
Véhicule, Transpalette, Bourges, France
2005 Vanité, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France
2004 Beer Kilometer, W139, Amsterdam, Holland
Peintures, Frac des Pays de la Loire, Instantané, Carquefou, France
2002 ---+++)))))), Frac Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008 Biennale de Rennes, Musée des beaux-arts, Rennes, France
2007 In situ, Le quartier, Quimper, France
Kadist art foundation, Paris, France
2005 Soundscape, STUK, Louvain, Belgium
Roma publications, organisé par Philippe Van Cauteren, S.M.A.K, Gent, Belgium
Circuitos, Centro de arte Matucana, Santiago, Chili
2004 Hors d'oeuvre, CapcMusée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France
Over de Grens, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium
2003 MUDAC, Lausanne, Switzerland
Biennale de Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
Storage and Display, Programa Art Center, Mexico City, Mexico
2002 Arcus project, Contemporary Art Factory, Tokyo, Japan
2000 Over the Edges, SMAK Museum, Gent, Belgium
Awards
2007 Aide au projet, Ville de Paris
2006 Aide à la création, Drac Ile-de-France
2004 Image Mouvement, DAP
2001 Lauréat de la bourse Arcus de l'AFAA pour le Japan
1998 Habitat Art Award, Glasgow, Scotland
FRIEDMAN BRENDA - Koen van den Broek
Friedman Benda will present Belgian artist Koen van den Broek's second solo
exhibition with the gallery, titled Apex, from April 25--May 24, 2013. In this
body of large-scale work van den Broek uses the history of his own paintings
as a reference point and conceives fresh commentaries on abstraction. He
formally resolves his signature tension between the photographic and the
painterly, transcending from referential and cerebral to the experiential and
spiritual. A reception will be held for the artist, on April 25, from 6-8 p.m. at
Friedman Benda, 515 West 26th Street.
A trained architect, van den Broek uses light, shape, and repetition to build
generic structures, be it natural or man-made, through layering and the
application of vibrant colors. Shadows cast by anonymous buildings, cracks
in sun baked pavement, and lonely overpass bridges suggest human
presence and a narrative long past. His preference for the casual and
reflective aligns with Edward Hopper and Wayne Thiebaud.
Known for employing photographic images taken on road trips as the basis
for his work - from Belgium to Tokyo, Chicago, Los Angeles and beyond ----
with this new series van den Broek abandons this alibi, and with it, the
inherent distancing and melancholic effects. Instead, he samples the 20th
and 21st century, as seen through his own eyes, invoking Abstract
Expressionism in the vein of Clyfford Still infused with the self-conscious and
self-referential characteristics of American Conceptualism.
The flattened and skewed perspective in Torque, emphasize a repetition of
forms familiar in van den Broek's work----pavement cracks, street division
lines, and the shadows of electrical posts----seemingly alluding to a coded
message. Yet the work is gestural, active, and of the moment. A reverberation
of presence is no longer tangible in Apex and the ambiguous mood of his
earlier work shifts to optimism.
Koen van den Broek (b.1973) lives and works in Belgium. He has a Bachelor in
Architectural Engineering, and studied at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts,
Antwerp, the Academy of Visual Arts St. Joost, Breda, and the Higher Institute
of Fine Arts Flanders, Antwerp. He is currently an instructor at the MAD
faculty in Hasselt, Belgium.
The artist's work is in significant private collections and the permanent
collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Astrup Fearnley Museet fur
Modern Kunst, Oslo, Norway; Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium;
The Leeum Collection at the Samsung Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, Korea;
S.M.A.K, Ghent, Belgium, and MUHKA, Antwerp, Belgium. Van den Broek has
been in many museum exhibitions in Belgium including in Antwerp, at the
MAS and at the MHKA. In 2008, Van den Broek collaborated with John
Baldessari on This an Example of That, an exhibition at the
Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht. In 2009, he was the subject of an extensive
retrospective at the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (SMAK) at which
point, Crack, a monograph on his work, was published.
TEXT COURTESY OF:
Friedman Benda
515 West 26th Street
New York, NY 10001
212-239-8700
212-239-8760 (facsimile)
gallery@friedmanbenda.com
Hours:
Monday - Saturday, 10:00 - 6:00
A Sunday Mess
De 7 sacramenten (glas, vuur, wit, was, rook, natuur, vandaal)
Sunday February 5th, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, BE
TooToo MuCH MuCH@MDD
THoMaS HiRSCHHoRN TOO TOO MUCH MUCH
beauty = a mess
mass consumption = 34 sit ups when u should have done 68... or was it the other way around?
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