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22/8/2002

GlassExtraordinary

Artonivo, Brugge

InstituutIKAMechelenFlanders

in the series "6 EUROPEAN FOUNDATIONS IN BRUGES 2002"
ARTONIVO is proud to present the last but one exhibition:

exhibition NR 5: 23.08 - 29.09.2002 GLASS EXTRAORDINARY
country NR 5: belgiUM
foundation NR 5: institute IKA malines

6 europe in bruges 2002 - 6 europe in artonivo
5th country, 5th foundation, 5th exhibition

Glass
Koen Vanderstukken
Wouter Bolangier
Isabel Almeida
Daniel Olislaegers
Bo De Baets
Carine Neutjes
Addi Ryckaert
Eric Pipien
Ingrid Arts
Alexander Ketele

IKA mechelen (Art and Craft Institute) offers part-time art education with a special focus on teaching both the classical arts and crafts, and contemporary disciplines. the aim is to impart professional skills and an artistic education by means of intensive and systematic practice in combination with creative experimentation. respect for the individual remains a core element in this process.
IKA first included glass art as a discipline in 1985, and its glass atelier and extensive, multitechnical facilities are unique in belgium

isabel almeida
a mirror... catches the appearance of the body and transforms it, reflects a presence, gives an illusion of reality.
spiking a space with mirror-traps. letting oneself be captured.
deceptive images.
appearances that make your head swim. refuse to accept the evidence

ingrid arts
invites you, attentive spectator, to enter her little temples for a while: frozen subjecs of sympathy (sympathy here in the meaning of emotional similarity by congeniality) where tenderness and vulnerability are preserved protective... and maybe you will hear a sweet whispher... (pierre declerck)

wouter bolangier
in my work I approach subjects such as life, mortality, relationships and religion. I can express these best in glass.
the fragility and transparency of the material make it the best medium in which to visualize these thoughts.
working with glass is also a challenge: because it does not always do what you want it to, it is exciting to explore the possibilities of the material, without getting sidetracked into an obsessive search for technical solutions.

bo de baets
at the opposite frontier of the curvilinear essence of my name 'bo', my work is a search for the rectilinear extremes.
the inner transparency of glass, I enclose it in the harsh skin of casted materials and I make it contrast with different, untransparent materials. thus the unsolved question of warm or cold, light or heavy, beingâ or its suggestion remains open.
if architecture already combines glass with other materials like wood and lead, I wish to further its dimension by putting it in a new perspective. I aim at embracing the 'empty' space and distilling the dialogue of perspective and equilibrium, starting from a basic shape of monumental uniformity to found the entirety of nearly everything.

alexander ketele
glass what wonderfull material!
starting from a flat sheet it becomes the carrier of color. it notes the inprint; the traces of underground, dept and material start to fight.
once worked with heat it bends, captures shapes and movements. it becomes space; the maker, creator oppresses no longer: the dialoge can begin.

carine neutjens
the pâte-de-verre objects of carine neutjens are closely related to nature. the glass objects are inspired by stones, coral, lava and other earth materials. although fragile at first sight, the work is sculptural and monumental.

daniel olislaegers
your world is not the only one; other worlds exist somewhere else; worlds disappeared; new worlds are to come.
all these worlds have an influence on me and I have to share my feelings with people.
to do so, I work with glass and stone; glass because it is like a magma and can be structured to express what I feel; stone because it is the ultimate stage of living material. glass and stone bring to each other their best; the initial stage and the final stage live together.

eric pipien
the traveller is my theme. glass is the material I mainly use to work out my ideas.
"traveller": live like a travel from birth till death. being on the way, not standing still, accessible for the unknown. questions, do I have to guide me, do I have to find my own way, and may I deviate from trodden paths?
all questions and reflections that I try to shape in my work. I am unable to give the answer, but I think that is not important. I am not searching for the goal, but the travel.

addi ryckaert
my works are based on an encounter, a supplementary of nature and architectural forms and elements.
the light is caught in the glass but released in a controled manner.
the pallette of colours remains limited to ground colours. always the works are raising a question to the visitor to discover and to look for personal emotion of far away destinations

koen vanderstukken
we are not able to see what is there and what we see is not there. the pretence becomes truth and the truth becomes pretence.
answers are uncertain and al what stays is questions. when we stop asking ourselves questions we stop with living.

opening: friday 23 aug 2002 at 20 h

open every day 15-18h
admission free

supported by
- ministry of flemish community
- vizo, design department
- province of west-flanders
- organization bruges 2002
- city of bruges, tourist office
- cultural delegation for flanders, embassy of france
- embassy of sweden
- embassy of spain

Image: a work by Wouter Bolangier

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