'ideo. New videos, new objects, sculptures, wall paintings, screen prints and mosaics
The exhibition is part of the museum's programmatic focus on leading artists who are French or who work in France. MAC/VAL is the first French institution to devote a solo exhibition, 'ideo, to this leading performance artist, who for years has blended knowledge with the absurd. Duyckaerts has produced a dozen new videos for the museum, as well as new objects, sculptures, wall paintings, screen prints and mosaics. Much has been said about this artist and his oeuvre: brilliant speaker, enigmatic theorist, mysterious scientist, clownish savant. So who is Eric Duyckaerts, exactly? Hard to say, because this man of a thousand faces won't be pinned down by his own words. His thought is slippery, his statements skip freely from one field of learning to another. Everything is incredibly credible, irrespective of the subject at hand. Opening Friday March 4 at 6:30 PM.