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26/5/2011

Three exhibitions and a project

Wiels - Contemporary Art Center, Bruxelles

Charlotte Beaudry
Get Drunk
28 May–14 August 2011

This exhibition, whose title evokes the exuberant rebelliousness of a punk slogan, presents Charlotte Beaudry's (Huy, 1968) last ten years of artistic practice. Her work in various media (paintings, drawings and video) reveals a uninhibited relationship to reality. Her large portraits of adolescent girls or the most trivial objects are always represented frontally and without context or supporting narrative. Far from providing the easy comfort often associated with painting, they solicit a provocative interaction with the viewer. Portraits, depictions of open handbags and masks seen in her paintings frequently point to something outside the frame of the image and invariably question our position in relation to the image. As a result, Baudry's latest body of work emanates a contagious, emotional and brutal vitality that leaves no one indifferent.

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Nasreen Mohamedi
Notes-Reflections on Indian Modernism
28 May–14 August 2011

Curated by Suman Gopinath & Grant Watson
Organized and initiated by Office for Contemporary Art Norway

Nasreen Mohamedi (1937–1990) is regarded as one of the most important Indian artists of her generation, and her paintings, drawings and photographs, produced from the early 1960s to the late 1980s, constitute a key body of work within the modernist canon. Mohamedi studied in London and Paris during the late 1950s and early 60s, and returned to India to teach at the Faculty of Fine Arts, MS University in Baroda. In India, her austere, small-scale drawings and use of minor gestures contrasted with the figurative narrative works produced by many of her contemporaries. While her drawings from the late 1970s onwards tend toward the resolutely abstract, they intimate cultural references, which become explicit in her photographs – in which historical architecture suggests an aesthetic link to both modernisation and an Islamic heritage. In Mohamedi’s diaries, made over a period of thirty years, textual and graphic interventions also attest to the close links between her inner life and her practice as an artist.

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Theo Cowley
Held
28 May-19 June

The work of Theo Cowley reflects on the underlying mechanisms of theatre and other cultural forms. Interested in a wide variety of physical, visual and textual languages from vastly different backgrounds his practice encompasses film, video, drawing, sculpture, performance and artist books. In his films and videos he often collaborates with highly specific performers. The Wiels project room presents a new work, developed over several years, a 16mm film with a Noh theatre actor from Kyoto, Japan. Noh theatre is a traditional Japanese drama that has been performed since the 14th century. In Cowley's film the actor becomes a vehicle for an investigation into the basic elements of a highly codified movement.

Made and presented with the support of the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht and the Wiels artist residency program.

Info: devrim.bayar@wiels.org

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Perennial

Perennial a temporary auditorium, thought of as a salon, shaped as an event. The term "perennial" refers to the cyclical blooming of plants, as well as to the notion of universal recurrence of philosophical ideas, through times and cultures. Assuming that future visions are projected memories, sublime and outer worldly perspectives can also be conceived as projected interiors. Perennial as salon and auditorium will function as a model of this hypothesis and the departure point for a vast evening program.

PERENNIAL is a project of Arnaud Hendrickx, Michael Van den Abeele and Richard Venlet.

Agenda:
- 27.05 6-9pm Opening
- 01.06 8pm: Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys (video)
- 10.06 8pm: Christian Waldvogel (lecture)
- 15.06: Mark von Schlegell (lecture)
- 24.06: to be confirmed
- 01.07: Psychiatrist Erik Thys (lecture)
- 06.07: Professor Dirk de Meyer - Giuseppe Terragni's Danteum (lecture)

Image: Nasreen Mohamedi. Glenbarra Art Museum Collection, Japan

Angie Vandycke
Press & communication
angie.vandycke@wiels.org
+32 (0)2 340 00 51
+32 (0)486 680 070

Opening: Friday, 27 May, 18:30–21:00

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Opening hours:
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Nocturnes until 21.00 every 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month
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Children –12 years accompanied by their parents : free
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