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10/5/2012

Three exhibitions

Wiels - Contemporary Art Center, Bruxelles

Cathérine Lommée
holes make stacks/Flexionen

Coating a piece of paper with a thin layer of veneer is sufficient to synchronise two substances into a spatial unit. Subsequently plane depth is created, a moment in/of space, delay. 'Flexionen' is an operation on different planes in which this gesture is accumulated. Paralleled surfaces become timeframes, points overlap. Axes fluctuate, perforate and contain. Holes make stacks.

WIELS artist-in-residency Cathérine Lommée (born 1983, Bruges, Belgium) studied at KASK Ghent, FAMU Prague and Sint-Lukas Brussels. Her work has been under development in NUCLEO Ghent (2010-11), exhibited and presented at int. al. ERROR#13 Bruges (2009), Galerie Jan Colle Ghent (2009), Croxhapox Ghent (2008) and PLAT(T)FORM Fotomuseum Winterthur (2007).

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Jean De Lacoste
Interior Landscape

Presentation of a new film by Belgian artist Jean De Lacoste, made during his residency at WIELS in 2011.

Collections slumber in the graveyard of art, no longer available to sight and cast away from the space of exhibition. These artworks, storage rooms and museum corridors offer Jean De Lacoste the opportunity to test out his gaze and explore the trouble zone of introspection. Places are treated on a formal, semantic and psychological level. The artist's approach is one of contemplation. Closed spaces, penetrating lights, opaque perspectives, and an immobile silhouette (of the performer-musician Joke Lanz) all freeze into silence... An interior landscape is depicted in this film, one in perpetual tension with an exterior world evoked only from time to time (by a view on the street for instance). By means of projections, this work "Interior Landscape" multiplies the points of view and temporal sequences, and invites us to immerse ourselves into the deepest crevices of a place, without knowing if it belongs to the museum or the artist.

Sébastien Biset

5 min 47 – Mini DVD – 2012 – Stéréo sound
Sound and performance by Joke Lanz (Sudden Infant)
Production by B.P.W. 22, the Musée des Beaux Arts de Charleroi and Incise Gallery.

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Nick Oberthaler
In an Expression of the Inexpressible

A long silence.
I return to painting, for distraction.

The act of painting, he replies, is at once inevitable and perfectly inexplicable.
The visible world frightens me. I am always escaping – except when I’m front of the canvas.
There should be no models.
At first, my paintings were ridiculous. I used to think that painting meant imitating what I saw in museums.
Such an effort towards life demands the involvement of one’s whole being.

He then tells me that what reaches him in his innermost being strikes him as so strange that he hesitates putting it into words. The moment he wishes to formulate it, he’s so overcome by a feeling of betrayal and futility that he prefers to say nothing.

Words are devastating.
Only the void and the world of silence are immense.

Some minutes later:
It is amazing when you reach the sublime.

We return home. As we are crossing the Pont-Neuf, he grabs my arm with one hand and with the other he takes in the Seine, the bridges and the beauty of the place, in a silent invitation for us to enjoy together the sumptuous light that is just then already dying over the city.

Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde
by Charles Juliet (Academic press, Leiden, 2009)

Image: Untitled (Backdrop I), 2012. Powdercoated steel, 173 x 133 cm. Courtesy of the artist. Photo Credit: Sven Laurent, Brussels

Press & Communication
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