Joelle Tuerlinckx
dal 20/9/2012 al 5/1/2013
Segnalato da
20/9/2012
Joelle Tuerlinckx
Wiels - Contemporary Art Center, Bruxelles
Woor(ld)k in progress? The exhibition retraces artist's practice via new pieces and through the reactivation of earlier works and constellations. Exploring her subjects (lines, points, forms, floating figures...) she makes Wiels resound with themes and notions that refuse all closure.
Curator: Dirk Snauwaert
his will be the first large-scale presentation of Joëlle Tuerlinckx's work in Brussel, the city where she lives and works.
This exhibition retraces Joëlle Tuerlinckx's (1958) practice via new pieces and through the reactivation of earlier works and constellations. As the title indicates, even if it originates from a reading slip in an article about the economy entitled ‘World in Progress', it bears upon the examination of this short- circuiting of thought itself (Work in Progress).
Joëlle Tuerlinckx organises her exhibitions according to a movement that can be qualified as elementary, not only because she lays bare all the conventions that accompany a conventional understanding of art, but also because each exhibition is built around an investigation, an experiment around what it has managed to define as the givens of a specific space-time: that of the architecture of the institution where it intervenes.
Exploring her subjects (lines, points, forms, floating figures...) as inexhaustibly new givens, multiplying the originals, and effacing the clues and bearings - gravity, weight, balance, on and off camera... - of such historically defined practices as sculpture, painting, cinema, she makes WIELS resound with themes and notions that refuse all closure, and which she had already staged in previous exhibitions: No Story No History, In Real Time, Stretch Museum, Les Étants données, Bild Oder, Le Présent absolument, Crystal Time,...
This will be the first large-scale presentation of Joëlle Tuerlinckx's work in Brussel, the city where she lives and works.
Press & communication
Micha Pycke +32 (0)2 3400051 micha.pycke@wiels.org
Opening: Friday 21 September, 6.30pm
WIELS Contemporary Art Centre
Avenue Van Volxemlaan 354B-1190 Bruxelles
Opening hours
Wed - Sun: 11:00-18:00 Every 1st and 3rd
Wed: 11:00-21:00
Mon-Tue: closed