Emmanuel Van der Auwera
dal 15/1/2013 al 2/2/2013
Segnalato da
15/1/2013
Emmanuel Van der Auwera
Wiels - Contemporary Art Center, Bruxelles
Cave / Construction / Ruin. The exhibition follows two lines: the first one, displayed in the Project-room, is an entropic landscape featuring two installations that present the geological resistance of a world made out of 'grey zones', a world that hoovers between the real and the virtual, the familiar and the unknown.
Cave / Construction / Ruin assembles works by Emmanuel Van der Auwera that were created or finalized during his residency at WIELS. The exhibition follows two lines: the first one, displayed in the Project-room, is an entropic landscape featuring two installations that present the geological resistance of a world made out of “grey zones”, a world that hoovers between the real and the virtual, the familiar and the unknown.
Arrangement in Grey is a 33 minutes video shot in various locations over the summer and fall of 2011. The titles is an allusion to the painter James Abbott Whistler, who used it to emphasize the ascendance of abstract over figurative composition. Starting with a specific point in time and space, a room facing Ground Zero ten years after the attack on the World Trade Center, the video opens grooves along which transit its true subject; the search for its missing figuration, on the verge of collapse, its abstraction.
With the support of
Centre national des arts plastiques, ministère de la Culture et de la Communication.
I’m interested by this idea that the world has flattened and shrinked in recent years, sucked into virtual worlds. It now seems to be made of fragile, thin layers of facts and materials. Something falls into the virtual and don’t shine back. The familiar old world now appears to be an unknown continent. It’s thus now all about re-discovery! (Emmanuel Van der Auwera)
http://emmanuelvanderauwera.blogspot.be/
Image: Arrangement in grey, 2013, video, 33 min
Press & communication:
Micha Pycke +32 (0)2 3400051 +32 (0)486 680070 micha.pycke@wiels.org
Opening: Wednesday, 16th January, from 18 to 21 h.
Project-room & Black-room
Wiels
Avenue Van Volxemlaan 354 - 1190 Brussels
Opening hours
Wednesday - Sunday: 11am-6pm
Nocturne every 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the Month: 11am-9pm
Tickets
8 € Individual visitor
5 € Students (+18), teachers, seniors (+60), groups (> 10 pers)
3 € Students (12-18), schoolgroups, unemployed
1.25 € Ticket 'article 27'
free for Children (12 years old)