Fred Eerdekens
dal 19/4/2013 al 7/6/2013
Segnalato da
19/4/2013
Fred Eerdekens
Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris
Remanences. He uses a large variety of different materials in his installation pieces: metal strings, plant-covered, or clothing. He sculpts these materials to reveal on walls and floors their distorted shadow, that turns into words with the light.
Belgian artist Fred Eerdekens presents his first major solo exhibition in Paris. Internationally recognized and presented in many private and public collections, this multidisciplinary artist uses different and various materials without ever constraining himself technically.
"To watch out Fred Eerdekens’s work, it is like looking at a sleight of hands." He uses a large variety of different materials in his installation pieces. Most of them are taken from his daily life: metal strings, plant-covered installation, accumulation of clothing and synthetic clouds. He sculpts these materials to reveal on walls and floors their distorted shadow, a shadow that turns into words with the light. The shadow of an ordinary wire suspended in the air turns into a mysterious sentence.
All these words laid in a fragile way on walls form the poetic repertory of Fred Eerdekens. To the relationship between the materiality of the object and the immateriality of the shadow the artist adds a second level of meaning in which he questions the link between image and language.
The magic of Fred Eerdekens’s works carries the viewers into a world that is both ordinary and wonderful; a world where borders are not clear, a world that encourage the reflection but also and above all, dream.
Fred Eerdekens is internationally renowned for his sculptures and installations where he combines language and sculpture into one.
The work of Fred Eerdekens revolves around language; it is an integral aspect in his work. The artist poses questions of language through aesthetic images. He questions the relationship between these two forms of expression. He takes us to the world of ideas, broadening the scope of reflections. Fred Eerdekens is interested in creating works that interacts with the public. In “Automatic Writing”, the changing the letters in a pool of water form shadows of words that soon disappear; here the artist is making reference to the surrealist idea of "automatic readers" with the endless possibility of anagrams.
The works of Fred Eerdekens are graceful with his use of fine materials, the language and translucent shadows. However his work also contains a complexity that is expressed by presenting the audience with the oppositions with the multiple appearances of the shadows and words.
Opening 20 April, 2013 from 6pm to 9pm
Magda Danysz Gallery
78 rue Amelot Paris 11
open from Tuesday to Friday from 11AM to 7PM and Saturday from 2PM to 7PM
Métro: St-Sebastien-Froissart