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26/1/2007

Six exhibitions

S.M.A.K. - Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent

Anton Henning

Anton Henning (Berlin, 1964) works in many fields. Although he is best known as a painter, sculpture, installation art and interior design are also significant elements in his oeuvre. By always trying to combine every art form in one all-embracing whole, his work seems like a contemporary version of the gesamtkunstwerk, where all the various disciplines come together and enter into dialogue with one another.

The exhibition is a mixture of old and new work. In addition, Henning designed a number of pieces specially for the rooms at the S.M.A.K. The largest piece he has ever made, Oktogon - a huge installation that merges painting, sculpture and interior design - will also be displayed.

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Agne's Thurnauer
bien faite, mal faite, pas faite

Why were there no female artists before the 20th century? Agne's Thurnauer (Paris, 1962) gives material form to this question by changing the male first names of all the great artists into female names. This will enable you to meet such artists as Annie Warhol and Josephine Beuys. By suddenly making this fairly abstract question visible, she creates a humorous form that is the opposite of the historical form. A new population is born which penetrates the museum like a virus: XX Story infects the S.M.A.K. and can be seen on the walls, the badges the male and female visitors are given with their tickets, the attendants’ clothing, and so on. One thing is certain, no one, man or woman, can escape it!

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Marine Hugonnier

curator: Cis Bierinckx

Marine Hugonnier (Paris, 1969) makes films and videos. She explores the way a landscape determines the history of a place, or vice versa: how ideology, economy and ecology colour a landscape. The way she depicts this is at the same time a reflection on the possibilities and limitations of film and photography. She will be showing three films at the S.M.A.K.

'Ariana' is the story of a film crew whose intention is to film the mythical Panjshir Valley in northern Afghanistan. The valley’s impenetrability and fertile landscape has given it a history of independence and resistance.
The basis for 'The Last Tour' was the fact that increasing numbers of natural parks are being closed to the public. In this fictional story a ‘final voyage’ over the renowned Matterhorn is undertaken in a balloon.
'Travelling Amazonia' comprises one long connected series of ‘travelling shots’ (horizontal camera movements) on the ‘Transamazonia’, a 6000-mile long road constructed during the Brazilian dictatorship of the 1970s.

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Francois Morellet

The S.M.A.K.’s ‘Focus’ exhibitions are compiled around a single work or group of works from the museum’s permanent collection. They are then encircled by works from other museums and private collections in Belgium and abroad.
Over the last 50 years, Francois Morellet (France, 1926) has built up a very extensive and extremely consistent body of work. He uses a geometric idiom of lines, squares and triangles which he combines into elementary compositions by means of a controlled creative process following pre-set principles. This results in neutral, universal images in which his personal and subjective choices are reduced to the absolute minimum.
The S.M.A.K. exhibition is a retrospective of his work, with a special focus on the 1970s.

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Bart Lodewijks

The Dutch artist Bart Lodewijks will fill an entire room of the S.M.A.K. with a huge mural in chalk. The lines of this drawing suggest a sort of perspective that arises out of the individual nature of the space as perceived by the artist. Lodewijks also looks at the relationship with the world outside the museum. He goes in search of ‘residual space’ in Ghent, a place for art experiences that in no way resembles the white museum rooms.

For the Moscou-Bernadette project he will be doing chalk drawings on walls in various parts of the city. He will go to places that have no notable character, places in dilapidated public spaces, and there introduces his minimal line compositions. Time and rain will erase these subtle chalk drawings and thereby add to their individual nature. He will do this at regular intervals to enable a growth in personal contact between the passing artist and the local residents.

The neighbourhood stories that will then be told may at a later stage evolve into an actual contribution by the residents.
His solo presentation in the Kunst Nu rooms will be accompanied by the launch of the book Ghent/Lisbon/Porto Drawings, a publication on Bart Lodewijks’ projects in 2005 and 2006, published by ROMA publications.

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Matthias Beckmann

The work of the German artist Matthias Beckmann (Arnsberg, 1965) is characterised by a very sparing, minimal and linear drawing style. Most of his subjects are inspired very much by institutional architecture as found in museums and churches, and the things that go on in these buildings. This makes Beckmann the perfect artist to suitably depict the museum in an artistic portrait.

In spring 2006 the S.M.A.K. invited him to spend two weeks in the museum drawing. He was admitted to every part of the building, from the exhibition rooms to the offices and the storerooms. A selection of these drawings were reproduced in their original format and then published.
The result is a refined book containing a drawn ‘portrait’ of the S.M.A.K. Its publication will be accompanied by a presentation of some of the original drawings.

Image: Anton Henning, Hoctagon

Opening: 27 jaunuary 2007

S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst
Citadelpark - Gent
Price: € 5: individual visitors, € 3,80: groups larger than 15 and concessions (students, under-25s, over-60s, etc.), € 2,50: school groups

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