Hans Op de Beeck
dal 21/10/2009 al 21/10/2009
Segnalato da
21/10/2009
Hans Op de Beeck
Palais de Tokyo, Paris
A Selection of Video Works / Three-day event
A Selection of Video Works / Three-day event. Hans Op de Beeck sometimes calls his works 'proposals'; they are irrefutably fictional, constructed and staged, leaving it up to the viewer whether to take the work seriously, as a sort of parallel reality, or immediately to put it into perspective, as no more than a visual construct. His work is nourished by a keen interest in social and cultural reflection. The artist also questions the difficult relationship between reality and representation, between what we see and what we want to believe, between what is and what we create for ourselves in order to make it easier to deal with our own insignificance and lack of identity. The visual output of that investigation often produces slumbering, insidious, melancholy and astonishing images. Red Shoes Bureau decided to show a wide selection of his video works on different media: video installation, screening, exhibition in gallery and Tv broadcast. The event is created as a 'journey' through Paris from October 22 to October 24, inviting the audience to follow and discover the several facets of the richness of Hans Op de Beeck's world. The first part is a solo survey screening and artist talk for the inauguration of the video installation 'Circumstances'.