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25/6/2013

Ugo Rondinone / Ilse D'Hollander

M - Museum, Leuven

Ugo Rondinone
thank you silence
June 27 - October 6, 2013

curator: Eva Wittocx

For over twenty years, Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone has been developing an oeuvre in a variety of media, from painting, graphic design, sculpture and photography to video and audio. His work is often based on themes and motifs from our everyday environment (light bulbs, masks, trees, etc.) that acquire a poetic dimension by being isolated, expanded or given a specific material treatment. With respect to their form, his installations contain diverse references to the history of art and popular culture. His work varies from landscapes drawn in Indian ink, reminiscent of Romanticism, to rainbow coloured light sculptures that refer to sixties psychedelia.

For the first time in Belgium, the exhibition thank you silence is bringing together various series of works created by Rondinone over the past few years. In addition to
poetic verse and a spatial installation of geometric volumes designed specifically for M, thank you silence also features the series nude,hyper-realistic wax statues of introverted figures.
There are also a number of unusual clocks made of stained-glass window, as well as primitive, an extensive series of bronze bird sculptures.

Exhibitions of Ugo Rondinone’s work always present a comprehensive view that the artist himself describes as a dream landscape that leads the viewer to a different reality. This is no different in thank you silence. The artist carefully removes all references to time and space that might lead the viewer around the exhibition. As a result, parts of the exhibition rooms are architecturally transformed into monumental structures, or windows are covered so the only natural light in the room is filtered by the stained-glass of his installations.

The alienating, tranquil atmosphere evoked by the exhibition space recurs in the confrontation between the exhibited series of works.

This exhibition was made possible thanks to the support of Pro Helvetia

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Ilse D'Hollander

The paintings of Ilse D’Hollander (Sint-Niklaas, 1968-1997) result from a personal search for the medium of painting. Via meticulous observation of her immediate environment, D’Hollander created compositions of coloured surfaces and lines, vibrating forms and transparent overpainting. Visual elements from the landscape, such as a branch, house, or road, are transformed into more abstract visual language that vacillates between the recognisable, suggestive, determined and more poetic.

Some of her works may be linked to painters like Paul Cézanne, René Daniels or Raoul De Keyser. In only a brief period, between 1989 and 1997, Ilse D’Hollander created an extensive oeuvre of paintings and drawings.

Since her sudden death, her work has rarely been exhibited. With about fifty drawings and paintings, M is now presenting a broader view of her multifaceted career. A monograph discussing her life and works will be published to accompany the exhibition.

Image: The waterfall 2011 cast bronze © Studio Rondinone

Press contact:
Annelies Evens T +32 (0)16 272936 annelies.evens@leuven.be - persm@leuven.be

Opening: Wednesday June 26, 2013, 7pm

M – Museum Leuven
L. Vanderkelenstraat 28 3000 Leuven, Belgium
Open
Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday: 11:00 > 18:00
Thursday: 11:00 > 22:00
Wednesday: open during the school holidays (with the exception of July, August and December)
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday: open from 9:00 for educational groups with a reservation
Admission
Individuals € 9
Consessions (1) € 7
-26 years € 5
13-18 years € 3
13 years and ICOM, IKT,
art schools (2), art college (3) free

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