Two exhibitions
dal 4/4/2014 al 14/6/2014
Segnalato da
4/4/2014
Two exhibitions
Netwerk Center for Contemporary Art, Aalst
Marc De Blieck shows a selection of photos he has made over the years, he presents himself as an executor of a collective directory. Aglaia Konrad continues to deepen her cinematic investigation of sculptural architecture.
Marc De Blieck
Standards
With the photo exhibition Standards, Marc De Blieck shows a selection of images he has made over the years. Within the conventions of the genre, he presents himself as an executor of a collective directory, not as an “image author.” The locations that the pictures depict are of an institutional context: protected monuments and landscapes and objects in museums. The photographic positions do not reveal any new views or insights; the vantage points are not unique, nor critical. Diametrically opposed to the politics of digital imaging and, in an absurdly naive way, De Blieck symbolically positions a return to the old school photography.
Marc De Blieck focuses on research projects regarding the meaning of photography. He thus questions the significance of photographic images and the rendering of their subjects. During the past 10-years more photographs have been taken than during the entire previous analogue photographic history. De Blieck sees this stream of images as solving the individual’s position in something that is larger in scope. All the while the viewer is inclined to link themself with the individual position of the photographers.
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Aglaia Konrad
Das Haus (ausgestellt)
The new film, Das Haus, brings the exhibition full circle. The work is part of a 16mm film series, Concrete and Samples, through which Aglaia Konrad continues to deepen her cinematic investigation of sculptural architecture.
The new film was shot in the home of Van Wassenhove, designed by architect Julian Lampens in Sint-Martens-Latem. The artist explores the possibilities of the film medium, going beyond a purely documentary record, generating a sensory, at times even sensual architectural experience. Das Haus transcends mere filming, thanks to an engaging editing of the delicate camera work.
Das Haus is to be premiered in Netwerk as a spatial installation as part of a solo presentation. The exhibition architecture is designed by the artist in close collaboration with architect Kris Kimpe. On Sunday, April 6th, the film will have a first screening at the Courtisane Festival in Ghent (cinema Sphinx).
The film was produced by Auguste Orts, in co -production with Courtesan, supported by Flanders Audiovisual Fund, Netwerk / Centre for Contemporary Art, Ghent University (Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Department of Communications, Department of Facilities Office), LUCA Sint-Lukas Brussels, Foundation Juliaan Lampens, Fotohof Salzburg and Province of East Flanders.
Aglaia Konrad, º 1960 Salzburg (AT), lives and works in Brussels, takes pictures of urban spaces in a globalised world. Her photographic work unfolds as a long-term study in modernist architecture, the utopia of social housing in the 20th century and the transformations or mutations of these models in the new millennium. The intangible reality of her images often blends with the material reality of the exhibition space.
Image: U.W.H. France, 2013 © Marc De Blieck
Press contact
Lies Caeyers +32 53 709773 lies@netwerk-art.be
Opening ZA 05.04 2014 – 20:00
Netwerk / center for contemporary art
Houtkaai z/n 9300 Aalst Belgium
Exhibition opening hours:
Tu - Fr: 11.00-18.00
Sa - Su: 14.00-18.00
Closed on holidays
Admission:
exhibition € 3 / 2
concert € 10 / 7
event € 10 / 7
film € 5
film 5 + 1 free € 25