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21/4/2006

Unexpected Arthome

The Arthome, Bruxelles

4 young contemporary galleries join forces for the first time in Brussels at the Arthome

Championing an alternative vision of the way that contemporary art can be made available to the public, four young Paris galleries have accepted Arthome's unexpected invitation. For this ambitious project, they will be taking over the entire second floor of Arthome's prestigious 19th-century Brussels headquarters, mounting an exhibition-event that will be held at the same time as the Brussels Contemporary Art Fair.

Four galleries, four different sensibilities: one common ideal. Fired by the same enthusiasm, Sole'ne Guilier & Nathalie Boutin, Cyrille Troubetzkoy, Gre'goire Maisonneuve and Jocelyn Wolff share a commitment to imagining new paradigms for the way art is seen and experienced. It is in this spirit that they have filled a space of over 700 m2 with unique works that are impossible to show under ordinary exhibition conditions. This project infuses the building with its rich history with a look that is radically new. The four Paris galleries have been given free rein in an exceptional space that allows them to invent a new exhibition logic. They have taken on an ambitious programme and with the synergy of a common effort, this show will combine, for the first time, the works of artists from different backgrounds. The ensuing dialogue forms a part of the ongoing interrogation of our present systems. These works break with narrative conventions, activate the role of memory and play upon expectations. The existing link between the artist, his creation and his audience is fundamentally called into question here. This self-reflective stance consciously asserted by the 4 galleries redefines the gallerist's primary role as the distributor of ideas.

Davide Bertocchi - B2
The artist designed this vehicle based on the shape of the famous silhouette of the most sinister of fighter planes, the B-2 bomber. The artist was intrigued by the specific shape of this black airplane, designed to look menacing, but at the same time by the notion of transforming skateboarding from an individual experience into a collective act.

Robert Breer: "Column"
Column (1967) is mobile in extreme ways, completely free and without logic. These pieces activate the space around them and give structure to the viewer's sense of time. The excessive slowness of their movement stimulates the memory, their presence becoming a mental record. At the same time, through their autonomous action, they focus our expectations. In the absence of any pedestal for these mobile objects, the relationship between the object and the floor becomes an active one. Breer's 1968 film 1969 has no narrative structure but is an assembly photograms, drawings, collages, sounds, videos and photographs

Jan Kopp - Amoco
Amoco (2000) is a fixed view of an Amoco service station played in slow motion accompanied by sounds, sounds bearing no connection to the visual; the image of the service station becomes an imaginary projection screen on which the viewer constructs and deconstructs associations.

Guillaume Leblon - Landscape
Landscape (2003-2004) : smoke escapes from the hollow space that is naturally formed by the meeting of a partition with the floor. The smoke is given off in regular bursts lasting a few minutes, and slowly covers the floor, only to disappear. Guillaume Leblon will exhibit in April 2006 at the centre d'art d'Ivry and in June at the Kunstverein Dusseldorf (solo shows).

Artists:
Davide Bertocchi (Italy), Robert Breer (USA), Mathieu Briand (France), Laurent Chambert (France), Prinz Gholam (Liban/Allemagne), Loris Gre'aud (France), Jan Kopp (Allemagne), Guillaume Leblon (France), Martin Le Chevallier (France), Pierre Malphettes (France), Roman Onda'k (Slovaquie), Alexandre Perigot (France), Dominique Petitgand (France), Ulrich Polster (Allemagne), Pia Ronicke (Danemark), Philippe Terrier-Hermann (France), Lincoln Tobier (USA), Kerry Tribe (USA), Goran Vejvoda (France), Christoph Weber (Autriche).

The Arthome
Place du Grand Sablon 40 1000 Bruxelles
open from 11 to 6pm
Entrance fee: 5 Euros

Public guided Tour given by the 4 galleries
on Saturday 22nd April 2006 @ 11.30am

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