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9/1/2014

Amikam Toren

Motinternational, Bruxelles

MOTINTERNATIONAL Brussels is delighted to announce the first solo exhibition of Amikam Toren in Belgium.

The gallery will exhibit key works from the artist's practice, including the seminal Neither a Teapot Nor a Painting. Deliberately echoing René Magritte's famous play on the paradoxes of imagery, "This Is Not a Pipe" (1929), the artist produced a painting of the titular teapot using its ground fragments as pigment. Displaying both the destroyed object and the painting side by side, the work is the first instance of the artist's 'tautological' paintings, and represents a pivotal moment in his practice. The exhibition will focus on how Toren continues to work with materials from destroyed ready-made objects which are resurrected as artworks, with a selection of paintings from his Reproductions series, and an example of the Stack sculptures.

A significant figure of British conceptual painting, Toren has been the subject of major solo exhibitions at The Serpentine Gallery, 1976, The Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1979, Chisenhale Gallery and Arnolfini, Bristol, 1991. Internationally, his work has been represented at the Paris Biennale, 1967, Venice Biennale, 1984, and Guangzhou Triennial, 2012, with recent exhibitions including the John Moores Painting Prize, 2012, Jerwood Drawing Prize, London, 2011, Neuberger Museum of Art, New York, 2009 and Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 2008.

MOTINTERNATIONAL represents Amikam Toren in Brussels.

image: Simple Fractions (IV) (1975) glass, araldite, shelf, framed drawings: print 36 x 40.5 cm; sculpture 25 x 9 x 9 cm Copyright the artist, courtesy Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London and MOTINTERNATIONAL, Brussels

PV Friday 10th January 6-9pm

MOTINTERNATIONAL
Place du Petit Sablon, 10, B-1000 Brussels
Open Tuesday - Saturday 10 - 6
and by appointment.
The gallery is closed on public holidays

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