Two exhibitions
dal 25/5/2009 al 12/9/2009
Segnalato da
25/5/2009
Two exhibitions
Bozar - Centre for Fine Arts, Bruxelles
In this solo show, Sophie Calle presents a collection of her works - in particular those in which she herself appears in a truly autobiographic ritual. A voice accompanies the visitor and relates the story of this life, turning it into history. Disorder displays works by Bernar Venet and Jaques Charlier. Conceptual, sculptural, and pictorial, Venet's oeuvre has developed over almost 50 years as an ongoing reflection on the identity of art. From his use of mathematical data to the introduction of the random variable, he combines uncertainty and disorder with mathematical data. Charlier exhibits the previously unseen plates of a comic-strip album entitled La Courbure de l'art
The exhibition is a retrospective of works tracing the story of her life. CALLE
SOPHIE is arranged chronologically and comprises twenty autobiographical projects.
27.05.2009 > 13.09.2009
Sophie Calle is at once a writer, a narrative artist, a photographer, a filmmaker
and sometimes even a detective. She inhabits these roles interchangeably and
switches personas in order to play different characters, invent rituals and tell
autobiographical stories. Her work usually consists of a combination of photographs
and text and often adopts the format of an investigation. Staging herself as the
focus of her art, she seamlessly mixes personal life and artistic fiction. She
invents the rules of the game as she goes along so as to "improve life" and give it
structure and meaning.
The exhibition at the Centre for Fine Arts is a retrospective of works tracing the
story of her life. The show CALLE SOPHIE is arranged chronologically and comprises
twenty autobiographical projects. A voice leads visitors through the exhibition and
tells the “true story of Sophie Calle”, suspended midway between autobiography and
legend.
Sophie Calle was born in 1953 and lives and works in Paris. In 2004 she had a
one-person exhibition entitled M’as-tu vue at the Centre Pompidou, Paris. She
represented France at the Venice Biennale in 2007 with Prenez soin de vous, and was
also invited by the Artistic Coordinator of the Biennale to show her work in the
international pavilion. Prenez soin de vous traveled to the Bibliothèque Nationale
de France, Paris, and DHC/ART, Montréal.
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DISORDER
Bernar Venet & Jacques Charlier
27.05.2009 > 30.08.2009
Conceptual, sculptural, and pictorial, Bernar Venet's oeuvre has developed over
almost 50 years as an ongoing reflection on the identity of art.
From his use of mathematical data to the introduction of the random variable, he
combines uncertainty and disorder with mathematical data.
His exhibition will include a series of new works produced in 2009, the
Effondrements (Collapses) of Corten steel arches, paintings entitled Saturations, a
synthetic mix of mathematical data, and the result of a pictorial performance that
uses a steel bar.
As part of the same exhibition, the Belgian artist Jacques Charlier will exhibit the
previously unseen plates of a comic-strip album entitled La Courbure de l’art, a
humorous work about Bernar Venet and the art scene of New-York.
Curator: Claude Lorent
In collaboration with: Guy Pieters Gallery
Image: Sophie Calle
Press conference: Tuesday 26th of May at 11am
Bozar Centre for Fine Arts
Rue Ravensteinstraat 23 - Brussels
Opening hours: Tuesdays to Sundays: 10am > 6pm. Thursdays: 10am > 9pm. Closed on Mondays.
Free entrance