ARTISTS represented by the Gallery
CURENT EXHIBITION
MARC DE BLIECK
TRACES
Opening Sunday February 14, 2021 at 3 pm
Until Sunday April 25 -2021
Monuments that look like images (of monuments). Photographs depicting monuments. Photographs of monuments that look like photographs of monuments. Photographs that look like photographs. Images in which all dimensions have been reduced to a flat surface. What could be the meaning of that reduction? Can it add anything? These are questions that can be asked about the oeuvre of Marc De Blieck - and that he also asks himself.
Contrary to what this questioning might evoke, the oeuvre of Marc De Blieck(° 1958 BE) is unusually rich in meticulously worked-out images that result in works that provide the spectator with an aesthetic experience beyond measure when getting to the bottom of them.
Moreover, Marc De Blieck returns to his first practice as a painter. This summer, in the group exhibition "The beginning of The 21st century" in our gallery, he already showed some new works painted with photo ink on Japanese paper. He says: "They are not compositions, they are the result of procedures. They are traces, not writings, they cannot be read as a scripture. It has a lot to do with the black box of photography, with a magical game that one can never control. It only has meaning when you play it together.".
ARTISTS Exhibited
Marc De Blieck - Traces #009, 2020
carbon print on Kozo 30 gr, 120 x 150 cm
Philip Aguirre
Renato Nicolodi
Cécile Bart
Michelangelo Pistoletto
Guillaume Bijl
Klaus Pobitzer
Kate Burkhart
Gerard Polhuis
Leo Copers
Perry Roberts
Hans Demeulenaere
Walter Swennen
Danny Devos
Guy Van Bossche
Lucas Devriendt
Philippe Van Snick
Peter Downsbrough
Els Vanden Meersch
Hubert Duprat
Filip Vervaet
Pieter Geenen
Bianca Voss
Paul Goede
Cindy Wright
Kati Heck
Dirk Zoete
Philip Huyghe
Ruben Kindermans

Stephan Willats - The Escape
Made during the extreme isolation and vacuum of London's Lockdown for the virus.
Filmed in Kodak Super 8.
One continuous car mounted shot going out of London on my main route to the West.
Text selected from a thesaurus of words associated with travelling and leaving.
Annie Gentils Gallery
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2018 Antwerpen
Belgium
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and by appointment
