A Group Show

04-09-2010 till 26-09-2010 /  Croxhapox Ghent

 
Edward Clydesdale Thomson (UK), Sara Deraedt (BE), Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky (CH), Anouk Kruithof (NL),  Alexandra Leykauf (DE), Valérie Mannaerts (B), Michèle Matyn (BE), Saskia Noor van Imhoff (NL), Jimmy Robert (FR), Dominique Somers (BE), Tania Theodorou (GR), Kathleen Vinck (BE), Claudia Weber (DE) & Wesley Wim Wolkman (BE)
 
About the show:

On nearly all photographs something is depicted. A lot can be said about that something on or in a photo. One cannot be oblivious about that. However, the photo by itself is also something, a physical object with tactile qualities, which can come to life in a space. Next to the traditional idea of the photo as means of representation, it can also – as an object – become part of a plastic presentation.
 
The exhibition A Group Show focuses on an alternative approach to the photographic object. It emphasizes the way images are being incorporated by artists, and how photography is used in an (often associative) game of construction and deconstruction of the medium itself. The exposition wishes to accentuate the material and spatial features of the image instead of its representational values. It brings together people with an investigating attitude towards the medium photography and creates a context in which there’s plenty of room for discussion and experiment.
 
A Group Show should be seen as a temporary ‘working environment’, in which curators and artists discuss about the notion of ‘space’. The artists are being invited, starting from their autonomous work, to engage in the realization of the exposition and to participate in a dialogue on how to construct a meaningful whole.
 
Practical Info:

Lucas Munichstraat 76/82
9000 Ghent
Belgium
 
Opening: Friday 03-09-2010 at 20:00
Opening hours: Wednesday till Sunday 14:00 – 18:00
 
More info: www.punctum.be
 

Publication:

Will be made on ‘the spot’ by  Boris Van Den Eynden and Lieven Van Speybroeck of the Wesley Wim Wolkman Publisher Publishing Publish Company. For sale from 03-09-2010. More info coming soon.

EXTRA05 will, most likely, be presented at the opening of new exhibitions at the FotoMuseum Antwerp on the 28th of May. More info here.

In this work he tried to examine the way that lines evoke form and reality, by producing abstract pictures inspired by the tradition of realistic paintings. Because of this painterly approach towards the general properties of a picture, they are stripped of the redundant reference to reality down to only a few baselines to determine the image.

23, 24, 25, 26, 27
maart 2010 | 10h – 22h
Minderbroederstraat 17
3000 Leuven

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More info is available on the website of CC Mechelen.

You can download the article as a pdf by clicking here.

For more information about Elisabeth, visit her website at elisabethtonnard.com

RE:COLLECTIONS is our project for ‘Sugary Photographs with Tricks, Poses and Effects’ – A Festival on Photography that takes place in Antwerp from the 19th of March till the 4th of April.

RE:COLLECTIONS starts from everyday, found footage that is being rethought and edited to enable ‘storytelling’. The central theme is the recollection and the act of recollecting.

RE:COLLECTIONS is a mobile exhibition room in the form of a white trailer. During the festival the trailer will travel to several sites in Antwerp, which will become the starting point for a variety of short interventions. Part of the works on show will be developed prior to the festival, others will be realized on the spot. With the final works and interventions RE: wants to engage in a dialogue with the visitors, the citizens of Antwerp ánd the streets and squares the trailer will be visiting.

Find more information about the locations on our temporary blog by clicking here. Prior to the festival we’ll stay a week at Madame Fortuna to develop the last interventions and have a few try outs. During the festival we’ll document the interventions and regularly add photos to the blog. Feel free to leave a comment!

A Group Show (working title)

Artworks: Rather random intervals of an intellectual process that can be lifted, continued, changed and destroyed infinitely. (from the ‘cahiers’ by Paul Valéry)

On nearly all photographs something is depicted. A lot can be said about that something on or in a photo. One cannot be oblivious about that. However, the photo by itself is also something, a physical object with tactile qualities, which can come to life in a space. Next to the traditional idea of the photo as means of representation, it can also – as an object – become part of a plastic presentation.

The exhibition A Group Show focuses on an alternative approach to the photographic object. It emphasizes the way images are being incorporated by artists, and how photography is used in an (often associative) game of construction and deconstruction of the medium itself. The exposition wishes to accentuate the material and spatial features of the image instead of its representational values. It brings together people with an investigating attitude towards the medium photography and creates a context in which there’s plenty of room for discussion and experiment.

A Group Show should be seen as a temporary ‘working environment’, in which curators and artists discuss about the notion of ‘space’. The artists are being invited, starting from their autonomous work, to engage in the realization of the exposition and to participate in a dialogue on how to construct a meaningful whole.

A Group Show will take place, September 2010, in Croxhapox, a multidisciplinary and experimental art house and an open working place for contemporary art, situated in Ghent. Croxhapox has no commercial activities, nor does it represent any artists, art disciplines or genres. It aims at shedding some light on the importance of artistic research and content. A Group Show finds herein a mutual endeavour.

Participating artists:
Edward Clydesdale Thomson (UK), Sara Deraedt (BE) , Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky (CH) , Anouk Kruithof (NL) , Alexandra Leykauf (DE) , Valérie Mannaerts (B) , Michèle Matyn (BE) , Saskia Noor van Imhoff (NL) , Jimmy Robert (FR) , Dominique Somers (BE) , Tania Theodorou (EL) , Kathleen Vinck (BE) , Claudia Weber (DE)

Publication:
As we clarified in our statement, ‘A Group Show’ should not be regarded as a curatorial exhibition but rather as a temporary working environment. The dialogues and the process leading up to this exhibition are regarded as an important part of the exhibition, because they have the possibility to change the process itself. Therefore we’d like to document and publish extracts from this process as an autonomous part of the exhibition in collaboration with Boris Van Den Eynden and Lieven Van Speybroeck of the Wim Wolkman Publisher Publishing Publish Company.

Thank you to Miguel Houbaert for finding and donating this image.

Peter Verhelst on the Sisyphus-series by Dirk Braeckman – Tuesday November 24^th (Hortazaal, KASK, Ghent)
 

Peter Verhelst (° 1962) debuteerde in 1987 met de dichtbundel “Obsidiaan”, maar combineerde poëzie al snel met andere disciplines. Hij is sinds 2006 als regisseur verbonden aan het theaterhuis NTGent. Dirk Braeckman (° 1958) werkt al sinds de jaren ‘80 aan een consistent fotografisch oeuvre. Hoofdzakelijk in zwart wit creëert hij een ambigue werkelijkheid, die zowel binnen België als ver daarbuiten wordt geprezen.
 

In het kader van Time Festival vroeg Gents fotograaf Dirk Braeckman aan schrijver Peter Verhelst om een tekstuele interpretatie te geven van diens werk. Op deze lezing (die in samenwerking met KASK tot stand kwam) brengt Verhelst zijn visie op de Sisyphus-reeks van Braeckman. Achteraf zal er uitgebreid de mogelijkheid zijn om vragen te stellen.
 

www.peterverhelst.com
www.braeckman.be
 

Nickel Van Duijvenboden – Thursday November 26^th (Zebrastraat, Ghent)
 

Nickel van Duijvenboden (Amsterdam, 1981) heeft fotografie gestudeerd en concentreerde zich na zijn opleiding uitsluitend op schrijven. Dit schrijven gebeurt hoofdzakelijk in de vorm van fictie en tekstbijdragen aan kunstwerken en (kunstenaars)boeken. Fotografie, beeld en waarneming zijn hoofdthema’s in zijn werk; sinds enkele jaren heeft ook de verhouding tussen mens, natuur en geschiedenis een centrale plaats ingenomen. Recent verscheen bij Roma Publications ‘Plateau’, een novelle over twee wetenschappers die in de Koude Oorlog een jaar lang op Arctisch pakijs bivakkeren en overgeleverd zijn aan hun optische instrumenten. Momenteel werkt hij samen met de Belgische fotograaf Geert Goiris aan diens project ‘Whiteout’, waarvoor foto’s van Antarctica het uitgangspunt vormen. Tijdens de lezing zal van Duijvenboden de nadruk leggen op zijn houding ten aanzien van projecten met beeld en enkele van zijn samenwerkingen (met oa. Wytske van Keulen, Gwyneth Boelens en Geert Goiris) toelichten. Zijn werk is, naar eigen zeggen, gebaseerd op de potentiële aanwezigheid van beeld en komt voort uit een visueel bewustzijn. Wat dat precies inhoudt, zal hij tijdens de lezing uitleggen.
 

www.nickelvd.nl
www.ilfaut.nl
 

Lucas Devriendt – Thursday December 10^th (Hortazaal, KASK, Ghent)
 
Lucas Devriendt (Kortrijk, 1955) is schilder en docent aan de Academie voor Beeldende Kunst Sint Lucas in Gent. In zijn werkproces speelt de verhouding tussen fotografie en schilderkunst een belangrijke rol. Samen met collega Leen Voet doet hij onderzoek naar de invloed van actuele media op het artistiek denk- en werkproces. Tijdens de Punctumlezing zal hij enkele tussentijdse gedachten in verband met dit onderzoek met ons delen. Hierbij vertrekkende vanuit vragen als: Hoe kan het ene medium leiden naar het andere? Wat is de wederzijdse beïnvloeding (zowel inhoudelijk en vormelijk) tussen het fotografische beeld en de schilderkunst? hoe wordt de invloed van de fotografische mentaliteit; inzoomen, cadrage, close-up, korrel, ruis, … zichtbaar in de schilderkunst?
 

www.lucasdevriendt.be
 

The lectures start at 20h at the Zebrastraat in Ghent (www.zebrastraat.be) or in the Victor Hortazaal from the KASK in Ghent (www.kask.be, Jozef Kluyskensstraat 2)
 
For more info visit www.punctum.be

You can download the article as a pdf by clicking here.

‘The convulsion’ is a work in progress by Maarten. It is a short text inspired by a couple of analog pictures he received from his sister, showing the inside of the printlab where the film was developed and printed.

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