Showing posts with label Wavre Belgium. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wavre Belgium. Show all posts

Sunday, February 5, 2023

Gallery Nostrum, (BE). bodies: noun / verb. Vernissage 14, 01, 2023.

bodies: noun / verb.

noun

plural noun: bodies.

The physical structure, including the bones, flesh, and organs, of a person or an animal.

verb

3rd person present: bodies

To give material form to something abstract.









January 14 – February 18, 2023.

The work of Inge Dompas (BE) is about the transiency and volatility of life.

The transient figures she observes depict the anonymity of the masses as well as the rare and precious moments of true contact and intimacy. www.ingedompas.com

Caroline Ledoux’s (BE) current focus is our impossibility as a species to exist in the world. Deserted landscapes peopled only with silhouettes, buildings or armchairs serve as fossils of our existence. Her work places us on the threshold of a self-regulating world that chooses to continue without man. instagram.com/ledoux.caroline

The photographs of Charles Lemaire (BE) concentrate on the human body and skin (tattoos, scars, body modifications, aging). With these works, the focus is intensified to the point where the flesh becomes a landscape and the marks of human inhabitants and interaction are clear. www.charleslemaire.eu

The film director Antoine Vans (BE) uses painting as an antidote to some of the lighter aspects of his “other profession”. His canvases embody the frustrations he would otherwise be unable to capture and express. instagram.com/antoine.vans

In describing some of the pieces included in this show, Ehrling White (Ca/US) paraphrased a text by David Hinton. That there is a bridge linking the body itself and the act of art-making. The corporeal form that creates, or lives, and sheds its skin. The leaving it behind, is a natural process. Maybe art making, being very human and laden with history, thoughts, afterthoughts, and second thoughts, is a neurotic attempt to calcify some fraction of it all, give it a body, like a fossil, for others to make of what they wish, or not, long after we’ve moved on. www.ehrlingwhite.com


 

















Saturday, October 29, 2022

A New Gallery in Town

Gallery Nostrum is a new contemporary art space in Wavre, less than 30 mins from the centre of Brussels.












It promises to show a regular program of group and solo shows by international artists and accepts submissions on an ongoing basis. Guidelines can be found here.











Gallery Nostrum

Rue Florimond Letroye 13, bte 25

1300 Wavre BE                                                    

gallerynostrum.com

gallerynostrum@gmail.com



Friday, October 21, 2022

So, this happened...

 'Hello?'












« Hello ? » - Peintures de Chris Dennis.

Septembre  3 – Octobre  15,  2022.

(EN)  ‘My paintings are produced in lieu of a 'real' conversation and display a preoccupation with surface and texture. The figures in these ‘Therianthropic’ pieces, are not some other-worldly creatures from Science fiction. The narratives have been carefully obfuscated and the likeness hidden.  The Suffocates and The Aviarist series are two sides of a manufactured fugue state, from where, I explore ideas about biography /autobiography, authorship and the unreliable source.

The ʻPlease Be Quiet, Please’ paintings are continual. The title comes from the first short-story collection by American author, Raymond Carver called: Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (1976). The paintings are the essence of the larger, more narrative paintings reduced back down to just paint. Like speech or thought bubbles, it spills into, or regurgitates out of disembodied heads from previous works.

‘Things you should have said and the things you wish you hadn’t’.

 

Chris Dennis (1974) grew up in England. He studied at Bournemouth Arts University, completed his BA (Hons) at the University of Wolverhampton and was awarded his MFA from the University of Art in San Francisco (USA). He has lived and exhibited across the United States, New Zealand and Europe. In 2021, after 5 years living and exhibiting in Berlin, Chris moved with his family, to Belgium.

(FR) « Mes peintures sont réalisées en lieu et place d'une “vraie” conversation et témoignent d'une préoccupation pour la surface et la texture. Les personnages de ces oeuvres “thérianthropiques” ne sont pas des créatures d'un autre monde issues de la science-fiction. Les scènes représentées ont été soigneusement obscurcies et les ressemblances voilées. 

Les séries The Suffocates et The Aviarist ont été élaborées en contrepoint et m’ont permis d’explorer les idées de biographie/autobiographie, de paternité et de source non fiable.

Les peintures rassemblées sous le titre de Please Be Quiet, Please en découlent. Le titre est emprunté au premier recueil de nouvelles de l'auteur américain Raymond Carver intitulé : Will You Please Be Quiet, Please ?, (Tais-toi, je t’en prie, [1976] ). Les peintures de cette série agissent comme une représentation condensée et réduite à l’état de pure peinture, là où les autres œuvres sont plus grandes et plus narratives. Comme des bulles de parole ou de pensée, elles débordent alors, ou sont régurgitées par les têtes désincarnées des œuvres précédentes.

 “Les choses que vous auriez dû dire et les choses que vous auriez souhaité ne pas dire”. »

Chris Dennis (1974 - ) a grandi en Angleterre. Il a étudié à l'Université des Arts de Bournemouth, a obtenu son Bachelor of Arts (Hons) à l'Université de Wolverhampton, avant de recevoir un Master of Fine Arts à l'Université d'Art de San Francisco (USA). Il a vécu et exposé aux États-Unis, en Nouvelle-Zélande et en Europe. En 2021, après avoir vécu et exposé pendant 5 ans à Berlin, Chris s'est installé avec sa famille en Belgique.