Sunday, June 25, 2023

Sull’Impronta. Gallery Nostrum. Vernissage 24 June, 2023.

« Sull’Impronta » 

Francesco and Andrea Strizzi

24 June - 8 July 2023

Vernissage: Saturday 24 June, 16hr - 19hr 


Two sculptural researchers have as a common trait, the use of imprint to create a « space of sound ».

On one side , the testimony of a past sound; traces like  fossils that reconstruct a score, a tactile path of listening.

On the other, couples of elements ; sensitive to enter into a relationship of acoustic resonance.

The contrast between flat and curved volumes, between full and empty, distinguishes both works.

 In one case, it coexists in a single support that offers us the photograph of a past sound. In the other, it takes the form of a dualism of acoustic systems, inert but potentially capable of generating sound.



Francesco Strizzi, trained in lutherie at the Civica Scuola di Liuteria di Milano, graduated in sculpture from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera and in Sound-Art at the ARD&NT Institute in Milan. He proposes a series of works entitled « Relazioni Invisibili » in which two types of geometric solids, arranged as inert elements, carry within them the potential generation of a harmonic sound.

The two systems, parallelepipeds and hollow spheres are tuned two by two on the same frequency and if coupled, they enter into a sympathetic relationship, they resonate, they generate a sound.

The sounds resulting from these dualisms, recorded, becomes a musical composition that accompanies the visual tension between the elements.


Andrea Strizzi is an Italian sculptor trained at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, where he currently works. His current project "Toccare il suono - Impronte Sonore" proposes a series of audio-tactile installations, created with the participation of percussionist Stefano Corbetta.

The drumsticks of the musician leave on the surface of the fresh clay the traces of the sound action, the sound of which is recorded. The baked clay, which bears witness to it in the manner of a score, allows you to tactilely retrace the generative path of the work, accompanied by listening through headphones to the sounds that have marked its furrows.






Francesco (L) and Andrea (R) Strizzi.



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Saturday, June 10, 2023

« Osmose-Osmoskes » Vernissage at Hors les murs, (BE) June 9, 2023

 On a perfect evening in June, I had the pleasure of seeing a great group show at "Hors les murs" a refreshingly interesting art space in Court-Saint-Ètienne, Belgium. 

Osmose-Osmoskes: 

Caroline Ledoux, Olivier Van Uffel, Anne-Sophie Brassine.

10/11 June, 17/18 June, 24/25 June.

Olivier Van Uffel.

Caroline Ledoux.

Caroline Ledoux.

Olivier Van Uffel.

Olivier Van Uffel.

Olivier Van Uffel.


Caroline Ledoux.


Anne-Sophie Brassine.

Anne-Sophie Brassine.

Caroline Ledoux.

Anne-Sophie Brassine.

Caroline Ledoux.

Caroline Ledoux.

Caroline Ledoux.

Caroline Ledoux.

Anne-Sophie Brassine.


Hors les murs : Rue de Villers 45, 1490 Court-Saint-Étienne. 
HLM1490@proton.me


Monday, June 5, 2023

Dilum Coppens: S.o.t.D.P. at K.L.8 exhibition space, June 3, 2023

 S.o.t.D.P.

OPENING 3 JUNE 2023, 18h

OPEN 4, 10 & 11 June 2023, 13h - 18h

Over the past two years, Dilum Coppens retreated to his studio and desublimed the different aspects of his artistic practice. “S.o.t.D.P.” is the result of this reflective period, an exhibition that combines paintings, sculpture, video, and a new experiment with virtual reality into a comprehensive installation.






To shape his research, he returned to the idea of an artefact: a historical object with a mystical or unknown meaning. This time he focused specifically on religious artefacts and the way they give an aura to prophets and the beliefs they give shape to.

“S.o.t.D.P.” visualizes the history and legacy of a fictitious prophet. Structured like a fragmentary vision, the works mimic the mysterious and equivocal cluster of meaning that archaeological artefacts and religious imagery contain. Dilum acts like an oracle delivering a message and failing to reach a coherent conclusion, and instead lapsing into a strange phase transition of narrative elements. The use of different media within this project reinforces the collage elements present in the individual works, connecting form and content. They are structured as visual riddles, laden with a playful mysticism, becoming a line of transmission for a meaning that the artist doesn’t quite grasp himself.











 







Dilum has always been an avid fan of fantasy novels and games. Both these cultural forms are heavily indebted to mythology and how it constructs meaning through narrative. Our ancestors created myths to explain the inexplicable and indeterminate world they were surrounded by. In that sense myths, games, fantasy novels and films offer a kind of escapism, by teasing out a sense of wonder that has largely been lost in our contemporary understanding of the world. Yet this sense of wonder still manifests itself in the gap that continues to exist between mystery and definition, between definite knowledge and bewilderment, and allows us a certain freedom. Coppens tries to recreate this sense of indeterminacy in his works, creating an archaeology of our own age.

Marx referred to religion as opium for the people, and perhaps myths used to serve the same purpose. The instability and inadequacy of meaning as a concept is expressed visually by this disjointed mixture of different media. Consequently, it shows the futility of this human attempt to impose something comforting on the bewildering world around us. Meaning is unreliable in the end. It is the stories human beings cannot help but invent: are they in any way helpful other than in the sense that an illusion is helpful and meaningful as some sort of opium?. Text from: K.L.8



Monday, May 22, 2023

S.C.U.M. Gallery Nostrum. Vernissage, May 20th


Gallery Nostrum presents, S.C.U.M.

An international exhibition of female and female-identifying, analogue, collage artists.

May 20th – June 18th 2023.

In 1967, Valerie Solanas published the SCUM Manifesto (the Society for Cutting Up Men).
In 1968, she was charged with the shooting and attempted murder of Andy Warhol.

This exhibition is not about that.

There is a rich history of collage, decoupage and assemblage in Belgium and S.C.U.M (Selecting and Cutting UP Magazines) will bring to Wavre (BE), analogue collage artists from all over the world.
Previous group exhibitions at Gallery Nostrum have been carefully selected and for such a small area, generously spaced.
S.C.U.M will pack the gallery, with dozens of works.

Unable to maintain a polite distance, they will jostle for space, chatter amongst themselves and vie for attention; transforming the gallery into a collective collage of some of the best examples of contemporary analogue collage.






















Participating artists: HP Heinz (UK), Michelle Granville (IE), Charlotte Callens (BE), Tetiana Dudka (UA), Ottavia Marchiori(IT), Ruxandra Niculae (RO), Mariángela Abbruzzese (VE), Olga Gvindzhyliya (PT), Delinconnue (RO), Mallie Hellström(DE), Yuliia Lukianova (UA), Zuza Rozanska (DE), Paris Triantafilou (US), Sophie Fourneau (BE), Vira Dutchyn (UA), Karin Vyncke (BE), Christel Marchal (BE), Jessica Russo Scherr (US).





Gallery Nostrum
Rue. Florimond Letroye 13, bte 25.1300, Wavre (BE)
www.gallerynostrum.com