Archives: Expos

Dialogist-Kantor

La Grande Retification

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Vernissage 14-12 2016 – 18.30

The Dialogist-Kantor, Toni Geirlandt and Carlos Montalvo, are performers. They use performance as an attitude of resistance against the commodification of individuals by society. They base their work on the idea that art is a constant celebration. They collaborate with other creators (individuals or groups) and organise meetings which invite participants (artists or not) to develop thought and the aesthetic gesture. Their objects, videos and posters are brought together in archives to be reactivated, and are testimonials as much as they are signs of their counter-culture. For their exhibition at the CENTRALE.box, they offer an installation inspired by a play written during an artistic retreat in 2002. Inspired by real scenes and the people present, the installation “La Grande Retification” is a metamorphosis of this play comprising objects, actions and documents.

© The Dialogist-Kantor

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Elsa MAURY

Bien manger, bien tuer, bien manger

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Elsa Maury offers an exploration based on the subject of her thesis devoted to the conditions from moving between the practice of life (breeding) and the practice of death (slaughtering). Her approach explores the challenges of the encounter between art and ethnography through the analysis of film systems at the crossroads between these two approaches. On the basis of this demanding assumption, she visualises and analyses social, technical and affective systems invented for the occasion by breeders and their animals.

© Elsa MAURY

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Vaast COLSON

And the winner is

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Winner of the BCC (Brussels Cologne Contemporaries) Award, Vaast COLSON presents an installation that, as is customary, reflects an unbridled subjectivity which sometimes tends towards the absurd.
His intervention comprises two stages and resonates perfectly with the BXL UNIVERSEL exhibition.

Firstly, the viewer discovers a poster featuring the drawing of the Atomium under construction. The name of a world famous minimalist artist (Dan FLAVIN, Sol LEWIT, Frank STELLA, Donald JUDD, …) is written in the place of each ball. The poster announces a fictional exhibition to take place from 01/01/2076 to 25/03/2077; it begins on the date that the image reproduction rights for the Atomium will no longer apply and ends on Vaast Colson’s 100th birthday.

Afterwards, the viewer enters a small room with black walls and a small mole on the floor whose metaphorical speech is read in the white chalk like a comic talisman:

Being a mole, also referred to as ‘dirt tosser’.
Although one would rather think of them as byproducts of tunneling activity. One is often credited for the sculptural quality of one’s molehills.

The two installations that, at first sight, appear unconnected, metaphorically highlight the subtleties of the artistic field and question the boundaries of art and its economic value.

After the exhibition, in a drawing book, the artist will have collected visitors’ attempts to draw the atom. “It will be fascinating to see the big difference between the mental image and the reproduction”, explains the artist. Finally, an Esherian drawing style arises from explorations of infinity, combinations of patterns which gradually transform into totally different shapes ending with the Atomium redesigned.

© Vaast COLSON

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The Sour

Voyager Mission - Sparkles & Emptiness

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The work of The Sour is focused mainly on environmental issues and the resulting socio-political questions as well as the attitudes which they generate: problems concerning natural resources and energy, pollution and other natural disasters.

© The Sour

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BXL Universel

Un portrait subjectif

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BXL Universel presents a subjective portrait of the bustling city that is the Belgian capital, through archive documents, films, photographs and creations by artists who live and work there.

BXL UNIVERSEL is a story where opposites meet, sensibilities collide and humour and seriousness interact within a celebratory structure.

The project captures the diversity and uniqueness of this bilingual city where the dialect embodies a wonderful Melting Pot, a tasty mix of French and Flemish. The symbol of this city of folklore is “Manneken-Pis”, a chubby boy who urinates, a comical incarnation of a zest for life. A city of contrasts, symbolic of the surrealist spirit, it continually challenges the confines of seriousness, enchanting us while annoying us.

BXL UNIVERSEL presents approaches as different as the Weltmaschine (World Machine) by Franz Gselmann inspired by the Atomium, a life’s art (Kurt Ryslavy), art embodying the sharing of an ecological conscience (Lise Duclaux), the subjective vision of an image of the city (Pieter Geenen), installations (Charlemagne Palestine, Kendell Geers), photography so close to us that it becomes universal (Vincen Beeckman) and more.

With works and evocations by: J. Louis AGAIN, Cécile BERTRAND, Vincen BEECKMAN, Bernard BOCCARA, Jacques BREL, Marcel BROODTHAERS, Benoît de PIERPONT, Lucien DE ROECK, Marc DIDDEN, DUBUS, Lise DUCLAUX, Frédéric ETIENNE, EVER MEULEN, Christoph FINK, FRANKY D.C., GAL, Pieter GEENEN, Kendell GEERS, Franz GSELLMANN, Jean HARLEZ, Fernand HELLINCKX, Gillis HOUBEN, Frédéric JANNIN & Stefan LIBERSKI, Ann Veronica JANSSENS, Pierre KROLL, Thomas LEROOY, MANNEKEN-PIS, MAREC, Johan MUYLE, Charlemagne PALESTINE, Marie-Françoise PLISSART, Elvis POMPILIO, Jean-Pierre ROSTENNE, Kurt RYSLAVY, François SCHUITEN, STIKSTOF, STROMAE, Pascal TASSINI, Toots THIELEMANS, TOONE, Ana TORFS, Geert van BRUAENE (le petit Gérard), Johan VERMINNEN.

BXL UNIVERSEL allows multidisciplinary collaborations with other Brussels cultural stakeholders or festivals (Atomium, Kaaitheater – Performatik, Passa Porta, La Fleur en Papier Doré, Ars Musica, Cinematek, Semaine du Son (Week of Sound), etc.).

A trilingual book to be published in the Essais collection by CFC Editions will accompany the project; the authors (C. FOL, Erik CORIJN, Thomas GUNZIG, Caroline LAMARCHE,…) will present their unique vision of Brussels.

 

 

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CENTRALE
Place Sainte-Catherine 44 Sint-Katelijneplein
Bruxelles 1000 Brussel

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Le Grand BanKet by Françoise SCHEIN

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An art centre’s purpose is to generate meetings and sharing around contemporary creation. The participatory project started with the artist Françoise Schein, who is notably famous for her work at the Parvis de Saint-Gilles metro station, and who readily describes herself as a “human rights artist” is part of this process. Over 120 participants from various generations and origins (residents, members of neighbourhood associations, etc.) will become creators of a work comprised of ten ceramic tables.

 

 

© Françoise SCHEIN

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Axel DE MARTEAU

As a bird dives down the water

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Axel De Marteau’s photographs speak for his fascination with nature. His affection for the forest has been a recurrent motive in his work. In his new series of images he focuses on both natural and man-made elements in urban environments. The series, As a bird dives down the water, tries to playfully trick its viewer, by exploring the contrast between nature and culture.

© Axel DE MARTEAU

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Niels POIZ

YES YES OUI OUI SI SI, It’s Okay, That’s Alright

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Niels Poiz plays with language by taking it out of context. Advertising, educational and business texts, pop songs, plays and more take on an abstract dimension. The viewer is invited to reinvent their own history from the devices in the space (posters, videos, photography, books, objects). For the CENTRALE.lab, Poiz has designed an exhibition in three parts around the phonetic analysis of the sounds and rhythms of pop music.

© Niels POIZ

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CENTRALE.lab
Place Sainte-Catherine 16 Sint-Katelijneplein
Bruxelles 1000 Brussel
WED > SUN 10:30 > 18:00
Closed on public holidays
FREE ENTRANCE

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Maëlle COLLIN

Shelter

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Laureate of the City of Brussels price / Médiatine 2015

“Nature is the favourite subject of Maëlle Collin. Her immersion in woods and forests gives rise to almost hypnotic images which draw the eye to the depths of the image. Because, it is indeed the depth of the landscape that the photographer makes us feel using various methods: composition of perspective, blurred lines, duplication and vertical effects. It is for the spectator to no longer through preconceived categories, but to abandon himself to probing the depth of the image according to his own imagination. In the same way, the monumentality of certain prints creates an immersive relationship with the landscape, inviting spectators not only to see with their eyes but on the level of their entire body.”

Translation of a text written by Danielle Leenarts

© Maëlle COLLIN

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Dany DANINO

La Chute des anges rebelles

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For his exhibition at CENTRALE.box in the frame of the CONNECTED exhibition, Dany Danino has produced a monumental work offering a metaphorical reading of connections. Ever true to himself, he offers up an intense composition combining technical virtuosity and breath-taking rhythm based on philosophical and historical references. By combining mechanical connection with spiritual connection through the theme of the “fallen angels”, the artist highlights the inextricable questioning of humans, which are both prisoners of the body and eternal inventor of new technologies, constantly searching for metaphysical responses.

© Dany DANINO

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