Archives: Expos

CONNECTED

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CONNECTED offers a unique and surprising journey between real and virtual through the worlds of singular creation and reveal the use of new technologies in visual arts. While emphasizing the identity of the former power station which houses them, the works featured question the theme of the connection – physical and psychological – which links the artistic creation to its author and the viewer. The public itself is called to actively get involved in this meeting and to interact with works : the spectator is connected and caught by body-machines, images created in animated 3D, interactive video sequences and more. Over twenty Belgian and international artists sign this invitation to encounter uncommon sensory experiences and virtual perceptions.

© Thomas ZIPP

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Aleksandra CHAUSHOVA

Annulment of the End of Things

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From the plans for Georgi Dimitrov’s mausoleum in Sofia (the artist’s birthplace), Chaushova has created a tragicomic play entitled “Annulment of the End of Things”. Alongside the plans that illustrate the historic past of this building, erected as a monument to a national hero, that she interprets in order to revisit an episode from the history of the Cold War, Chaushova exhibits the technically-accomplished, black graphite drawings and booklets containing the text of the play. The strange atmosphere of her drawings combining stage costumes and hunting iconography.

© Aleksandra CHAUSHOVA

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Kasper BOSMANS

Cintamani Weavings

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For the first time, Kasper Bosmans presents a series of tapestries inspired by the Ottoman tradition featuring the Cintamani motif (three circles forming a triangle over two wavy lines). These embroideries were created by Buddhist Nepalese workers from a reproduction of the tapestries in the collection at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, using Rhadi Phaki’s technique. Through this reinterpretation of an ancestral motif full of spiritual meaning, the artist highlights the loss of meaning of symbols across time and cultures.

© Kasper BOSMANS

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Gregory BUCHERT

Les six premiers jours il ne fit rien. Au septième, il se reposa

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Vidéos et performances nourries de références littéraires (Joyce, Gide, Calvino), les récits imaginés par l’artiste, dont il est tour à tour protagoniste ou conteur, interrogent notre besoin d’achèvement.

Dans le cadre de WATCH THIS SPACE – Réseau 50° Nord, en collaboration avec Artconnexion Lille.

© Gregory BUCHERT

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Weifu & Ruifu GUO

SEEK • 寻

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Réalisées sur toile et sur bois, les œuvres des jumeaux d’origine chinoise figurent un labyrinthe 3D qui sonde l’espace et l’univers.

“Nous avons choisi de créer des œuvres relatives à l’espace et par extension à  l’Univers, les œuvres ont été réalisées sur toile et bois avec un labyrinthe en trois dimensions. Nous voulons exprimer l’idée du développement et du progrès continu de l’humanité. Les gens cherchent  à approfondir éternellement leur connaissance du monde, toute en explorant le labyrinthe qui les entoure. Comme un mythe”

© Weifu & Ruifu GUO

 

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NUIT BLANCHE @ CENTRALE

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Zimoun [CH] // 150 prepared dc-motors, 230 kg wood, 180 m rope | Zimoun 2015

03/10 – 20:00 > 05:00 – FREE
04/10 – 10:30 > 18:00 – FREE
CENTRALE for contemporary art
Place Sainte-Catherine 44

Building on simple and functional everyday objects, the Swiss artist and sound engineer Zimoun reinvents in his installations the distance between chaos and rhythm, silence and noise, the spontaneous and the planned. By ordering in an almost obsessional manner the most trivial objects (cardboard boxes, pieces of wood, cotton balls…), he creates seemingly simple sound structures which prove to be complex systems, virtually organic. Let yourself be mesmerized by Zimoun!

 

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Dorothée Smith [FR] // C19H2802 (Agnès)

03/10 – 20:00 > 02:00 – FREE
CENTRALE.lab
Place Sainte-Catherine 16

The multimedia artist and photographer born in Paris, Dorothée Smith, creates a hybrid work that explores constructions, deconstructions and identity mutations. Presented at the CENTRALE.lab, her ‘transdisciplinary video installation’ depicts the story of Agnès, a boy reborn as a girl after swallowing a synthetic substance. A wonderful work where grace emerges from disorder..

 

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Mystic Transport – Gülsün KARAMUSTAFA & Koen THEYS

EUROPALIA Arts Festival Turkey

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The CENTRALE and Argos present an unexpected dialogue between the Turkish artist Gülsün Karamustafa (1949) and the Brussels artist Koen Theys (1963) under the section “create together” of the EUROPALIA Arts Festival Turkey. In her videos, installations and paintings Gülsün Karamustafa explores themes that, through recent events, acquire a special dimension: the cultural anchoring, the idea of displacement, migration. Koen Theys takes a very critical look at our society and its contradictions and expresses his fascination with myths, repression and authority. His powerful works embody the loss of reality in an overhyped world. The confrontation of the works of the two artists intensifies their visual impact and highlights their content: questioning the place of the individual in a changing society through universal themes such as identity and cultural conventions.

With ARGOS

© Gülsün KARAMUSTAFA & Koen THEYS

 

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Max PINCKERS

Will They Sing Like Raindrops or Leave Me Thirsty

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2de winner of the Art’Contest price 2014

Inspired and influenced by the paradigms of Bollywood, India’s Hindi cinema industry, these photographs offer a spectrum of scenarios that combine humour, pathos, allegory and drama to produce an elegiac and nuanced representation of the conception of love, with all its paradoxes and ironies, in India today. In a country that is constantly attempting to balance tradition and modernity, religious and secular values, the institution of marriage and the possibilities of romantic engagements are strongly bound to socio-cultural realities that are caught up in the push-and-pull of a nostalgic past and an imagined future.
Pinckers’ remarkable sensitivity to the complexities of this diverse context is displayed not only through his treatment of the subject that never presumes or dictates, but also his use of kitsch as form to subtly evoke the ways in which Bollywood and related media industries inform and produce the idea of ‘love’ and what it means for a large section of young people.

Art’Contest http://www.artcontest.be/?artist=max-pinckers

© Max PINCKERS

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Benoît Félix

Jeu de jambes

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Interactive video window installation –  13 rue Sainte-Catherine
Part of Performatik

Double meanings, humour and crossing borders are characteristic of the work of visual artist Benoît Félix. During Performatik he shows seven video performances. In them he plays the role of someone who makes or draws something; he then shows how the object or drawing goes its own way, independently of the creator.

Benoît Félix (1969) studied Lacanian psychoanalysis after graduating with an art degree in Brussels. He worked in psychiatric centres with children and adults. That had an influence on his own work, especially on his research into ‘language’, ‘body’ and ‘image’ and how these three registers can be articulated.

 

© Benoit FELIX

 

 

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