{"id":56680,"date":"2017-09-18T13:24:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T11:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=56680"},"modified":"2017-09-18T13:24:18","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T11:24:18","slug":"brussels-gallery-weekend-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/brussels-gallery-weekend-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Brussels Gallery Weekend 2017 Round-Up: 5 Moments Which Put Belgium On The Map"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aside from the Grand Place, Manneken Pis, and European Commission, Brussels also offers a dynamic art scene that certainly doesn’t come up short against other European capitals. The crown jewel of this overlooked art city is undoubtedly the Brussels Gallery Weekend, which just celebrated its tenth anniversary<\/a>. With 41 galleries, a dozen institutions, and countless artist-run spaces participating, Brussels Gallery Weekend proved that the city’s vibrant art scene can’t be dampened by the rain. Here are five key moments from the rain-ravaged weekend.<\/p>\n

Hooligan Energy at Marcin Dudek’s “Steps and Marches”\"\"\"\"<\/h3>\n

\u201cOur studios are in the same place, we have the same gallery, and we are married. So far so good,\u201d laughed French artist Am\u00e9lie Bouvier during her husband Marcin Dudek’s solo show, \u201cSteps and Marches\u201d, at Harlan Levy Project. The show takes as its departure point the artist\u2019s teenage memories of the Cracovia football club, and the hooligan energy it bursted with. Abstract paintings, sculptural works made from memorabilia, and an installation of concrete oversized steps filled up the gallery space, in lieu of a ghostly stadium.<\/p>\n

Sanam Khatibi\u2019s Morbid Eroticism<\/h3>\n

\"\" Sanam Khatibi. Photo: Artist’s own.<\/p>\n

More sophisticated, yet somewhat equally raw, is Sanam Khatibi\u2019s \u201cRivers In Your Mouth\u201d at Rodolphe Janssen. In her paintings, lascivious nudes pose nonchalantly in nature, referencing classical paintings or even the foliage of Henri Rousseau. But these are not your average nudes. Iranian ceramics pop up throughout (the artist\u2019s mum collects them), as do flesh-tearing hunting dogs. Morbidly romantic, and even erotic, Khatibi\u2019s canvases\u2014and notably a delicious tapestry\u2014find a nice equilibrium between the exquisite perversity of her subjects and the na\u00efvet\u00e9 of her strokes.<\/p>\n

Embracing The Inner Fl\u00e2neur at Yoann Van Parys\"\"<\/h3>\n

At LMNO, Yoann Van Parys used photography and objects as concrete marks across the gallery space and walls. Mainly of blue overtones, the hang relates to looking up on the city, like a fl\u00e2neur, and that sense of contemplative poetry that sometimes is squeezed out from urban alienation. Observing Van Parys’s elaborate collages made pf paper, photography, and materials, carefully arranged together as if industrial floral compositions, is similar\u2014except in plain light\u2014to deciphering contours in the dark, and just as rewarding.<\/p>\n

Booze and Temporal Reflection At Strookoffer\"\"<\/h3>\n

For drinks, there was the Strookoffer. Presented by Etablissement d\u2019en face, Strookoffer is a recreation of Loos American Bar, a classic watering hole from 1950s Vienna. Artists Christoph Meier, Ute M\u00fcller, Robert Schwarz, and Lukas Stopczynski are the artists behind the recreation of the classic bar design by Adolf Loos<\/span>. The four artists \/ architects \/ bar tenders reflect on links between time and dimensions (the length of the bar size compared to the original, the stretching of your experience in time), and on the creativity that emerges from making things together. The group have also insightfully pointed out \u201cthe history of art has a lot of bars\u201d \u2014 we’ll drink to that!<\/p>\n

Swapping the White Cube For the Yellowing Attic\"\"<\/h3>\n

Who would think of exhibiting in an attic surrounded by flowery wallpaper and yellowing trims? Gallerist Sebastien Ricou, apparently. Leaving the white cube of his previous gallery, Ricou said he wanted to physically engage his shows with realistic environments. Fran\u00e7ois Patoue (whose large scale abstract colourful canvases \u201cHors Saison\u201d were on show) explained the move in three simple words: \u201cit makes sense\u201d. \u201cI paint on the floor, in fact my paintings are the size of my mattress,\u201d he laughed, hinting at the additional physical confrontation the act of painting activates.
\nIndeed, Brussels Gallery Weekend proved to be a treat as intoxicating and variegated as Belgian beers. Cheers to that.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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