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‘The Importance of Being…’
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27 February 2015
Bar Cock, Calle Reina 16, Madrid 28004
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• Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes La Habana, Cuba February 13th - April 26th 2015
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‘The Importance of Being…’• Museo de Arte Contemporáneo
Buenos Aires, Argentina July 4th - September 13th 2015
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• Museu de Arte Moderna Rio de Janeiro, Brasil December 2nd 2015 - February 14th 2016
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• Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil April 11th - July 14th 2016
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Bruno Devos Sara Alonso Gómez
Director ‘The Importance of Being…’ MD Stockmans Kalenders
Director Printing House De Bie President De Gulden Leeuw
Managing Partner Artui Antwerp, Belgium
Curator ‘The Importance of Being…’ Art Historian Paris-Havana
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Curatorial Proposal
Curatorial Proposal
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• Preamble• Introduction of the title of the exhibition• Conceptual Trends of the exhibition
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• A panorama on Belgian contemporary art
• Through the artworks of 40 artists, overlapping 40 years
• Broad range of media
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• Curator Sara Alonso Gómez (Paris, Havana)
• But TIOB is NOT about Belgium
• ‘Ceci n’est pas …’
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No
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• Overview Belgian contemporary art• Nationalistic approach
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Broad
• Belgium, just a departure point
• TIOB goes beyond the notion of Belgium
• Consider BE as a laboratory in relation to • Global cultural dynamics • Geopolitical and social approach
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• More than 2 years of preparation
• Visits, talks and discussions with the artists
Sara Alonso Gómez
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Quality : selection - non exhaustive
Artists : • Plurality of discourses • Transversal approaches • International nature
Discovery
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• Link • Bridge • Look at TIOB as a communicating vessel
• with other latitudes • with the LA audience
Sara Alonso Gómez aims to
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‘The Importance of Being Earnest’, Oscar Wilde
Relates to exhibition as a parable with all its sarcasm, irony and playfulness
TIOB refers to eponomous play
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• Open structure ‘Being …’ • Contemporary meaning to DASEIN (Heidegger)
• Related to • Contemporary dynamics • Globalization • Human relations in both technosphere and biosphere • Mutant • Time and space • Being today
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Translated to • Identity / Otherness • Time, self and the process in the construction of memory • Space, disruptive, multiplicity, conflicts and borders • Shifting tides, power, migration, here, there, nomadic, virtual • Artistic transgression, new departure point, future, role of art(ists)
Core DASEIN / BEING
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Audience, acceptance or denial • Recognition • Contradiction • Apprehensive • Avoidance
Aim TIOB
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Conceptual Trends
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Conceptual Trends• Identity-Otherness
(Quote from ‘The Tempest’, William Shakespeare)
• Time and processes in the construction of memory(Quote from ‘Instrucciones para dar cuerda al reloj’, Julio Cortázar)
• Beyond the notion of space (Quote from ‘The Aleph’, Jorge Luis Borges)
• Shifting tides (Quote from ‘Si una noche de invierno un viajero’, Italo Calvino)
• Artistic transgression (Quote from ‘Demian’, Hermann Hesse)
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Identity-Otherness
145Semites - Charif Benhelima
146Weight - Michaël Borremans
147La Pluie - Marcel Broodthaers
148100 Sexes d’Artistes - Jacques Charlier
149You’re not… - Fred Eerdekens
150The Falling House 1 - Pascale Marthine Tayou
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Reflecting Objectives Anne-Marie Van Kerckhoven
Killing Younger Selves
152Evolution of a Hybrid - Koen Vanmechelen
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Two Men in Landscape Leaning Man
Leaning Woman Man Reading
Bruno Vekemans
Time and processes in the construction of memory
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155Politics of Rehearsal - Francis Alÿs
156Congo Belge - Carl De Keyzer
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Child with severed hand Elephant Positions
Jan Fabre
158Le perçu et le non perçu - Jacques Lizène
159What’s the time - Kris Martin
160Staging Silence 2 - Hans Op de Beeck
161Hondje van Spinoza - Walter Swennen
162Legend - Ana Torfs
Beyond the notion of space
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164Voting Booth Museum - Guillaume Bijl
165Sunrise - David Claerbout
166Guéridon Tourbillons - Leo Copers
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Red Tape & Red Tape, Las Americas, the vertical sweep of an inner space Cel Crabeels
168Untitled - Raoul De Keyser
169Laboratory - Edith Dekyndt
170Néons - Michel François
171Red plastic sheet - Ann Veronica Janssens
172Haunted - Walter Swennen
Shifting tides
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174A Voice in the Desert - Chantal Akerman
175B.Z.-E.B.-12 & E.V.-H.K.#1 13 & E.N.-C.K. -12 – 2013 - Dirk Braeckman
176Everything for you, Havana - Jan De Cock
177Smoke cloud - Peter de Cupere
178Hanging Piece - Kendell Geers
179Dark Pool - Marie-Jo Lafontaine
180Te Angel ov te Odd - Walter Swennen
181L’esprit est voyageur, l’âme est vagabonde nr 1 - Philippe Vandenberg
182School - Koen van den Broek
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Artistic transgression
184Portrait - Berlinde De Bruyckere
185La craquelure - Patrick Corillon
186Panem et Circenses 1 - Wim Delvoye
187Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y - Johan Grimonprez
188Untitled (Wake Up) - Walter Swennen
189Coin d'ombre argent 2008-2015 Havana - Joëlle Tuerlinckx
190Christening dresses - Lieve Van Stappen
191Feuilleton, les sept péchés capitaux - Angela Vergara
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Parallel Program
Parallel Program
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• 10/02, Conference – Performance Joëlle Tuerlinckx
• 11/02, Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión – Johan Grimonprez
• 16/02, Conference, Instituto Superior de Arte
• 16/02, Conference – University of Havana, Art history
• 17/02, Tour of the exhibition, by Sara Alonso Gómez
• 18/02, Conference – Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
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Visiting artists in Havana
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Visiting artists in Havana• Jan De Cock
• Cel Crabeels
• Joëlle Tuerlinckx
• Koen van den Broek
• Carl De Keyzer
• Hélène Vandenberghe
• Charif Benhelima
• Peter de Cupere
• Walter Swennen
• Koen Vanmechelen
• Bruno Vekemans
• Francis Alÿs
• Guillaume Bijl
• Johan Grimonprez
• Edith Dekyndt
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In Situ Creations
In Situ Creations
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• Jan De Cock
• Cel Crabeels
• Joëlle Tuerlinckx
• Koen van den Broek
• Berlinde De Bruyckere
• Kendell Geers
• Edith Dekyndt
• Peter De Cupere• Koen Vanmechelen
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Jan De Cock
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Cel Crabeels
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Joëlle Tuerlinckx
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Koen van den Broek
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Berlinde De Bruyckere
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Kendell Geers
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Edith Dekyndt
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Peter de Cupere
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Koen Vanmechelen
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Sara Alonso GómezCurator: Sara Alonso Gómez [email protected]
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