2013

Meessen de Clercq, Brussels

Meessen De Clercq proposes a project bringing together several artists of the gallery around the notion of light. The city of Marseille is frequently associated with the particular glare of its light and numerous artists questioning in a relevant way this notion.

Some artists question the light spectrum (Hreinn Fridfinnsson, Adam Henry), others the symbolic powers of light (Claudio Parmiggiani, Fabrice Samyn, Rinko Kawauchi), its semi industrial applications (neon and slide of Lieven De Boeck, lightbox of Kelly Schacht, manipulated movie screen of Evariste Richer, flashes of Ellen Harvey) or the cosmic origin (Ignasi Aballi with this video “Suns”, José Maria Sicilia).

The project brings together young artists as well as confirmed artists, what allows visitors to compare practices from the Seventies to other, more contemporary ones.

 

 

Lieven De Boeck

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Let us be US, 2006
White neon
47 x 17 x 5 cm
Edition of 3
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Kelly Schacht

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The Traveller’s Scrapbook, 2010
Lightboxes, wood
66 x 34 x 15 cm (each)
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José Maria Sicilia

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Derrumbamiento, 2010
Pigmented ink on photographic paper
35 x 53 cm (unframed)
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Ignasi Aballi

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Vitrina 2 (Metacrilat), 2010
Print on plexiglas, steel
180 x 180 x 60 cm
Edition of 2
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Evariste Richer

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Placebo, 2007
Video, 4 min
Edition of 3
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