Espérance de bon cap
Établissement d'en face•Nov 15, 2024 — Dec 15, 2024
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NORTH (Espérance de bon cap)*
This handout requires a text, on a work that is going to be shown, but has not yet been shown at the time these lines are written. It cannot be the reading of one that has seen it and wishes to share their perception. This text istherefore a commission, and as such can only be written by the artist, who alone knows a little, but wants to deliver the work untouched by his own interpre- tations. Yet, I’ve been working on this piece for three years, often changing course. Its final form only came about for the purpose of this exhibition. I was still preparing the work in a somewhatindefinite form when, in 1988, Galerie Meert-Rihoux showed the urban scenes of Thomas Struth. These photographsnot only left me reticent, but also troubled. The formalist excesses in the latest works of 50/04 (the group under whosename I had been exhibiting my work for years) made me turn my back to this collaborative way of working — that had long been stimulating, but...More
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Espérance de bon cap
Établissement d'en face•Nov 15, 2024 — Dec 15, 2024
Press release
NORTH (Espérance de bon cap)*
This handout requires a text, on a work that is going to be shown, but has not yet been shown at the time these lines are written. It cannot be the reading of one that has seen it and wishes to share their perception. This text istherefore a commission, and as such can only be written by the artist, who alone knows a little, but wants to deliver the work untouched by his own interpre- tations. Yet, I’ve been working on this piece for three years, often changing course. Its final form only came about for the purpose of this exhibition. I was still preparing the work in a somewhatindefinite form when, in 1988, Galerie Meert-Rihoux showed the urban scenes of Thomas Struth. These photographsnot only left me reticent, but also troubled. The formalist excesses in the latest works of 50/04 (the group under whosename I had been exhibiting my work for years) made me turn my back to this collaborative way of working — that had long been stimulating, but...More
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