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This summer, TICK TACK transforms into SUMMER BAR + CINEMA, a singular vision by the renowned Belgian artist, Marie-Jo Lafontaine, born 1950 in Antwerp.
Lafontaine is a video artist, painter and photographer, renowned for her pioneering monumental video installations in the 1970’s and 80’s. These sculptural presentations redefined the possibilities of the medium, establishing her as one of the leading international video artists of the last century. Lafontaine has earned the Belgian Art Prize (1977) and played a prominent role in documenta 8 (1987). For the FIFA World Cup in Germany (2006), she produced a series of video works that were projected onto Frankfurt’s skyline.
On the occasion of her solo exhibition in Antwerp, Lafontaine re-imagines TICK TACK’s brutalist exhibition venue as a social sculpture and rebuilds the space, both in form and function, into a summer bar and movie theater. Here, Lafontaine uses TT’s strategic position, on the border o…
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This summer, TICK TACK transforms into SUMMER BAR + CINEMA, a singular vision by the renowned Belgian artist, Marie-Jo Lafontaine, born 1950 in Antwerp.
Lafontaine is a video artist, painter and photographer, renowned for her pioneering monumental video installations in the 1970’s and 80’s. These sculptural presentations redefined the possibilities of the medium, establishing her as one of the leading international video artists of the last century. Lafontaine has earned the Belgian Art Prize (1977) and played a prominent role in documenta 8 (1987). For the FIFA World Cup in Germany (2006), she produced a series of video works that were projected onto Frankfurt’s skyline.
On the occasion of her solo exhibition in Antwerp, Lafontaine re-imagines TICK TACK’s brutalist exhibition venue as a social sculpture and rebuilds the space, both in form and function, into a summer bar and movie theater. Here, Lafontaine uses TT’s strategic position, on the border o…
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