SOLO EXHIBITION

OBSTAKLES

WIELSFeb 01, 2025 — Apr 27, 2025
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WIELS presents OBSTAKLES, a major survey exhibition of Willem Oorebeek (b. 1953, NL), a Dutch-born artist who has been living and working in Brussels since the 1990s. For many decades, parallel to what the “pictures” generation investigated, Oorebeek has explored the impact of images and the erosion and inflation of the viewing experience caused by mass reproduction.

The survey exhibition features around 40 work groups, spanning from the 1980s and 1990s to new productions that engage spatially with the architecture. Spread across two floors, OBSTAKLES highlights Oorebeek’s in-depth exploration of authorship and aura through mass-produced images and reproduction techniques of appropriation.

Through elaborate processes of repetition and superimposition, in a quasi-painterly approach, his work thematizes media forms of representation and the viewer’s possibilities of perception. Like a palimpsest, the images exist in a constant cycle of erasure and...More expand_more

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Av. Van Volxem 354, 1190 Forest, Belgium
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Installation View of "OBSTAKLES"
SOLO EXHIBITION

OBSTAKLES

WIELSFeb 01, 2025 — Apr 27, 2025
Press Release
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WIELS presents OBSTAKLES, a major survey exhibition of Willem Oorebeek (b. 1953, NL), a Dutch-born artist who has been living and working in Brussels since the 1990s. For many decades, parallel to what the “pictures” generation investigated, Oorebeek has explored the impact of images and the erosion and inflation of the viewing experience caused by mass reproduction.

The survey exhibition features around 40 work groups, spanning from the 1980s and 1990s to new productions that engage spatially with the architecture. Spread across two floors, OBSTAKLES highlights Oorebeek’s in-depth exploration of authorship and aura through mass-produced images and reproduction techniques of appropriation.

Through elaborate processes of repetition and superimposition, in a quasi-painterly approach, his work thematizes media forms of representation and the viewer’s possibilities of perception. Like a palimpsest, the images exist in a constant cycle of erasure and...More expand_more

Exhibition Space
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Av. Van Volxem 354, 1190 Forest, Belgium
View all exhibitions in... Forest, BE
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Created by icebergenf on Apr 26, 2025 at 14:51
Edited by mickswag on Apr 26, 2025 at 14:52
Edits: 2
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