Projects
BOLERO 2021 in END – Thomas Maestro
Bureau Doove Editions – Héloïse Marie
Troupe/troep at ChezKit
Archive – Loving Care – Pierre Mertens at Blikfabriek 2020
Empirical Nonsense Daily
Bolero, an international art project on the move
Archive – The first exhibition – Paul Bartels at Zebra
Kerminy – newsletter #1
Currer Bell College
News
BOLERO 2021 in END – Thomas Maestro
For this Sunday’s publication in the Empirical Nonsense Daily we present Thomas Maestro, a young French artist who graduated from ESADHaR Le Havre-Rouen in 2019. Since I selected him for the exhibition ENSEMBLE we have been developing a slow collaboration. It thus made sense to also select him as one of the participants of BOLERO 2021 as well as the upcoming show Troupe/Troep. Find his page in END here. Images: Ce qu’on m’a laissé – zone école, 2019; Ce qu’on m’a laissé – zone atelier, 2019
Publications – Leonardo Reviews and Turbulences Vidéo
This month I published two articles. For Leonardo Reviews I discussed the excellent Une fille comme toi, a photo novel by Jan Baetens on the art of the photo novel, published by JBE Books. Find my review here. For the French magazine Turbulences Vidéo I reviewed the performance film Nature vive by Hantu (weber + delsaux). The film was made while the duo exhibited at the 3 rue française space of Miss China in Paris and first shown on the site of Mucem. Consult or download the magazine here. The review is… Read More
Nathalie Hunter at Markt 1, Rumst
For some time now Nathalie Hunter has been exploring ceramics as a medium. But she also remains a fantastic draughtswoman. In a recent series of drawings for the ceramics center Markt 1 in Rumst, Belgium she combines her love for drawing and ceramics. Find her project and Nathalie’s comments on it below: The Markt 1 Ceramic Art Center was created out of a willingness to bring people together. The founders had raised a crazy amount of money in Dec 2018 to help people with ALS disease. This brought such a such strong… Read More
BOLERO 2021 in END – Dominique De Beir
On this Sunday we publish another BOLERO 2021 participant in the Empirical Nonsense Daily. See Dominique De Beir‘s page here. Her exhibition Ruminatio runs until 30 January in Espace Camille Claudel, Amiens. You can virtually visit it via the site of ADAC art contemporain. Images: installation Barbarie, Rumination, Espace Camille Claudel, ADAC art contemporain
Hantu at EVERGREEN
From 15 to 17 January Rue Française organizes EVERGREEN as a form of intra professional artistic meetings with installations, workshops, dance, music, design and poetry. A way of living green. Hantu (Weber+Delsaux) will contribute with their performance Bonzai et toujours verts Friday 15 January round 6pm At Rue Française, rue de la performance 3 rue Française, 75001 Paris 3-7pm More info https://www.facebook.com/ruedelaperformance
BOLERO 2021 in END – Jason Karaïndros
Well 2021, you’ve been eventful already! On the second Sunday we publish in the Empirical Sunday Daily the work of Greek artist Jason Karaïndros who will participate in BOLERO 2021. Find his page in END here. On this occassion I would also like the share the English version of the text I wrote on his work for the CosmiComix catalogue that come out as nr 81 of the French magazine Alliage. The group exhibition which is inspired by Calvino’s Cosmicomics, had to be postponed and will now take place during the Printemps… Read More
Bureau Doove Editions – Héloïse Marie
The new year comes with a new initiative – Bureau Doove Editions will help to publish small editions of artists books up to four times per year. We start with Éternitéencours by Héloïse Marie, a young French artist who’s work I showed in the exhibition Ensemble in 2019. In a play with the relation between human and non-human, Marie retraces the development of a pebble in its environment. It’s launched into its world, living a life that it mainly undergoes. A life in which movement or calm incessantly alternate, leaving the pebble feeling… Read More
BOLERO 2021 in END – Neil WOOD
We salute the new year with another publication in Sunday’s Empirical Nonsense Daily, this time of a project by Neil Wood who will also participate in BOLERO 2021. Killer Wraps® is a hybrid moniker and art brand created by Neil Wood. It names his particular style of poetry and his on-going project – where words are written, tested, thrown into hyperbole – and then brought to life in a combination of selected media such as flattened boxes, solid wood sculpture, printed limited editions, notebooks, T-shirts and filmed performance. Language conjuring up form… Read More
BOLERO 2021 in END – Hantu
Hantu, The-chewing-gum-mask, 2020 On this last Sunday of 2020 we present in END the series of masks that were developed by Hantu (weber + delsaux) during the last year. The first ones were presented beginning of April during an online conference for their equally online exhibition at Bureau Doove. Since then the series has grown considerably, at once a tongue-in-cheek comment on and protest against this strange object that has invaded our daily lives. Hantu will contribute to the new edition of Bolero in spring 2021. For now find their contribution… Read More
Troupe/troep at ChezKit
Français Some good news at the end of the year. Bureau Doove is extremely happy to announce their first exhibition project for 2021. We are also especially pleased that it takes place at ChezKit, an artist run studio and exhibition space in Pantin, Paris. Troupe/Troep is a group exhibition which could also be called a theatre play, in which each element – the artist, the curator, her/his work, the space – is a player that is free to move around. One of the starting points for the development for this project on… Read More
