Join Alexandra Dementieva Saturday 10 April for the LASER Talks CYLAND Saint-Petersburg on the theme of Space Exploration. The motto for this talk is Konstantin Tsiolkovky‘s remark “All the universe is full of the lives of perfect creatures.” Apart from Dementieva the other panelists are Oleysya Turkina, Andrey Bartenev and Matthew Lee. The moderator is Natalia Kolodzei. Saturday 10 April Register here to attend the talk. Olesya Turkina is a senior researcher at the Russian Museum and an associate professor at St. Petersburg State University. She has been a full member of… Read More
Sensorial Skins and Woven by Nature is a double exhibition by AnneMarie Maes curated by Camilla Colombo. The works on show focus on membranes and surfaces, on organic materials and on tactility, on processes and transformations, on bacteria and life. Sensorial Skins and Woven by Nature is a journey into working with natural elements and co-creation with living organisms.In April and May 2021, two complementary chapters will be presented, at PILAR gallery – the house for Art and Sciences at the VUB and at iMAL, Art Center for Digital Culture and Technology… Read More
In the upcoming week we post some stories behind the new contributions to the Bolero project. To start with that of Frank JMA Castelyns, one of the initiators of the project: The new work is a continuation of my previous contribution Remember Marc Twain – King Leopold’s soliloquy.The new contribution Remember… is an ode to Morel, Casement, Harris and all the unknown courageous people who denounced the abuses in Congo at the beginning of the last century.The title Why a truth commission if the truth is already known? I also applied in… Read More
For our last publication in Empirical Nonsense Daily of this week, we present two other recent projects. Apart from BOLERO 2021 that’s still on show until 10 April in the Centre André-Malraux and in the streets of Rouen, we organized Loving Care with the large-scale paintings of Pierre Mertens in De Blikfabriek in Antwerp last September-October. And end of January there was the group show Troupe/Troep at ChezKit. Find the page dedicated to these two projects here.
In today’s publication in Empirical Nonsense Daily we present Nathalie Hunter. We’ve been working together since Super! Triennial for Visual Art, Fashion & Design in Hasselt (2005). Over the years Hunter has build an impressive oeuvre that touches on several seemingly contrasting fields that however happily intermingle with each other: her (wall) drawings, work on an edible landscape and more recently, her ceramics all connect in an alchemist way. The underlying energy of which, as she says, is always one of transformation, transcendence through daily acts of reconnection. Much based upon the… Read More
Today’s publication in Empirical Nonsense Daily is the occasion to welcome Bénoît Géhanne as an affiliated artist. We first worked together for the exhibition Troupe/Troep at ChezKit in Pantin. Find his page in END here. Featured image: Benoît Géhanne, Bias #21, 2019, 502 x 125 x 27 cm
Today we publish all the new contributions to BOLERO 2021 in Empirical Nonsense Daily. Find the page here. You can visit the exhibition virtually via this link. More about the stories behind every contribution next week. From top left: Willo Gonnissen, Thomas Maestro, Pierre Mertens, Neil Wood, Mulugeta Tafesse, Miguel Angel Molina, Marielou Perez, Jean-Louis Vincendeau, Jason Karaïndros, Héloïse Marie, Hantu, Gaspard Lieb, Frank JMA Castelyns, Driftingspace, Dominique De Beir, Chloé Elmaleh/Marcos Uriondo, Béatrice Cussol Featured image: Willo Gonnissen
Today we publish in Empirical Nonsense Daily the work of Marcos Uriondo, another member of ChezKit that participates in Bolero 2021. Find his page here. Featured image: Marcos Uriondo, Bon plan, 2020
In today’s publication in Empirical Nonsense Daily we present Chloé Elmaleh with whom we also worked in Troupe/Troep and is now one of the participants in Bolero 2021. Find here page here. Featured image: Chloé Elmaleh, Tiens toi droite, 2021
From this Monday we are grateful for a full week of publications in the Empirical Nonsense Daily, coinciding with the BOLERO 2021 exhibition at the Centre André Malraux in Rouen. We start with the remaining artists participating in the show. Today’s it’s the turn of Marielou Perez – find her page in END here. Featured image, Marielou Perez, Ennui réactif