Collection Particulière
The intention of this research project is to create a collection of «parallel» artworks realized from ‘exhibition labels’ collected from diverse museums, galleries and art institutions.
These labels are hijacked from their first function (to caption / to categorize an artwork) and used as constraint and production tools for creating new artpieces.
The new pieces are based on the informations provided by the labels: title, dimension, materials. Thus, i create drawings, paintings, sculptures, installations, ceramics, videos, ... that have the same charactaristics as the original artworks.
Applying the labels as if they were partitions of a piece and taking the opposite direction of archiving: using the legend and the categorization/mediation system as a starting point for visual research and ‘excavation’ until the emergence of a new art shape/form.
With this project, I wish to end up with a pannel of mismatched artworks linked by the concept, and the aesthetic sensitivity of my interpretation.
This research aims to question our relationship to archiving, to the uniqueness and the multiple meanings of the works of art.
I have received support for the labels from institutions like the Wiels, the MAC’s, the M Museum Leuven and Centrale Electrique in Belgium, the Tate Modern and the Whitechapel Gallery in the UK, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Van Abbe museum, the Witte de With in the Netherlands.
Collection Particulière
General label for the collection
From Site avec trois personnages
(Jean Dubuffet)
Exhibition label MACS, culdleries, metal tray, magnets,colour paper
Various dimensions
2019
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From Untitled (toujours être ailleurs) 2010-11
Cartel Wiels, TV, Video
Various dimensions
2019
From Luc Tuymans Doha I-III2
Cartel Wiels, Watercolour on paper, cartonboard frame
2019
From Luc Tuymans Doha I-III2 (detail)
Cartel Wiels, Watercolour on paper, cartonboard frame
2019
From Jacques Lizène Petite Usine Blanche Sculpture Nulle Archeologie Contemporaine
Cartel BPS22, electricplug
2019
Exhibition view
Exhibition view
Exhibition view
Exhibition view
Exhibition view
From Bernd & Hilla Becher
Steinkkohlebergwerk-Zeche Hannibal-Bochum-Hofstede Ruhrgebiet
Label from the Van Abbe Museum, framed photogram of a computer screen
33x45cm
2016
From Bernd & Hilla Becher
detail
From Marlène Dumas
Evil is Banal, 1984
Label from the Stedelijk Museum, plaster and oil on canvas
7,5x7,5 cm
2016
From Marlène Dumas
Evil is Banal, 1984 (detail)
From On Kawara
One Million Years (Past and Future)
Label from the Van Abbe museum, audioCD 60min, print on paper, ink on cartonboard box.
Various dimensions
2016
From On Kawara
One Million Years (Past and Future)
Label from the Van Abbe museum, audioCD 60min, print on paper, ink on cartonboard box.
Various dimensions
2016
From Elina Brotherus
The new painting (Broken horizon), 2001
Label from the Centrale Electrique, digital print mounted on aluminium
35x50cm
2016
From Bram Bogart
Absolution, 1959
Label from the Tate Modern, Ciment and plaster pigmented with graphite powder on canvas
65x90cm
2016
From Suspects
Label from the Wiels, found photographs, scotch tape on dibond
20 x 175,5cm
2016
From Suspects
detail