MER (6)
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Philip Metten. Collages
2022 || Hardcover || Stefaan Vervoort || MER
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Adventures in Technos Dystopium: Orshi Drosdik, The first two decades (1973-1993)
Orshi Drosdik, The first two decades (1973-1993)
2023 || Paperback || John C. Welchman || MER
As attested by her inclusion in several important survey exhibitions, including The Medea Insurrection: Radical Women Artists Behind the Iron Curtain at the Wende Museum, Los Angeles (2019–20), Drozdik is one of the most significant Eastern European women artists working in experimental performance and photography before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Following her move to New York, she worked in close relation to feminist, critical and experimental literary practices associated with New York...
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Salam Atta Sabri. Letters to My Father
2021 || Hardcover || Philippe Van Cauteren e.a. || MER || met inkijkexemplaar
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Stories I-XX
2021 || Hardcover || Richard Tuttle e.a. || MER
In his new body of work Stories, I–XX the artist elaborates on his displacement of painting into other realms to engage us in a rhythmical reflection on color. As we move from one Story to the next, the idiosyncratic nature of these cutout plywood pieces comes to confront their seriality — form and logic sporadically emerge and disappear. During the 1980s, Richard Tuttle began experimenting with materials and framing devices to probe art’s relationship to scale, form and systems of disp...
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Jan De Vliegher
2021 || Hardcover || Els Wuyts || MER || met inkijkexemplaar
Jan De Vliegher’s (°1964, BE) paintings are a meeting of Abstract Expressionism and Impressionistic joie de vivre, joie de peindre pur sang. Since his debut in 1998 De Vliegher has been creating large-scale paintings based on his impressions of daily life. He finds beauty in the small such as paddling beachgoers and porcelain show-off crockery, but also in the large and luxurious such as the halls of Versailles and Venetian terraces. De Vliegher paints in series that have a fast, almost ob...
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Rokoko Flowers
2021 || Hardcover || Werner Mannaers || MER
We are not talking about the Sex Pistols presenteert een reeks van 97 composities met bloemen van Werner Mannears (°1954,
België). Mannaers omsluit in zijn gouaches meerdere kunsthistorische referenties, die hij linkt aan filosofische quotes en elementen uit de popultuur. Door middel van deze ‘sampling’ techniek, creëert de kunstenaar een multidimensionale context die hem is staat stelt om de vaak existentiële thematiek te temperen met ironie en humor.
Vele jaren geleden begon Manna...