A.VE.NU.DE.JET.TE: guided tours by Battista and Burki

maandag 1 oktober 2012

guided tours by Battista and Burki

Saturday September 29, guided tour by Emiliano Battista

Saturday September 29, guided tour by Emiliano Battista

Emiliano Battista was our first invited guide through the exhibition LOCUS SOLUS DOMESTICUS. During the tour it is going to be a conversation about the works in the exhibition, so we talked about volumes and if it is possible that volumes are empty. A volume has to contain, vacuum doesn't contain and therefore is empty. Emiliano compared the disks of Christoph Fink with the shield of Achilles, that is a beautiful and rich confrontation. Thanks Emiliano for the improvised contribution to the exhibition LOCUS SOLUS DOMESTICUS.

Saturday September 29, guided tour by Marie José Burki

At 17:00 h. Marie José Burki guided a second group of visitors through the exhibition. She talked about Jan Swartenbroekx painted marbles as facsimiles of marble. In Bernard Voita's photo of a grid Marie José pointed at the glass of red wine, it could only be there on that place to function in the composition. She was amazed and amused that a work of Rémy Zaugg was in the same exhibition with a work of Bruno Gironcoli. A professional exhibition maker never should (or could) bring these works together. The conversation continued about how the exhibition LOCUS SOLUS DOMESTICUS was made, and that four artists as curator can bring together works in an universe with a strong logical connection. Thanks a lot Marie José for your contribution, and the evaluation on the expectations about the guides. A Guided Tour is in fact a conversation with the visitors and the curators about the works, the relations and the differences.
Next Guided Tour on Saturday October 13. The guides will soon be announced on this blog.

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A.VE.NU.DE.JET.TE - INSTITUT DE CARTON vzw is an initiative launched by a few artists aiming at organising a special show in a privately owned house in Brussels, approximately twice a year.
In 2011 we started with a series of 52 drawings after Shakespeare’s Macbeth, made by Paul van der Eerden. 2012 kicked off with Les secrets de la mémoire, a series of 124 blackouts by Willem Oorebeek. Followed by Locus Solus Domesticus, a group show inspired by Raymond Roussel's novel Locus Solus that could only be visited with Cantarel-like guides.

In the first half of 2013, we showed photo works by Sarah Deraedt, Maartje Fliervoet and Katja Mater. And in the second half, the Dutch artist Jan Andriesse was our guest of honour in a show called Maison de Tolérance.

In 2014, we continued with FORCEFIELD, a drawing show built on the confrontation of two extremes: an abstract drawing by the Swiss healer and artist EMMA KUNZ (1892-1963) and an awfully realistic drawing by the Indian artist FRANCIS NEWTON SOUZA (1924- 2002).

In the spring of 2015, Suchan Kinoshita set up her Operation Theatre, an experience the visitor could only live when the theatre was being operated. In the autumn of the same year, we organized a marathon screening of the Operating Theatre footage.

In the first half of 2016 we mounted the show MIND FABRIC, a conceptual approach to textiles, fabric, patterns and systems in art. The remainder of 2016 and the first months of 2017 Institut de Carton fell into a kind of hibernation, due to other time-consuming activities of the founders.

In September 2017, Institut de Carton will be awoken by La Vie Palimpseste La Vie, a retrospective of works by Henri Jacobs, comprising paintings, drawings, tapestries, textile works and porcelain.

Beginning 2018, we will show works by Jochen Lempert, a German photographer who studied biology before turning to photography in the early 1990s. In his analog black and white pictures animals and nature play an important role. In the second half of next year we intend to stage works by artists from different origines, living in Brussels: Un cercle bruxellois.