guided tours by Piet de Jonge and Sabine van Sprang

Guide Piet de Jonge on Locus Solus and Little Sparta

Guide Piet de Jonge on Charly van Rest

The Locus Solus Domesticus exhibition has been open for 12 weeks now. We have had 17 guides who did a personal tour through the exhibition, like Martial Canterel in the novel Locus Solus. Last Saturday, December 15, Piet de Jonge and Sabine van Sprang were our excellent guides. During the tour, Piet de Jonge tried not to mention the names of the artists, which is quite difficult as the name of the artist is a label and the work of art can’t exist without its creator’s name. But Piet succeeded quite a while in allowing the art works exist in anonymity. The works change, the veil of the name is gone, a layer less to peel of. The erased black and white drawings on magazine images reminded Piet de Jonge of the surrealist magazine Minotaure. Photography can focus on objects that don’t seem to be real, but exist in another world that is surreal. The erasing on magazine images have the same atmosphere of strange, prehistoric stones or fossils like they were often reproduced in Minotaure. The three cobblestones are very precisely reproduced, just like Marcel D. had done when he made the facsimiles of his entire oeuvre in “boite en valise”. It is not really the work of an artist, but rather the work of a very precise handcrafts man. Comparable to the three painted marbles at the beginning of the exhibition.

Sabine van Sprang, specialist in 16^th and 17^th century Northern European painting, set out with a clear viewpoint. At first glance she perceived the exhibition as a “cabinet d’amateur” or “Wunderkammer”. In Renaissance Europe such a “cabinet of curiosities” was an encyclopaedic collection of types of objects whose categorical boundaries still had to be defined and could belong to natural history, geology, ethnography, archaeology, religious or historical relics, works of art and antiques. It is a representation of the world and the universe that fits into an exhibition space. Sabine started with the anamorphosis photo of Bernard Voïta, the painted marbles of Jan Swartenbroekx and the painted circles composition of Johan van Oord. Three works which represent the entire exhibition. Anamorphosis, perspective, illusion, perception are keywords, art and nature playing, meeting, wondering. In the Locus Solus Domesticus “Wunderkammer” the earth is flat, like the discs of Christoph Fink. The black disc, representing all the facts and events in the artist’s life that haven’t been written down, was the most perfect work in the exhibition, the best to end the guided tour with. But you can’t end with perfectionism, so Sabine asked the visitors to descend the stairs and go to the basement to see the most immaterial work in the exhibition: Joëlle Tuerlinckx’ simple geometric Volume lighted by three spots.

Guide Sabine van Sprang in conversation with Willem Oorebeek

Guide Sabine van Sprang on a diptych of Mitja Tusek

LOCSOLDOM opening impressions

Plan of the exhibition, alongside the plans of Loccus Solus, Chinati & Little Sparta

Yesterday, September 22, we guided a lot of interested people through the exhibition LOCUS SOLUS DOMESTICUS. We weren't sure if the principle of visiting through guided tours only would work. But now, the day after, it turned out to have been a particular experience; questions and discussions about the works, the who's, why's and when's, it all offered the visitors insight in the many art works in the exhibition. The photos below give an impression of the openingsday that attracted a lot of visitors.

guided tour by Willem Oorebeek

guided tour by Willem Oorebeek

guided tour by Paul van der Eerden

guided tour by Mitja Tusek

guided tour by Henri Jacobs

décrocher les SECRETS de la MEMOIRE

Thursday June 7 11:31 h.

Thursday June 7 15.37 h.

  

D.O.S.S.I.E.R 2

 



D.O.S.S.I.E.R 2 by Willem Oorebeek is ready. 

CONTENT

1. Invitation 

2. Text Catherine Robberechts 
3. Special edition: magazine page BLACKOUT 
4. Six photo prints of individual works 
5. Two pages of installation shots staircase 
6. One page impressions of conversation with Koenraad Dedobbeleer, Ulrike Lindmayr and Dirk Snauwaert 
7. Colophon 

The second exhibition in A.VE.NU.DE.JET.TE INSTITUT DE CARTON vzw was a series of 124 Paris-Match Black-Out posters by Willem Oorebeek. 
Every exhibition in A.VE.NU.DE.JET.TE INSTITUT DE CARTON vzw is going to be documented by a special dossier. The second dossier is ready now in an edition of 20. There are 5 exemplars "hors commerce". 
For more information how to become one exemplar from the few that rest contact Henri Jacobs.

Dirk Snauwaert in conversation with WO

Last Saturday May 26, Dirk Snauwaert tried to provoke Willem Oorebeek during the last conversation in the exhibition Les Secrets De La Mémoire by asking for the meaning of Willem's regular use of the word "iconoclasm". Wasn't it more "iconophobic" to black out the Paris-Match posters he asked the artist. The artist stayed cool and didn't stumble but stood on the fact that blacking-out is an act of iconoclasm. An iconophoby leads to iconoclasm, is part of it. To put the oeuvre of Willem in a historical perspective Dirk sketched the seventies when punk and anarchism were kicking and alive. Willem remarked that he never had the idea to belong to any direction or movement in art soever. As all artist feel their-selves, they fall in between every existing and actual art movement.
It was interesting when Dirk read some lines from Ad Reinhardt's text book Art as Art about the use and different meanings of black. Quote: "I (Ad Reinhardt) want to stress the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality. There's an expression "the dark of absolute freedom" and an idea of formality. There's something about darkness or blackness that I don't want to pin down. But it's aesthetic." Willem thought it was beautiful and advised everybody to read Ad Reinhardt's Art as Art, but it hasn't anything to do with his art practise of blacking out. Dirk tried to get more information from the artist about his use of black to destroy images. The use from printed matter as raw materials to work with, to black-out or to print in layers over each other, is the big difference, Willem replied.
The whether was nice, beer and white wine was cooled, the audience was present in large numbers, the conversations were relaxed...

Thanks a lot Dirk Snauwaert, for trying to get Willem Oorebeek more specific about his black-out art practise.

Herewith some photos to give an impression of the conversation.

Saturday May 26 16:00 h.

REMINDER

On Saturday May 26 16:00 h:

Dirk Snauwaert (WIELS Brussels) in conversation with Willem Oorebeek
while walking through the exhibition Les Secrets de la Mémoire.

There are still some places available, therefore if you would like to join this conversation please make a reservation
by mail: henri-jacobs@skynet.be
or phone: 00 32 485 565 238

(This conversation marks the end of the second exhibition in
A.VE.NU.DE.JET.TE INSTITUT DE CARTON vzw)

Thanks and Bye,

Henri Jacobs
Avenue de Jette 41 - Jetselaan 41
1081 Koekelberg / Brussel
België

review in De Witte Raaf

Birgit Cleppe, De Witte Raaf 157, may - june 2012

Willem Oorebeek - Les Secrets de la Mémoire: program for May 2012

A.VE.NU.DE.JET.TE INSTITUT DE CARTON vzw
announces its program for May:

Opening hours:
Saturday May 12 14:00 - 18:00 h.

Saturday May 26 16:00 h:
Dirk Snauwaert (WIELS Brussels) in conversation with Willem Oorebeek
while walking through the exhibition Les Secrets de la Mémoire.

If you would like to join this event please make a reservation
by mail: henri-jacobs@skynet.be
or phone: 00 32 485 565 238

Thanks and Bye,

Henri Jacobs
Jetselaan 41
1081 Koekelberg / Brussel

Willem Oorebeek / Cette Semaine, 2005

Ulrike Lindmayr in conversation with WO

Yesterday, Sunday April 22, Ulrike Lindmayr had a nice conversation with Willem Oorebeek in the exhibition Les Secrets De La Mémoire. It wasn't that crowded as the conversation with Koenraad Dedobbeleer but nevertheless the conversation was going into the depth. Ulrike and Willem talked about black-out as a phenomenon to attract more attention instead of wiping out or making invisible. And Ulrike evoked her acquaintance and slow appreciation of Willem's work which is dealing with printed matter, copies, editions, signature, the color black, dots and the grid. 
In dialogue with the public the conversation developed into the subject of the image, how images work, what images mean or what they do, what an image is. An interesting and difficult problematic, and the conversation finished with the remark of someone from the audience: "there is no solution so there is no problem".

Thanks a lot Ulrike Lindmayr to unlock the work of Willem Oorebeek to us with your beautiful personal view.

Herewith two photos to give an impression of the conversation.

Willem Oorebeek - Les Secrets de la Mémoire: program during Art Brussels

A.VE.NU.DE.JET.TE INSTITUT DE CARTON vzw
announces its program during Art Brussels:

Opening hours:
Saturday April 21 14:00 - 18:00 h.

Sunday April 22 16:00 h:
Ulrike Lindmayr (LLS387, Antwerp) in conversation with Willem Oorebeek
while walking through the exhibition Les Secrets de la Mémoire.

If you would like to join this event please make a reservation
by mail: henri-jacobs@skynet.be
or phone: 00 32 485 565 238

Thanks and Bye,

Henri Jacobs
Jetselaan 41
1081 Koekelberg / Brussel

KD in conversation with WO

Yesterday, Sunday March 18, Koenraad Dedobbeleer had a quite long talk with Willem Oorebeek in the exhibition Les Secrets De La Mémoire. Many people showed up to listen and intervene in the conversation which was going about layers, the veil, the colour black, Catholicism, René Descartes, technical and material aspects of the work, the grid, little magnets, composition and/or decomposition, sabotage, Paris Match, punk, etcetera...

Some photos to give an impression. 

A.VE.NU.DE.JET.TE INSTITUT DE CARTON would like to say "thank you" to Koenraad Dedobbeleer for his interesting investigation into the black-out world of Willem Oorebeek.

KD in conversation with WO

Sunday March 18 16:00 h :

Koenraad Dedobbeleer in conversation with Willem Oorebeek

while walking through the exhibition Les Secrets de la Mémoire. 

If you would like to join this event please make a reservation 

by mail: henri-jacobs@skynet.be 

or phone: 00 32 485 565 238

Thanks and Bye,

Henri Jacobs 

Avenue de Jette 41 

1081 Koekelberg / Brussels Belgium

Fragment of Willem Oorebeek's installation Les Secrets de la Mémoire

LSDLM next openings-Saturday

Saturday February 11 2012 

A.VE.NU.DE.JET.TE / INSTITUT DE CARTON  

is open: 14:00 - 18:00 h.
be welcome.

a busy opening

Les SECRETS de la MEMOIRE opened last Saturday, January 21 2012. We were with many to see the impact of the Paris Match blackout grid in the staircase of A.VE.NU.DE.JET.TE Institut de Carton. It is an eye opener to see Willem Oorebeek's lithography in such an unconventional way.

acrocher les secrets

Willem Oorebeek magneting a Paris Match black-out

a cautious preview of the installing of "les secrets de la memoire".

OPENING SATURDAY JANUARY 21 16:00 - 20:00 h

next exhibition

Een de hele ruimte omvattend grid is de meest opvallende verschijningsvorm in de installatie 'Les SECRETS de la MEMOIRE'. Toch is de verschijningsvorm maar een onderliggend aspect van het ruimtelijk gebaar, een camouflage eerder. Het grid lijkt de verwerking van een continue stroom van tot herinnering vermaalde actualiteit die over een tiental jaar verzameld is.

Emotie, euforie, tragiek, van LIEF en LEED kortom, al wat ons onderbewustzijn als stemming van het nu ervaart, is ondergebracht in een allesbeheersend optisch patroon van geneutraliseerde herinnering.

Dichter op de actualiteit kan dit gebaar van georganiseerd vergeten niet worden aangelegd.

A grid enclosing the entire space is probably the most striking manifestation in the installation “Les SECRETS de la MEMOIRE” (The SECRETS of MEMORY). However, the manifestation is just an underlying aspect of the spatial gesture, rather a camouflage. The grid seems to be the processing of a continuous flow of actuality - ground into memories - collected over a decade.

Emotion, euphoria, tragedy, in short UPS and DOWNS, everything our subconscious experiences as the mood of the present has been classified in a dominating optical pattern of neutralised memories.

Closer to actuality this gesture of organised oblivion cannot be applied.

Une trame englobant l’espace entier est la manifestation la plus remarquable dans l’installation “Les SECRETS de la MEMOIRE”. Pourtant la manifestation n’est qu’un aspect sous-jacent de la geste spatiale, plutôt un camouflage. La trame paraît être l’assimilation d’un flux continue d’actualités broyées en souvenirs, rassemblées durant une dizaine d’années.

Emotion, euphorie, tragédie, bref les JOIES et les PEINES, tout ce que notre subconscient ressent comme l’humeur du présent a été classifié dans un motif optique dominant de souvenirs neutralisés.

Plus près de l’actualité ce geste d’oubli organisé ne peut être appliqué.

EXHIBITION JANUARY 21 - MAY 20 2012
OPENING SATURDAY JANUARY 21 16:00 - 20:00 h

program will be anounced on http://avenudejette.blogspot.com/