décrocher les SECRETS de la MEMOIRE

Thursday June 7 11:31 h.

Thursday June 7 15.37 h.

  

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

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

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