D.O.S.S.I.E.R 4

D.O.S.S.I.E.R 4 - Mater, Deraedt & Fliervoet

D.O.S.S.I.E.R 4 Mater, Deraedt & Fliervoet is ready. 

CONTENT

1. Invitation

2. Text Liesbeth Decan, Dutch version 

3. Text Liesbeth Decan, English version

4. List of works in the exhibition

5. Special edition: a multiple by Katja Mater OR Sara Deraedt OR 

    Maartje Fliervoet

6. Folio of Katja Mater

7. Folio of Sara Deraedt

8. Folio of Maartje Fliervoet

9. One page with impressions of a talk by Steven Humblet and an artist

    intervention by Yoann Van Parys

10. Colophon 

The fourth exhibition in A.VE.NU.DE.JET.TE - INSTITUT DE CARTON vzw was a trio exhibition with the title Mater, Deraedt & Fliervoet. Every exhibition in A.VE.NU.DE.JET.TE INSTITUT DE CARTON vzw is going to be documented by a special dossier. The fourth dossier is ready now in an edition of 30. There are 5 copies "hors commerce". For more information how to become one exemplar contact Henri Jacobs.

M D & F exhibition photo's by the artists

Katja Mater, Density Drawing 23, 2010

Katja Mater, 5 x Folded Variation 04 - E, C, G, D & B, 2013

Katja Mater, 5 x Folded Variation 04 - E, C, G, D & B, 2013

Katja Mater, Parallel Plains 03, 2011

Sara Deraedt, ZT, 2013

Sara Deraedt, Black&Decker (4), 2011

Sara Deraedt

Sara Deraedt, ZT, 2013

Maartje Fliervoet, 4 Rearranged sun flares II, 2006

Maartje Fliervoet, qsds & sgsh, 2013

Maartje Fliervoet, qsds, 2013

Maartje Fliervoet, sgsh, 2013

intervention by Yoann Van Parys, Saturday June 15 2013

intervention by Yoann Van Parys, Saturday June 15 2013

Intervention by Yoann Van Parys in MD&F exhibition

Saturday June 15 2013

Last day to visit the exhibition Mater, Deraedt & Fliervoet
 

with an intervention by Yoann Van Parys (artist) at 16h30
 

A.VE.NU.DE.JET.TE - INSTITUT DE CARTON vzw
Avenue de Jette 41 / Jetselaan 41, 1081 Koekelberg
Brussels (7 minutes walk from Metro Simonis)

Sara Deraedt, ZT, polyurethaan hars, 5,5 x 8 cm, 2013

Steven Humblet in M,D & F exhibition

Last Saturday May 18, Steven Humblet was our guest in the exhibition Mater, Deraedt & Fliervoet. His interest in photography and opinions about the medium made his lecture quite playful and discursive at the same time.

Photography is a medium without identity, without handwriting, unlike painting or sculpting, which are only about identity. Therefore photography has to make alliances with science, publicity, architecture to have an ambition. Everyone who is using the medium photography has to find out what to do with it, where to focus on, when to push the button.

Sara Deraedt focuses in a series of photos of the vacuum cleaner. These are close-ups and made with the flash so that space and attraction are lost. The photos are hung in a way they don’t interact with each other. The creepy photos of vacuum cleaners are pushing the spectator away, and the space with some interventions like a curtain and light bulb is getting the attention. The biggest wall in the exhibition space is left empty, it is exhibiting itself. Steven Humblet mentioned Baudrillard as a reference to this kind of photography, which has to do with alienation.

Then we descended the stairs to look at the work of Katja Mater. Steven Humblet explained the procedure of the making of the photos. It is quite inventive that the photos are in opposition with what photos always do: freezing a certain moment in time. The photos of Katja Mater are showing something that doesn’t exist anymore. By multi-exposure of the negative in the camera it is not freezing moments in time, it becomes a print of time. The five folded variations are unique pieces of a complex treatment of a photo printed from a negative which was four or five times exposed during the painting of an object. Steven liked very much the experiment: the 3D painted object which doesn’t exist as on the photo, that becomes 2D on the multi-exposed negative and the big print of it. And becomes again 3D by folding the big print five times in a different way. Object – photo – sculpture.

The sunflares of Maartje Fliervoet do their work by being beautiful jewellery in beautiful transparent boxes. The light spots, which usually is a photographic error and which are octagonal like the diaphragm of the camera, are cut out from photos and used for the 5 photograms in the exhibition. It is the combination of an optical and chemical principle which come together in that beautiful, transparent jewellery box. The most sensual photos in the exhibition.

Installation and opening Mater, Deraedt & Fliervoet

Katja Mater, Folded Variations A - D

Maartje Fliervoet, sghg

Sara Deraedt, zt

opening impression, Saturday February 23

opening impression, Saturday February 23

Mater, Deraedt & Fliervoet TEXT

Mater, Deraedt & Fliervoet

Three artists on show, separate and together at the same time, photography being the binding medium. However, none of them just makes photos. Their work explores the basic principles of photography, mainly to turn our way of looking into a conscious, intellectually challenging act.

Katja Mater (°1979) presents Folded Variations (2013), for which she has been taking pictures – at different moments in time – of an object that has gradually been painted black. The result, a photographic print, will be printed in five copies, each folded in a different formation. Spatial object becomes flat surface becomes spatial object: a multiple game with dimensions and an emphasis of probably the most medium specific characteristic of photography, its ability of reproduction.

In the work of Sara Deraedt (°1984) the status of the image is decisive. To investigate this status she seemingly makes use of the advertising image, such as in her photo series of vacuum cleaners. She can present an advertising brochure as such or makes photos that refer to the aesthetics of the publicity image. With this material she compiles unique brochures, from which images – as a folder – are hung separately or in small series to an exhibition wall.

Maartje Fliervoet (°1973) creates a site-specific work. Two big Lambda prints, mounted to the wall along the staircase, will lead the visitor to the first and second floor. They are designs for stair runners that will never be produced. Fliervoet cut interior parts such as banisters, bars, plaster ornaments, but also “negative forms”, like the space between two bars, from photos of the stairwell. Subsequently the artist arranged the clippings face down on a sheet of paper. She then took photos of this model under different lighting conditions, manipulated them and had them printed in more or less the length of the stairs.

The photos of Katja Mater, Sara Deraedt and Maartje Fliervoet subtly pick up on the direct surroundings and do so through a medium specific research. In their work photography itself is investigated, its mechanisms revealed. New images are composed and invite the viewers to observe their surroundings and its photographic representation in a different, more conscious way.

Fragments of a text by Liesbeth Decan.

Mater, Deraedt & Fliervoet
Opening Saturday February 23 2013 15:00 – 20:00 h.

February 23 – June 15 2013
Opening hours: every Saturday from 14:00 – 18:00 h.

 

Mater, Deraedt & Fliervoet INVITATION

Invitation

New exhibition in A.VE.NU.DE.JET.TE INSTITUT DE CARTON vzw
Mater, Deraedt & Fliervoet

Exhibition: February 23 – June 15 2013
Opening: Saturday February 23 15:00 – 20:00 h.

All information regarding the programme and opening hours will soon be available on the website of A.VE.NU.DE.JET.TE INSTITUT DE CARTON vzw: http://avenudejette.blogspot.com/

A.VE.NU.DE.JET.TE INSTITUT DE CARTON vzw
Jetselaan 41 – Avenue de Jette 41, 1081 Koekelberg / Brussels