Un jour, ça sera comme quand on a déjà vécu
curated by Pierre-Yves Desaive
Hervé Ic
John Isaacs
David Kramer
Jacques Lizène
Johan Muyle
David Nicholson
Philippe Ramette
Terry Rodgers
Pierrick Sorin
Gavin Turk
Duration and opening hours
September 4th - October 10th
Tuesday-Friday 12am-6pm
Saturday 12am-4pm
John Isaacs, Today I started loving you again, 2003, microcrystalline wax, expanding foam, oil paint, latex, polyester, steel, make-up, hair, cowboy boot, stage blood, 70 x 40 x 20 cm_Foto Artist, Courtesy Aeroplastics, Brussels
One day it will be like when we´ve already lived*
curated by Pierre-Yves Desaive
Hervé Ic
John Isaacs
David Kramer
Jacques Lizène
Johan Muyle
David Nicholson
Philippe Ramette
Terry Rodgers
Pierrick Sorin
Gavin Turk
Opening
September 4th and 5th, 12am - 6 pm
Duration and opening hours
September 7th - October 10th
Tuesday-Friday 12am-6pm
Saturday 12am-4pm
„Life is but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.“ (William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene V). In this exhibition, the artists explore, each in their own way, one of the innumerable facets of the great human Comedy.
Self-proclaimed „artist of mediocrity“ (but is not mediocre who wants to), Jacques Lizène stages himself in many ways, in often hybrid artworks of which some reappear as remake several years he does not hesitate to produce „remakes“ several years later. Here Lizène is appealing to all lovers of good taste: „Collectors, you must acquire a mediocre artwork by Lizène to highlight your furniture and your stylish masterpieces!“. Philippe Ramette and Pierrick Sorin also play with their own image, the first one taking on the role of a dandy, undisturbed by the upheavals of the world, while the second struggles in delirious video sketches in form of miniatur optical theaters. Anyway „The show must go on,“ as Johan Muyle proclaims with a small kinetic sculpture on wich a curtain opens and closes over the stolen video footage of Saddam Hussein‘s execution.
Reality or fiction? On Terry Rodgers´s side, views of cozy interiors crowded by more or less naked bodies evoke photographic snapshots - but each model has posed individually for the artist, who creates his pictorial compositions afterward. Hervé Ic also works with models and posing sessions, but to paint portraits seen from the back, in which the subjects seem to be turned towards the spotlights of a stage. The Rodox series, inwhich he multiplies allusions to art history, freezes the moments before the actors of vintage pornographic films enter the scene on the set. David Kramer designs his works also on the basis of found images, including advertising, on which he superimposes more or less deep going personal reflections, such as voiceovers in the movie film of a lifetime.
We find this game on the gap between words and images in John Isaacs´s artworks whose titles are voluntarily complex and surround the pieces with a fictional storytelling. The artist also uses hyperrealistic renderings: in the great comedy of life, everything is often just an illusion. Gavin Turk is a master in this field; but beyond questioning what is real and what is not, he questions the entire staging of art. Finally, this exhibition needed a guardian figure, and who other than the Joker - deathly child of the King of Comedy - to embody this role? This is what David Nicholson offers us.
PYD, 2021
* The title of this exhibition is composed by a double quote : “It will be like when we have already lived” is taken from the poem “Kaleidoscope” by Verlaine, and the addition of “Un jour…” comes from the film by Leos Carax „Mauvais sang“ (1986).
Terry Rodgers, The Good Life, 1998 Oil on canvas 137,16 x 208,28 cm, Foto Artist, Courtesy Aeroplastics, Brussels
David Nicholson, "The Vanity of Human wishes ", 2021, huile sur toile , 30 x 24 cm each_Foto Artist, Courtesy Aeroplastics, Brussels
David Kramer, Virtual Sunset, 2020, Burlap, Yarn, Magic Marker , ø 120 cm, Courtesy Aeroplastics, Brussels
Jacques Lizène, Details from the installation ""SammlerInnen, Sie müssen einen mittelmäßigen Lizène erwerben, um im Gegensatz Ihre hochwertigen Möbel und Ihre Meisterwerke hervorzuheben, 1975, Eigenwerbungskunst“, Courtesy Galerie Nadja Vilenne, Lièges
John Isaacs ,If not now then when, 2004, Ceramic, paint, electric light, 120 x 71 x 35 cm, Edition of 3/3 + 2AP, Foto Artist, Courtesy Aeroplastics, Brussels
Philippe Ramette, Exploration rationnelle des fonds sous-marins : la carte, 2006, Photographie couleur, 150 x 120 cm ,Edition 2/5 Edition de 5 + 3 EA, Foto Artist, Courtesy Xippas, Paris
David Kramer, 2019, painting, mixted technics on canvas, 102 x 76 cm_Courtesy Aeroplastics, Brussels
Pierrick Sorin, L'invention de Morel, 2018, Optical theater, video screen, mirrors, decorum, stainless steel (black), 28 x 42 x 31 cm, Ed. 20, Foto Artist, Courtesy Aeroplastics, Brussels