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Hans Op De Beeck: 'Staging Silence' Oct 30 - Nov 27, 2009 |
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HANS OP DE BEECK - STAGING SILENCE
Vernissage: Donnerstag, 29. Oktober 2009, von 18 bis 21 Uhr
Die Baukunst Galerie eröffnet am 29. Oktober von 18 bis 21 Uhr eine große Einzelausstellung mit einer monumentalen Videoprojektion des Belgischen Künstlers Hans Op de Beeck. Der Film „Staging Silence” wird im Kontext der KunstFilmBiennale präsentiert und ist bis zum 27. November 2009 in der Galerie zu sehen. Im Rahmen des Internationalen Wettbewerbs der KunstFilmBiennale wird außerdem am Freitag, den 30. Oktober um 21 Uhr, der Film „Extensions“ in der Black Box des Cinedoms gezeigt. Hans Op de Beeck wurde 1969 in Turnhout, Belgien geboren und lebt und arbeitet in Brüssel. In seinem Œuvre nutzt er ein breites Spektrum an Medien – er malt, zeichnet, fotografiert, filmt, produziert Skulpturen und monumentale Installationen, schreibt Novellen und entwirft Bühnenbilder. Dabei steht die möglichst präzise Vermittlung des jeweiligen Inhalts für ihn stets im Mittelpunkt seiner Arbeit. Als Stellvertreter des Betrachters sucht er Situationen, die diesen zur Identifikation auffordern. In seinen Parallelwelten schafft er fiktive Orte, Momente und Charaktere, von denen er hofft, dass der Betrachter sie für einen Moment als etwas Reales akzeptiert. Dafür arbeitet er mit Trompe-L’Œil-Effekten, die im nächsten Moment durch verfremdende Elemente, wie die übersteigerte Verschiebungen von Proportionen, wieder aufgebrochen werden. In seinem Spiel mit der Illusion hinterfragt der Künstler das komplexe Verhältnis von Realität und Repräsentation, von dem, was wir sehen und dem, was wir glauben wollen, um mit der eigenen Unzulänglichkeit besser umgehen zu können. Seine suggestiven, visuellen Angebote produzieren in uns beunruhigende, melancholische Bilder voller Ambivalenz und spiegeln auf diese Weise die tragisch komische Absurdität unserer postmodernen Existenz wieder. Nach seinem Studium an der Rijksakademie wurde der Künstler 2001 mit dem Prix Jeune Peinture Belge ausgezeichnet. Von 2002 bis 2003 erhielt er ein Artist in Residence Stipendium am MoMA und P.S.1 in New York. Darüber hinaus wurde ihm 2006 die Eugène Baie Award und 2009 der Catholic University of Leuven Culture Prize verliehen. Seine Werke wurden bereits in international bekannten Museen wie der Reina Sofia (Madrid), dem Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (Arizona), dem ZKM (Karlsruhe), dem Kunstverein Hannover, der Whitechapel Art Gallery (London), dem S.M.A.K. (Gent) und dem P.S.1 (New York) ausgestellt. Neben mehreren monumentalen Installation im „Unlimited“ Bereich der Art Basel von 2004 bis 2009 wurden seine Werke 2006 auch auf der Shanghai Biennale und 2008 auf der Singapore Biennale präsentiert.
„Staging Silence”, 2009 “’Staging Silence’ is based around remembered spaces; not any specific sites, but the abstract, archetypal settings that lingered in my memory as the common denominator of the many similar public places I have visited and experienced. The video images themselves are both ridiculous and serious, just like the eclectic mix of pictures in our minds. The decision to film in black-and-white heightens this ambiguity: the amateurish quality of the video invokes the legacy of slapstick, as well as the insidious suspense and latent derailment of film noir. But perhaps gravity and menace ultimately prevail. The title, “staging silence”, refers to the staging of such dormant decors where, in the absence of people, the spectator can project himself as the lone protagonist, unhindered by others. Memory images are disproportionate mixtures of concrete information and fantasies, and in this film they materialize before the spectator’s eyes through anonymous tinkering and improvising hands. Arms, like those of faceless puppeteers, appear and disappear at random, manipulating banal objects, scale representations and artificial lighting into alienating yet recognizable locations. These places are no more or less than animated decors for possible stories, evocative visual propositions to the spectator.“ (Hans Op de Beeck) mit freundlicher Unterstützung von Canon ******************************************************************************************* 30 OCTOBER TO 27 NOVEMBER 2009 YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO THE OPENING OF OUR EXHIBITION HANS OP DE BEECK - STAGING SILENCE AT THE BAUKUNST GALERIE ON THURSDAY, THE 29TH OF OCTOBER 2009, FROM 6 P.M. TO 9 P.M.
On the 29th of October from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. the Baukunst Galerie opens a major solo-exhibition with a monumental video projection of the Belgian artist Hans Op de Beeck. The film “Staging Silence” is presented in the context of the KunstFilmBiennale and will be shown at the gallery until the 27th of November 2009. Furthermore there will be a screening of the film “Extensions” within the international competition of the KunstFilmBiennale at the Black Box of the Cinedom on Friday, the 30st of October at 9 p.m. Hans Op de Beeck was born in 1969 in Turnhout, Belgium and lives and works in Brussels. In his œuvre he uses a very wide variety of media – he paints, draws, takes pictures, shoots films, produces sculptures and monumental installations, writes short stories and designs stage settings. It is his quest for the most effective way of presenting the concrete contents of each work that determines his selection of the medium. As a locum of the spectator he searches for situations, which invite to identification. In his parallel worlds he creates fictional places, moments and characters, hoping that the spectator takes them for real for a moment. Therefore he works with effects of trompe-l’œil undermining them by alienating elements as the overreached shifting of proportions. In his play with illusions he questions the complex relation between reality and representation, between what we see and what we want to believe in order to make it easier to deal with our own deficiency. His suggestive, visual proposals produce disquieting, melancholic, ambivalent images in our mind and thereby capture the tragicomic absurdity of our postmodern existence.
After his studies at the Rijksakademie the artist received the Prix Jeune Peinture Belge in 2001. From 2002 to 2003 he succeeded with a residence scholarship at the MoMA and the P.S.1 in New York.
“Staging Silence”, 2009 “’Staging Silence’ is based around remembered spaces; not any specific sites, but the abstract, archetypal settings that lingered in my memory as the common denominator of the many similar public places I have visited and experienced. The video images themselves are both ridiculous and serious, just like the eclectic mix of pictures in our minds. The decision to film in black-and-white heightens this ambiguity: the amateurish quality of the video invokes the legacy of slapstick, as well as the insidious suspense and latent derailment of film noir. But perhaps gravity and menace ultimately prevail. The title, “staging silence”, refers to the staging of such dormant decors where, in the absence of people, the spectator can project himself as the lone protagonist, unhindered by others.
Memory images are disproportionate mixtures of concrete information and fantasies, and in this film they materialize before the spectator’s eyes through anonymous tinkering and improvising hands. Arms, like those of faceless puppeteers, appear and disappear at random, manipulating banal objects, scale representations and artificial lighting into alienating yet recognizable locations. (Hans Op de Beeck) kindly supported by Canon
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