Hieros Glyphos
Ad Reinhardt
Ann Veronica Janssens
Katja Strunz
Michael Dean
Mandla Reuter
curated by Jan Hoet
With this exhibition, “Hieros Glyphos”, literally “sacred words” we want to demonstrate that a lot of artists in the early years of this new millennium return to the aesthetics of constructivism and modernism of the 50’s up until minimal-art, if only from the question whether these movements reached their ultimate goal or not and if it is not possible, as Benjamin claimed, to connect and reconcile the present world with what already existed and thus to complete a more comprehensive whole, either by contextualisation, either through a process of reliving.
Therefore we chose as a challenging reference a work by Ad Reinhardt that is exemplary of what is meant here with modernism. We also have four artists who have all in their idiosyncratic way affinities with the ideas of Reinhardt for whom “art is not what is not art and everything else is different.”
June 30 – July 31, 2011
Ad Reinhardt
Abstract Painting, Red, 1952
67,2 x 25,4 cm
oil on canvas
unique
Mandla Reuter
The Agreement, Antwerp, 2011
45 x 91 x 96 cm
wooden cupboard
unique
Mandla Reuter
Untitled Right, 2011
158,6 cm x 156,6 cm
4 offset prints, paint, aluminum, glass, wood
unique
Mandla Reuter
Untitled Left, 2011
158,6 cm x 156,6 cm
4 offset prints, paint, aluminum, glass, wood
unique
Katja Strunz
Moments of decomposition, 2008
276 x 144 x 6 cm
various metals
unique
Katja Strunz
Tick, 2008
95 x 45 x 10 cm
brass, patinated bronze, powder coated steel
unique
Ann Veronica Janssens
Golden Dream, 2011
50 x 50 x 50 cm / base: 55 x 50 x 50 cm
glass, paraffin oil, gold serigraph, wooden base
1 + 2 AP
Ann Veronica Janssens
Blue Papagai, 2011
50 x 50 x 50 cm / base: 55 x 50 x 50 cm
glass, paraffin oil, blue serigraph, wooden base
1 ed. + 2 AP
Katja Strunz
Untitled, 2011
57 x 40,5 x 15 cm
steel st 37 and paint
3 + 2 AP
Katja Strunz
Memory wall (The Fall III), 2008
246 x 123 x 40 cm
powder coated steel st37
Katja Strunz
Faltgestalt, 2004
24,3 x 19,4 cm
letterpress-print
unique
Michael Dean
Days (Working titles), 2011
175 x 60 x 9 cm
concrete
unique
Michael Dean
Hours (Working Titles), 2011
175 x 65 x 9 cm
concrete
unique
Katja Strunz
Untitled, 2011
36 x 31 x 5 cm
cardboard and paper