International Art News

Peter Keene & Piet.sO – Big video light bulbs – Grandes ampoules 1000W, Vidéo projecteur, électroniques – 170 x 45 x 45 cm – 2010

From February 8 to March 16, 2013 – Mazel Galerie
The Sun has a rendezvous with the Moon.
The two artists Peter Keene and Piet.sO in residence in Brussels since 2010, venture between two spells: the sun, the moon, man, woman … in this vast gap where compasses are crazy, meetings ectoplasmic, childhood ubiquitous but worried.

Peter Keene & Piet.sO – Happy Birthday Mr.Président 2009 – Sculpture lumineuse, Leds RGB, Jelly en silicone, chassis métallique, moteur et bande sonore – 210 x 140 x 140 cm – © Mazel Galerie

Crazy machines, ghostly appearances, we feel like walking cautiously between two accomplice worlds, robots, giant dresses, projections of light bulbs filaments becoming constellations.
He has this crazy British inventor eccentricity, free and unclassifiable. Born in the vicinity of Birmingham, in the land of the industrial revolution, Peter Keene manipulates techniques as a big box of games and he does what he wants: waves, rays, reinventions of the world.

Peter Keene & Piet.sO – Red in Red – 2010 – Résine molle transparente, structure en fil cuivre et lumière – 130 x 120 x 200 cm – Crédit photographique : A.Meyer

Her, she wears this playful melancholy which diverted the myths and stories to better capture a story. Granddaughter of Polish immigrants in France in the twenties, having lost touch with her roots, Piet.sO invente for herself weird memory transmission devices.
In chemistry, the association of two elements allows the creation of a new compound which possesses different characteristics. Poetically and simply, one plus one equals more than two. Peter Keene and Piet.sO somehow embody this “miracle” chemical and poetic where plastic dresses dialogues with mechanical Christ all that in a melody electronic and binary.

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Vuk Vidor – American despair- Acrylique sur toile – 270 x 190 cm – 2007

From the 16th of November to the 22nd of December 2012 – Mazel Galerie
François Bard, Anne-Catherine Becker-Échivard, Fabien Chalon, Vincent Corpet, Claire Fanjul, Philippe Garel, , Quentin Garel, Peter Keene, Katarina Kudélova, Le Turk, Stéphane Pencréac’h, Piet.sO, Bernard Pras, Valérie Rauchbach, Benjamin Spark, Bruno Timmermans, Vuk Vidor

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Philippe Garel – Panoramatomique – Huile sur toile – 163 x 235 – 2008

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Valérie Rauchbach – Vanité au voile – Sable volcanique sur bois – 150 x 150 cm – 2009

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Philippe Garel – Prototype de lampe Champignon – Résine – 100 x 42 cm – 2012

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Constant Permeke Leonie 1929-32 Privéverzameling Fotograaf: Hugo Maertens, Brugge © SABAM 2012

From October 11, 2012 to January 20th 2013 – Bozar – Centre for fine Arts
He was a contemporary of Otto Dix and Egon Schiele. But the expressionism Constant Permeke (1886-1969) demonstrated had a very specific personality, reflecting the little people of Flanders – workers, women with many children and peasants – who led a very rugged existence. Dark colors, the power of charcoal often mixed with paint, the monumental approach (the rigidity of his women reminds one of antique goddesses) made Permeke the herald of Flemish expressionism.

Constant Permeke De Sjees 1926 Collection MuZEE, Oostende Fotograaf : AD-ART Sint-Amandsberg © SABAM 2012

Yet his reputation did not cross the borders easily. By bringing together 130 of his works, the organizers also wish to show his modernity and they chose to confront him to two contemporary artists – Marlene Dumas and her nudes, Thierry de Cordier and his landscapes.

Centre for fine Arts, Bozar

Bruno Timmermans, Marylin +, Photo printing under diasec, 150 x 150 cm, 2012

From June 8th to July 13th and from August 28th to September 8th – Mazel Galerie
She came into the world as Norma Jean, but became the glamorous Marilyn Monroe. (June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962) She died 50 years ago.

Philippe Huart, Happy Birthday, Oil painting on canvas, 100 x 100 cm, 2012.

François Bard – Vincent Corpet – Bruno Timmermans – Didier Chamizo – Brann Renaud – Claire Fanjul – Bernard Pras – Benjamin SPARK – Peter Keene & Piet.So – Le Turk – Son Seock – Hwang Hosup – Philippe Huart – Antonio de Felipe – Kosta Kulundzic – Cat Sirot

Didier Chamizo - Marilyn2002 - Acrylic on canvas - 100 x 100 cm

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Hubert Le gall - Fauteuil « Placide le lapin câlin » - 2012 - Fausse fourrure, drap de laine et bois verni 155 x 80 x 90 cm - Édition à 99 exemplaires

Until June 2, 2012 – Mazel Galerie
Silence is golden, from design to painting – Duo Show

Vincent Guzman « Sanguine » - Acrylique et pigments sur toile - 2012 100 x 100 cm

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Kamagurka - The End of Cubism - 2012

From the first of May to the first of August 2012 – Arentshuis and other locations
Artist, painter, theatre and television producer Kamagurka (Luc Zeebroek) will act as curator for a special art project in Bruges: Kamarama. On several locations he will display his own works as well as works of other artists who inspire and fascinate him. It will be an exhibition full of remarkable art, surprising perspectives and a certain amount of humour.

Kati Heck - check - 2012 - courtesy Jan Mostmans

The Arentshuis will act as a live atelier in which Kamagurka will display his own art works. From time to time he will create a new work here, by himself or together with other artists such as David Bade (May 1), Stephen Tunney (May 3 & 4), Werner Mannaers (May 17 & 18), Jeroen Henneman (June 28 & 29) and Muzo (July 10 & 11).

Roland Topor

In the Garemijn Hall, Kamagurka displays works from artists who inspired and influenced him. He likes to combine historic and contemporary art. He’s also fascinated by international links and the use of mixed media in art.

Kamagurka - Retrospective VII (kubistische smurfin) - 2012

Displayed artists: Capitaine Lonchamps (B), David Bade (NL), Don Van Vliet a.k.a. Captain Beefheart (US), Emile Salkin (F), Francis Picabia (F), Fred Bervoets (B), George Condo (US), George Grosz (D), Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes (F), Herr Seele (B), J.J. Grandville (F), James Ensor (B) , Jan Fabre (B), Jeff Olsson (S), Jeroen Henneman (NL), Kati Heck (D), Luc Tuyman s (B), Lucebert (NL), Marcel Duchamp (F), Markus Lüpertz (D), Max Ernst (D), Muzo (F), Otto Dix (D), Pablo Picasso (E), Paul Joostens (B), René Daniëls (NL), René Magritte (B), Rinus Van de Velde (B), Roland Topor (FR), Stephen Tunney a.k.a. Dogbowl (US), Werner Mannaers (B), Wim Delvoye (B), Wim T. Schippers (NL) and Yves Obyn (B).

Herr Seele - Cowboy Henk, 2011 - courtesy of the artist

You will also see art works in the streets of Bruges such as his ‘accidental’ portraits of fictive people. There will be 12 portraits spread around the Arentshof garden and alongside the Dijver. If you think you recognize a family member, friend or acquaintance in one of the portraits, you can report this on this website. At the end of the project, Kamagurka will choose the one who is the best lookalike of one of his portraits.

Kamarama