A Group Show

A Group Show was a show curated by RE:
Last week we've tried to show several artists that were part of this exhibition (often asking them to participate themselves). That's why we thought it was appropriate to end our guest blogging week by trying to show what it was about...

The exhibition A Group Show focused on an alternative approach to the photographic object. It emphasized the way images are being incorporated by artists and how photography is used in an (often associative) game of construction and deconstruction of the medium itself.  It was regarded as a temporary ‘working environment' in which curators and artists discuss the notion of space (in relation to their own work). The artists were invited to engage in the realization of the exposition and to participate in a dialogue on how to construct a meaningful whole. Below you'll find some pictures of the result.

 

 

 

 

   

   

 

A couple of installation views of 'A Group Show' (at croxhapox Ghent) featuring works by Edward Clydesdale Thomson (UK), Sara Deraedt (BE), Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky (CH), Anouk Kruithof (NL), Alexandra Leykauf (D), Valérie Mannaerts (BE), Michèle Matyn (BE), Saskia Noor van Imhoff (NL), Jimmy Robert (FR), Dominique Somers (BE), Tania Theodorou (EL), Katleen Vinck (BE) and Claudia Weber (D)

More info on the show here or here.

A publication was made by W.Wolkman on the occasion of the show.

More info about it here.

Claudia Weber

Claudia Weber during the build-up of her work at croxhapox Ghent.

www.claudiaweber.net

Artist contribution: Eva - Fiore Kovacovksy

339 gräser

Artist book
Unique inkjet photocopies of pressed plant specimens
Paper bound in linen 
21 x 30 x 1 cm 
2010

www.kovacovsky.com

Artist contribution: Michèle Matyn

From top to bottom:

2 Stereoscopic images found in the archive of the Fotomuseum Antwerp, Belgium.
God is a deejay (I & II)
Glow in the dark ritual, Marijs de Boulogne and Gloria

More works by Michèle here (Dutch).

Alexandra Leykauf

Images from the new book CHATEAU DE BAGATELLE by Alexandra Leykauf. The book has been published on the occasion of Alexandra Leykauf’s exhibition at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, from March 25 until June 27, 2010. More works by Alexandra Leykauf here.

Katleen Vinck: from fascination to construction

Katleen Vinck creates stage sets, autonous installations, sculptural constructions and videos. Her sculptures are 'strange' combinations of architecture and artefacts reminiscent of furniture. Yet its precise function or meaning remains unknown. She taps into her photo archive of Lourdes grottos, bunkers and other constructions she finds interesting because of their artificial and constructed nature. She imitates the imitation and by doing so creates a world of odd props. Her work is full of playful assumptions on the relation between the natural and the artificial. The acceptance of the inauthentic as a response to the 'doubtful' quest for authenticity. In other words: what is not, to a certain degree is and, conversely, what is, is not.

Artist contribution: Tania Theodorou

Untitled - 2010

ready-made frame images

painted over with a black marker

www.taniatheodorou.com

Anouk Kruithof

The Daily Exhaustion is a small newspaper (19,5 by 27,5 cm, edition 5000) made by Anouk Kruithof and shows 23 self portraits of an obsessed workaholic artist who has reached a sweaty state of emotional exhaustion. The well-constructed image reveals itself as credible and honest, even though you never know for sure with a contemporary artist.

She displays this work as a large pile, from which visitors can take a free copy.
View more works by Anouk Kruithof here.

Artist contribution: Edward Clydesdale Thomson

Borderline Picturesque & the Recounting Prospect
audio description on vinyl record, 8min 44seconds



www.edwardthomson.net

Dominique Somers

Kicking off with a classic IHP blog item and introducing you to the wonderful work of Dominique Somers:

The works shown above are a selection of some unorthodox drawing methods used by Dominique Somers. More conceptual and playful approaches to the photographic medium to be found here

From top to bottom:

Pornographic Drawings, 2010 - series of drawings made by tracking the eye movements of a person while he is watching a porn movie, in cooperation with Dirk Belmans

Whistling a Lee Hazelwood Song through a Straw, 2007

From A tot D and back, 2010 - series of drawings made by the movements of a driving train, during a daily ride from A to D (and back) over a period of 3 months