Europalia Romania | Ciprian Muresan
Muresan’s versatile visual language is embodied in a method of reproduction and reference. For this exhibition, the artist has made a scale model of S.M.A.K. for the presentation of a series of so-called ‘palimpsest drawings’, which he has based on images from the museum’s new collection catalogue. In a layered way, he reduces all the artworks in the collection to a post-figurative state: a destructive and at the same time creative act that underscores the absurdity of also depicting this history as a linear story. The exhibition takes this new installation as a starting point for further exploration of Muresan’s subjective approach to time, memory and the processes of historicization.
Correspondances - Ronny Delrue in dialogue
In recent years, Ronny Delrue corresponded with the following five artists: Martin Assig (Germany), Salam Atta Sabri (Iraq), Roger Ballen (South Africa), Sanjeev Maharjan (Nepal) and Mithu Sen (India). The visual dialogue with Christine Remacle (Belgium), conducted within the framework of Bruges 2002 and the Kanttekening project, can be viewed as having sown the seed for Correspondances.
The exhibition presents a selection of the correspondence between the six artists, supplemented with works by Ronny Delrue. It can be experienced as a journey in which the idea of the artist as an individual, as it were, ‘dissolves’ in a process of co-creation, one that shifts between document and artwork, and between art and life.
- Friday 25 October 2019 between 8 and 11 pm.
- Until 19 January 2020.
