Next sunday 19.10 will be the closing day/finissage of TANGENTS. Everyone is welcome to join us at the gallery and have one last drink.
For such occasion there will be something special to drink and probably some unexpected music...
We'll be open from 2pm.
Hope to see you then!
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Performance #4 - Anja Verheyen
Everyone is invited next Friday 17.10 to the last performance at TanGents. The Belgian artist, Anja Verheyen, will come from Antwerp to show us “Out/of/control”. In her performance she uses a video projected upon herself combined with body movements and percussion on the wall... difficult to explain… so you should come and have a look by yourself.
Everyone is welcome. We’ll be open at 19u and the performance will be at 20u. The bar will surely be open to enjoy a drink.
Everyone is welcome. We’ll be open at 19u and the performance will be at 20u. The bar will surely be open to enjoy a drink.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Tarek Ode
Tarek Ode is a very special photographer to me. We met many years ago through the lenses of his camera, yet at the time when the digital photography was at its infancy. He was making his living out of working for a model agency and I was starting with an unstable career as a model.
His photographic work is remarkably mysterious. He travels often and each visit to another hemisphere inspires him to create a new series. Landscapes or interiors are often his themes. He has also produced a series of portraits: “Ciudadanos”. One way or another, his images are always presented to us within a dream-like atmosphere. His images ask to be recognised as geography for themselves, as a proposal of the world for the world.
He doesn’t restrain his field of creation to the photography itself. In between other projects, he has also directed two short films. He filmed “La Spirale” in Paris, with which he won the price to the best photography in the Festival Ateneo en Corto -Spain- and got to be finalist in the Cinema Festival of Tapiales, in Argentina.
He has received many grants and has been published in various art magazines and catalogues. His work has been shown in places like Barcelona, Paris, Croatia, Belgium, Argentina and New
York.
His photographic work is remarkably mysterious. He travels often and each visit to another hemisphere inspires him to create a new series. Landscapes or interiors are often his themes. He has also produced a series of portraits: “Ciudadanos”. One way or another, his images are always presented to us within a dream-like atmosphere. His images ask to be recognised as geography for themselves, as a proposal of the world for the world.
He doesn’t restrain his field of creation to the photography itself. In between other projects, he has also directed two short films. He filmed “La Spirale” in Paris, with which he won the price to the best photography in the Festival Ateneo en Corto -Spain- and got to be finalist in the Cinema Festival of Tapiales, in Argentina.
He has received many grants and has been published in various art magazines and catalogues. His work has been shown in places like Barcelona, Paris, Croatia, Belgium, Argentina and New
York.
"Escritos romanos"
He is currently living and working in Tenerife. If you like to know more about his work check out his website:
http://www.tarekode.com/
Patricia Delgado
With the graphic works Lego azul y Lego rojo, Spanish born artist Patricia Delgado introduce us in her poetic world. She studied in La Laguna’s University of Fine Arts in Tenerife and followed “Free art graphics” in the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp (Belgium). She is currently living and working in Tenerife in the fields of painting, illustration and etching.
About her work I couldn’t say anymore that what is to see and to read at her blog. You should have a further look: it’s worth it!
http://patrisdelgado.blogspot.com/
"Lego Azul" "Lego Rojo"
About her work I couldn’t say anymore that what is to see and to read at her blog. You should have a further look: it’s worth it!
http://patrisdelgado.blogspot.com/
Today 12.10 the gallery is closed
Due to unforeseen circumstances the gallery is closed today.
Our most sincere apologies for the caused inconveniences.
Our most sincere apologies for the caused inconveniences.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Annelies Van Camp
Annelies Van Camp is a Belgium visual artist. She lives in Gent and has her studio at Nucleo's Leopolds Kazerne. She works with photography and installations. For Tangents she has created the slide-installation ‘5:32pm’. An impossible situation. She projects on the wall the reflection of the light that goes trough a window. But there is no window there to be found.
'5.32pm'
About her work:
Perception is the basic theme in my work. Through my work, I try to question our way of perception. Hereby, I shall manipulate and/or accentuate the original situations.
Themes/situations which I manipulate, concern the physical appearance of a certain space or even seemingly banal gestures; all things we don’t even notice anymore because of their banality, things we don’t actually ‘perceive’. Things we are supposed to know (a priori).
'Pavillion'
http://anneliesvancamp.blogspot.com
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
09.10 Performance # 3 Eva Ackerman – violin
Performance # 3
09.10 at 20:00h
(This week’s concert will be on THURSDAY instead on Friday)
The violinist Eva Ackerman will play a very special seleccion of songs for the TANGENTS public. Everyone is welcome to enjoy the musical sensuality of this young and talented Belgium musician.
The entrance is free and the bar will be open until the last person leaves.
The entrance is free and the bar will be open until the last person leaves.
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Yonny Correa solo: Contraformation.
Yhonny Correa (co) was coming during the week before to rehearsal at the gallery space. To be able to dance comfortably he covered the slippery tails floor with sand. His performance Contraformation was a combination of choreographed movements and improvisation. Judit Ruiz, Spanish dancer that works with the Belgium Aan van den broek, assisted him to put together this show. They were inspired by the butterfly. They focus precisely on the transformation that such delicate creature go throughout its life; from the larva to the mug, to the beautiful and free spirited insect.
He performed Contraformation two times; dancing along the song "Con la frente marchita" from the artist Adriana Varela. The reaction of the public was warm. At the end of the show they all clapped with enthusiasm.
The same night the musician Paloma Samper surprised us bringing her guitar and playing for us a few of her self wrote numbers. The title of the song after which she invited Yhonny Correa to dance the second time was Mariposa loca.
In fact that Friday had a complete program: The artist Fienne Platteeuw show one of her black and white experimental films. It’s about 1.50’ m long and filmed in Gent: short but sweet. With this projection we could only get a little taste of her work. We hope to be able to show more of her films before the end of TANGENTS.
He performed Contraformation two times; dancing along the song "Con la frente marchita" from the artist Adriana Varela. The reaction of the public was warm. At the end of the show they all clapped with enthusiasm.
The same night the musician Paloma Samper surprised us bringing her guitar and playing for us a few of her self wrote numbers. The title of the song after which she invited Yhonny Correa to dance the second time was Mariposa loca.
In fact that Friday had a complete program: The artist Fienne Platteeuw show one of her black and white experimental films. It’s about 1.50’ m long and filmed in Gent: short but sweet. With this projection we could only get a little taste of her work. We hope to be able to show more of her films before the end of TANGENTS.
Nele Tas
Past Friday 03.10 Nele Tas came to do surveillance at Tangents. She hadn’t seen yet the expo and so we talk long about it. She has also organized the art exhibition Temporary Cities in Lokeren. Nele is now sharing her living time in between Berlin and Belgium. At the moment she’s busy with new exhibition projects in the German capital.
These two untitled paintings to see at the expo are an example of her second series of paintings about the contemporary condition of inevitable belonging to the masses:
“In our society, all former role models of a sovereign individuality have disappeared: the authentic artist, the unworldly philosopher, the anchorite, the dandy, the adorable screen goddess. Belonging to the masses is our fate. In the words of Sloterdijk, isolation has perished, what remains is co isolation”.
(…)
“This condition of co isolation has always been in the focus of my pictorial expression and imagination. I chose to explore the subtle balance between being an individual and not being one by operating with a strained perspective from above. This perspective, namely, confirms the mutual lack of commitment. It isolates the spectator from the scene of the painting. It puts him both in the position of a voyeur and that of an outsider. The most characteristic result of this way of visualizing people from above is that the human face is no longer visible”.
(…)
“The first series of paintings registrates the collective movements of people in the city.(…) In contrast to the anonymous masses, the second series of paintings portray individual persons with whom I am very close (…) I attempt to catch their expressivity by painting their typical hairline. Strangely enough, this parting of the hair, this small part of the visible scalp, is an intimate and vulnerable part of the body to which one as a person does not relate directly”.
Nele is also having a group exhibition now in Mechelen togheter with many other artists: EXHIBITION Cultuurcentrum Mechelen / De Garage Van 27-9 t/m 23-11
These two untitled paintings to see at the expo are an example of her second series of paintings about the contemporary condition of inevitable belonging to the masses:
“In our society, all former role models of a sovereign individuality have disappeared: the authentic artist, the unworldly philosopher, the anchorite, the dandy, the adorable screen goddess. Belonging to the masses is our fate. In the words of Sloterdijk, isolation has perished, what remains is co isolation”.
(…)
“This condition of co isolation has always been in the focus of my pictorial expression and imagination. I chose to explore the subtle balance between being an individual and not being one by operating with a strained perspective from above. This perspective, namely, confirms the mutual lack of commitment. It isolates the spectator from the scene of the painting. It puts him both in the position of a voyeur and that of an outsider. The most characteristic result of this way of visualizing people from above is that the human face is no longer visible”.
(…)
“The first series of paintings registrates the collective movements of people in the city.(…) In contrast to the anonymous masses, the second series of paintings portray individual persons with whom I am very close (…) I attempt to catch their expressivity by painting their typical hairline. Strangely enough, this parting of the hair, this small part of the visible scalp, is an intimate and vulnerable part of the body to which one as a person does not relate directly”.
Nele is also having a group exhibition now in Mechelen togheter with many other artists: EXHIBITION Cultuurcentrum Mechelen / De Garage Van 27-9 t/m 23-11
Ada Van Horelbeecke
Ada Van Hoorebeke was at Tangents last Sunday 28.09. She came with her sympathetic mother. Americo Pinanez welcomes them and spends with them a pleasant evening talking about art and the like. They very much liked our exhibition and encourage our initiative of bringing the Belgium-north European art(ists) and the Latin together. 
Once the seeds, on the painting on the left, were real, little plants.
Now, you can hardly imagine … like a lost memory that slips away.
Ada Van Hoorebeke
At the moment Ada is living in Berlin and is busy with new exhibition projects. She is also one of the 20 finalist to the Rodenbach 2008 contest for professional artists.
Ada is also having a group exhibition now in Mechelen with many other artists: EXHIBITION Cultuurcentrum Mechelen / De Garage Van 27-9 t/m 23-11
Today another art work was sold. This time one of Americo Pinanez the sculptures.
Ada participated with the work Lost Nature.
(There are not visible on the picture, but in each top corner of the paintings a pink little radish was hanging. Along the days has passed the vegetables have been shrinking)
“Lost Nature”
Ada participated with the work Lost Nature.
(There are not visible on the picture, but in each top corner of the paintings a pink little radish was hanging. Along the days has passed the vegetables have been shrinking)
“Lost Nature”
Once the seeds, on the painting on the left, were real, little plants.
Now, you can hardly imagine … like a lost memory that slips away.
Ada Van Hoorebeke
At the moment Ada is living in Berlin and is busy with new exhibition projects. She is also one of the 20 finalist to the Rodenbach 2008 contest for professional artists.
Ada is also having a group exhibition now in Mechelen with many other artists: EXHIBITION Cultuurcentrum Mechelen / De Garage Van 27-9 t/m 23-11
Thursday, October 2, 2008
3.10 Performance # 2 Yhonny Correa-dance
Performance # 2
3.10.08
20:00h
Tomorrow evening the contemporary dancer Yhonny Correa will perform a solo at TANGENTS.
Afterwards we’ll show a short black and white experimental film made in Gent.
The entrance is free.
3.10.08
20:00h
Tomorrow evening the contemporary dancer Yhonny Correa will perform a solo at TANGENTS.
Afterwards we’ll show a short black and white experimental film made in Gent.
The entrance is free.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Photos 26.09 from Performance 1 Guitar concert Fernando Gonzalez
Some photos of the opening II
Here we have Erika Bus (with the white bag) and Elena Wener (with purple top), both clothes designers.
Luba -russian painter-, (boy in blue ?), Pancho -owner of the gallery- and Americo -sculptor and organiser of Tangents toghether with Nayra-.
At the right with the white hat Mira Hejia, participant artist.
Musician Bert surprised
Tangents on AVS Television.
We were on TV.
Last Friday 26.09 we were interview by the Vlaamse televisie AVS. We had the opportunity to explain to our region all about Tangents. The program was around 5 minutes long and was on after the evening news. It was also repeated a number of times the following days. Images of the art works were shown, along with our comments and some Spanish music in the background….
Vanessa Declerq (on the photo) was the interviewer. Her program is called Kiosk and it informs about the cultural events that are happening in the region of Oost Vlaanderen (west Flanders).
Last Friday 26.09 we were interview by the Vlaamse televisie AVS. We had the opportunity to explain to our region all about Tangents. The program was around 5 minutes long and was on after the evening news. It was also repeated a number of times the following days. Images of the art works were shown, along with our comments and some Spanish music in the background….
Vanessa Declerq (on the photo) was the interviewer. Her program is called Kiosk and it informs about the cultural events that are happening in the region of Oost Vlaanderen (west Flanders).
Check the video at:
http://www.garagetv.be/video-galerij/avspubliek/kiosk_centrum_26092008_tan_gents.aspx
http://www.garagetv.be/video-galerij/avspubliek/kiosk_centrum_26092008_tan_gents.aspx
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