Due to unforeseen circumstances the gallery is closed today.
Our most sincere apologies for the caused inconveniences.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
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.
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