Hans Biezen, 1947
Biezen is a photographer and all round craftsman, whose mostly black and white works revolve around his wife Jet, light and nature. Before he permanently relocated to Sweden in the early nineties, he used to live in Eindhoven. Therefore Biezen is a literary missing link between the exhibition and this city. Several pieces of his 'Stam Stock' series - also published in an artist book of the same name - are presented.Antoine Boute, 1978
Boute is a performer, writer, philosopher and produces visual poetry drawings, most of it defined by 'pornolettrisme'. He uses a mixture between throat-singing and stuttering in his performances, often accompanied by musicians. Perte Totale Operations, a fluid collective of musicians and a vj revolves around Boute. His black and white drawings consist out of gracious chaotic texts in French and Dutch. Boute lives and works in Tervuren.Fia Cielen, 1978
Cielen's works consist out of drawings, video, prints, sculptures, spiders and/or home-grown chrystals, often brought together into installation environments. The works derive from a fascination with horror, the supernatural and alchemy. Metamorphoses, experiments in media and a distinct notion of the language of rock music are important ingredients, resulting in time-transcending images. Cielen lives and works in Antwerp.Geoffrey de Beer
De Beer's multimedia approach to art as a relic crosses the boundaries between the utter conceptual and the material. His works are based on art and artists, but mostly on a personal research into the artworld and its conventions. A clear link is made between art and religion, and more complex links exist between his artworks and all of his projects. Due to the use of appealing and arthistorical aesthetics his findings in this field are being put into perspective. Jean De Lacoste (Jean DL), 1984
DL is a video-artist and a guitarist, living and working in Charleroi. Connected to the international noise/improv scene. His videoworks include distinct and dynamic soundtracks, creating a cinematic suspense by only using (empty) spaces and light, or rather the lack of light. "Jean De Lacoste explores the phenomenological perception of familiar
places (related to memories, anecdotes, family...) and non-places which
don’t really belong to anyone but through which we pass"Jan Dietvorst, 1953
Dietvorst writes, and makes sculptures, drawings and (publishes) silkscreen editions next to his videoworks with Roy Villevoye. There's always an anthropological connection, both in content and visually. The works are both comments on and inspired by societies - whether it's the christian background or war-history of Western Europe, or habits and backgrounds from cultures like New Guinea or India. Dietvorst lives and works in Amsterdam.Jan Dietvorst's website
Interbellum Grafiek
Bart van Dijck, 1974
The video's, drawings, installations and sculptures of Van Dijck are derived from his travels to both exotic locations (Siberia, Tanger) and local history. Narrative, or the stories of people are an important component in his works: myths, songs, the word on the street. Van Dijck uses a mixture of popular culture and international visual history to achieve a very personal mixture of otherworldly non-aesthetics. Van Dijck's website
His Youtube Channel
Lisa Jeannin & Rolf Schuurmans
The artist duo Jeannin & Schuurmans build their own sets, and by consequence their own worlds, in the forests of Sweden. These are used for animations and sometimes a mixture between animation and live action video. Strange actions take place by home-made characters. Parts of the sets are, on a larger scale, being modified into installations or sculptures. In their stories they address the crossing of boundaries, often within the mind.Their website
The blog
Erwin van Looveren
Van Looveren is an autodidact draftsman and experimental noise musician. He once used an instrument, made out of a bird cage. The drawings have rarely been shown in public, and the process of making a drawing is sometimes spread over several years. As a musician he's known as W. Ravenveer, on Facebook he can be found as Gypsy Fleming.W. Ravenveer on Soundcloud
Kraak.net - Van Looveren's cover for Ruis, april 2012
Kelly Richardson, 1972
"Kelly Richardson is one of the leading representatives of a new
generation of artists working with digital technologies to create
hyper-real and highly charged landscapes. Her practice centres around video and photography which often employs a
high standard of special effect, mixing real footage with digitally
constructed elements. Her work "adopts the use of cinematic language to
investigate notions of constructed environments and the blurring of the
real versus the unreal. She creates contemplative spaces which offer
visual metaphors for the sensations associated with the hugely
complicated world we have created for ourselves, magnificent and equally
dreadful." Richardson lives and works in Whitley Bay, UK.Richardson's website
On Wikipedia
Guy Rombouts, 1949
Guy Rombouts has developed an alphabet, 'Azart', which is based on the shapes of objects whose name starts with a certain letter of our alphabet. Colors are used in a similar way: each letter has its own color. Letters, words and whole sentences can be connected to eachother and form enlcosed shapes. Sometimes it can be unclear where the text starts or ends. Rombouts' works consist out of installations, drawings, prints, designs for public spaces like the Metro of Brussels and sculptures. He often works with found objects. Rombouts lives and works in Antwerp.Azart website
On Wikipedia
Yannick Val Gesto, 1987
"Val Gesto digs through the massive amount of cyber-wreckage as a
modern archaelogist and digital anthropologist, quoting his finds while
recycling it into his own visual language, which sees the light of day
in the form of (3D animated) videos, installations and digital prints.Within his work, these internet legends are transformed into contemporary myths, game characters receive the same status as Medieval saints, whilst abstract and multi-layer processed images refer to ancient engravings and paintings, yet also to the remarkable universal - and sometimes excessive kitsch - aesthetics of a large part of active Internet users." Val Gesto lives and works in Antwerp.
Val Gesto's website
Val Gesto at Elaine Levy Projects, Brussels
Tim Vanhamel, 1977
As a professional musician Tim Vanhamel has build up quite a reputation as a solo artist and with bands like Evil Superstars, Millionaire, Eat Lions and Broken Glass Heroes. Next to this he co-operates on many more obscure projects with musicians and artists like Philip Metten. As a visual artist, Vanhamel more or less makes his debut in the artworld with his participation in Missing Link, showing a mask and video. A sense of nostalgia, combined with a more complex background in rock - as both in music and in attitude - and a profound interest in non-western cultures connects his works: music and images.On Wikipedia
Evil Superstars live at AB Brussels, 2013
Filip Vervaet
Vervaet's works take the shape of hallucinations. In his sculptures scale is always important; whether it is a miniature tree blown up to life size or miniature paradise-like landscapes threatened by a meteor impact. The apocalypse is always present in a remarkable uplifting way. He often uses light as a part of his sculptures. A tour de force is the work 'The Psychedelic Cave of Plato'. To produce the sculpture Vervaet reproduced Rodin's 'Thinker', only to use the mould. This was buried in the ground, the inside representing a cave lit by a small colored lightshow. Vervaet lives and works in Antwerp.Blog
Annie Gentils gallery, Antwerp
