The second Gallery Box was designed by Nico Dockx for the 2021-2022 working period. One box consists of four printed boxes in the CMYK colours: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black. The four boxes slide together like Russian dolls. The three outer boxes have a manual addition on the inside, namely the words Intuition, Courious and Ouragan in acrylic paint. The outside is printed with pictures of the artist with a ball in his hand. This is a ‘spider web archive’ that the artist has been keeping since the 1990s. After or during artistic performances, he collects abandoned cobwebs by adding them to the ever-growing ball. There are webs from all over the world in the ball. Above the photo is the text: “Trough Time and Today” and “Such Places as Memory”.
Under the project name Gallery Box 21/22 , fifteen boxes are published containing an annual report of the gallery:
Twelve are for sale
One will be saved in the gallery
Another goes to the artist
One is for an external archive or museum
The boxes were presented in the Arhcief 2022 expo, just before the turn of the year 21/22. They are presented empty to the public. During the working year they are filled with information and works of art by the artists with whom the gallery works. These are editions, variations and original works that will symbolize a year of gallery operation. In this way a story briefcase is created, or rather, a briefcase of facts that enables everyone to evaluate the operation of Coppejans Gallery in his or her own way.