Solo/Duo, Art Rotterdam 2020.
Description of the presentation
Robin Vermeersch & Joëlle Dubois
Robin Vermeersch - 1977, (BE) - Lives and works in Waregem (BE)
Joëlle Dubois - 1990, (BE) - Lives and works in Gent (BE)
For the SOLO / DUO presentation at Art Rotterdam 2020 we opt for the confrontation between complete new work of two artists with a totally different way of working:
Joëlle Dubois who, it seems, paints illustratively, and Robin Vermeersch who sculpts seemingly abstract. The only connection between the two artists is that they both pay particular attention to their artistic professional knowledge with which they realize their art, at the same time their use of color is comparable, but otherwise both artists are far apart in terms of content. With the confrontation of both artists we aim to create a special universe.
...In her work, Joëlle Dubois examines the impact of social media without explicitly criticizing it. She observes the (unusual) human behavior that she sees around her. Her interest in new technologies grew when she spent time in South Korea in the summer of 2014. Inspired by the constant stream of photos and video clips on the internet, Joëlle Dubois confronts the viewer with explicit scenes from private life. Through playful improvised compositions, she captures both the superficial and the temporary character of the images. In her colorful figurative paintings on wood, she also deals with topics such as gender, sexuality and fetishism....
...Robin Vermeersch made the sculptures for this presentation during a recent stay at the European Ceramic Work Center in 's-Hertogenbosch. He works with various media. His sculptures show us a cellular world that can be experienced quite existentially and cosmically. The viewer can approach the images hanging from the air in different ways. One can view them as autonomous sculptures that function individually, but one can also see them in a larger context, so that each of them acquires a different meaning and together forms an alienating universe...
The boothwalls will be painted, as Robin Vermeersch regularly does to place his work in a very own context. These walls function at the same time as the background on which Joëlle Dubois will present her work.
Robin Vermeersch's works will hang from a matrix over the stand, through the space, as a result of which the visitor will make his way through a 'forest' of hanging sculptures. This again emphasizes the way in which the visitor will not be able to visit the stand without obligation, the visitor must make the effort to experience the whole, careless passing is not an option.
In this presentation, the visitor is not confronted by an illusion, but is confused by an association, a dissociation of the material and formal impression, and by the confrontation of explicitly illustrating images with spatial installations.
J.Van der Borght - Bruthausgallery