MIEKE VAN SCHAIJK

Technique: Paper, rubber, thread, metal. The pages of this book are divided into groups and then folded in themselves. The letters of the book are no longer visible and any of the linguistic charge that this had is lost. A good way of dismiss something is to turn it into itself. Now its most important feature as a book is the way it’s constructed and bound. Tension rises between pieces of paper cut in the same size that are attached only on one side. To ensure that this tension and folding stays and made clear a rubber stripe has been wrapped around it, extending the tension of the parts of the book around it’s whole body.

Édition: oeuvre unique

Échelle des prix: € 1.000 - € 2.000

Statut: à vendre

Srogenoue soundr, 2018

Juan Pablo Plazas (Bogotá 1987) is a Colombian artist who exhibited for the first time at Galerie Mieke van Schaijk in 2014. He had just graduated from the master's program in autonomous art at the Sint Lucas Academy in Brussels. He also won the Jan Naaijkens Prize in that year. Since then he has participated in many group exhibitions in the Netherlands, Belgium, Colombia, Spain, England, the United States and Australia. He had solo exhibitions in Bogotá, Eindhoven, Ghent and Brussels. As an artist and anthropologist, Juan Pablo Plazas makes sculptures that are composed of everyday objects that, in combination with each other, form an imaginary world and have a mysterious meaning. From the approach that man only recognizes living beings and dead objects, if a name is given to them, he develops images that escape those defined determinations. The fact that he exhibited together with Marianne Berenhaut in 2016 in the Bureau des Realités in Brussels makes senses in this respect. Juan Pablo Plazas approaches reality as an imaginary system. In The Twilight Home he continues this paradox by creating a space for fictional objects. He realizes moments of alienation in the situation in which we live. He sees those moments as a form of intimacy and a door to the unknown. He scares the imaginary with the tangible reality and and evokes an artistic conversation between them.