26 april 2022, Manuela Klerkx
‘see me / feel me / touch me’: ZEIT Gallery goes Brussels
On the occasion of Art Brussels, the Antwerp ZEIT gallery is organising the pop-up exhibition 'see me / feel me / touch me', based on the eponymous song from the album 'Tommy' by the English rock band The Who. The exhibition features work by Nienke Baeckelandt, Filip Collin, Fiona Koene and Jef Meyer: four emerging artists who each work in a different medium.
The ZEIT Gallery website states:
ZEIT finds its origin in a lifetime of collecting, of bringing together works and items by famous favourites and unsung abstract heroes, and sharing our life with them. Now it’s time to share them with you.
And that is what they do. Normally Luc Franken, founder and owner of the gallery, and Philip Joel Wright receive visitors in their stylish home in Antwerp, part of which has been set up as an exhibition space, but on the occasion of Art Brussels they are temporarily moving into the ground floor of Le Saillant de l'Yser. This remarkable apartment building opposite KANAL - Centre Pompidou is at walking distance from the site of Tour & Taxis where Art Brussels takes place.
Zeit’s programme is a combination of post-war art – with a focus on abstract art of the fifties, sixties and seventies – and contemporary art. In the exhibition 'see me / feel me / touch me' the work of four emerging artists forms the starting point. Reason enough to surprise yourself with a visit to ZEIT in Brussels to see, feel and – where permitted – touch the art of these artists...
Nienke Baeckelandt, Weggetrokken I, 2021, ZEIT
The Belgian Nienke Baeckelandt (1989) works with almost invisible materials such as glass, ice and spray paint with which she investigates the boundaries between 'appearing' and 'disappearing'. In her work, the tangible as a sign of presence sometimes seems more important than the visible. In this exhibition, the artist shows new work based on epoxy (synthetic resin).
Filip Collin, Run with the roses, 2021, ZEIT
Filip Collin’s materials of choice are plexiglass, hand-painted paper and neon. He creates installations with neon lamps that look as if they are dancing. In Brussels he presents new works in which he combines plexiglass and neon tubes in a series of spectacular light boxes that transform the whole room.
Bending back, 2022, 2021, ZEIT
Fiona Koene lives and works in Utrecht and is known for her delicate work on paper that she makes using blind embossing, a printing technique that does not involve the use of ink. By applying a relief to the printing plate and then printing it on paper, a relief is created in the paper as well. Because of the lack of colour, the contrast between the forms only consists of relief, which we experience as the presence or absence of form.
Jef Meyer, Untitled (#FFF000), 2016, ZEIT
Jef Meyer (b. 1989, Antwerp) is best known for his works in concrete. In this exhibition he shows recent work, brutal in its appearance but mysterious in its illusory softness. Concrete exudes solidity and strength, but it also has an underlying, fragile nature that is expressed in the work. Jef Meyer's work is influenced by brutalism and minimal art. Sometimes his works appear to be made of marble and the suggestion is made that it has been polished, but there is absolutely no question of any finishing. Everything that develops organically during the process, such as irregularities or cracks, is and remains part of the work.
ZEIT x Indiandribble
Saincteletteplein 5
1000 Brussel
OPENING NIGHT
27 April, 7 - 10 pm
TENTOONSTELLING
28, 29, 30 April & 1 May, 2 - 8 pm
2 - 21 May on appointment ([email protected] / +32 496 877 778)
