Drawing in space, up to Nov 3rd, 2024 at the Villa Empain in Brussels.
The Boghossian Foundation features works of Ulla Hase, Alaa Itani, Rébecca Konforti, Romain Ruiz-Pacouret, Marine Pagès, Julien Saudubray, Amélie Scotta, Brendan Sullivan Shea, Younes Zarhoni, who were residents at the Villa Empain and whose preferred practice involves the line and drawing.
This exhibition celebrates the ancestral technique of drawing, which has played a pivotal role for artists, craftsmen, and architects alike, and remains indispensable today. The exploration of forms, colours, and their endless variations, while eschewing systematism, lies at the core of the body of work on display.
Whether inspired by landscape or geometry, free or repetitive, the participating artists investigate the myriad applications, scales, and experiences of drawing, which they then present framed, placed on a plinth, suspended, or even created directly on the wall.
Figurative, abstract, or at the intersection of genres, the practices featured here all create depth while playing on the monumentality of the drawing itself. In turn, the pieces reveal the underlying mechanisms of the line, which can represent the contours of the visible or, conversely, trace an invisible architecture. Curator: Louma Salamé.
The exhibition will be exceptionally closed from 9 to 25 September.
photos Silvia Cappellari
Allegra 1-5, 2023
details, each of them 320 x 45,5 cm,
blue pen on rice paper
View & photo Contemporary Art Fair Guangzhou, Dec. 2023
2023
ODRADEK Brussels
photos Silvia Cappellari
texte fr Simone Scheuten
article fr LaPointe
exhibition Mont-de-Piété Brussels BE
texte Marie Baudet 2023 Aller au contact, accueillir ce qui vient
guest Löna Richter (showcases)
copyright photos Silvia Cappellari
1 open studio, photo Silvia Cappellari
2-4 studio view, works
5-8 works all untitled, 2022,
roller pen on paper, 107 x 76 cm
9-11 works all untitled, 2022,
roller pen on paper, 56 x 76 cm
studio view
BLOOM-1 with detail
BLOOM-2 with detail
BLOOM-3 with detail
each of them 125 x 114,5 cm
blue pen on Arches paper
framed 135 x 121 cm
By drawing / embossing lines on A4 sheets the paper modulates into the third dimension, variable installations
mixed media on paper
146 x 110 cm (2parts)
residency & duoshow
with Bettina Bosch
work in progress
process in work
24/7–4/9/2021
ODRADEK Brussels
duo show with Löna Richter
2/6–8/6/2021
Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft
each 100 x 70 cm
red green blue roller pen
on Steinbach paper
details
greetings to A&A
soloshow 11-27/9/2020
Mont-de-Piété Brussels
article_25/9/2020
Sylvia Bottela
Toute La Culture.
6 A4 drawings form a red line.
Red Staedtler triplus ball M
on Crown Mill vellum paper 100 g/m2
3000 confined
3000 all over
all A4
red Staedtler triplus ball M
on Crown Mill vellum paper 100 g/m2
1000.1, 1000.2, 1000.3, 1000.4, 1000.5
73,3 x 73,3 cm each
red Staedtler triplus ball M
on Steinbach paper 250 g/m2
stencil 1: Red Color Circles postcard
stencil 2: Hunter postcard
installation 2020 exhibition ‘greetings to A&A’
animation of 1000.1-5 on landing page
untitled (blue), 2019
73 x 68 cm
blue pen on Steinbach paper
untitled (splash of red dots), 2020
57 x 76 cm
red ballpoint pen on paper
untitled, 2020
68 x 58 cm
blue and red pen on Steinbach paper
exhibition view 2021
Kreativgesellschaft Hamburg
untitled (au fond), 2019
125 x 114,5 cm
blue pen on Arches paper
framed 135 x 121 cm
untitled (blue veil), 2019
125,7 x 114,5 cm
blue roller pen on Arches paper
details
consisting of 3 drawings
29,7 x 21 cm each
Mitsubishi uni-ball pen: red green blue on paper 90 g/m2 framed in wood painted in white 33,8 x 25,3 cm Museum glass: AR coated 99 % UV protection
untitled (rgb geometries)_2019
73,3 x 68,4 cm
detail
Mitsubishi uni-ball pen: red green blue on Steinbach paper 250 g/m2 framed in natural oak painted in white, 78 x 73 cm, Museum glass: AR coated, 99 % UV protection
untitled (rgb material mix)_2019
73,3 x 68,4 cm
detail
Mitsubishi uni-ball pen: red green blue on Steinbach paper 250 g/m2 framed in natural oak painted in white, 78 x 73 cm, Museum glass: AR coated, 99 % UV protection
part 1 blue, part 2 red
73,3 x 68,4 cm each
Blue and red Pilot roller pen on Steinbach paper. Framed in natural oak painted in white, 78 x 73 cm, Museum glass: AR coated, 99 % UV protection
18,5 x 14 cm
mixed media
framed in wooden box 27 x 27 x 5 cm
glass: AR coated 70 % UV protection
114 x 187 cm
Red, green and blue Mitsubishi uni-ball pen on Arches aquarelles paper.
Framed with almost black glazed wood, 124 x 196 cm
AR glass, 70% UV protection
Circular movements cross the paper vertically, each column turning around its center. Dynamic, fast and fun.
series D, series A, series B, series C
three drawings of each
52 x 110 cm each
red green blue roller pen on paper
(1) untitled (tartan), 2016
(2) untitled (1+2), 2015
(3) untitled (1+1), 2015
(4) untitled (target), 2016
70 x 100 cm each
red green blue pen on Steinbach paper
drawings are locally superimposed
framed in natural maple with museum glass 73 x 103 cm
untitled (akènes), 2016
124 x 114 cm
blue roller pen on Arches paper
untitled (unknown), 2017
125,7 x 114 cm
blue roller pen on Arches paper
untitled (four-leaf), 2017
127,7 x 114 cm
blue roller pen on Arches paper
framed with black stained wood
135 x 121 cm, museum glass
object, 18 cm high, diameter 6,5 cm
consisting of 20 glass tubes
enrolled with blue polyester thread
Collectiv National
Nationalestraat 160
2000 Antwerp
Anne Tack
Place Châtelain 26
1050 Bruxelles
roller pen red blue green on paper
61 x 71 cm
private collection
(1) rag1, 2016, 28 x 29 cm
(2) rag2, 2016, 28 x 29 cm
(3) blue rag, 2016, 50 x 48 cm
detail
pen on aquarelle Arches satiné 300 gr
cut into strips and woven
massif metal frame, museums glass
114 x 120 cm
red green blue pen on paper
details
126 x 183 cm
ball-pen on fabric
99 x 60 cm
roller pen & ballpoint pen
red green blue on paper
disk cut up in segments & rearranged
exhibition 2014 in private space
black pen on paper
232 x 115 cm
detail
(1) untitled, 2012
(2) untitled, 2011, private collection
(3) untitled (all around), 2008
(4) untitled, 2010, private collection
(5) untitled, 2014
(6) untitled, 2015
31 x 41 cm each
colored ballpoint pen or pencil
on aquarelle Arches paper 300 g
ballpoint pen on fabric
embroidery frame
installed ca. 60 x 133 cm
untitled (blazing earth), 2012
205 x 114 cm
red blue roller pen on Arches paper
untitled (clapotis), 2011
211 x 114 cm
blue roller pen on on Arches paper
both not framed, treated with
conservation spray with uv protection
31 x 41 cm
pen red blue green
on aquarelle Arches paper
framed in natural oak
museum glass
125 x 114,5 cm
roller pen on paper
(1+2) untitled (pompom), 2010
blue roller pen on Arches paper
125 x 114 cm + detail
private collection
(3) untitled (tapis-sage), 2014
blue roller pen on Arches paper
128 x 114 cm
(4+5) untitled, 2013
blue roller pen on Arches paper
125 x 114 cm + detail
private collection
31 x 41 cm
pen on aquarelle Arches satiné paper
framed in natural oak
Museum glass
blue pen on paper
each 31 x 41 cm
(1) 2010
(2) 2012
(3) 2010
(4) 2010
4 drawings, each 31 x 41 cm
ballpoint pen on paper
framed in massif wood paint in white
museum plexiglass 99% uv-protection
(1-3) land art, 2012, Stadthagen DE
installation in nature with eggs
White egg shells were placed in a boggy forest landscape. Both natural and foreign, they breathe doubt into the viewers mind, not least because of their large number and this beautiful contrast to their environment. What happened here ?
(4-6) departure, 2011
Stadthagen DE, installation in nature
80m long, 26 glass-tubes, 1m50 each
At a oak hedge bank, glass tubes were installed at a precise level under the old, almost horizontal branches. Almost like morning mist in the fields, for the spectator not immediately recognizable, the glasses gently rise from the nettle-plane into the height, to disappear slowly in the distance. It is a poetic work, fragile and temporary, trying to breathe attention to this beautiful place.
(7) NOES, Ath, 2009
Four seasons, four quarters, four members, four directions, four winds... for a playful and contemplative perception of the place. Four gallows are equipped with windsocks, NORTH, EAST, SOUTH and WEST written on the volume. The four arrows are oriented according to the direction of the wind, or, in the absence of wind, they wander in arbitrary directions. The disposisitif is completed by a simple wind rose on the road.
(1) untitled (fug), 2010
235 x 114 cm, red green blue
roller pen on Arches paper
(2-4) untitled (RGB), 2009
236 x 114 cm, red green blue
roller pen on Arches paper
details
roller pen (red gel IMPACT)
on Arches aquarelle paper
210 x 114 cm
untitled (earth), 2008
94,5 x 96,5 cm
red green blue pen on paper
tourbillon, 2009
125 x 115 cm
red green blue pen on paper
private collection
Solo-show, H29 artist space, Brussels
Recherche au Centre de la Tapisserie, des Arts Muraux et des Arts du Tissu de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
Flexible red black green and blue threads – fabricated from colored latex, painted on a surface and enrolled after had dried – becoming a versatile sculpture and installation material
snake, red and blue striped, 2006
about 6 m long with a diameter of 1 m
stockings stuffed with polystyrene balls and wrapped with tape
2003-05 pencil drawings
25 x 32 cm each
300 rubberobjects on a table
edition of 10 cardboard boxes
(1) shaving foam, 2003
polystyrene pellets in stockings held between two glass panels 53 x 206 cm
(2) corps malléables, 1999
about 60 x 140 x 44 cm, hangers, knitted rubber elastics, spheres shaped in lead
(3) needles, 2001
quilted fabric around a fiberglass rod
about 185 cm high, moving slightly
(4) les trois grâces, 2001
about 90 cm high
green vases, silk stockings
(5) diamond's many faces, 2000
108 x 108 x 4 cm, photographs
of human skin built into pyramids
(6) untitled, 2003
diameter of a round about 70 cm
polystyrene pellets in stockings
paint with red latex
Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (NL)
untitled, 1996
pencil on paper, 100 x 115 cm
photo:
objects to be taken in hands, 1996
Die Leben der jungen Werther
(The lives of many young Werther)
after J.W. Goethe, 1992
25 books/writings/drawings, projection
LKJ, songtext Inglan is a bitch
1989, 5 copies
realized at Circle Press London
wooden letters on wallpaper
Familienbild, poetry J. Prévert
one original piece, 1988
metal cover and glass pages
with a piece missing voluntarily
