He obtained a mastership in 1979 at sintthomas in brussels and graduated in model drawing at the royal academy in mechelen. The exhibition title out of the ordinary is meant both literally and figuratively. See available sculpture, photographs, and works on paper for sale and learn about the artist. Utilizing diverse mediaincluding installations, sculptures, video works, animated films, short stories, read more. Find an indepth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices.
His various works show the viewer nonexistent, but identifiable places, moments and characters that appear to have been taken from everyday life. He garnered international success since the end of the 1990s. Suspended between past and future, fiction and reality, his works sound out a miragelike contemporary universe and a sensory vertigo where the familiar rubs shoulders with the strange. He has a masters degree in visual arts from the higher institute sintlukas in brussels. How we stage our surroundings and how these surroundings become the scenery of both festive and tragic moments, recurring home rituals, and lonely daydreams. Afterwards he studied for a year at the higher institute of fine arts, and then for two years at the rijksakademie amsterdam. The work continues the artists exploration of contemporary societys complexities and universal questions of the meaning of life and. His works place the viewer in nonexistent but familiar surroundings that evoke a sense of absurdity for our postmodern existence. Book burning is a story told by a cat about a man who lights up while his daughter dives into a suitcase. Hans creates an object, pieter writes phrases and recites them on the scene. He started teaching arts in 1979 at the coloma institute in mechelen. A play about forgetting and forgiving, about knowledge and riddles and the lack of stories. His lifesize monochromatic sculptures often depict children in states of play, wonder, and reflection, helping build a multisensory experience for the viewer.
His philosophy, however, differs from those of his antecedents and of the. The building is a digitallygenerated animation film in which the artist sends the viewer on a virtual, nocturnal walking tour of a fictitious, megalomaniacal hospital complex. He was born in the congo and moved to belgium in 1960. The wunderkammer, also known as cabinet of wonder, cabinet of curiosities, kunstkammer and wonderroom, were first created midsixteenth century, even though they were still a piece of furniture, a cabinet. He follows the mans search to discover the root of a genetic illness that took the life of his wife and now threatens the life of his daughter, tilda. My feed buy art exhibitions add artwork sign up login. Everything lies under a magic spell, forever frozen in time. His sculptures and expansive installations, his paintings, his largeformat watercolors and drawings, his animations and videos all manifest the dramatic strategies of the stage, of film and of architecture. Among its sculptures and watercolorspainted after nightfall, when all of the machines in his studio were switched off, the phones stopped ringing, and his staff had leftis a fifteenminute animated film, night time, produced from some six years of paintings. In 20022003 he was artist in residence for one year at the moma ps1 in new york from 2001, when he became the winner of the young belgian painting prize, he became. My bed a raft, the room the sea, and then i laughed some gloom in me.
Viewers enter a blackandwhite neoclassical reproduction of a private room fully sculpted and handcrafted in soft grey plaster. Hans and peter dont care about their version of the fusion of visual arts and. See available photographs, sculpture, and works on paper for sale and learn about the artist. The soft, grey plaster of which the work is constructed seems to abstract the attractions in dark stone, like a kind of contemporary pompei, covered with the dust of the layered, silent time. After obtaining his phd at the ku leuven in 2003 under supervision of rufin vogels and johan wagemans, he was a postdoc in the labs of nancy kanwisher and james dicarlo at the massachusetts institute of technology. The collectors house marianne boesky gallery, galleria continua, and galerie krinzinger, art basel unlimited 2016, june 15, 2016. Studies criminology, criminal justice, and juvenile delinquency. The piece physically links visual art and theatre, with hans creating an object and pieter writing a play to perform alongside it. Staging silence 3 the valley an apocalypse sculptural works.
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