Mark Luyten - Nico Dockx
08 Sep - 22 Oct 2011
(today)
8 September - 22 October
A title that refers to time. A time, somewhere between the past and future, indefinite. On the other hand, today is also a specific time, the time of now, the moment where we are immediately present.The exhibition goes in search of the blind spot that the past and future strike in the present. The now is short, fleeting, and repeats itself again and again, without end. (Endlessly can be read on a canvas.)
Each painting shows its particular history in an accumulation of images: the artwork not as a synthesis of a world but as a now through which its past emerges.
GMS Artist Talk 001
The weight of a material past. The artist versus his body of work.
Mark Luyten in conversation with Nico Dockx, moderated by Caroline Dumalin.
Why?
The gallery wishes to dedicate an alternative space to the conceptual component of its exhibitions by providing a platform for reflection and debate. Following this ambition, the first in a new series of artist talks will take form on Wednesday, October 5th, 2011 at 7:00 pm.
What?
Mark Luyten's solo exhibition ‘(today)’ is founded on the elusiveness of the now. Whose now? First and foremost that of the individual artist himself, who finds himself faced with his own material past. As his practice develops and extends over time, traces of this past have accumulated in the artist’s studio. Today, a number of older works clearly underwent destructive interventions. Creation has been understood as revision, which is of course an endless activity, a downright Sisyphean task. Such an awareness is quite literally present in the exhibition. It raises the question of what Luyten actually hopes to achieve with this seemingly negative strategy. If the oeuvre of an artist is a tradition on a micro scale, to what extent does it resist the development of "new" work?
Who?
Mark Luyten (b. 1955) is a visual artist and teacher at the academy of Sint-Lucas in Antwerp. His work has been represented by and exhibited at GMS since the mid-eighties.
Nico Dockx (b. 1974) is a visual artist and researcher at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp (KASKA). Since 2001, he has regularly collaborated with Mark Luyten, represented by Lightmachine Agency.
Caroline Dumalin (b. 1986) was trained as an art historian and critic at the K.U.Leuven, l'Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), and the School of Visual Arts in New York. She currently works as Micheline Szwajcer’s assistant.
8 September - 22 October
A title that refers to time. A time, somewhere between the past and future, indefinite. On the other hand, today is also a specific time, the time of now, the moment where we are immediately present.The exhibition goes in search of the blind spot that the past and future strike in the present. The now is short, fleeting, and repeats itself again and again, without end. (Endlessly can be read on a canvas.)
Each painting shows its particular history in an accumulation of images: the artwork not as a synthesis of a world but as a now through which its past emerges.
GMS Artist Talk 001
The weight of a material past. The artist versus his body of work.
Mark Luyten in conversation with Nico Dockx, moderated by Caroline Dumalin.
Why?
The gallery wishes to dedicate an alternative space to the conceptual component of its exhibitions by providing a platform for reflection and debate. Following this ambition, the first in a new series of artist talks will take form on Wednesday, October 5th, 2011 at 7:00 pm.
What?
Mark Luyten's solo exhibition ‘(today)’ is founded on the elusiveness of the now. Whose now? First and foremost that of the individual artist himself, who finds himself faced with his own material past. As his practice develops and extends over time, traces of this past have accumulated in the artist’s studio. Today, a number of older works clearly underwent destructive interventions. Creation has been understood as revision, which is of course an endless activity, a downright Sisyphean task. Such an awareness is quite literally present in the exhibition. It raises the question of what Luyten actually hopes to achieve with this seemingly negative strategy. If the oeuvre of an artist is a tradition on a micro scale, to what extent does it resist the development of "new" work?
Who?
Mark Luyten (b. 1955) is a visual artist and teacher at the academy of Sint-Lucas in Antwerp. His work has been represented by and exhibited at GMS since the mid-eighties.
Nico Dockx (b. 1974) is a visual artist and researcher at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp (KASKA). Since 2001, he has regularly collaborated with Mark Luyten, represented by Lightmachine Agency.
Caroline Dumalin (b. 1986) was trained as an art historian and critic at the K.U.Leuven, l'Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), and the School of Visual Arts in New York. She currently works as Micheline Szwajcer’s assistant.