ADRIAAN VERWEE / Early Works, Late Moment
13 Jan - 17 Feb 2013
Adriaan Verwée, Untitled, 2013 / © Galerie Tatjana Pieters
Adriaan Verwée, Untitled, 2013 / © Galerie Tatjana Pieters
Adriaan Verwée, Untitled, 2013 / © Galerie Tatjana Pieters
Adriaan Verwée, Untitled, 2013 / © Galerie Tatjana Pieters
Adriaan Verwée, Untitled, 2013 / © Galerie Tatjana Pieters
Adriaan Verwée, Untitled, 2013 / © Galerie Tatjana Pieters
ADRIAAN VERWEE / Early Works, Late Moment
OPENING / Sunday January 13, 3 - 6 pm
We start the new year with three solo exhibitions joined in our gallery space. Next to a solo exhibition by adriaan Verwée (1975, BE) & Julia Spínola (1979, ES), both represented by the gallery, we have invited Portugese artist mauro Cerqueira (1983, PT) to make a proposal for our ‘Interpunction’ programme.
‘The stained wooden structures came around the end of 2010 and where planned to be demounted, changed, rebuilt and put in a different arrangement in a sketching related practice using a little acquired skills, tools and time. The first pages of the publication ‘toca da raposa’ (2012, posture editions nr.1) can give an idea how that process functioned: What could be a work and where does it become readable as an image?
The book instigates with the image of a lump made of spoiled plaster that is balancing between what could be considered as an object or merely the residue of another dismissed project. Placing it close to the door it suggested a point of instability in which an unexpected fragment of reality seemed to become more comprehensible. Working with elementary materials (that could be considered subsidiary in the practice of making) like glass, plaster and wood I try to emphasize the simple but not so evident or open-ended decision to make things myself.
Creating a distance between what the ‘real’ and probably less transitory outsourced object could be and the one I am making. Maybe here one could argue that these spatial arrangements refer in a way to the process of making itself, estrange to what is strictly defined as conceptual... I believe the work is being conceptualized through that same process of making.’
- Adriaan Verwée
Adriaan Verwée (1975, BE) makes spatial arrangements out of elementary materials such as plaster, wood and glass. Fragments of reality based on utensils and the architecture of the workspace are absorbed into an abstract-formal play of references. These installations refer to a significant aspect about the functioning of the visual arts: a duality as the result of the exchange between object and image, the assembling of the artist and the visions, experiences and projections of the spectators.
Adriaan Verwée graduated ‘cum laude’ at the Academy of Gent, after which he went on to study Jazz at the Conservatory of Gent. Verwée has taken part in various group shows, a.o. Voorkamer Lier (BE), Croxhapox Gent (BE), Thessaloniki Biennale (Greece), Netwerk Aalst (BE), Brakkegrond Amsterdam (NL), S.M.A.K. Gent (BE) and ARCADE London (UK). His work belongs to the collection of the Dexia Bank Belgium; and several private collections in a.o. Norway and Belgium. His first presentation at Galerie Tatjana Pieters was chosen as one of the 30 exhibitions in ‘Contemporary Art In Belgium 2008’, ed. Henry Bounammeaux & Bart De Baere. Verwée’s recent duo exhibition ‘Other People’s Trades’ with Esmeralda Valencia Lindström at ARCADE London (UK) received several reviews on ‘this is tomorrow’, ‘Modern Painters’ & ‘Art Monthly UK’.
© Galerie Tatjana Pieters
OPENING / Sunday January 13, 3 - 6 pm
We start the new year with three solo exhibitions joined in our gallery space. Next to a solo exhibition by adriaan Verwée (1975, BE) & Julia Spínola (1979, ES), both represented by the gallery, we have invited Portugese artist mauro Cerqueira (1983, PT) to make a proposal for our ‘Interpunction’ programme.
‘The stained wooden structures came around the end of 2010 and where planned to be demounted, changed, rebuilt and put in a different arrangement in a sketching related practice using a little acquired skills, tools and time. The first pages of the publication ‘toca da raposa’ (2012, posture editions nr.1) can give an idea how that process functioned: What could be a work and where does it become readable as an image?
The book instigates with the image of a lump made of spoiled plaster that is balancing between what could be considered as an object or merely the residue of another dismissed project. Placing it close to the door it suggested a point of instability in which an unexpected fragment of reality seemed to become more comprehensible. Working with elementary materials (that could be considered subsidiary in the practice of making) like glass, plaster and wood I try to emphasize the simple but not so evident or open-ended decision to make things myself.
Creating a distance between what the ‘real’ and probably less transitory outsourced object could be and the one I am making. Maybe here one could argue that these spatial arrangements refer in a way to the process of making itself, estrange to what is strictly defined as conceptual... I believe the work is being conceptualized through that same process of making.’
- Adriaan Verwée
Adriaan Verwée (1975, BE) makes spatial arrangements out of elementary materials such as plaster, wood and glass. Fragments of reality based on utensils and the architecture of the workspace are absorbed into an abstract-formal play of references. These installations refer to a significant aspect about the functioning of the visual arts: a duality as the result of the exchange between object and image, the assembling of the artist and the visions, experiences and projections of the spectators.
Adriaan Verwée graduated ‘cum laude’ at the Academy of Gent, after which he went on to study Jazz at the Conservatory of Gent. Verwée has taken part in various group shows, a.o. Voorkamer Lier (BE), Croxhapox Gent (BE), Thessaloniki Biennale (Greece), Netwerk Aalst (BE), Brakkegrond Amsterdam (NL), S.M.A.K. Gent (BE) and ARCADE London (UK). His work belongs to the collection of the Dexia Bank Belgium; and several private collections in a.o. Norway and Belgium. His first presentation at Galerie Tatjana Pieters was chosen as one of the 30 exhibitions in ‘Contemporary Art In Belgium 2008’, ed. Henry Bounammeaux & Bart De Baere. Verwée’s recent duo exhibition ‘Other People’s Trades’ with Esmeralda Valencia Lindström at ARCADE London (UK) received several reviews on ‘this is tomorrow’, ‘Modern Painters’ & ‘Art Monthly UK’.
© Galerie Tatjana Pieters