This art of assemblage is extended through the presence of "a constellation of signatures, a European compendium that Dedobbeleer has organised to freely articulate his own objects".
Indeed, this exhibition brings together some twenty creators from a range of backgrounds. Their pieces draw on Koenraad Dedobbeleer's unique recipes and interact with his hybrid creations, painting a portrait of an artist sensitive at once to particular motifs and modernist rigour. Dedobbeleer's studio is a kitchen in the noblest sense of the word, one open to all influences that nourish a daily practice and cultivate a particular artistic curiosity.
It serves up a joyful relationship with the world that is reflected in the title of the exhibition, "Emi e dames messeur", a phrase borrowed from an old shop sign that breathes poetry into his weekly routine. Emmanuelle Castellan , who was born in in Aurillac in the centre of France, works on the surface of her paintings in all their depth.
She superimposes layers, separates them out, covers them up and then digs through them, sometimes going as far as slicing through the surface of the canvas itself. Entitled "Spektrum", the exhibition plays upon this polysemy, which is also present in the forms and silhouettes that inhabit the paintings even as their contours seem to refuse all definite form. Her oeuvre draws on encounters with other artists and craftspeople who lend their skills and expertise to contribute to her research.
Her artistic language indeed unfolds through these moments of exchange, as well as through the forms borrowed from nature that she captures with gestures of the utmost respect. The result is an exhibition that is at once plural and imbued with a clear shared sensibility. Enhanced tours by prior arrangement 1 hour 30 minutes, outside the walls every Saturday at 1 p. Disciplines Visual arts.
