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Film as Sculpture at WIELS, Brussels

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Rosa Barba, Boundaries of Consumption, 2012. 2 × metal globes, 16 mm projector, 16 mm film loop, film canisters. Courtesy of the artist.

Film as Sculpture
6 June – 18 August 2013
at WIELS, Brussels

Artists: Rosa Barba, Zbyněk Baladrán & Jiří Kovanda, Ulla von Brandenburg, João Maria Gusmão & Pedro Paiva, Rachel Harrison, Žilvinas Kempinas, Elad Lassry, Karthik Pandian and Bojan Šarčević

Curator: Elena Filipovic

Film as Sculpture looks at a new generation of artists and the ‘problem’ that a number of them seem to be insistently grappling with: how to create works that either sit between or somehow address two seemingly contradictory mediums: one of art history’s most classical forms, sculpture, and its apparent opposite, film (or video). Continue reading “Film as Sculpture at WIELS, Brussels”

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Tauba Auerbach “Tetrachromat” at WIELS, Brussels

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Tauba Auerbach: RGB Colorspace Atlas Volume 3, 2011. Digital offset printing on mohawk superfine paper, 3200 pages, linen, binder’s board, acrylic paint. Edition of 3. 20.3 x 20.3 x 20.3 cm (closed). Binding: Daniel E. Kelm and Leah H. Purcell at the Wide Awake Garage in Easthampton, Massachusetts. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Vegard Kleven.

Tauba Auerbach
Tetrachromat
22 March – 2 June 2013
at WIELS, Brussels

Tauba Auerbach is considered one of the most innovative painters of our time. Her work collapses traditional distinctions between image, dimensionality and content. Surface and the larger issues surrounding topology have been central concerns in her recent paintings, drawings, photographs and artist books.
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