Matthijs Bosman, Wannes Goetschalckx & Marius Lut
08.05.2009 — 06.06.2009Matthijs Bosman, Wannes Goetschalckx & Marius Lut
08.05.2009 — 06.06.2009
Wannes is quite a guy. As a spectator I never used to like
performance art so much. Because my career brought me to all kinds of
places, I had to stand a lot of performances in the artworld in which
performers often just display a stark naked (why always naked, why?),
long-winded, masochistic and/or pointless action with the expectation
that it would interest me. Unfortunately not. One should labour over
a performance as a sculptor on a statue or a director on a play and
take the medium seriously. Too frequently this labour is missing in
performances in the context of visual arts. But Wannes showed me how
he designed tools and objects from the possibilities and limitations
of his own body. From what I saw around me and what he told and
showed me, I believe that this person is handling image/movement/time
in a relevant and sincere way. His performative installations, and
their beautiful handmade objects, could develop into a totally
individual voice within visual art.
Hans Op de Beeck
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