Artists: Jean-Baptiste Bernadet, Aline Bouvy, Wang Du, Albrecht Dürer, Hr Giger, Gregor Hildebrandt, Ištvan Išt Huzjan, Michael Jones Mckean, Adrien Missika, Anne Neukamp, David De Tscharner
Exhibition title: COLLECTION n°8
Curated by: Christel Montury, Fabien Villon
Venue: Hotel Amigo, Brussels, Belgium
Date: April 19 – 22, 2018
Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artists
Interior and the collectors is pleased to occupy several spaces of hotel Amigo during Artbrussels art fair. This group show in a luxury hotel pursues one of our constant issue of inhabited space as exhibition space in another context and other constraints. Here, we become collectors and we decide on the choice of artists, not by following a theme or a particular issue but through a more personal logic that allows us to cross genres and mix emerging artists with established artists. The showcased artists are not there to decorate the walls, they bring an added value, a reflection, a way of viewing our time. Some question the limits of our perception of reality, others are buried in the limbo of our unconscious. The palace becomes the ideal place to reveal them.
Appropriating a space is a commitment of trust and a requirement towards the host. Whether one is drinking, eating or sleeping, this is a way to experience a state of mind. It’s a frame, an interior space that each customer occupies differently. The constitution of inhabiting has a greater need of poetry, imagination and fantasy. The hotel is not a passageway like any other, it is an inhabited place. The hotel is the opposite of a white cube, It doesn’t disappear behind the artworks. Whe-ther in a room, a corridor, an elevator, a vestibule, a meeting room, everything is an excuse to allow a customer to find themselves in front of an artwork. Whatever the time of day, the visitor may appreciate or not this moment but he will have been feeling an emotion.
COLLECTION n°8, 2018, exhibition view, Hotel Amigo, Brussels
COLLECTION n°8, 2018, exhibition view, Hotel Amigo, Brussels
David de Tscharner, Shell, 2016, 9x23x14 cm
COLLECTION n°8, 2018, exhibition view, Hotel Amigo, Brussels
Jean-Baptiste Bernadet, untitled (Japonaise du printemps), 2017, Oil on canvas, 80 x 72 cm
COLLECTION n°8, 2018, exhibition view, Hotel Amigo, Brussels
Albrecht Dürer, Knight, Death and the Devil, 1513, engraving from 1670, 28 x 21 cm
Albrecht Dürer, Melancholia I, 1514, enrgaving on paper, 28 x 21 cm
COLLECTION n°8, 2018, exhibition view, Hotel Amigo, Brussels
Anne Neukamp, twirl, 2017, Oil, tempera, acrylic, linen, 100 x 80 cm
COLLECTION n°8, 2018, exhibition view, Hotel Amigo, Brussels
Hr Giger, Blind, 1962, Ink drawing, 15 x 15 cm
Albrecht Dürer, Deposition (Passion № 13), 1512, Deposition (Passion № 13), 12 x 8 cm
Hr Giger, bettler, 2009, Cast Silver, 32 x 16 x 17 cm
Aline Bouvy, I’m not interested by humans these days, 2016, Jesmonite, fiber, glass, natural wax 40 x 40 x 16 cm
COLLECTION n°8, 2018, exhibition view, Hotel Amigo, Brussels
COLLECTION n°8, 2018, exhibition view, Hotel Amigo, Brussels
Wang Du, untitled, 2007, silk bathrobe
Hr Giger, Lip ring, 1998, silver
COLLECTION n°8, 2018, exhibition view, Hotel Amigo, Brussels
Michael Jones Mckean, Gleise 667 Cc, 2017, Silver, nickel, aluminium, zinc, polymere, 102 x 102 x 3,5 cm
COLLECTION n°8, 2018, exhibition view, Hotel Amigo, Brussels
Aline Bouvy, Jewel Rack, 2017, Jesmonite, fiber glass, natural was, stainless steel, 215cm x 140 x 130 cm
Aline Bouvy, Jewel Rack, 2017, Jesmonite, fiber glass, natural was, stainless steel, 215cm x 140 x 130 cm
COLLECTION n°8, 2018, exhibition view, Hotel Amigo, Brussels
Anne Neukamp, column structure IX A, 2015, Oil, tempera, acrylic, linen, 200 x 150 cm
Gregor Hildebrandt, KS-Painting mit Marmorierung, 2009, dispersion on printed cardboard plastic in wooden, 213 x 147.5 cm / 83 3/4 x 58 in
COLLECTION n°8, 2018, exhibition view, Hotel Amigo, Brussels
Aline Bouvy, Beg more, 2017, Jesmonite, fiber, glass, natural wax, 82 x 72 cm
Istvan Ist Huzjan, unnamed figure, 2018, manikin arm, rope and umbrella parts, 90 x 30 x 10 cm
Adrien Missika, Cactus Frottage C, 2012, C-print on metallic paper mounted on Dibond, 40 x 30 cm
Adrien Missika, Cactus Frottage C, 2012, C-print on metallic paper mounted on Dibond, 40 x 30 cm
Adrien Missika, Cactus Frottage B, 2012, C-print on metallic paper mounted on Dibond, 40 x 30 cm
Adrien Missika, Cactus Frottage B, 2012, C-print on metallic paper mounted on Dibond, 40 x 30 cm