Artists: Berlinde De Bruyckere, Alex Verhaest, Raffaella Crispino, Laetitia de Chocqueuse, Juan Pablo Plazas , Adam Vackar, Stanislas Lahaut, Quinten Ingelaere, A.F. Vandevorst, Frédéric Dumoulin, Nicolas Hommelen, Happy Famous Artists, Pauline M’barek
Exhibition title: Sirens
Venue: Dauwens & Beernaert Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Date: September 3 – October 31, 2015
Photography: images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Dauwens & Beernaert Gallery, Brussels
Dauwens & Beernaert Gallery is pleased to present ‘Sirens’ a group show featuring works by Berlinde De Bruyckere, an installation by A.F. Vandevorst and recent works by young emerging artists from Belgium, Germany, France, Colombia, Czech Republic and the UK.
On view until 31 October 2015 the exhibition takes its name from the encyclopaedia definition of a siren.
Siren
noun /ˈsaɪrən/
1. a device that makes a long loud sound as a signal or warning
2. (in ancient Greek stories) any of a group of sea creatures that were part woman and part bird, or part woman and part fish, whose beautiful singing made sailors sail towards them into rocks or dangerous waters
3. a woman who is very attractive or beautiful but also dangerous
4. siren voices/song/call (literary) the temptation to do something that seems very attractive but that will have bad results
The group exhibition investigates the duality between absence and presence, poetry and violence and representations of women in contemporary art: from muse and source of inspiration, to powerful victim and vulnerable heroine.
Stanislas Lahaut, S.M.W.G.F., 2015
Maxim Frank, Echelle #5, 2015
Juan Pablo Plazas, Ashley 2, 2015
Maxim Frank, Echelle #6, 2015
Raffaella Crispino, Untitled (Samia II), 2015
Raffaella Crispino, Untitled (Jouy), 2015
Juan Pablo Plazas, Ashley 1, 2015
Pauline M’Barek
Adam Vackar, Concerto for a shotgun, 2015
Raffaella Crispino, We don’t want other worlds, we want mirrors, 2013
Nicolas Hommelen, Kristall, 1992
Juan Pablo Plazas, Ashley 3, 2015
Laetitia de Chocqueuse, Constellation, 2015
Berlinde De Bruyckere
Quinten Ingelaere, Sister I, 2015
Quinten Ingelaere, Sister II, 2015
Quinten Ingelaere, Sister III, 2015
Alex Verhaest, Grete_001-003, 2015
Frédéric Dumoulin, S.T., 2014
Frédéric Dumoulin, S.T., 2013
Frédéric Dumoulin, S.T., 2013
Happy Famous Artists, Lebensborn, 2015
AF Vandevorst, Sirens, 2015
Stanislas Lahaut, Untitled (I’m not affraid of repeating myself), 2015
Stanislas Lahaut, Untitled (I’m not Afraid of repaeting myself), 2015
