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26/12/2023

01/03/2022

Brussels, last Saturday at de Markten, Soly Cisse’s solo show curated by Blaackbox Gallery





@ Brussels

17/02/2022

Diagne Chanel « L’ALLEE DE LA REINE »
19 février - 31 mai 2022
Ziguinchor

Diagne Chanel est née à Paris. Diplômée des écoles nationales supérieures des Arts appliqués et des Arts décoratifs de Paris, lauréate de l'Institut de France, elle obtient une bourse d'étude, en 1980, et part en Italie poursuivre ses recherches effectuant son voyage d’études à Rome et à Florence, elle en restera profondément marquée par l’architecture et les ors de la Renaissance.

Plasticienne révélée Diagne Chanel construit, depuis une vingtaine d'années, une œuvre monumentale qui n’a cessé d’évoluer et de se développer au fil de son inspiration et de ses engagements. Elle explore aussi des matériaux modestes, comme les bois recyclés ou le carton qu'elle transforme en textures sophistiquées. Ses sculptures sont en terre cuite, en bois, en bronze.

02/01/2022

Happy 2022 & Lots of love !
C’me by Luc Vleugels. One of my proudest project and most beautiful exhibition I’ve directed 💙 C’me was presented in 2012 by Fine Art Studio my gallery at the Sablon in Brussels. Luc Vleugels, talented Belgian artist presented in this show an allegory of deep emotions of feelings and subtle and aesthetic expressions. 10 years later I remain deeply touched and honored 💙💙💙








By Barbara Vanderlinden .. The most significant project of Vleugels’ endeavour into the world of contemporary art up to this day is his C’Me exhibition in 2012 at the Brussels-based Fine Art Studio. Accompanied by an artist book, the exhibition consists of several themes interconnected by visual, formal, conceptual and intuitive associations. Among other things it explores the relationship between individuals, memory, places, sculptural forms, poetry and painting. At times it creates a total environment (images are hung at different heights, on panels, as well as on staircase side walls) with a host of black and white photographs of places and people combined with found footage taken from a range of sources and lives. The images share an overall rawness and are drawn from a wide swatch of society and culture, combining ordinary life, places and popular culture. Vleugels’ photographs in the exhibition take their inspiration from those mysterious, unnameable places and incidents that haunt his existence. The found historical photographs, music records, books, magazine clippings collected over the years introduce a very unique view of the world; the result is a playful and subjective process of seeing and introspection.
For the Belgium Luc Vleugels, who since 1985 is active as a multifaceted artist in the world of interior design, fashion and theatre, art was constantly in the background of his creative work as a designer photographer, but in 2004, contemporary art stepped to the foreground...

02/01/2022

Happy 2022 & Lots of love !
Luc Vleugels “Lots of love” 2012, Neon, 150 x 100 cm, Ed.10 (on wood)

C’me by Luc Vleugels. One of my proudest project and most beautiful exhibition I’ve directed 💙 C’me was presented in 2012 by Fine Art Studio my gallery at the Sablon in Brussels. Luc Vleugels, talented Belgian artist presented in this show an allegory of deep emotions of feelings and subtle and aesthetic expressions. 10 years later I remain deeply touched and honored 💙💙💙








By Barbara Vanderlinden .. The most significant project of Vleugels’ endeavour into the world of contemporary art up to this day is his C’Me exhibition in 2012 at the Brussels-based Fine Art Studio. Accompanied by an artist book, the exhibition consists of several themes interconnected by visual, formal, conceptual and intuitive associations. Among other things it explores the relationship between individuals, memory, places, sculptural forms, poetry and painting. At times it creates a total environment (images are hung at different heights, on panels, as well as on staircase side walls) with a host of black and white photographs of places and people combined with found footage taken from a range of sources and lives. The images share an overall rawness and are drawn from a wide swatch of society and culture, combining ordinary life, places and popular culture. Vleugels’ photographs in the exhibition take their inspiration from those mysterious, unnameable places and incidents that haunt his existence. The found historical photographs, music records, books, magazine clippings collected over the years introduce a very unique view of the world; the result is a playful and subjective process of seeing and introspection.
For the Belgium Luc Vleugels, who since 1985 is active as a multifaceted artist in the world of interior design, fashion and theatre, art was constantly in the background of his creative work as a designer photographer, but in 2004, contemporary art stepped to the foreground...

30/12/2021

My Thursday flashback 🤍 December 2014 Le Laboratoire Lome (Togo)
Exhibition Gladys « Le cerveau » curated by Sandra Agbessi










Dieudonne Korolakina, journaliste et critique d’art,
Le Laboratoire Lomé est un projet tout aussi fou qu’unique en son genre. Pour preuve, Sandra Agbessi qui met en œuvre cet espace ayant pour vocation de fédérer de nouvelles pratiques artistiques contemporaines et dédiées aux œuvres et aux artistes librement inspirés, choisit pour le vernissage d’ouverture, un artiste unique : Gladys. Inventivité, habileté et originalité. Voilà la triade qui guide le travail de cet artiste. Homme, femme, animal surgissent et constituent d’intenses compositions face auxquelles se retrouve confronté le visiteur. Le style graphique de l'artiste, entre courbes, formes et lignes fluides, parfois sobre, parfois bardé de couleurs vives, déploie toute la puissance de son discours.
Cette exposition, sa première hors du Bénin, est la résultante de multiples rencontres et réflexions communes entre l’artiste et Le Laboratoire. Il a dès lors créé une trentaine d’œuvres, peintures, dessins et sculptures qui nourrissent son univers créatif et inventif. Les combinaisons multiples investissent l’espace et proposent un regard singulier et contemporain sur la possible influence d’un certain art relatif aux traditions Vodoun. Les formes empruntées sont issues des interprétations diverses qui émanent de la société au travers d’une lecture imprégnée du contexte culturel, jonction entre l’imaginaire vodoun et les champs de la création artistique contemporaine. ..

19/12/2021

under_construction
Wonderful visit and very happy to have seen you again my dearest 🧡

17/12/2021

City artsy trip mother and daughter 🧡 Art Antwerp 2021

05/12/2021

My Sunday flashback 🤍 December 2010 in Cotonou with Zinkpe to prepare our exhibition and publication




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24/10/2021

Fiac 2021 with Nu Barreto 💜
« Restos » 2021
Collages, ceramic pencil, semi-fat pastel, recycled paper
85,8 x 125,2 cm

Nathalie Obadia