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Days of Inertia
Mendes Wood DM is returning to the Dutch seaside for its second summer exhibition in the 17th-century church of the idyllic village of Retranchement, on the border with Belgium. The space is just a short bicycle ride away from Knokke, Belgium鈥檚 famed beach resort in which galleries and institutions organise cultural events throughout the summer months.
Days of Inertia presents an array of works by artists from the gallery鈥檚 program. The group show takes its name from a sculpture by the Swedish artist Nina Canell, conceived especially for this project. Other iterations of Days of Inertia have been presented before at Punta Della Dogana, SMAK Ghent and Centre d'art contemporain d鈥橧vry, Cr茅dac. Simultaneously to the show in Retranchement, Canell has also created a newly commissioned work for Into Nature, a biennial of visual arts set in a natural reserve in the region of Drenthe, the Netherlands.
Sculpture and installation are a prominent theme in the exhibition, which extends also outside the church, where another work by Canell, Otic Pit, will be in conversation with Mortal, a large new concrete and pigment sculpture by the British artist Michael Dean. A solo show of Dean鈥檚 work is currently running at Mendes Wood DM鈥檚 Brussels gallery space and he is also featured in the Watou Arts Festival, in Belgium. Meanwhile, the American artist Alma Allen, who will present his first European solo exhibition at Mendes Wood DM Brussels in September, as well as in the city鈥檚 Museum Van Buuren, has a series of small sculptures installed indoors. Their organic forms, realized in bronze, marble and obsidian, are in dialogue with the geometries and material dichotomies of the Japanese artist Kishio Suga鈥檚 wood sculptures.
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Mendes Wood DM is returning to the Dutch seaside for its second summer exhibition in the 17th-century church of the idyllic village of Retranchement, on the border with Belgium. The space is just a short bicycle ride away from Knokke, Belgium鈥檚 famed beach resort in which galleries and institutions organise cultural events throughout the summer months.
Days of Inertia presents an array of works by artists from the gallery鈥檚 program. The group show takes its name from a sculpture by the Swedish artist Nina Canell, conceived especially for this project. Other iterations of Days of Inertia have been presented before at Punta Della Dogana, SMAK Ghent and Centre d'art contemporain d鈥橧vry, Cr茅dac. Simultaneously to the show in Retranchement, Canell has also created a newly commissioned work for Into Nature, a biennial of visual arts set in a natural reserve in the region of Drenthe, the Netherlands.
Sculpture and installation are a prominent theme in the exhibition, which extends also outside the church, where another work by Canell, Otic Pit, will be in conversation with Mortal, a large new concrete and pigment sculpture by the British artist Michael Dean. A solo show of Dean鈥檚 work is currently running at Mendes Wood DM鈥檚 Brussels gallery space and he is also featured in the Watou Arts Festival, in Belgium. Meanwhile, the American artist Alma Allen, who will present his first European solo exhibition at Mendes Wood DM Brussels in September, as well as in the city鈥檚 Museum Van Buuren, has a series of small sculptures installed indoors. Their organic forms, realized in bronze, marble and obsidian, are in dialogue with the geometries and material dichotomies of the Japanese artist Kishio Suga鈥檚 wood sculptures.
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