Out of this World
The Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens is pleased to announce the opening of Out of This World 鈥攁 line-up of three solo presentations comprising a comprehensive exhibition of works by the late German artist Blinky Palermo (1943鈥�1977), a sculptural installation by American artist Robert Grosvenor (掳1937), and an intervention by Belgian artist Luc Tuymans (掳1958). Each of the three presentations offers its own account of how everyday gestures, things, and sights become poetic statements, simultaneously blurring and reinforcing the distinction between art and non-art, art and social reality, popular culture, mass communication, etc.
Curated by Ory Dessau, the current line-up of presentations begins with and evolves from Blinky Palermo鈥檚 exhibition. A leading model figure of the European scene of the 1960s鈥�1970s, Palermo鈥檚 work suggests a unique and inexhaustible equation informed by the aesthetic of geometric abstraction and the conceptual consequences following the invention of the ready-made. Palermo examines the artistic act from the inside 鈥� as an idiosyncratic cosmology determined and regulated by the artist 鈥� as well as from the outside 鈥� reflecting on the status of the creative outcome as an object in the world. Known for his exploration of the specific architectural givens of the physical exhibition site, in his practice Palermo raises the question with regard to the place of art, localizing it each time anew based on the actual gallery space, its concrete conditions of light, and the individual perception of the viewer therein. In this sense, Palermo鈥檚 exhibition at the Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens incorporates its setting into the displayed works, which unfold in space within a score-like arrangement encapsulating the different parts of his oeuvre, from wall paintings to cotton paintings and works on paper.
The title Out of This World attempts to capture Palermo鈥檚 strategy of combining modified ready-made elements 鈥渇rom the world鈥� while elevating them towards the 鈥渙ut-worldly鈥� domain of abstract art.
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The Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens is pleased to announce the opening of Out of This World 鈥攁 line-up of three solo presentations comprising a comprehensive exhibition of works by the late German artist Blinky Palermo (1943鈥�1977), a sculptural installation by American artist Robert Grosvenor (掳1937), and an intervention by Belgian artist Luc Tuymans (掳1958). Each of the three presentations offers its own account of how everyday gestures, things, and sights become poetic statements, simultaneously blurring and reinforcing the distinction between art and non-art, art and social reality, popular culture, mass communication, etc.
Curated by Ory Dessau, the current line-up of presentations begins with and evolves from Blinky Palermo鈥檚 exhibition. A leading model figure of the European scene of the 1960s鈥�1970s, Palermo鈥檚 work suggests a unique and inexhaustible equation informed by the aesthetic of geometric abstraction and the conceptual consequences following the invention of the ready-made. Palermo examines the artistic act from the inside 鈥� as an idiosyncratic cosmology determined and regulated by the artist 鈥� as well as from the outside 鈥� reflecting on the status of the creative outcome as an object in the world. Known for his exploration of the specific architectural givens of the physical exhibition site, in his practice Palermo raises the question with regard to the place of art, localizing it each time anew based on the actual gallery space, its concrete conditions of light, and the individual perception of the viewer therein. In this sense, Palermo鈥檚 exhibition at the Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens incorporates its setting into the displayed works, which unfold in space within a score-like arrangement encapsulating the different parts of his oeuvre, from wall paintings to cotton paintings and works on paper.
The title Out of This World attempts to capture Palermo鈥檚 strategy of combining modified ready-made elements 鈥渇rom the world鈥� while elevating them towards the 鈥渙ut-worldly鈥� domain of abstract art.
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