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Letters to Artists
* Introduction to contemporary art through letters Philippe Van Cauteren, director of the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art (S.M.A.K.) in Ghent, has for many years written letters to artists all over the world. He directs his thoughts in a very personal manner to artists who inspire him. Van Cauteren's letters are written in a straightforward and accessible way; at times, they even verge on poetic. They offer an insight into how a curator experiences and interprets art, and also provide a clear and succinct introduction to the work of each artist to whom he writes. This richly illustrated book contains more than 100 letters. In an introductory manifesto - a final letter to Jan Hoet, his p...
Jan Van Imschoot
A comprehensive overview of the oeuvre of Belgian painter Jan Van Imschoot A comprehensive overview of the oeuvre of Belgian painter Jan Van Imschoot (b. 1963), whose contemporary work builds bridges to predecessors such as Caravaggio, Tintoretto, Goya, and Manet. Van Imschoot's painting consciously opts for a clear, sometimes contradictory and ironic style. The directness of his decisive brushwork and his balanced yet audacious use of color is strikingly contemporary, while his work draws on historical themes from literature and art history. In this way, Van Imschoot engages in a continuous dialogue with the past, in which he, with a dose of cynicism, often targets phenomena or figures that find themselves on the fringes of (contemporary) society. Bringing together more than 220 works by Van Imschoot with five accompanying texts, this book gives fresh insight into the painting practice of this Belgian master.
S.M.A.K. Highlights for a Future
S.M.A.K. Highlights for a Future' is the first catalogue of the collection of the S.M.A.K. Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art in Ghent since its founding in 1999. The generous selection of works in this book offers a representative cross-section from a collection comprising more than two thousand works, from familiar classics, to new masterpieces, to recent acquisitions. In this way, the S.M.A.K. not only looks at the past, but first and foremost to the present and the future. 'S.M.A.K. Highlights for a Future' includes works by Francis Alÿs, Kader Attia, Francis Bacon, Nairy Baghramian, Artur Barrio, Joseph Beuys, Dara Birnbaum, Michaël Borremans, Marcel Broodthaers, Nina Canell, N. Dash, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Marlene Dumas, Mekhitar Garabedian, Zvi Goldstein, David Hammons, Georg Herold, Ann Veronica Janssens, Jac Leirner, Mark Manders, Mario Merz, Bruce Nauman, Panamarenko, Gerhard Richter, Wilhelm Sasnal, Nedko Solakov, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Luc Tuymans, Lois Weinberger, James Welling, Zhang Peili and more
Lili Dujourie
"Like the exhibition, this book is conceived in two parts. The first part is composed entirely of text - written in Dutch - with one exception, the fragment of Van Eyck's masterpiece. The second part is the one you're holding in your hands. This English version acts as the third 'exhibition space'. Dirk Pauwels, S.M.A.K.'s in-house-photographer, has taken pictures of Lili Dujourie's works in both museums in close collaboration with the artist" (Introduction).
TRACK
TRACK is an art experience taking place in the public and semi-public space of Ghent. It offers enriching and unexpected encounters with the city, its history and its inhabitants, stimulating reflection on urban realities and, in a wider sense, the contemporary human condition. Thirty-five international artists were invited to conceive new artworks strongly rooted in the urban fabric of Ghent, but linking the local context with issues of global significance. Participants include multi-media artist John Bock, performance artist and choreographer Alexandra Bachzetsis, painter Erik van Lieshout, and visual artist Mircea Cantor, among many others.0Exhibition: Gent (12.5.-16.9.2012).
SMAK Highlights for a Future
S.M.A.K. Highlights for a Future est le premier catalogue de la collection du S.M.A.K., Musée municipal d'art actuel de Gand, depuis son inauguration en 1999. La généreuse sélection d'oeuvres ainsi réunie est représentative d'une collection qui en compte plus de deux mille, des classiques célèbres aux acquisitions récentes, en passant par les nouveaux chefs-d'oeuvre. Le S.M.A.K. profite ainsi de cette occasion pour considérer non seulement le passé, mais aussi le présent et le futur. Avec entre autres des oeuvres de Francis Alÿs, Kader Attia, Francis Bacon, Nairy Baghramian, Artur Barrio, Joseph Beuys, Dara Birnbaum, Michaël Borremans, Marcel Broodthaers, Nina Canell, N. Dash, ...
Werner Mannaers
CONTENTS: Brief aan Werner Mannaers / Letter to Werner Mannaers / Vormen oplossen tot er verhalen overblijven (Of hoe niet willen kunnen kunst kan zijn) / Catalogus / Catalogue / Index. Exhibition: S.M.A.K., Gent, 18.10.2008-18.1.2009.
Diasporalia
Twaalf bronzen matrassen in twee rijen opgesteld in de Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal van Antwerpen. De kunstinstallatie Diasporalia van Koen Theys, in het teken van het barokjaar, is dramatisch en roept meteen vragen op. Wat heeft zich hier afgespeeld? Waar zijn de mensen bij wie die spullen hoorden? Diasporalia brengt de vluchtelingencrisis akelig dichtbij maar houdt ze, door een uiterste stilering en esthetisering, tegelijk ook op een afstand.00Met twaalf speciaal voor dit boekje geschreven gedichten van Dimitri Verhulst, een brief aan de kunstenaar van SMAK-directeur Philippe Van Cauteren en essays van kunstfilosofe Kathy de Nève en Bart Paepen, pastoor van de Antwerpse kathedraal.00Exhibition: Antwerpen Barok 2018, Onze-Lieve-Vrouwenkathedraal, Antwerp, Belgium (01.06.2018 - 13.01.2019).
Guillaume Bijl: Installations & Compositions
This monograph offers a fascinating insight into the Belgian artist's oeuvre. Following Bijl's own order criteria, the book contains the transformation-, situation- and sorry- installations - compositions that establish aesthetical situations which seduce the viewer tacitly while s/he is being deluded by one thing in particular: reality. the catalogue raisonné summarises Guillaume Bijl's works which are elaborate and cryptical at the same time. Essays, an interview, also an excerpt from Georges Perec's novel Die Dinge and a short theatre piece by Bijl show the multi-faceted abundance of the individual works and the concepts behind them. Often Bijl authentically reconstructs sites which do not exist like this in reality. Described in his quizzical as well as disturbing way is Bijl's Death Room for a Composer, arranged in 1991 for a fictitious contemporary composer named Johannes Vogl. Also included is the installation Archeological Site which caused a sensation at skulptur projekte münster 07 in 2007.
Studio Matters Plus One
Massimo Bartolini (b.1962, Cecina, Italy) makes sculptures and large-scale immersive installations that change space and our experience of it. Although his work encompasses other media such as photography, drawing and performance, this book presents two installation works and a selection of small 'studioworks' made between 1994 and 2012, mostly in the last decade. Contents include an introduction from Fiona Bradley, Director of The Fruitmarket Gallery and Phillipe Van Cauteren, Director of S.M.A.K. Ghent, and an extended conversation between both gallery directors and Massimo Bartolini in the artist's studio in 2012.
