Archives de catégorie : Aglaia Konrad

Aglaia Konrad, Le ciel devant soi, couvent des Jacobins, Toulouse

Aglaia Konrad participe à l’exposition « Le Ciel devant soi, photographie et architecture religieuse » au Couvent des Jacobins à Toulouse, dans le cadre du festival « Printemps de Septembre ».

Le Ciel devant soi rassemble le travail de huit artistes européens, qui tous photographient des églises. Autour de ce sujet, s’ouvre un véritable panorama des pratiques contemporaines de la photographie. Témoignant tour à tour des plus ambitieux accomplissements de l’architecture, du rapport irrésolu à la transcendance ou des cahots de l’Histoire, les bâtiments religieux permettent les observations les plus variées. Les artistes se sont donc emparés de ce sujet, l’un pour exalter l’esthétique de ces monuments, l’autre pour raconter des transformations urbaines et sociales, pour questionner le fonctionnement de ces machines à faire croire, pour montrer l’irruption formelle de la modernité, pour chercher la trace d’une idée dans le béton, ou encore évoquer les souvenirs d’un front de guerre. Bref, si les théologiens décrivent l’architecture sacrée comme « un morceau d’espace fini qui nous protège de l’infini », pour les photographes du Ciel devant soi, c’est avant tout « une vraie source de vie quotidienne ». Avec : Eric Tabucchi, Fabrice Fouillet, Angèle Laissue, Cyril Porchet, David Spero, Christof Klute, Markus Brunetti, Aglaia Konrad

Du 2 juin au 17 septembre 2017

Aglaia Konrad

Aglaia Konrad, Concrete & Samples I Wotruba Wien, 16mm transferred to video, color, 4:3, no sound, BE, 2009, 13’37 »

Aglaia Konrad, Concrete & Samples II Blockhaus, film 16mm transféré sur DVD, couleur, 4:3, sans son, Belgique, 2009, 9′50″.

Aglaia Konrad, Concrete & Samples II Blockhaus, 16mm transferred to video, color, 4:3, no sound, BE, 2009, 9’50 »

Concrete & Samples I, II, III is a series of 16mm films on sculptural architecture. What the buildings and site in all films have in common is the idea of ‘architecture as sculpture’ and a very distinct use of concrete that seem to depart from the free form of the whole in a sculptural manner. In the absence of a traditional narrative, it is the space itself, that takes the role of the protagonist, while the camera proposes a narration through its travel and observation.
Blockhaus, the Eglise St.Bernadette-du-Banlay designed by Claude Parent and Paul Virilio in Nevers, France, has a compact form: monolithic, a cryptic building, a raw concrete bunker. Built upon a utopian idea, the inside with its ‘sureface oblique’ (two oblique ramps) creates a spatial dynamic in the matrix of time.
The church of Fritz Wotruba, in Vienna looks like an enlarged piece of abstract sculpture, a kind of three-dimensional synthetic cubist arrangement of 152 concrete blocks arranged vertically and horizontally, but asymmetrically, in which the narrow spaces produced in-between are made use of as windows and doors.

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Aglaia Konrad, Pol Pierart, Turning Photography, website

Aglaia Konrad et Pol Pierart ont été sélectionnés par le website Turning Photography, mis en ligne à l’occasion du solo de Dirk Braeckman au Pavillon belge de la 57e biennale de Venise.

Aglaia Konrad

Shaping Stones, 2016
25 b/w digital prints pasted on wall
482 × 722 cm
From A to K, Museum M, Leuven, Belgium, 2016

Pol Pierart

Sans titre (Sauter au plafond), 2000
Photographie NB, tirage argentique sur papier baryté, 9,8 × 14,2 cm
Edition 10/10

Flanders Arts Institute, Wallonia-Brussels Federation, BOZAR – Centre for Fine Arts Brussels, FOMU – Fotomuseum and M – Museum Leuven are happy to announce an online special on Belgian contemporary photography in the framework of the Belgian Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale

Turning Photography: exploring the edges of Belgian contemporary photography
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Dirk Braeckman’s selection for the Belgian Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale prompted us to turn the spotlight on some of the most audacious artists working in the medium of photography in Belgium today. Their self-reflexive attitude has led to new and daring attempts to redefine the possibilities of the photographic system. Turning Photography unfolds a curated selection of artists’ portraits and essays by prominent critics.

Next to a broad selection of older, more established artists and photographers, Turning Photography focuses on a generation of up-and-coming photographers and visual artists. Their work has been chosen because of its candour and lack of reverence towards more conventional photographic practices.

Turning Photography features a series of commissioned essays and interviews by renowned critics as well as a selection of portraits of artists whose work leads to an experimental exploration and critical re-evaluation of the role of the photographer in the broader field of contemporary visual art and culture. Turning Photography offers an insight into the different positions of artists that exemplify today’s tendency to take the medium to the edges.

With artists’ portraits of Sammy Baloji, Charif Benhelima, David Bergé, Thomas Bernardet, Sébastien Bonin, Dirk Braeckman, Marie José Burki, Tom Callemin, Alexandre Christiaens, David Claerbout, Collectif La Grotte, Michel Couturier, Bert Danckaert, Katrien De Blauwer, Marc De Blieck, Anne De Gelas, Philippe De Gobert, Arnaud De Wolf, Vincent Delbrouck, Lot Doms, Patrick Everaert, Gilbert Fastenaekens, Lara Gasparotto, Agnès Geoffray, Geert Goiris, Liesbet Grupping, Solal Israel, Jan Kempenaers, Stephanie Kiwitt, Aglaia Konrad, Pierre Liebaert, Charlotte Lybeer, Chantal Maes, Katja Mater, Michel Mazzoni, Ria Pacquée, Pol Pierart, Max Pinckers, Benoit Platéus, Sébastien Reuzé, Bruno V. Roels, Stéphanie Roland, Dominique Somers, Jean-François Spricigo, Ana Torfs, Egon Van Herreweghe, Sine Van Menxel, Yoann Van Parys, Els Vanden Meersch, Wim Wauman, Sarah Westphal.

With essays by Steven Humblet, Danielle Leenaerts, Anne-Françoise Lesuisse, Arjen Mulder and Joachim Naudts.

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Résonances (part II), Aglaia Konrad, Undecided Frames

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Undecided frames, 2016 (Porto 2011) colors photography, 41 x 54 cm.Edition 1/1

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Aglaia Konrad

Aglaia Konrad
Undecided frames, 2016 (Creteil 1999) colors photography, 41 x 54 cm. Edition 1/1

(…) In refusing to choose, Konrad also reclaims her position as an intermediary between image and viewer. Bringing the differences between the two images (however small they might be) to the notice of the viewer, she makes clear that every photographic image is the result of her subjective choices. Moreover, by naming these double takes « undecided » she manoeuvres the viewer into a situation he normally never has to deal with, the moment of choosing being a solitary moment, safely hidden from the prying eyes of the public. Now the question of choosing becomes our problem: are we supposed to make the choice Konrad didn’t want to make? Maybe, but for us, this idea of choosing is even more senseless than it was for her, because we have no stake in this choice. The only option we are left with is to nod our head from left to right (and back again), searching in vain for a way out of this either/both/neither dilemma. We find ourselves forever stuck in the impossible logic of the photographic system. (…)

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Aglaia Konrad, The Brutalism Appreciation Society, HMKV, Dortmund, les images

In the mid-1950s, the architectural style known as Brutalism emerged in the United Kingdom. It is characterized by exposed concrete walls and building materials such as metal and bricks. Today it is increasingly vanishing from the urban landscape, since these buildings, most of which are not protected as historical landmarks, are gradually being demolished.

At the same time, fan groups are forming, also in the Internet. They include, for example, the Facebook group The Brutalism Appreciation Society, whose 50,000+ members work to preserve the remains of urban architecture of the 1950s and 1960s. Inspired by the activities of this group, the exhibition The Brutalism Appreciation Society is showing 21 international artists who are engaging with the Brutalist architectural style of postwar modernism as well as a selection of contributions from the eponymous Facebook group.

Aglaia Konrad

Concrete & Samples II Blockhaus
16 mm transferred to video, color, 4:3, no sound, BE, 2009,
9’50 » Image Sébastien Koeppel. Editing Aglaia Konrad, Fairuz. Colorgrading Sébastien Koeppel. Produced by Auguste Orts

Concrete & Samples I Wotruba Wien
16 mm transferred to video, color, 4:3, no sound, BE, 2009, 13’37. Image Vincent Pinckaers . Editing Aglaia Konrad & Fairuz. Colorgrading Sébastien Koeppel.
Produced by Auguste Orts

Poursuivant son exploration des formes sculpturales de l’architecture, Aglaia Konrad parvient dans ce film à saisir toute la puissance brutaliste de l’Eglise de la Sainte Trinité (1976), chef-d’œuvre expressionniste de l’artiste autrichien Fritz Wotruba (1907-1975). Guidé par son approche tectonique de la sculpture de pierre, Wotruba réalise à Vienne une construction monumentale en misant sur l’empilement et l’enchevêtrement de gigantesques blocs de béton. La caméra d’Aglaia Konrad devient le meilleur témoin d’une architecture spirituelle unifiée dans le chaos, dont l’image primitive et atemporelle renvoie aux mégalithes sacrés de Stonehenge. Concrete & Samples II Blockhaus présente l’Église Sainte-Bernadette du Banlay de Nevers, conçue par Claude Parent et Paul Virilio. Monolithique, énigmatique, elle apparaît comme un bunker en béton brut. Construite selon une idée utopique, l’espace intérieur présente deux rampes obliques qui créent une dynamique spatiale. Dernier film de la trilogie, Concrete & Samples III Carrara montre la célèbre carrière de marbre du même nom. Ce paysage toujours en évolution paraît avoir été sculpté, semble comporter des architectures temporaires et fait de nombreuses références à l’histoire de l’art.

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Aglaia Konrad, The Brutalism Appreciation Society, HMKV, Dortmund

Aglaia Konrad

Aglaia Konrad
Shaping Stones, 2016
Installation au Musée M, Leuven

Aglaia Konrad participe à l’exposition :

The Brutalism Appreciation Society
HMKV Dortmund
8.04.2017 > 24.09.2017
Opening on Friday, 7 April 2017, at 7 pm at the HMKV at the Dortmunder U, Level 3
Leonie-Reygers-Terrasse, 44137 Dortmund, Germany

In the mid-1950s, the architectural style known as Brutalism emerged in the United Kingdom. It is characterized by exposed concrete walls and building materials such as metal and bricks. Today it is increasingly vanishing from the urban landscape, since these buildings, most of which are not protected as historical landmarks, are gradually being demolished.

At the same time, fan groups are forming, also in the Internet. They include, for example, the Facebook group The Brutalism Appreciation Society, whose 50,000+ members work to preserve the remains of urban architecture of the 1950s and 1960s. Inspired by the activities of this group, the exhibition The Brutalism Appreciation Society is showing 21 international artists who are engaging with the Brutalist architectural style of postwar modernism as well as a selection of contributions from the eponymous Facebook group.

The HMKV exhibition is being presented in parallel to Documenta in Kassel and Skulptur Projekte in Münster.

An exhibition with contributions by Bettina Allamoda (DE), Jordi Colomer (ES), Darco FBI (DE/FR), EVOL (DE), Darko Fritz (HR), Anne-Valérie Gasc (FR), Niklas Goldbach (DE), Freya Hattenberger & Peter Simon (DE/PL), Alekos Hofstetter (DE), Martin Kohout (CZ), Aglaia Konrad (AT/BE), Nicolas Moulin (FR), Reto Müller (CH), Andrea Pichl (DE), Heidi Specker (DE), Philip Topolovac (DE), Kay Walkowiak (AT), Ruben Woodin Dechamps & Oscar Hudson (UK), Tobias Zielony (DE)

Curator : Dr. Inke Arns

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Aglaia Konrad, Copy Construct, CC Mechelen, ce 24 mars

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Copy Cities, 2003 – 2004
12 cahiers DIN A4, photocopies couleurs et NB, édition 7/7 sous custode. #01 Urban creatures
#02 Desert Cities
#03 Dakar (survey #01)
#04 Les jumelles
#05 Elasticity Spread
#06 Suburbs
#07 Dakar Cuts
#08 Seoul (survey #02)
#09 Undecided Frames
#10 Some Cities
#11 Makowsky’s Bungalow Colony, High Falls, NY
#12 Hoover Over

Aglaia Konrad participe à l’exposition « Copy Construct » (curated by Kasper Andreasen) au Centre Culturel de Mechelen (Malines).
25 mars > 4 juin. Vernissage ce 24 mars à 20h.

The exhibition Copy Construct departs from different artistic practices and speci c works by artists that are based on ‘reproduction’ or ‘copy’. The selected works are inherent to the production of printed matter or artist’s books. This implies that different artistic media such as painting, drawing, photography, video, sculpture, and graphic design can manifest themselves through graphical problematics and their meanings.
Alongside the 25 works of the artists, a little less than 300 books from the KASK collection (School of Arts, Ghent) and private collections from Belgium and England are displayed in the exhibition. The exhibition architecture is designed by Kris Kimpe and Koenrad Dedobbeleer and is accompanied by a publication, designed by Joris Dockx, which includes a bibliography of the exhibited books, different contributions by the artists, an interview with a book collector, etc.

Curated by Kasper Andreasen

With work by: Kasper Andreasen, Peter Downsbrough, Vincent Geyskens & Jan Op de Beeck, Henri Jacobs, Jan Kempenaers, Kris Kimpe & Koenraad Dedobbeleer Stephanie Kiwitt, Aglaia Konrad, Alon Levin, Sara MacKillop, Gregorio Magnani, Marc Nagtzaam, Willem Oorebeek, Frans Oosterhof, Ria Pacquée, Simon Popper, Guy Rombouts, Mitja Tušek, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven (Club Moral) & the KASK Collection et al.

and publications by: Brumaria, Sébastien Conard, Arnaud Desjardins, De Enschedese School, Mekhitar Garabedian, Thomas Geiger (Mark Pezinger Verlag), Jef Geys, Groepsdruk (& others), Karl Holmqvist, Jochen Lempert, Louis Lüthi, Jurgen Maelfeyt, Mark Manders, Karel Martens, Tine Melzer, Dan Mitchell, Kristen Mueller, Olaf Nicolai, Sophie Nys, Quick Magazine, Kurt Ryslavy, Joachim Schmid, David Sherry, Erik Steinbrecher, Derek Sullivan, Elisabeth Tonnard, This Week, Erik van der Weijde, Maud Vande Veire, Gert Verhoeven, Leen Voet, Jan Voss, Fritz Welch

Aglaia Konrad

Aglaia Konrad & Willem Oorebeek
6 memo’s for the beloved.
System – Curiousity – Memory – Form – Display – Simplicity Lithographies, 2016

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Aglaia Konrad, Undecided Frames, Arco Madrid, preview

UNDECIDED FRAMES The decision to call the property of similarity between particular kinds of photos, usually two, undecidable, and thus create an entirely new way of looking at these photos, is, in the view of his author, a hugely courageous choice.

Aglaia Konrad

Aglaia Konrad
Undecided frames, 2016 (Cologne 2015)
colors photography, 41 x 54 cm. Ed 3/3 + 2 ep.a.

Aglaia Konrad

Aglaia Konrad
Undecided frames, 2016 ( (Sibérie 1994)
colors photography, 41 x 54 cm.Ed 3/3 + 2 ep.a.

Aglaia Konrad

Aglaia Konrad
Undecided frames, 2016 (Carrara, 2010)
colors photography, 41 x 54 cm. Ed 3/3 + 2 ep.a.

Aglaia Konrad

Aglaia Konrad
Undecided frames, 2016 (désert de Gobi, 2000)
colors photography, 41 x 54 cm. Ed 3/3 + 2 ep.a.

Aglaia Konrad

Aglaia Konrad
Undecided frames, 2016 (Chicago 1998)
colors photography, 41 x 54 cm. Ed 3/3 + 2 ep.a.

Aglaia Konrad

Aglaia Konrad
Undecided frames, 2016 (Créteil 1999)
colors photography, 41 x 54 cm. Ed 3/3 + 2 ep.a.

Aglaia Konrad

Aglaia Konrad
Undecided frames, 2016 ( (Vienna 2008)
colors photography, 41 x 54 cm. Ed 3/3 + 2 ep.a.

Aglaia Konrad

Aglaia Konrad
Undecided frames, 2016 (Grande Dixence 2012)
colors photography, 41 x 54 cm. Ed 3/3 + 2 ep.a.

Aglaia Konrad

Aglaia Konrad
Undecided frames, 2016 (Porto 2011)
colors photography, 41 x 54 cm. Ed 3/3 + 2 ep.a.

Aglaia Konrad

Aglaia Konrad
Undecided frames, 2016 (Tokyo 2010)
colors photography, 41 x 54 cm. Ed 3/3 + 2 ep.a.

Aglaia Konrad

Aglaia Konrad
Undecided frames, 2016 (Hérémence 2012)
colors photography, 41 x 54 cm. Ed 3/3 + 2 ep.a.

Aglaia Konrad

Aglaia Konrad
Undecided frames, 2016 (Hong-Kong 2006)
colors photography, 41 x 54 cm. Ed 3/3 + 2 ep.a.

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