groupshop in Ghent: 2003 --- "Without Fear or Reproach" - WITTE ZAAL
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DON'T EAT BELGIAN CHOCOLAT, 2003
approx. 40 x 50 cm belgian chocolat.
detail
9 x 12 inch; 22.9 x 30.5 cm - ball pen drawing on paper -
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detail
9 x 12 inch; 22.9 x 30.5 cm - ball pen drawing on paper -
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9 x 12 inch; 22.9 x 30.5 cm - ball pen drawing on paper -
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9 x 12 inch; 22.9 x 30.5 cm - ball pen drawing on paper -
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9 x 12 inch; 22.9 x 30.5 cm - ball pen drawing on paper -
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9 x 12 inch; 22.9 x 30.5 cm - ball pen drawing on paper -
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9 x 12 inch; 22.9 x 30.5 cm - ball pen drawing on paper -
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9 x 12 inch; 22.9 x 30.5 cm - ball pen drawing on paper -
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9 x 12 inch; 22.9 x 30.5 cm - ball pen drawing on paper -
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WORKING ON THE PREVIOUS DRAWINGS I GOT THE IDEA FOR THE FOLLOWING ONES:
(I could but I don't want to give it subtitle: 'THE GEORG W. BUSH YEARS' - historisizing him before it is over)
9 x 12 inch; 22.9 x 30.5 cm - ball pen drawing on paper -
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9 x 12 inch; 22.9 x 30.5 cm - ball pen drawing on paper -
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9 x 12 inch; 22.9 x 30.5 cm - ball pen drawing on paper -
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9 x 12 inch; 22.9 x 30.5 cm - ball pen drawing on paper -
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9 x 12 inch; 22.9 x 30.5 cm - ball pen drawing on paper -
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9 x 12 inch; 22.9 x 30.5 cm - ball pen drawing on paper -
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9 x 12 inch; 22.9 x 30.5 cm - ball pen drawing on paper -
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9 x 12 inch; 22.9 x 30.5 cm - ball pen drawing on paper -
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9 x 12 inch; 22.9 x 30.5 cm - ball pen drawing on paper -
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missing: ENEMY COMBATTANT
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exhibition website
http://www.aeroplastics.net/WFOR/WFOR_00.html
WITTE ZAAL
Posteernestraat
9000 Ghent, Belgium
director : Dirk Manesse | T: + 32 9 225 42 90 | F: +32 9 223 46 36
wittezaal@sintlucas.wenk.be | www.kunst.sintlucas.wenk.be/wittezaal
Preview Monday 17.11.2003 18.00 > 23.00 Exhibition 18.11 > 13.12.2003
The WITTE ZAAL is open from Tuesday till Friday: 12.30 - 18.00 and Saturday:
14.00 - 17.00From 18th November to 13th December 2003, the WITTE ZAAL
art center in the Belgian city of Ghent is presenting
"Without Fear or Reproach".
The irony of numbers: 9/11, the sum of all fears - 911, dialling for hope
and help as in Christoph DRAEGER's amazing 4-channel video filmed in the
streets of NY.
The exhibition, curated by the Brussels art dealer Jerome JACOBS, gathers
together the subjective visions of 19 artists, mainly living in the US,
on the aftermath of 9/11. A tragi-comic selection in a disrupted environment,
with a certain humorous optimism, as in Colin COOK's video "Everything
is Beautiful".
Since September 2001, America has managed to become the focus of worldwide
passion. The nation is hesitantly trying to re-emerge from its ashes.
Thousands of opinions have been given on why "it" happened and
why America’s retaliation has been so reckless. Politicians, sociologists
and intellectuals from all sides have told their story and still the inexplicable
remains unexplained. Or so it seems.
One of the purposes of this exhibition is to provide another course. Not
all the works in "Without Fear or Reproach" are the product
of 9/11. Some were created long before. They have indeed been wilfully
taken out of their original context. Are they visionary?
This is by no means a deliberate critique of the United States in the
new millennium. No gratuitous violence, no cheap mockery. Just the simple
display of a particular perception.
The attack on the Twin Towers gave rise to a frenetic crusade against
so-called "evil". War should have meant deliverance, helped
by the dehumanisation at the heart of this lethal game or by the aesthetic
bombing of unseen victims. Terrorism is just bloody horror with no good
reason, like John ISAACS' realistic sculpture of a dismembered booted
leg.
More precisely, fear and sorrow gave rise to unbridled anger and blind
hatred and common sense was banished. Ryan McNAMARA’s "Angry
Americans" asks the much-avoided question: Could this anger be triggered
by the absence of control?
Perhaps the perpetrators achieved their goal after all. The enemies are
crying ( Jiri DAVID's photographic series "No Compassion") but
haven’t they been wrongly identified?
Obsession creates taboos on such images as the portraits of the nineteen
9/11 terrorists, recreated by painter Joy GARNETT in a cliché of
terror.
A country that champions freedom is muzzled by secrecy, conspiracy and
restraint. The irritating whisper persists: was this the consequence or
the opportunity ?
Politics are in the line of fire. The legitimacy of leadership is created
and cancelled by a single cut and paste (Maria FRIBERG's video "No
Time to Fall", 2001), Congressmen are shown patriotically voting
through dubious policies (Jon HADDOCK's impressive ninety-eight 2-feet
high figures reconstructing US congress voting the Patriot act), and extremism
is coated in sweet phrases (drawings by Rainer GANAHL).
The media are also barracked for their improper display of reality and
for thereby influencing public opinion in a way no different to propaganda.
Misinformation can lead to a total illusion steered by anger and fear.
So, what is really so different about 9/11 ? As Leon GRODSKY expresses
in his video installation "Great Balls of Fire", surprise was
not one of the emotions felt that day.
Violence courses through America’s veins. Could things be what they
seem in David NICHOLSON's life-size painting of a man with a doberman,
who might appear suspicious, perhaps even threatening, but in Alex McQUILIKIN's
video "Teenage Daydream, it's only Rock 'n Roll", "the
passionate teenage assassin" sings innocently.
The power of art lies primarily in its blatant visibility. It can sometimes
be what it appears. That is what will shock the viewer. It is to be hoped
that, returning from this journey into madness, he may realize that violence
is just one of so many options.Churchill HAIG
October 2003