Room II
Panamarenko – PANAMARENKO Revisited
Room III
Kasia Fudakowski – Where is your alibi, Mr. Motorway?
Room I
Collector’s Room #2
17 March–28 April 2013
Deweer Gallery
Tiegemstraat 6A
8553 Otegem, Belgium
Room II
Panamarenko – PANAMARENKO Revisited
solo exhibition
With this exhibition Deweer Gallery pushes forward the work of one of those visual artists who during the last 50 years has appealed most to our imagination. Panamarenko is a fixed value in Deweer Gallery’s program. The gallery presents the art of the Antwerp master since 1981. His first one-man show in Otegem goes back to 1983, 30 years ago.
In 2005, on the occasion of his extensive retrospective exhibition at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels, Panamarenko decided to stop making art, although Deweer Gallery still owns a more than a sufficient number of pieces to build a fascinating exhibition. Panamarenko Revisited contains numerous unique and historical objects, such as the V1 Barada Jet (1991) and the Arlikoop (2004), some exceptionally large drawings, as well as the multiples Deweer Gallery has edited with Panamarenko in the course of the years past.
Panamarenko was born Antwerp, Belgium, in 1940. He lives in Michelbeke, Belgium.
Room III
Kasia Fudakowski – Where is your alibi, Mr. Motorway?
solo exhibition
Kasia Fudakowski was born in London in 1985. She lives and works in Berlin.
Kasia Fudakowski’s sculptural practice provides a totally independent view of artistic production in a social context. Both her sculptures, which often hover somewhere between figurative and abstract, and her sculptural practice-related performances and videos refer to her interest in the theory and philosophy of humour. Fudakowski focuses on the immediate, tense relationship between artist and audience, on patterns of expectation, representational ideals, theatricality, and the interpretation of objects as identities. Her fascination for the tremendous critical potential for humour as a comment on human failure, especially when it comes to social systems, is a crucial feature.
In Where is your alibi, Mr Motorway?, her first solo show in Belgium, the artist forces her works into a courtroom context. In a statement referring to the new work, Fudakowski says: “…mixing modern international criminal justice and more medieval, village-oriented forms of assessment, the theatre of the courtroom drama is merged with the in-between-televised-boredom of international tribunals. One object is standing trial. The sculpture, formally known as G.S.O.H. henceforth to be referred to as ‘Mr. Motorway’, is the defendant. Amongst other things, he points to the evidence cabinet, which hangs somewhere between wall and ceiling, displaying ‘evidence’ which seems decidedly homemade… He points to the medieval-style line-up table, to the imposing courtroom architecture, the quickly assembled benches; boxlike, rigid and always out of wood. And all the while he spins, the soundtrack/transcript of the show/trial seeps relentlessly out of the black room. A film establishing the laws of the land using stumbling animation, fumbling audio and momentary flashes of visual evidence fills the screen. Here the horror emerges from the comic. A system of sentencing based on evidence moulded from salt dough, justice on the basis of sporadic knots in wood, a jury of extras picked from the gathering crowd, a legal system based only on local precedents, judgment as a public’s ‘series finale’ gift to itself…. The danger is that the system might well fail the system itself.”
Room I
Collector’s Room #2
Collector’s Room #2 will be composed as a function of the ‘Start2Art’-initiative of JCI Waregem. On Friday evening, March 22, and on Saturday, March 23, JCI organizes an ‘Art Tasting’ event at Deweer Gallery to introduce a broad audience to contemporary art, with special attention to the price of art. Participation in the workshops is by subscription only. Please visit www.start2art.eu.
Collector’s Room #2 runs until April 28. More information at www.start2art.eu.
More information at www.deweergallery.com.
