Lesley Vance and Ilse Roosens | In Conversation | Xavier Hufkens
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- čas přidán 29. 01. 2024
- In this new video, Lesley Vance discusses the exhibition, "Fired and painted" (23 November 2023-3 February 2024) with curator Ilse Roosens.
“I think what activates Ken Price’s work is gesture. It is that feeling of his hand over different parts of the sculpture. Certainly, that’s a connection I feel with his work - the importance of gesture on something that feels so finished and controlled.”
"Fired and painted" brings together a recent series of paintings by Lesley Vance and a group of ceramic sculptures by Ken Price. Two American artists of different generations and disciplines but whose abstract works share a number of affinities. Taking scale as a departure point, Vance has pushed her practice in new directions for this exhibition, her fifth with the gallery.
Lesley Vance (b. 1977, Milwaukee, WI, USA) is an abstract painter whose visual language is rooted in her early engagement with still-life painting. Seeking to move beyond the boundaries of representation, Vance departs from entirely invented and improvised forms, which she brings towards the allusion of a physical reality. Working wet-on-wet in concentrated bursts of activity, the artist follows her intuition and allows form and colour to develop their own individual trajectories.
From the 1950s onwards, Ken Price (b. 1935, Los Angeles, CA; d. 2012, Taos, NM, USA) committed to clay as a material and was a key figure in the rising Los Angeles art scene. His small-scale brightly coloured ceramic sculptures have been equally inspired by ancient Mexican earthenware, traditional folk pottery and the Bauhaus fusion of crafts and fine arts. Developing high craftsmanship, he handmade very different series of abstract and biomorphic forms imbued with suggestive associations.
Ilse Roosens is a curator currently working at Mu.ZEE in Ostend (BE), the museum for modern and contemporary Belgian art. Post-colonial, geopolitical, ecofeminist and post-capitalist topics lay the groundwork for her work both inside and outside the museum. Ilse Roosens questions existing power structures and focuses on the social responsibility of institutions, governments and artists. Co-authorship and polyphony are focal points of her working ethic. She is actively rethinking the formats for presenting collections by experimenting with transhistorical and transcultural concepts.
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