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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NEW EXHIBITION BY BELGIUM ARTIST ANDY WAUMAN
Calligraphs & Body Traps 書法與肉體羅網
JANUARY 8th - FEBRUARY 19th, 2009
The artist will be in Hong Kong and available for interviews
ABOUT ANDY WAUMAN (born 1975 in Belgium)
Within an upcoming movement of European young artists using the language of the social and commercial context they grew up in, with the so-called popular culture and media as basic ingredients, Andy Wauman's feeling for materials and meaning is a marker. His use of photography and his sculptural treatment of unusual materials is unique.
Wauman's works speak about the possibility of freedom. They are messages with a romantic sense for anarchy and love. In his statements, he often uses images that have been violated, multiplied and copied by commercial media. He recuperates common metaphors and symbols and gives them back their original romantic touch or even ideological meaning. The poetic quality is striking. Wauman's work combines subdued social criticism with a slumbering mythical desire for eternal freedom.
Andy Wauman comments on the nature of his artistic personality:
"Generally my work has it's origins in my conviction that a truly living culture can only arise from social structures and that the only theory a contemporary artist can feed on is necessarily a social one. I do not recycle existing forms, I try to make new ones based on my own background. Which is what distinguishes an artist from a marketeer. I try to inject the spontaneous energy from the street into my artistic practice, and I create my own contribution to the 'revolution of everyday life' in the shape of texts and objects.
Therefor, a recurrent element in my work is my protesting against cynicism and a preference for the sensuality and romantic value of the materials of the street, the ones the vagabond knows better than the bourgeois. But rather than a political activist, I like to call myself a poetical terrorist."
BIOGRAPHY
Selected solo and group exhibitions
2009
Calligraphs & Body Traps, Art Statements Gallery, Hong Kong
You Ganna Make It Where, Open Art Space, Cologne, Germany
solo show at Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
2008
Laugh Track, Brussels Biennial / Off Program, YUM 21C, Brussels, Belgium
UPDATE, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
Error #10: Error One at Extra City, Antwerp, Belgium
Open Ateliers, Rijksacademy for Visual Arts, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Doing it my way. Perspectives on Belgian Art, Museum Küppersmühle for Modern Art, Duisburg, Germany
Director's Cut, Zuiderzeemuseum, Enkhuizen, The Netherlands
The Hands of Art, Martha Herford Museum for Contemporary Art, Herford, Germany
The Hands of Art, SMAK, Museum for Contemporary Art, Gent, Belgium
POP EYE. The art of music / The music of art, Old prison, Hasselt, Belgium
Together with Veronique Branquinho, MOMU ModeMuseum & Flanders Fashion Institute, Antwerp, Belgium
Untitled, Space for Contemporary Art, Pesc, Hungary
2007
Black Marks / The Mask That Fails To Touch The Face, Project Room South, Rijksacademy for Visual Arts, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Dance Wires Rose Thorns, ArtBrussels 07, Deweer Art Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience: The Breda Break, Lokaal 01, Breda, The Netherlands
Surfaces, Flanders Fashion Insitute, Antwerp, Belgium
Small Stuff three (Meeting Lohaus), Herrman Teirlinckhuis & Frankveld, Beersel, Belgium
Isel Foundation, Merelbeke, Belgium
Sway, Gallery Analix Forever, Geneva, Switserland
To Be Political It Has To Look Nice, Annette De Keyser Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Black,White, Gold, Yellow and Blue, Gallery Klerkx, Milano, Italy
Art Brussels Fair, Brussels, Belgium
The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience, NICC, Antwerp, Belgium
Floods. 10 floods for one city, Saint Agostino Exhibiting Space in cooperation with GAMeC ( Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art ) at Bergamo, Italy
2006
Wet Feet Bet, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
Artist Without Borders, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Przemysl, Poland
Shibboleth, Café Gallery Projects, London, UK
First Sudden Gone the One. First Sudden Back, at Project 133, Londen, UK
PERSEvérance, Het Godshuis, Sint-Laureins, Belgium
2005
There should be no law for anybody, Window Gallery - Walter Van Beirendonck, Antwerp, Belgium
CHAT & CHAT 2005 - Dialoog I, Etoiles-Polaires & Vis à Vis Art Lab, Xiamen, China
Expo Coquina!, Antwerp, Belgium
Dialect 02, Gun Shooting Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
T142, Deweer Art Gallery, Transfo Zwevegem, Belgium
SuperHasselt, Z33, Hasselt, Belgium
2004
98% Belgian, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp, Belgium
Free Space NICC, Hessenhuis Museum, Antwerp, Belgium
2003
932m³, Gun Shooting Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Art Meets Inkjet, BOX 38, Oostende, Belgium
Young talents, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp, Belgium
Vitrine 2003, Flanders Fashion Institute, Antwerp, Belgium
2002
A Ticket To The Big Toe, online exhibition, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp, Belgium
Untitled, 2060 Vision Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
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