2013/14 - LISTE 18 | The young art fair in Basel

Platteau0/9/1Elisa Platteau GalerieElisa PlatteauVarkensmarkt12 Rue du Marché aux PorcsBE-1000 BrusselsM +32 485 14 23 65info@elisaplatteau.comwww.elisaplatteau.comShown at LISTE:Valérie Mannaerts, 1974, BEJurgen Ots, 1978, BEMichael Van den Abeele, 1974, BEOther Artists of the Gallery:Jeffrey Clancy, USAnne Daems, BEDavid Robilliard, UKJurgen OtsDisque d’Or(prototype series),2012Mixed media33 × 32 × 1.5 cm146 / 147…Belgium, one might say, has no singleart scene. Or it may be, perhaps, moreaccurate to say that Belgium, built as it ison divergent historic, linguistic, and culturalfoundations and given its essentiallyirreverent attitude towards anything thatwould package it into a clear and tangibleunity, has managed to resist having a‘scene’ at all. In this context, Elena Filipovic& Anne-Claire Schmitz invited for theexhibition Un-Scene II at Wiels last yearon what some might, in shorthand, call theemerging Belgian art scene where for thesecond edition Michael Van den Abeeletook part. Van den Abeele’s firm hand dragsthe viewer back into the vortex of a neonoirsensibility that for some time has beenrecognized as the hallmark of Brussels’particular cultural environment.Valérie Mannaerts took part into the firstedition of Un-Scene in 2008 and shows forthe second time at LISTE 18 as she hasa solo show (curated by Catherine Wood) atBozar from June until September in parallelwith the Giorgio Morandi retrospectivethat cannot be ignored. Mannaerts extendsthe medium of collage to include threedimensionalobjects. She raises questionsabout the relationship between organicand inorganic forms, the autonomy of objects,and the stories that reverberate in them.With a variety of different materials shecreates hybrid and unruly forms.Furthermore is Galerie Elisa Platteauproud to show fort he first time the newworks by Jurgen Ots. Director Bill Arningfrom the Contemporary Arts MuseumHouston, Texas, reflects on his new work:Ots takes found screens apart as aspectacularly loaded material, slicing theminto strips to better understand theirpower. He also combines ones from differentperiods, and as particularly volatile materialthe older ones are more yellowed- themost universal comprehensible…