Sofia Eliza Bouratsis (3 results)

Condition: Good. 4to. 224 pp. Near Fine. Hard Cover. Patterned black boards. Color plates throughout. Text in English and French. Scarce. Heavy volume, additional shipping fees may apply. ISBN: 9782757210932 2757210939.Since the beginning of his career in the late 1980s, Wim Delvoye has sought to shift the boundaries that traditionally separate popular culture and art, decorative arts and the "fine arts", the old and the contemporary, the noble and the unclean. "Basically, Wim Delvoye makes oxymorons," writes Michel Onfray: his works indeed appear to be shot through with various contrary elements, suspended somewhere between seduction and dissonance.On the occasion of its 10th anniversary, Mudam Luxembourg invites the Belgian artist, who marked the opening of the museum with the creation of his Chapel, to occupy its spaces. Spread over two floors, the exhibition will present a wide panorama of his twenty-five years of artistic production, reflecting the formal variety as well as the conceptual coherence of his work. It also bears witness to the special relationship Delvoye maintains with Luxembourg: the Beaumont Gallery devoted a solo exhibition to him in 1994; at the same time, his works appeared in public and private collections in Luxembourg, starting with the Musée national d'histoire et d'art (MNHA) and the Grand-Ducal Court; he then participated in several group exhibitions organized by Casino Luxembourg which, in 2007, in collaboration with Mudam, also presented for the first time all of his ambitious Cloaca project.Undermining the retrospective format, Delvoye invites us to stroll through his singular work via four spaces with contrasting universes. On the ground floor, the first gallery brings together several key works from his early career directly inspired by the decorative arts of his native Flanders, concentrating on domestic and urban spaces, while the second gallery is oriented around the concept of "origins": the prosaic ones, common to every human being, but also those of art and his own practice. Upstairs, the third gallery addresses the issue of ornament and the appropriation of forms borrowed from art history, while the last space, conceived as a landscape, hosts "monuments" erected in homage to everyday life, including his recent large Gothic-inspired sculptures.Wim Delvoye was born in 1965 in Wervik, Belgium. He lives and works in Ghent.

Hardback, 297x245mm, 224p, 140 bw and col. illustrations. English/ French edition . ISBN 9782757210932. Expo: 02/7/2016 - 8/1/20176, MUDAM, Luxembourg. Depuis le debut de sa carriere, commencee des la fin des annees 1980, Wim Delvoye s'attache a deplacer les frontieres qui separent traditionnellement la culture populaire et l'art, les arts decoratifs et les beaux-arts , l'ancien et le contemporain, le noble et l'impur. En un mot, Wim Delvoye pratique l'oxymore , ecrit Michel Onfray : ses ?uvres apparaissent en effet comme traversees par differents contraires, suspendues quelque part entre la seduction et la dissonance. A l?occasion de son 10e anniversaire, le Mudam Luxembourg invite l'artiste belge, qui avait marque l?ouverture du musee avec la creation de sa Chapelle, a investir ses espaces. Se deployant sur deux etages, l'exposition presente un large panorama de ses vingt-cinq annees de production artistique, soulignant autant la variete formelle que la coherence conceptuelle de son ?uvre. Elle temoigne aussi de la relation privilegiee que Wim Delvoye entretient avec le Luxembourg : la galerie Beaumont lui consacre une exposition personnelle des 1994 0 g.

Sous la direction d'Enrico Lunghi, directeur du Musée d'Art Moderne - Mudam, Luxembourg - Avec des essais inédits de Sofia Eliza Bouratsis et de Tristan Trémeau, ainsi que le texte « Vitraux in vitro et in vivo qu?a écrit Michel Onfray en 2006, à l?occasion de la création de la « Chapelle .