KORTEMARK
Nick Ervinck’s artistic world is a strange place full of paradoxes, populated by organic and architectural forms. It’s a world simultaneously reigned by movement and stagnancy, sterility and vitality, rationalism and absurdity, surrealism and hyperrealism. Inside this complex universe, three main families of shapes keep reappearing: coral-like organisms, representing the artist’s fascination for natural, structuralist and infinite shapes, architectural prototypes, from generic brick houses to the cathedral of Cluny, and basic geometrical forms, such as ovals and spheres. What they all have in common is that they lose their scale in Ervinck’s works. Depending on their context, they can grow and shrink like Alice in Wonderland, and by entering the artist’s universe, we seem to have jumped down the rabbit hole with her.
WARSUBEC, 2009
polyester, polyurethane, wood and iron
2X 314 x 1222 x 647 cm
fotocredits: Pieter Huybrechts
BRUSSELS
Jurgen Rogiers (42) studied photography at Narafi, Brussels. He launches his career with artwork and portraits for the music industry. From there he evolves to fashion photography and advertising photography. He shooted campaigns for companies as Philips, Fortis, Base, Belgacom, Volvo en Spa.
Jurgen worked and lived in Amsterdam (1996) and New York (1999 – 2002), where he collaborated with David Byrne, Erikah Badu, The Roots and Zap Mama. As of today, his main focus is portrait photography. He works regularly for renowned Belgian magazines as De Standaard Magazine, Goedele, Focus Knack and Elle.
Jurgen is a skilled professional who performes when challenged. He is at his best when he can work under extraordinary circumstances and time pressure, especially when shooting outdoors in extreme conditions as creating special effects.
ANTWERP
Alexandra Crouwers (NL, 1974) graduated in 2001 from the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. She lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium. Crouwer’s ‘cross-media’ works frequently combine apocalyptic, mythological and Romantic imagery, often of the sorts and sources frequently appropriated by underground music and visual culture. Her installations, drawings, computerimaging and animations frequently scrutinize the question of physical space and time in relation to the enduring image. Next to her artwork Alexandra Crouwers also works as a writer and as dj De Waakhond.
www.dazzyniesl.com
devierdewand.blogspot.com
GRIMBERGEN
Jelle Van Seghbroeck (1977) is a Belgian photographer based in Brussels. He studied at the the Institute for Higher Education of Visual Arts Saint Lucas Brussels and started his career as a freelance photographer for advertising agencies, magazines and independent designers. Later, he worked for, amongst others, Eddy Merckx, Johanne Riss, Paperjam, … and started to travel extensivly. Specialities: fashion, documentary, travel, portraits, landscape, art.
ONZE LIEVE VROUW WAVER
Nathalie Hunter’s works begin within the act of drawing, a cognitive reflection between self and other(s) folded into itself as an act of making. More concretely, her works begin in life, drawing life, drawing from life, often in a continuous and disciplined linear description of form, where the pen or pencil rarely, if ever, leaves the surface of the paper. An elementary exercise which Hunter has transformed into a subtle and sublime process. Anything can be drawn; the boundaries between objects, the occlusion of one object in space by another, the limit or extent of a body, the interactivity of relation, are all drawn together.
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