Joris Van de Moortel
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2022
€450,00
Silkscreen on textile, beeswax, cardboard
24 x 5 x 5 cm
Edition of 50 copies, signed and numbered by the artists on certificate
In stock
about this work
The starting point for his edition was a set of candles Joris Van de Moortel brought back from Manilla, the Philippines long ago. Bundled together they formally echo Édouard Manet’s famous Asparagus. However, when lit individually they are tools to form a musical composition. As collector you are invited to light the candles, drop coloured drops of wax on a stave to correspond colours with notes, and make a freeform composition on a piece of paper.
Please note the piece of paper with the composition pictured is not included in the edition – you are supposed to make your own.
about Joris Van de Moortel
Embodying the fervent spirit of concrete music and rock and roll, Joris Van de Moortel’s process-driven work encompasses sculpture, painting and musical performance to explore the tension between the static nature of objects and their potential for energy.
Joris Van de Moortel’s mixed media paintings, figurative drawings and sculptures are assemblages of musical instrument fragments, neon tubing and other remnants of performance debris that, when combined, achieve an unexpected sense of harmony.
As an index of prior actions, he lays bare the permanent tension that exists between order and chaos with precision and refinement. Like Arte Povera artist Mario Merz’s use of neon, which galvanized everyday objects and fused the organic with the inorganic, Van de Moortel creates dynamic, self-contained environments and applies neon as brushstrokes that escape the contour of representation, creating a force of energy and freeing itself from the frame.
(Courtesy of Kunstenpunt)
Recent exhibitions include BOZAR, Brussels; SCAD Museum Gallery, Atlanta; Cairo International Biennale of Art; Lille Métropole Musée d’art moderne; MAC’s, Grand Hornu; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Kunstlerhaus, Nuremberg; and National Gallery of Art, Warsaw. Upcoming solo exhibitions include Ghisla Foundation, Locarno and S.M.A.K., Ghent.
Joris Van de Moortel is represented by the following galleries;
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Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris / Brussels
You can discover more of Joris Van de Moortel’s work on his own website.
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