Still life with Stone and Stone, Gold, Branch, Dippings, Camouflage, Surfaces, Ripple, Drone, The Others & The Rest

Still life with Stone and Stone, Gold, Branch, Dippings, Camouflage, Surfaces, Ripple, Drone, The Others & The Rest is both the title of the exhibition and the still life that is shown. The still life contains work by various artists and was compiled by Alice De Mont. The objects of the still life contain a “misleading layer” or a trompe-l’oeil effect, which hides the true nature of the object. In the work of De Mont, the creation of a still life serves as a specific method to gather objects. The title consists of the name of each object present in the still life. The other works in the exhibition also reflect their specific nature and state of being. Both camouflage, direction de regard and denkplan already existed in a different form or shape, before being presented as in the exhibition. Dimitri Vangrunderbeek, Dippings, 2017. Dippings is Part of the Still life in the show. When I dip glass lamp shades in white lacquer, or when I box in hanging lamps with layers of chipboard I make a series out of it to allow me to investigate the variations in their ordinary form. When I push the lamps down into the mass of the lacquer, it is as if I scan the object’s inside and outside by means of the mass. What we see afterwards is the leftover results of an act, but also transformed objects. The series of dippings with white lacquer allow me to make something visible in the object by accentuating the details and the form arising from the shadows on the white lacquer. During the opening of the show the dipping act will be demonstrated, whereby the sculpture is finalized.status: publishe