swarovski fountain

neighbours

 'De laatste buurman (dank u) (denk ik).'

 

 'Eenzame man.'

'Ik sterke man.'

Fred Bervoets etched about thirty of his imaginative neighbours. They are on show till February 27 in De Zwarte Panter in Antwerp.

patterns from above

new on the shelf

1 Misaki Kawai - Blueberry Express

2 Pol Matthé - ZF 007 overlaps & interchanges

3 Walter Swennen - PIF 

swap away

Rollo Press initiated a bootleg version of the celebrated 'Xerox Book' by Seth Siegelaub. It is a perfect facsimile of the original, published in 1968 in an edition of 1000 copies. In 2010 Eastside Projects published only 100 copies, only available through swapping. 

But there are still some copies left! So dive into your library and find a book that matches the following swap conditions as soon as possible.

1. books published in 1968 (the publication year of the original Xerox Book)

2. or books that feature one of the seven artists included in the Xerox Book: Carl Andre, Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, Lawrence Weiner

One of the great things when you flip through the book is the transparent paper quality. You can tell the artists’ experiments were based on the sequential capabilities inherent to the copy paper.

I'm very curious about the list of 100 books Eastside Projects will end up with and how they will live on on as a part of the whole in the Eastside Projects library. It was not easy to choose, but I finally decided to trade my Sol LeWitt: Artist's Books, of which I made a complete copy before bringing it to the mailbox of course :)

color sweeps °1

 

columnar basalt

quarantine

 

circular phenomenons

retreat

1: Paimio Sanatorium in Finland, by Alvar Aalto, 1932 - 2: Sanatorium Zonnestraal, in Hilversum, by Jan Duiker, 1925 - 3: Day camp for tuberculosis patients in Boston - 4: Muskoka Cottage Sanatorium, breathing exercises - 5: Sanatorium in Zevenaar, 1924

quiet speech in wide circulation

Installation shots from Thea Djordjadze's show 'Quiet speech in wide circulation' at KIOSK (taken by Yana Foque).

The exhibition’s title refers to the venue’s original function as an anatomical auditorium, where the softest whisper resonates throughout the circular theatre. The sculptures, whose modest sizes belie their confident presence, seem to function as objects of study to the artist, objects that can be juxtaposed no sooner than in the specific exhibition space; tentatively feeling each other’s temporariness and fragility and engaging in a steady dialogue with the room. A reciprocal whispering goes round the room and turns the visitor to face his own position. A predominantly corporeal understanding is sparked by an orchestrated interplay between the work’s physical presence, that of the visitor and the circular space that acts as the setting. Much like an object falling in water and drawing concentric circles on its surface, so Djordjadze seems to encircle the KIOSK space, her sculptures, and the visitor in a single movement, directing an encounter that can only be understood in its impenetrability.

reading coffee grounds

Thea Djordjadze, (Untitled) Kaffeesatzlesen, in 2001 and 2008 she performed a coffee cup fortune telling.

Djordjadze is in the country now, preparing her solo exhibition for KIOSK in Ghent. The exhibition opens this Friday, but here you can already find a glimpse of the brand new work she will show.