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Bart Stolle: new publication presented at S.M.A.K., Ghent

MEDITATIONS FOR HOTEL ROOMS

Published by Oktober Publications, 2021

Presented at S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium
August 22, 2021

ZENO X GALLERY - Bart Stolle: new publication presented at S.M.A.K., Ghent

Bart Stolle at CONVENT, Ghent

LOW FIXED MEDIA SHOW

CONVENT space for contemporary art, Ghent, Belgium
September 22 - November 19, 2017

ZENO X GALLERY - Bart Stolle at CONVENT, Ghent

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Bart Stolle, b. 1974 in Eeklo (BE), lives and works in Ghent (BE).

Bart Stolle is developing a complex body of work that consists mainly of paintings, drawings and animated films. He accommodates his works under the name ‘Low Fixed Media Show’, which functions both as an advertising agency for his practice and as an alternative entertainment company. His works reveal a strong interest in computer language, science, space travel and artificial intelligence. And yet he does not use the latest technologies or media to create his works, preferring instead manual, more labour-intensive techniques. He carefully constructs his paintings according to certain rules that he imposes on himself: a black surface, for example, can never be painted directly on a blue background. Every action is like a precise move in a game of chess.

Certain colours recur frequently in his work, such as cobalt blue and cadmium orange. These were the first two colours to be produced on an industrial scale in the textile industry, and which can still be recognized today in the typical overalls. Stolle resolutely chooses an early modernist formal idiom to say as much as possible with as few resources as possible. Like the Suprematists, he hopes to suggest the invisible through elementary forms. Figures become stacks of squares and spheres, or a city becomes a busy map of geometric units. Stolle explores similarities between computer logic and the human mind. He firmly believes that the computer will never take over the role of the artist. An algorithm cannot replace human creativity.

In recent years, Bart Stolle has increasingly devoted himself to his drawing practice. On a daily basis, he develops works on paper in a purified formal idiom: repetitions and variations with dots, dashes and lines. In doing so, Stolle often refers to natural processes and evolutions as well as to self-organizing patterns and statistics. The drawings are executed so meticulously that they almost seem to have been printed mechanically. In both his paintings and drawings, the artist seeks out the tension between the digitally generated ‘appearance’ and the underlying manual labour.

Bart Stolle has had solo exhibitions at CONVENT Art Space (Ghent), Ryan Lee Gallery (New York), S.M.A.K. (Ghent), De Brakke Grond (Amsterdam) and STUK (Leuven).

His work has featured in group shows at M HKA (Antwerp), Prague Biennale, Kunsthal KAdE (Amersfoort), Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art (Gdansk), De Loketten (Brussels), Coup de Ville (Sint-Niklaas), De Warande (Turnhout), BUDA arts centre (Kortrijk), Telic Gallery (Los Angeles), Centre for Contemporary Art (Warsaw) and Museum of Contemporary Art (Shanghai).

Bart Stolle joined the gallery in 2008.

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Jan De Maesschalck, Paulo Monteiro, Hyun-Sook Song, Bart Stolle
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Jan De Maesschalck, Paulo Monteiro, Hyun-Sook Song, Bart Stolle
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N. Dash, Jan De Maesschalck, Pélagie Gbaguidi, Kees Goudzwaard, Susan Hartnett, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Naoto Kawahara, Martin Margiela, Philip Metten, Paulo Monteiro, Jockum Nordström, Marina Rheingantz, Pietro Roccasalva, Grace Schwindt, Jenny Scobel, Hyun-Sook Song, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Jack Whitten
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40 Years Zeno X Gallery - the two-thousands
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Zeno X Gallery Antwerp South | 24.09 - 12.11 2022
N. Dash, Jan De Maesschalck, Pélagie Gbaguidi, Kees Goudzwaard, Susan Hartnett, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Naoto Kawahara, Martin Margiela, Philip Metten, Paulo Monteiro, Jockum Nordström, Marina Rheingantz, Pietro Roccasalva, Grace Schwindt, Jenny Scobel, Hyun-Sook Song, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Jack Whitten
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Zeno X Gallery Antwerp South | 24.09 - 12.11 2022
N. Dash, Jan De Maesschalck, Pélagie Gbaguidi, Kees Goudzwaard, Susan Hartnett, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Naoto Kawahara, Martin Margiela, Philip Metten, Paulo Monteiro, Jockum Nordström, Marina Rheingantz, Pietro Roccasalva, Grace Schwindt, Jenny Scobel, Hyun-Sook Song, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Jack Whitten
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Zeno X Gallery Antwerp South | 24.09 - 12.11 2022
N. Dash, Jan De Maesschalck, Pélagie Gbaguidi, Kees Goudzwaard, Susan Hartnett, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Naoto Kawahara, Martin Margiela, Philip Metten, Paulo Monteiro, Jockum Nordström, Marina Rheingantz, Pietro Roccasalva, Grace Schwindt, Jenny Scobel, Hyun-Sook Song, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Jack Whitten
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N. Dash, Jan De Maesschalck, Pélagie Gbaguidi, Kees Goudzwaard, Susan Hartnett, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Naoto Kawahara, Martin Margiela, Philip Metten, Paulo Monteiro, Jockum Nordström, Marina Rheingantz, Pietro Roccasalva, Grace Schwindt, Jenny Scobel, Hyun-Sook Song, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Jack Whitten
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Zeno X Gallery Antwerp Borgerhout | 01.09 - 23.10 2021
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Zeno X Gallery presents the exhibition low fixed media show by Bart Stolle (b. 1974 in Eeklo). This fifth solo exhibition includes new paintings, drawings and a wall sculpture.

Bart Stolle is working on a complex body of work that consists mainly of paintings, drawings and animated films. His works reveal a strong interest in computer language, science, space travel and artificial intelligence. Yet he does not use the most modern technologies or media to create his works, preferring instead manual, more labor-intensive techniques. He constructs his paintings very carefully according to certain rules that he imposes on himself: a black surface, for example, can never be painted directly on a blue background. Every action is like a precise move in a game of chess.

Certain colors recur frequently in his work, such as cobalt blue and cadmium orange. These were the first two colors to be produced on an industrial scale in the textile industry – and that can still be recognized today in the typical overalls. Stolle resolutely chooses an early modernist formal idiom in order to say as much as possible with as few resources as possible. Like the Suprematists, he hopes to suggest the invisible through elementary forms. Figures become stacks of squares and spheres, or a city becomes a busy map of geometric units.

Bart Stolle explores similarities between computer logic and the human mind. In certain works, such as Guard, Who Paints a Horse These Days and Two Sea Creatures, Stolle imagines how a robot would look at human or animal organisms. Through this contemporary animism, he wants to evoke more involvement and commitment in a virtual, often distant world. Stolle strongly believes that the computer will never take over the role of the artist. An algorithm cannot replace human creativity.

The work Theme Park is a special collage of collected objects and items that refer to his painting practice; the pieces of tape are used to tape parts of a painting while the mixing stick represents his search for the ideal color. In the past, Stolle postponed fixing the elements because this would have put an end to the associative game that precedes it.

In recent years, Bart Stolle has increasingly devoted himself to his drawing practice. On a daily basis, he develops works on paper in a purified formal idiom: repetitions and variations with dots, dashes and lines. In doing so, Stolle often refers to natural processes and evolutions as well as to self-organizing patterns and statistics. The drawings are executed so meticulously that they almost seem to have been printed mechanically. In both his paintings and drawings, the artist seeks out the tension between the digitally generated ‘appearance’ and the underlying manual labor. Several of the new drawings are composed of RGB colors: from a distance, the colors seem to optically blend into black, while up close they are clear.

In parallel to the exhibition, Bart Stolle will present his book Meditations for Hotel Rooms. The publication includes 243 drawings and a letter from S.M.A.K. director Philippe Van Cauteren addressed to the artist. The project was inspired by Brian Eno’s record Music for Airports, in which Eno composed soothing music for airport terminals. Meditations For Hotel Rooms is published by Oktober Publications and was designed by Atelier Sven Beirnaert.

Bart Stolle has held solo exhibitions at Convent in Ghent, Josilda da Conceição in Amsterdam, Ryan Lee Gallery in New York, S.M.A.K. in Ghent, De Brakke Grond in Amsterdam and STUK in Leuven. He has also taken part in group exhibitions at M HKA in Antwerp, the Biennale of Contemporary Art in Prague, Kunsthal KAdE in Amersfoort, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art in Gdansk, De Loketten van het Vlaamse Parlement in Brussels, De Warande in Turnhout, Coup de Ville in Sint-Niklaas, BUDA arts center in Kortrijk, Telic Gallery in Los Angeles, Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Shanghai.

Michaël Borremans, N. Dash, Bart Stolle, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
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S.M.A.K., Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium | 16.03 - 29.09 2019
Michaël Borremans, N. Dash, Bart Stolle, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
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S.M.A.K., Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium | 16.03 - 29.09 2019
Michaël Borremans, N. Dash, Bart Stolle, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
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S.M.A.K., Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium | 16.03 - 29.09 2019
Michaël Borremans, N. Dash, Bart Stolle, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
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S.M.A.K., Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium | 16.03 - 29.09 2019
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Michaël Borremans, N. Dash, Bart Stolle, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
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Zeno X Gallery | 31.10 - 22.12 2018
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Zeno X Gallery is pleased to present the fourth solo exhibition of Bart Stolle (b. 1974, Eeklo).

Bart Stolle is working on a complex body of work that mainly consists of paintings, drawings and animated films. In an age where everyone is overwhelmed by sensory and more particularly by digital stimuli, Stolle has resolutely chosen to slow down. He draws his animated films frame per frame, for instance, and his paintings consist of carefully chosen and often geometric units. He analyses correspondences between the logic of the computer and the human mind. Many of his works refer formally to twentieth-century modernism, on the one hand, and to computer language, on the other.

For Bart Stolle, play, movement and the pleasure of colour and form are key in this exhibition. He analyses artefacts from human civilization and organisms from nature, and tries to find a balance between spontaneity and rationalization. In the past people believed that humankind could be completely analysed and explained by means of science, while today there is rather a tendency to humanize machines and robots. With the paintings Vertebrate and Animal, Stolle tries similarly to give a soul to mechanical-looking creations.

For this exhibition Bart Stolle has created three wall sculptures. These three-dimensional collages function a bit like travel reports. For years already Stolle has been collecting all sorts of objects that intrigue him, and this time, for the first time, he has given them a fixed and permanent place. In the past Stolle used to postpone fixing the elements because this would put an end to the associative game that preceded. This means that some of the objects were already visible in the installation that he created for M HKA in 2012. What the objects often have in common with one another is a certain lack of clarity as regards their origin – whether natural or man-made. Other sculptural elements refer to his practice as a painter. For instance, the toothpicks were used by Stolle to test the colour of his paint and the tape served to stick parts to his paintings.

Containers consists of a wooden board with painted caps from glass bottles. The work is reminiscent of a strategy game in which the pawns can be moved around.

In recent years Bart Stolle has increasingly applied himself to his drawing practice. On a daily basis he develops works on paper in a refined formal language: repetitions and variations with points, stripes and lines. Stolle hereby often refers to natural processes and evolutions, as in the triptych MOON that represents the moon. Like the works Another rocket, Re-entry and Air pressure, this triptych also bears witness to Stolle’s fascination for space travel in general and for the moon landing in particular.

The cobalt blue that is often to be seen in the works of Bart Stolle is in fact the first industrially manufactured pigment. For Stolle, the pigment’s artificial view can refer to the affected, mediated world we live in. These paintings are constructed out of codes and came into existence in an almost mathematical way.

Bart Stolle has had solo exhibitions at Convent in Ghent, Ryan Lee Gallery in New York, S.M.A.K. in Ghent, De Brakke Grond in Amsterdam, LOMAK in Tessenderlo and STUK in Leuven.

He has also taken part in group exhibitions at M HKA in Antwerp, the Prague Biennale of Contemporary Art, Kunsthal KAdE in Amersfoort, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art in Gdansk, De Loketten in the Flemish Parliament in Brussels, De Warande in Turnhout, Coup de Ville in Sint-Niklaas, BUDA arts centre in Kortrijk, Telic Gallery in Los Angeles, the Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Shanghai.

Anton Corbijn, Raoul De Keyser, Jan De Maesschalck, Yun-Fei Ji, Johannes Kahrs, Grace Schwindt, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Cristof Yvoré
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Zeno X Gallery | 17.01 - 24.02 2018
Anton Corbijn, Raoul De Keyser, Jan De Maesschalck, Yun-Fei Ji, Johannes Kahrs, Grace Schwindt, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Cristof Yvoré
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Anton Corbijn, Raoul De Keyser, Jan De Maesschalck, Yun-Fei Ji, Johannes Kahrs, Grace Schwindt, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Cristof Yvoré
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Anton Corbijn, Raoul De Keyser, Jan De Maesschalck, Yun-Fei Ji, Johannes Kahrs, Grace Schwindt, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Cristof Yvoré
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Anton Corbijn, Raoul De Keyser, Jan De Maesschalck, Yun-Fei Ji, Johannes Kahrs, Grace Schwindt, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Cristof Yvoré
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CONVENT, Ghent, Belgium | 22.09 - 19.11 2017
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CONVENT, Ghent, Belgium | 22.09 - 19.11 2017
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CONVENT, Ghent, Belgium | 22.09 - 19.11 2017
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Jan De Maesschalck, Johannes Kahrs, Grace Schwindt, Bart Stolle
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Jan De Maesschalck - Johannes Kahrs - Grace Schwindt - Bart Stolle
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Zeno X Gallery | 19.05 - 01.07 2017
Jan De Maesschalck, Johannes Kahrs, Grace Schwindt, Bart Stolle
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Jan De Maesschalck - Johannes Kahrs - Grace Schwindt - Bart Stolle
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Jan De Maesschalck, Johannes Kahrs, Grace Schwindt, Bart Stolle
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Jan De Maesschalck - Johannes Kahrs - Grace Schwindt - Bart Stolle
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Jan De Maesschalck, Johannes Kahrs, Grace Schwindt, Bart Stolle
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Jan De Maesschalck - Johannes Kahrs - Grace Schwindt - Bart Stolle
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Jan De Maesschalck, Johannes Kahrs, Grace Schwindt, Bart Stolle
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Zeno X Gallery | 20.01 - 27.02 2016
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Zeno X Gallery | 20.01 - 27.02 2016
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No competing with high-tech and rapid methods of reproduction.
Ethics, ecology, concern.
Pure imag(e) (ing).
Prevention against the inflation of the image
INFORMATION
Human rules and intuition versus parameters.

What is an image today?
DATA = IMAGE = DATA

Multimedia is something prehistoric,
an experience in which all senses are activated.

Imperial Images is a series of paintings that were made on the basis of rules.
The images are constructed in an almost mathematical manner. Every action is like a move on a chessboard.

Works such as Ghost, in turn, are physical rather than mental and are diametrically opposed to the Imperial Images.

Device is an animation film, entirely made up of 256 (32 x 8) cobalt blue cubes, all of which are individually animated.
Every cube has its own life, yet, throughout the overall picture, accidental connections and structures emerge.

Detoxification is a sculptural tribute to the computer pioneers of the 50s and 60s.
These were often not included in the canon of art history because they worked with tools developed for the military.

The drawings are the result of a daily drawing practice. The titles refer to the date they were made. The drawings will be collected in the book MEDITATIONS, which is ultimately destined to land on the bedside tables of hotels.

Darwinian Symphony is an animated film that reflects on an indefinable 'deep time'.
The creatures are composed of elementary geometric forms, but vary greatly depending on their nature, function, and therefore evolutionary purpose.
The creatures also refer to the work The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch, which presents a wealth of obscure settings.

The soundscape that can be heard in the first room will be published on vinyl in a limited edition later this year.

 Bart Stolle (° 1974, Eeklo) is working on a complex body of work that mainly consists of paintings, drawings and animated films. In an age in which everyone is becoming overwhelmed by sensory, and more specifically digital, stimuli, Stolle opts for lentor. His animated films are drawn frame by frame and his paintings consist of carefully selected and often geometrical units. He analyses similarities between the logic of the computer and the human mind. Many of his works formally refer both to twentieth century modernism as well as computer language.

Bart Stolle has previously had solo exhibitions at S.M.A.K. in Ghent, Ryan Lee Gallery in New York, De Brakke Grond in Amsterdam and STUK in Leuven. He has also participated in group exhibitions at Kunsthal KAdE in Amersfoort, M HKA in Antwerp, the Prague Biennale, BUDA Arts Centre in Kortrijk, MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art in Shanghai, the Academy of Fine Arts in Tiajin, De Loketten of the Flemish Parliament in Brussels, Telic Gallery in Los Angeles, Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art in Gdansk, and many others.

 

Michaël Borremans, Raoul De Keyser, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Mark Manders, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
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Zeno X Gallery | 12.11 - 20.12 2014
Michaël Borremans, Raoul De Keyser, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Mark Manders, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
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Michaël Borremans, Raoul De Keyser, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Mark Manders, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
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Michaël Borremans, Raoul De Keyser, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Mark Manders, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
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Michaël Borremans, Raoul De Keyser, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Mark Manders, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
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Kees Goudzwaard, Bart Stolle, Jack Whitten
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Zeno X Gallery | 01.09 - 12.10 2013
Kees Goudzwaard, Bart Stolle, Jack Whitten
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Kees Goudzwaard, Bart Stolle, Jack Whitten
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Kees Goudzwaard, Bart Stolle, Jack Whitten
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Kees Goudzwaard, Bart Stolle, Jack Whitten
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KEES GOUDZWAARD

The paintings by Kees Goudzwaard are bright, controlled and hide any emotional presence of its maker. Being a Dutch painter, Goudzwaard can’t deny the influence of Dutch Modernism. Especially De Stijl was inspiring for the development of his oeuvre. Each painting by Goudzwaard is based on a model. He combines colored paper, transparent acetates and tape just the way a collage would be organized. It’s a slow process of shifts and superpositions. Scale, color, form and composition challenge each other on a formal level. Goudzwaard acts according to his own logic. Finally he aims for a balance between all the components of the painting. In ‘Slow Rocking’ and ‘Collected’ we recognize the discipline and the almost mathematical structuring of the surface as we see in earlier work. This in contrast to the more playful, organic and open composition in ‘Grisaille’, ‘Study’ & ‘Assembling the Smaller Parts’. In those works the borders determine the tension within the painting.

Solo exhibitions by Kees Goudzwaard where installed at S.M.A.K. in Ghent, Culturgest in Lisbon, the Museum of Modern Art in Arnhem and at the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam. In 2003 he was invited to create a site-specific installation in Mexico City. His work was part of group exhibitions at Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Museum Kunst Palast in Düsseldorf, Roger Raveel Museum in Machelen-Zulte, Ecole des Beaux Art in Paris, Lokaal 01 in Breda, De Vleeshal in Middelburg and Castillo Corrales in Paris. Last year his work was included in the Biennial for Contemporary Art in Rennes.

BART STOLLE

Time and motion, that’s the start of the oeuvre of the young Belgian artist Bart Stolle (°1974). In the eighties he experienced as a teenager the introduction of commercial television and how images accumulate. Especially the personal computer and the internet change the gaze and the references. Since the invention of smart phones and tablets contemplation becomes even more difficult. Our society is saturated by speed, information and high-tec. Stolle investigates this phenomenon and choses to slow down. He focuses, mingles and (re)constructs. This leads to an oeuvre hold together under the flag ‘Low Fixed Media Show’, an advertising agency for himself or an alternative entertainment company. Despite all evolutions, Stolle is still convinced human beings dominate the machine. Creativity is a human thing that’s currently not mechanical. Stolle observes the world and translate it into humorous animations in which human figures are reduced to an arrangement of geometrical forms. Handicraft is high valued. He doesn’t want to pass on calculations to the computer. He prefers an intensive stop-motion practice over the input of parameters.

The same happens when Stolle paints, when he makes a static image. The result is a slow construction of essential units. Here we notice the influence of Modernism. Especially De Stijl, Suprematism with Malevich and the work by Kandinsky animate him. The personal alphabet of forms and colors Stolle creates is a means to express larger structures without illustrating them. He investigates the similarities between the logic of a computer and of a human and analyzes different society structures. Also his interest in communication systems, music, science, architecture and urbanization echoes through his oeuvre. He reconciles poles such as the virtual with reality, black with white, the organic with mechanics and so on. As much interesting for Stolle is the moment where the viewer attempts to put his images into words. Poetry, philosophy and fantasy emerge while translating.

Solo exhibitions by Bart Stolle were on view in S.M.A.K. in Ghent, De Brakke Grond in Amsterdam and STUK in Leuven. He was invited for group shows at MUHKA in Antwerp, De Loketten of the Flemish Parliament in Brussels, Coup de Ville in Sint-Niklaas, Buda Art center in Kortrijk, Centrum for Contemporary Art in Warsaw and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Shanghai.

JACK WHITTEN

Beginning of the seventies Jack Whitten (°1932) makes a decision that determines his complete oeuvre. He takes a distance of Abstract Expressionism, a movement that inspired him strongly during his years at Cooper Union in New York. He interchanges brush and figuration for instruments and abstraction. From that moment on a painting is no longer painted but constructed. Whitten investigates the characteristics of acrylic by boiling it, freezing it, laminating it, crushing it, casting it and spreading it all over. After collecting all his material and his tools, he starts building up the image as a collage. Since the eighties the sculptural and topographical quality of his paintings rises. His works on paper are always ahead of his paintings. He works with the concept of ‘working drawings’. The painting is not an illustration of an idea nor is the painting a reproduction of a drawing. The drawings operate as scouts always advancing ahead using process to search for new possibilities. Process as subject matter gives him a freedom to explore uncharted territory. In his work he reflects about philosophy, science, technology and use it as a mean to honor and commemorate people. Whitten’s abstract paintings aren’t cold, geometrical, anonymous and predictable. They are innovative, full of live, directed by controlled coincidences and strive for universality.

Work by Jack Whitten was part of important exhibitions such as the ‘Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting’ (1969,1972) in the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and ‘Afro-American Abstraction: An Exhibition of Contemporary painting and sculpture by Nineteen Black American Artists’ (1980) organized by the Institute for Art and Urban Resources and MoMA P.S.1 Center for Contemporary Arts in New York. In 1974 he got his first solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. More recently MoMA P.S.1 Center of Contemporary Arts in New York and Atlanta Contemporary Art Center organized a solo exhibition. The Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego is preparing a retrospective for 2014.

His work is in the collection of museums amongst which Museum for Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, Whitney Museum in New York, Studio Museum in Harlem, Metropolitan Museum in New York, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Museum for Contemporary Art Chicago, Dallas Museum of Art and Tate Modern in London.

 

Michaël Borremans, Dirk Braeckman, Anton Corbijn, Raoul De Keyser, Jan De Maesschalck, Marlene Dumas, Kees Goudzwaard, Kim Jones, Johannes Kahrs, Naoto Kawahara, John Körmeling, Mark Manders, Jockum Nordström, Grace Schwindt, Jenny Scobel, Bart Stolle, Luc Tuymans, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Jack Whitten, Cristof Yvoré
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Michaël Borremans, Dirk Braeckman, Anton Corbijn, Raoul De Keyser, Jan De Maesschalck, Marlene Dumas, Kees Goudzwaard, Kim Jones, Johannes Kahrs, Naoto Kawahara, John Körmeling, Mark Manders, Jockum Nordström, Grace Schwindt, Jenny Scobel, Bart Stolle, Luc Tuymans, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Jack Whitten, Cristof Yvoré
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Opening New Space
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Zeno X Gallery | 17.04 - 25.05 2013
Michaël Borremans, Dirk Braeckman, Anton Corbijn, Raoul De Keyser, Jan De Maesschalck, Marlene Dumas, Kees Goudzwaard, Kim Jones, Johannes Kahrs, Naoto Kawahara, John Körmeling, Mark Manders, Jockum Nordström, Grace Schwindt, Jenny Scobel, Bart Stolle, Luc Tuymans, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Jack Whitten, Cristof Yvoré
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Opening New Space
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Zeno X Gallery | 17.04 - 25.05 2013
Michaël Borremans, Dirk Braeckman, Anton Corbijn, Raoul De Keyser, Jan De Maesschalck, Marlene Dumas, Kees Goudzwaard, Kim Jones, Johannes Kahrs, Naoto Kawahara, John Körmeling, Mark Manders, Jockum Nordström, Grace Schwindt, Jenny Scobel, Bart Stolle, Luc Tuymans, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Jack Whitten, Cristof Yvoré
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Michaël Borremans, Dirk Braeckman, Anton Corbijn, Raoul De Keyser, Jan De Maesschalck, Marlene Dumas, Kees Goudzwaard, Kim Jones, Johannes Kahrs, Naoto Kawahara, John Körmeling, Mark Manders, Jockum Nordström, Grace Schwindt, Jenny Scobel, Bart Stolle, Luc Tuymans, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Jack Whitten, Cristof Yvoré
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Dirk Braeckman, Jan De Maesschalck, Kees Goudzwaard, Bart Stolle, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Jack Whitten, Cristof Yvoré
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Zeno X Gallery | 11.05 - 09.06 2012
Dirk Braeckman, Jan De Maesschalck, Kees Goudzwaard, Bart Stolle, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Jack Whitten, Cristof Yvoré
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Dirk Braeckman, Jan De Maesschalck, Kees Goudzwaard, Bart Stolle, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Jack Whitten, Cristof Yvoré
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Dirk Braeckman, Jan De Maesschalck, Kees Goudzwaard, Bart Stolle, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Jack Whitten, Cristof Yvoré
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Dirk Braeckman, Jan De Maesschalck, Kees Goudzwaard, Bart Stolle, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Jack Whitten, Cristof Yvoré
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Kees Goudzwaard, Kim Jones, Bart Stolle
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Art is a fight to the finish between black and white
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Zeno X Gallery | 09.01 - 08.03 2008
Kees Goudzwaard, Kim Jones, Bart Stolle
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Kees Goudzwaard, Kim Jones, Bart Stolle
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Art is a fight to the finish between black and white
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Kees Goudzwaard, Kim Jones, Bart Stolle
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Kees Goudzwaard, Kim Jones, Bart Stolle
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Zeno X Gallery exhibitions

2021
2018
2016
2012
2009

Selected solo exhibitions

2022
Quintus Glerum & Bart Stolle: Fragments Chipped Away, Josilda Da Conceiçāo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2017
2016
Bart Stolle, LOMAK, Tessenderlo, Belgium
2015
Bart Stolle, RLWindow, Ryan Lee Gallery, New York, United States of America
2010
low fixed media show - Continuum, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2006
low fixed media show - Continuum, S.M.A.K., Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium
2005
low fixed media show - Continuum, STUK, Leuven, Belgium
2003
low fixed media show - Animations, HISK, Antwerp, Belgium

Selected group exhibitions

2023
2022
Celebraçāo, Josilda Da Conceiçāo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2021
DIFFERENCES. HISK Alumni Exhibition, Gosset Site, Brussels, Belgium
No part of this, Josilda da Conceição, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2020
Following, Josilda da Conceição, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2019
SCREEN IT, Stadstriënnale Hasselt-Genk, Belgium
Home Sweet Home, Kunstenhuis Harelbeke, Harelbeke, Belgium
Tekening (Disegno), Academie voor Schone Kunsten, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
2018
A Myriad of Images, Faculty of Law KULeuven, Leuven, Belgium
2017
2016
Liminal Lyrics, KUNSTRAUM Gallery, New York, United States of America
Mens en Machine, De Warande, Turnhout, Belgium
2015
Drawing / The Bottom Line, S.M.A.K., Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium
Recente Aanwinsten, M HKA, Antwerp, Belgium
'Deel 2: Inleiding' | In het kader van de tentoonstelling 'Uit de Collectie: Sol LeWitt' [performance], S.M.A.K., Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium
'Deel 1: Inleiding' | In het kader van de tentoonstelling 'Uit de Collectie: Sol LeWitt' [performance], CC Belgica, Dendermonde, Belgium
MOVE ON…! 100 Years of Animation Art, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, The Netherlands
2014
The Green Light District, Budafabriek, Kortrijk, Belgium
Capita Selecta, Broelmuseum, Kortrijk, Belgium
Re: Painted / Schilderijen uit de collectie, S.M.A.K., Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium
2013
2012
Het Kunstwerk een gebruiksaanwijzing, Universiteit Gent, Technicum, Ghent, Belgium
Brisure - Artistieke verwantschappen, Belfius Bank, Brussels, Belgium
nieuwe kunst in Antwerpen - totaal nieuwe media scheppen - met insert van Bart Stolle, M HKA, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
Contour On Tour, De Loketten van het Vlaams Parlement, Brussels, Belgium
2011
Pulse, Herman Teirlinckhuis, Beersel, Belgium
2010
Coup de ville. Een chambres d’amis voor de 21ste eeuw, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
Kunstenfestival 2010, Watou, Belgium
2009
Fantastic Illusions, BUDA Kunstencentrum, Kortrijk, Belgium
Fantastic Illusions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
2008
Over the Hedge, Academy of Fine Arts, Tiajin, China
2007
Digital Art from Belgium, Telic Gallery, Los Angeles, United States of America
Artes Digitales, BUDA Kunstencentrum, Kortrijk, Belgium
Manipulations, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski, Warsaw, Poland
2006
Manipulations, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk, Poland
2005
Manipulations, International Biennale of Contemporary Art, National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic

Public collections

AXA Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium
FOD Buitenlandse Zaken, Buitenlandse Handel en Ontwikkelingssamenwerking, Brussels, Belgium
M HKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium
Provincie Oost-Vlaanderen, Ghent, Belgium
S.M.A.K. Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium

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Bart Stolle: Meditations for Hotel Rooms

Oktober Publications
Antwerp, Belgium, 2021
359 pages, ISBN 9789082681963

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