Articles written by Christophe Van Eecke:

You're Cool, We're Cool

23/08/10  Christophe Van Eecke

In an art world that no longer wants to believe in its own progressiveness, street photography, with its provocative sexual exhibitionism, seems to be taking over that role. It offers the romanticism of the photographer-artist who has access to worlds that viewers normally never frequent.

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Resentment Unresolved
Canonising Koen van den Broek

reviews  01.02.10  Christophe Van Eecke

Gent, Antwerpen
SMAK, KMSKA
22/01/10 - 16/05/10

Has Koen van den Broek's retrospective come too soon? His recent works on paper suggest he might be on the verge of a breakthrough...

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MATERIAL WORLDS
Michel François Develops Plans d’évasion

reviews  04.01.10  Christophe Van Eecke

Gent
S.M.A.K.
10/10/09 - 10/01/10

In a world run by economics and commerce the work of Michel François asks some hard and penetrating but mostly beautiful questions.

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Lost and Delirious
Notes on Don Levy’s Lost Classic Herostratus (1967)

reviews  09.12.09  Christophe Van Eecke

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A Look at the Lives of the Puppets
Videos by Jos De Gruyter & Harald Thys

08/06/09  Christophe Van Eecke

The video Het Fregat (The Frigate) was one of the big hits of the recent Berlin Biennial and the Un-scene exhibition at Wiels, in Brussels. This bizarre spectacle in which actors act out different tableaux vivants around a small replica of a frigate in each scene is typical of the irony in which Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys comment on human social exchange. For the Belgian artist team, humankind is a display dummy, a marionette in a banal and mundane drama that keeps repeating itself.

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