EXHIBITION 2009-2010
IMAGED SOUNDSCAPES Academic Year 2009-2010
With a view to encouraging contacts among the various art disciplines, each year the Orpheus Institute organizes exhibitions of works by young Belgian artists. The academic year 2009-2010 will be devoted to work by Johan De Wilde, Hans Verhaegen and Jean Delouvroy.
The official opening of the exhibition took place on November 12, 2009.
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Johan De Wilde mainly makes drawings. His chief premises are: the absence of any hierarchy between images and of fundamental distinction between abstraction and figuration, the spectator´s imagination as the container of the invisibly present ‘actual´ images, the ‘noise´ as an obstacle between the perception and the imagination.
The drawings come about within and through a meshy structure, a woven space with many layers. At the Orpheus Institute this year, Johan De Wilde will be showing the first five drawings of the series ‘Triadic Memories´.
Johan De Wilde (°1964) studied Graphic Art at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent. After a long and influential stay in Scandinavia, he returned to Ghent where he now lives and works. www.johandewilde.be
‘Deus Digitalis´ is an audio visual installation by visual artist Hans Verhaegen and composer Jean Delouvroy. On occasion of the official opening of this year´s exhibition, this creation was integrated in the characteristic context of the Orpheus Institute´s concert hall.
The basic elements consist of computer-steered animation of the recognizable distinctive human pattern by Hans Verhaegen and the inventive composed sound layers by Jean Delouvroy. It´s the first time both artists combined forces.
Jean Delouvroy (°1967, Belgium) studied at the Royal Music Conservatory in Ghent (harmony, counterpoint, analysis, project contemporary music, jazz arranging & composition, electric guitar). In 1988 he won the national jazz composing and arranging contest (Belgian Artistic Promotion Sabam). Afterwards he worked as arranger for the Belgian Radio Television Big Band, where his interest in contemporary music was also stimulated. Furthermore he makes use of electronics. He creates soundscapes by recycling his own acoustic material, mainly in cooperation with other art disciplines. He lives and works in Brussels.
Hans Verhaegen (°1966, Ghent) studied graphical arts at the Royal Academy of Ghent (KASK) and Art History at the Free University of Brussels (VUB). Since 1994 he is invited regularly for group and solo exhibitions. His work consists of paintings, drawings, wall paintings, collages and installations but also a recent series of digital animations. These are inhabited by the same icon-like, human figures. Man is the central topic, but is also the result of assembling parts in a computer program. Earlier this year he won with ‘128 people´ (2003) the award of the public at the Fotomuseum in Antwerpen. Hans Verhaegen lives and works in Brussels. www.hansverhaegen.be
Practical Information
The exhibition with work by Johan Dewilde can be visited at the Orpheus Institute from November 13, 2009 on until June 30, 2010. The exhibition is open to the public from Monday to Thursday, from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., and on Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Please notify us in advance!
The work by Hans Verhaegen and Jean Delouvroy was presented during the official opening of the exhibition on November 12, 2009.