EXHIBITIONS/ SELECTION
06 Jan 2018 - 27 January 2018
KEEP MOVING AND COLLECT ART
Sophis Gallery is holding Christina H. Kang’s collection exhibit <KEEP MOVING AND
COLLECT ART> from January 6 th (Sat) to 27 th (Sat), 2018. As it can be inferred from the title, ‘Keep moving and collect art’, this exhibit consists of about 70 pieces which are significant results that show Christina Kang’s beliefs in art collecting.
09 Dec 2017 - 27 May 2018
PRIVATE CHOICES
This project sheds light on 11 Brussels collections including works by Belgian and international artists, both confirmed and emerging, in an attempt at showcasing the specificity of each one. Through a selection process carried out hand in hand with the collectors, we discover a facet of their vision of art and life.
My work was represented by Frédéric de Goldschmidt Collection
Commissaire | Curator
Carine Fol, Directrice artistique | Art Director
01 April - 29 October 2017
PERFORMANCE DIOGO PIMENTÃO THE PART OF CHANCE - 2017 SEASON, LE CYCLOP DE JEAN TINGUELY
What is the part of chance in the creation of a work of art? Some people expect the work to bear witness to the mastery of the artist, this famous ‘technique’ or ‘tekhnè’ (the Greek word for ‘art’). But the vagaries of the artistic gesture or act, and the materials used all have a decisive influence on the creative process. Indeed, they sometimes create a gap between the initial idea and the final product. Some artists even leave a place for chance or the unexpected to play a role in shaping their work.
19 Nov - 09 Jan 2016
SOLO SHOW - TRANSITORY CAPTURE,
CRISTINA GUERRA GALLERY
..."It is possible to say, without taking the discipline of choreography beyond its limits, that there is a conscious training of the fragile body of drawing, by suspending it over the floor or making it lean against the wall and find its own strength. That is why it is not unusual for Diogo Pimentão to start making the work in his studio only to complete it during the exhibition set up. The studio becomes a space for rehearsal whereas the gallery turns into a stage. His material is often paper, a medium whose fate is usually to
symbolically loose its material status to become a surface"...
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10/09/2016 - 22/10/2016
3/1/1 MARLENA KUDLICKA; DIOGO PIMENTÃO; IGNACIO URIARTE,
ZAK BRANICKA GALLERY
..."For Kudlicka, Uriarte and Pimentão, a sheet of paper is not just a thin surface made of cellulose pulp derived from wood, nor it is a neutral, transparent, invisible support or substrate. For them, it is a historical set of textures, formats, and ratios which conduct a wide range of activities and behaviors. For Kudlicka, Uriarte and Pimentão, a drawing is not just an unsubstantial, preliminary sketch depicting the outline of an object, nor it is an inferior category of painting; it is an action — an operation in real, architectural, three-dimensional space"... Ory Dessau
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06/09/2015 - 11/10/2015
DIOGO PIMENTÃO « DISJUNCTIVE »
UNTILTHEN
...'This series of little falls creates movement. I am in this same relationship between equilibrium and disequilibrium with paper; I am obliged to listen to where it wants to go. It commands a certain folding, a direction. For this piece like for all the others, the paper thus becomes a permanent object, but it also remains visually soft and malleable with apparent folding, a sensitive shape.’
5 Mars - 8 May,  2011
LES INTRUS / DIE EINDRINGLINGE / OS INTRUSOS
..."Affirmant une indétermination fondamentale, le travail de Pimentão refuse toute hiérarchie entre le dessin et la sculpture, l’intention et l’improvisation, l’œuvre et ses dérivés ou ses effets... Il s’apparente à un jeu constant sur les points de vue, le langage, les tentatives de définition, qui trouve un point d’orgue dans une étrange « table des périodiques ». Ici, même l’exercice de taxinomie et de classification aboutit à un principe d’équivalence entre objets réels, objets photographiés, dessinés, photographiés puis retouchés"... Julie Pellegrin
13 Feb 2010Â -Â 13 Mar 2010
INFINITE FOLD,
THADDAEUS ROPAC GALLERY
,,,"The Story of a Fold
In his memoirs of his studies at the Bauhaus, Hannes Beckmann relates an anecdote which reads rather like a parable. One day, Josef Albers strode into the room with a bundle of newspapers under his arm, which he gave out to the students. He said he wanted them to make it into something meaningful while respecting the material and taking into account its particular properties. What he got was a whole range of figurines: boats, animals, aeroplanes - not a very satisfactory jumble of objects. The only exception was a young Hungarian architect who had simply folded the sheet of paper lengthways then rested it on its two edges. Albers explained that this student had fully understood the nature of the material, how "naturally suited the folding process was to paper, because it made such a pliable material stiff […] after the paper had been stood upright, it became visually active on both sides..."