08 Dec 2015

KUNSTHALLE São Paulo presents Rinus Van de Velde

True Lies #2

Rinus Van de Velde
«Dear Friends,…»

Opening:
Friday 11 December 2015, 7pm
Exhibition until 09 January 2016

The practice of Belgium artist Rinus Van de Velde (*1983, Leuven, Belgium) explores the idea of appropriation and tests the possible meanings of an existing image. In the last years, he has been transporting images into large format charcoal drawings, which are presented juxtaposed with text captions, guiding the viewer through the story he wants to tell.

After some years appropriating images from other photographers, Van de Velde decided to produce the images himself, in order to explore the borders between fiction and reality. Interested in creating fictional autobiographies, the artist started to produce images in which he and some colleagues are depicted posing as characters of these invented stories.

Working collaboratively with a craftsman, a writer and a photographer, they build up stages to evoke the illusion of places, create the text for the captions and pose for the photographs to be appropriated in the charcoal drawings. The result is a body of work composed by several possible characters of the artist, spanning from a hallucinatory outsider living in an isolated island, to a 19th century sculptor.

For the exhibition «Dear Friends,…» at KUNSTHALLE São Paulo, his first solo show in Brazil, Rinus Van de Velde presents a new series created specifically for the project True Lies, that presented two different artists working with appropriation. The artist will produce a site-specific work, composed by paper drawings framed in a big wall drawing.

Curated by Marina Coelho

Supported by the Flemish Authorities


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About the artist

Rinus Van de Velde (*1983, Leuven, Belgium) lives and works in Antwerp. Among the exhibitions in which he presented his works are:

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Tim Van Laere Gallery (2015), Antwerp; Galerie Zink (2014), Berlin, Germany; CAC Malaga (2013), Spain; Stedelijk Museum Schiedam (2012), Netherlands; Tegenboschvanvreden Gallery (2012), Amsterdam; Gaining here is losing there, Be Part (2009), Waregem, Belgium.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
A Story of Absence, Nationale Bank (2014), Brussels; APPARATUS CRITICUS & LOCUS, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (2013), Germany; Bucharest International Biennial for Contemporary Art (2012), Bucharest, Romania; Past Present Future#2 – People and the City, Contemporary Art Centre Winzawod (2011), Moscow; Nanzuka underground (2011), Tokyo; Drawing Documents, Extra City (2010), Antwerp.


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About True Lies

The project True Lies aims to create a discussion about the process of appropriation and distortion in painting, through the realization of two exhibitions of European artists. Their works involve the appropriation of pre-existing images whose meaning is changed, telling, thus, a new story.


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