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LE[S] MOI[S] DE LIZENE |
31 jan 2009 - 27 mar 2009 |
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Jacques Lizčne |
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From Saturday 31 January until Friday 27 March, the first floor of the M HKA will be given over to the Liege artist Jacques Lizčne. Lizčne will not just exhibit his own work, but is also going to invite fellow artists, organise an entire series of happenings and will even make a zebra crossing in front of the entrance to the M HKA. In Le[s] Moi[s] de Lizčne anything goes.
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As a self-declared ‘petit maître de la médiocrité’ [little master of mediocrity], for 40 years Jacques Lizène has been laughing at all overstatements within the aesthetic discourse, all pretensions of respectable serious art, all ideologies and all limiting classifications. In addition to sculptures, drawings, videos and music, Lizène produces numerous performances based on the meaninglessness of the gesture. In so doing he does not hesitate to re-interpret his own work according to the context that he is offered. In this way he creates an autohistoricity that is sometimes cheerful and sometimes ironical in nature. The exhibition Le[s] Moi[s] de Lizène is divided into a number of spaces that are retrospective or not. For example, a place has been reserved for the legendary exhibition creator Laurent Jacob who shows work by Jacques Lizène in a so-called ‘cimaise’, a city map drawn on the wall by Lizène. Some models of factories are exhibited in the same room, an obvious reference to the [post] industrial landscape around Liege. Other spaces refer to places where Lizène had exhibitions in the past. For example, small exhibitions from Galerie Yellow Now, Espace Uhoda and Galerie Nadja Vilenne. In the M HKA, Lizène will also create a dialogue between works and installations by him and works from the museum collection. A concrete mixer from the artist is confronted with Wim Delvoye’s concrete mixer from the M HKA collection. A gigantic ‘opened up’ house that Lizène installed partly on the wall of the M HKA and partly on the floor, will be presented alongside photographs by Gordon Matta-Clark’s famous project Office Baroque. Dozens of televisions will also be set up in the museum displaying an endless stream of pictures of earlier work by the artists from the period 1970-2009. In the round room, a Bars de Bars will be installed, consisting of several other bars, a kind of collage of taps, bar counters and bar stools. In the hands of Jacques Lizène, a museum is inevitably transformed into a dynamic space full of humour, where things are going on all the time. His art is constantly in motion and is full of self-relativisation. Therefore in his two months Jacques Lizène will hold performances, presentations and all sorts of happenings. SA 31.01 at 14.00 Opening exhibition SA 21.02 at 14.00 Preview of the publication Lizène Performance VIP cocktails of Tseneko Taniuchi TH 19.03 20.00 > 22.00 Presentation of the publication Lizène Performance of Jacques Lizène and Garett List +Jacques Lizène and Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux FR 27.03 19.00 > 21.00 Finissage |
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