Katrien Blauwer, Scenes 162, 2017
From September 26th to December 8th 2018
Ffotogallery, Cardiff
From 24th June to 30th September
ANTWERP PHOTO, International Photography Festival, Belgium
From November 8th 2017 to January 7th 2018
Le Château d'Eau, Toulouse
Exhibiton from December 2nd 2016 to January 14th 2017
Galerie Les filles du calvaire
From 29th may to 31st august 2016
Arendt House, Luxembourg
Exhibition from May 10th to June 18th 2016
Galerie Les filles du calvaire
Born in Ronse in Belgium
Lives in Antwerp
Katrien de Blauwer has become a master in the art of “cutting”, a term that defines her practice better than “collage”, since the latter fails to express her mastery of composition and the formal impact of her creations. In fact, her artworks are not collages in the usual sense. They are not about associating fragments in order to recreate images like the surrealists did for instance. Her artistic gesture originates from an intuitive perception and a poetical process, but her approach is conceptual and essential in nature. Katrien de Blauwer is a meticulous observer and a careful analyst of the various elements that make up a photograph whether in relation to the subject matter – how it captures a piece of reality through framing- but also to the image space – the various levels and colors it is made of. However she is not directly a photographer. She prefers to pick and extract bits and pieces from others’ photographic language in order to revive their formal value.
Katrien de Blauwer
2016
978-2955795309
Katrien De Blauwer se désigne elle même comme une « photographe sans appareil ». L’artiste belge collecte et recycle images et photos issues de vieux magazines ou de journaux et crée à partir de ces fragments d’image d’étonnants collages évocateurs remettant au premier plan ces souvenirs effacés. Son travail est exposé dans toute l’Europe, figure dans de nombreuses publications, et est souvent mis en valeur par le New York Times.
Danny Clay est un compositeur et sculpteur de sons originaire de l’Ohio et résidant à San Francisco. L’artiste utilise des formes sonores diverses – objets trouvé, jouets musicaux, chutes analogiques ou numériques; etc. Sa musique a été éditée par Hibernate Recordings, Patient Sounds, Unknow Tone Records, Phiney, Parlour Tapes+ et Eilean Rec., entre autres.
STILLS est le fruit du dialogue entre les deux artistes.
Katrien de Blauwer
2014
978-2-9541974-1-8
Giuliana Prucca (Avarie) and me worked together on this book. The selection of collages explores the connection with Italian film director Michelangelo Antonioni.
The book was printed on two kinds of paper. At the end and the beginning of the book there where text fragments on fold out pages. The middle part of the book consisited of blow ups of the back sides of my work.
The book was printed on 750 copies and 50 of them where made into special editions. These copies have an original double page work in analogy with the notebooks in them and are signed, numbered and stamped.
Katrien de Blauwer
2012
A small book by Irish based Redfoxx Press in a limited edition of 100 numbered copies.
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