Galerie mariondecannière
Location: Antwerp
Year founded: 2008
Address:
Nassaustraat 34
2000 Antwerp
Contact details:
Tel: +32 474 578 846
Email: info@mariondecanniere.com
Website: mariondecanniere.com
Indicative opening times:
Thursday, Friday, Saturday 2-6pm
Current staff:
Marion De Cannière : gallerist
The gallery is the link between artist and public and offers a forum for innovative talent with potential.
The artist receives almost total freedom to arrange the available space to his or her discretion, thus facilitating the optimal development of any discipline or technique.
There are no restrictions as to form or content as long as these relate to true sensitivities and dynamic plastic research.
The gallery is open for any conceivable expression, stands averse of clichés and fosters a wink of humour.
In doing so the gallery offers a platform enabling artists to make unrestraint statements fully utilising the potential of the available space.
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Showing at Trajector:
Artists: Marius Ritiu & Cristian Bors
Stressing State
“I am a man and I believe there is nothing human which is strange to me” Terence, Heauton Timoroumenos, v. 77
Marius Ritiu and Cristian Bors, that’s you. Marius Ritiu and Cristian Bors, that’s me. Marius Ritiu and Cristian Bors, they are a fiction which became reality. Marius Ritiu and Cristian Bors, that’s the adventure of which all are dreaming, but which has become reality for them. To repeat their name is to guarantee their success and prolong their road towards glory, at least if you adhere to the sacrosanct principles of modern marketing. Marius Ritiu and Cristian Bors, Ritiu and Bors, Bors and Ritiu. They are like a miraculous medicine against the monotony of every day and the anxiety of uncertainty.
Public space is their kingdom, as it is also to you. Since February 2010 and the realization of their first joint project, Ritiu and Bors invade their own space. If the titles of their public interventions hint at revolt (Behind the fence, Stressing the State…), that of their exhibitions rings the bells of a well established fame and comfort (How to become famous in One Month, This One Goes Out to the Ones We Loved). However, is the paradox of the scenario of the story of their adventure not a trick of experts in manipulation? A cheerful pirouette as a comment on society?
The discovery of the relics of their latest intervention Stressing State at the Marion De Cannière Gallery enables you to ascertain this. Installation, collages, light box and video are used for the sole purpose to question the functions attributed to these artistic media during the past decennia. In doing so, Bors & Ritiu hit the nail of lucid analysis. Is it possible to objectively report facts, yet to renounce the temptation of aestheticism when relating an experience?
Stressing State is the hallucinating wander of two Romanian artists in their city of adoption. It is the legal stationing of a polystyrene model of the car with which they left their home country. A quizzical eye blink to the restrained budgets of the authorities granting subsidies. The fortuitous encounter in the streets of Antwerp of a bald soprano and a man with an iron mask.