HORIZONTAL DRAWING

Benjamin Monti is a young artist, living and working in Liège. He is represented by Galerie Nadja Vilenne. His work has been widely exhibited internationally. He recently had an exhibition at Le musée lanchelevici in La Louvière. Monti situates his own work “at the crossroads of text, graphic art and the fine arts."

Monti's work explores dialogues between drawing and text in the form of the graphic novel or private diary. His drawings can be seen as “suspended moments”, as fragments from stories in progress.A specialist at recycling images, he takes human beings, beast and plants out of their original context and inserts them back into the realm of the paper as strange, weightless figurants.

LECTURE
Sint Lucas Antwerp, Kerkstraat 45
2014, Wednesday March 19
18:30, free entry

Andy Hope 1930

Hope is inspired by superheroes from the Golden and Siver Age of Comics. Futuristic objects as spaceships, laser beams and fantastic uniforms are part of his oeuvre. Flash Gordon, Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman are part of his world.

Leen Voet starts her lecture with the words:

I will show 142 images. I love completeness. In that sense I am a freak.

Sometimes she was working on a A4-drawing for 6 hours. To draw was a method to visualize her future paintings and to think intensively. She filled every piece of the compositions with a unique hatching.

© Leen Voet, drawings by Leen Voet, published by Grotto & Grafische Cel, designed by Michael Bussaer & Inge Ketelers, supported by research Fund Sint-Lucas Visual Arts Ghent, 775 pages, 21 x 29,7 cm, b/w offset on Munken Lynx (2012)

Sometimes she hated the work of Felix, the empty gaze in his self-portraits. She underestimated the impact of exclusively drawing his work for two years. She lived almost the life of someone else via his work. After all she made 1 drawing of each of the 774 works of Felix De Boeck the museum sent her. The works were made respecting the same proportions as the works of De Boeck. In the first drawings the graphite was darker. Sometimes a drawing was made very quickly, sometimes painfully slowly.

Marcel Van Eeden talks about the wonderful coincidence that his Be-Part-exhibition in Waregem travels to Gladbeck in Germany, probably one of the rare exhibition spaces with the same semicircular concrete wall as in Be-Part.

Quotes from the lecture of Marcel Van Eeden:

"Everything is connected to one and the same idea."

"Drawing is making a paper dirty."

"I'd like to make works referring to the time before my birth for the rest of my life. It is as preparing the time I won't be here anymore, the senseless future. It is a senseless complaint, but I am happy with it, that's what it is all about."

Marcel van Eeden

Jorinde Voigt

© Jorinde Voigt, WV 2013-117 C.G. Jung „Die Auflösung des Bewusstseins“ C.G. Jung/ Wilhelm Das Geheimnis der Goldenen Blüte Matrix I, 140 x 246 cm, Tinte, Bleistift, Ölkreide, Pastell, Blattgold, auf Papier (2013)