Expo - Performance 2018

Galerie Mieke Van Schaijk ‘s-Hertogenbosch (NL)

«het is geen kunst FAKE NEWS te maken» (+Edition)
with performance by Juan Pablo Plazas 10 may 2018

10 may – 24 june 2018

Franz West needed urgently a work of mine (that he could sell right away). He did not have any exchangeable work of his own at this moment, it was probably in 1982 or 1983 years. West explained to me that this historic “publicity” derived from the storage of his girlfriend’s insect shop. I knew Hilde Winkler, of course, she had this “shop” in an apartment of a 19th century building, heritage from her parents, very close to where I was living in the time, Haizingergasse in the cottage quarter. Franz West underlined, that this publicity includes an original aquarel signed by A. Plason, probably a noble, who had time to spend on his hobby. I pretended, that this was a convincing fact, to barter my own work. I knew, that Franz West had given an early oil painting of mine to Hilde Winkler before, on occasion of one of her birthdays. It was also the time, when the “market” that Franz West had created for his own work in Vienna (flowershop owners, antiquarien bookshops, framing shops, etc.) got saturated. These people, who were not art collectors, but tried to help West with small amounts of money, said, that they had already lots of works by Franz West. They encouraged Franz to bring works of “other artists” that they could buy then for small amounts too. So Franz West stood at the beginning of a recreation of a non existing art market in Vienna, with dreamlike conditions.
(Kurt Ryslavy)

https://miekevanschaijk.nl/en/home

Galerie Norbert Arns Köln (DE)

«Muße ausnahmsweise ausgesetzt»

08 september – 13 october 2018

In einem anderen Werkzyklus zeigt Rsylavy, dessen Denken stets eine Scharnierfunktion impliziert, die signierte Rückseite keilgerahmter Leinwände. Umgeklappt sehen wir schnoddrig aber gut lesbar ausgeführte Rechnungszettel in Acryl, Rechnungen von Weinkäufen allesamt, inklusive Namen und Anschriften der Kunden.
(Oliver Tepel)
https://galerienorbertarns.de

Galerie Saskia Gevaert Bruxelles (BE)

«Coming home to Sontag» (Edition)

09 september – 20 october 2018

En hier staan we nu op een hemelse  zondag onder Kurt's motto en uitnodiging:
 "Coming Home to Sontag"
én opnieuw zit er hier een spartelende adder onder het gras - natuurlijk is het vandaag zondag, maar Sontag verwijst in kunstmiddens vooral naar Susan - die  met haar belangrijk boekje " Against interpretation" uit 1966 de kunstwereld met de neus op het feit drukte dat interpretatie dé wraak was op de kunst.
De wraak op de kunst - ja ... dat duidt erop dat de kunst haar inhoud en betekenis niet zomaar prijs-geeft; dat kunst geen banaal gemeengoed is en dus ook geen regulier cultuurproduct dat je zomaar van het ene op het andere moment kunt consumeren.
Susan Sontag leerde ons opnieuw naar kunst te kijken vanuit de kunst - vanuit de tactiele verschijningsvorm en niet louter op het formele of het inhoud-gerelateerde af ... 
Ze vond dat een kunstwerk iets erotisch had en was - iets dat op 1 of andere manier onze zintuigen prikkelt, triggert en ... ons met gemak ongemakkelijk maakt en kan maken.
Maar goed dat volstaat op deze zondag en over Sontag...
(Luk Lambrecht)

http://www.gevaerteditions.be

galerie EL

GREET BILLET, D.D. TRANS, KURT RYSLAVY
18 maart - 29 april 2018
opening: zondag 18 maart vanaf 15u

open: vrijdag, zaterdag en zondag van 15 tot 18u en na afspraak
Opening hours: Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 3pm to 6pm and by appointment

Drieselken 40 9473 Welle Belgium
+32(0)53 664382
info@galerie-el.be www.galerie-el.be

Kurt Ryslavy @ Van Gogh Huis (birthplace) NL

opening donderdag 1 maart om 17u
nessuna speranza nessuna paura
(in de verkeerde film spelen)
Werken Artist in Residence februari 2018

Tentoonstelling van 1 t/m 31 maart 2018
van woensdag tot zondag van 12u tot 17u
Van Gogh Galerie - Elisabethlaan 1a NL-4881 DA Zundert, Netherlands
www.vangoghhuis.com

PS: italian quotation from another formerly indigent painter and convicted manslayer (Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio)
PPS: an Edition of 20 (DVD) will be published on this occasion referring to Barnett Newman, Virginia Woolf, Walt Disney and Vincent Van Gogh - more details and subscriptions on demand: kurt(at)ryslavy(dot)com

"The work shown in Zundert alludes to Barnett Newman’s Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue I, II, III, IV (which itself alludes to Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and to Disney’s Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?). One of Barnett Newman’s purposes was that the viewer should be ‘absorbed’ by the (red) surface, that the colour field should completely saturate the visual field (the type of hanging originally favoured by Barnett Newman was a kind of corridor, where the viewer cannot step back to have a general view of the whole picture).
The video Who’s Afraid of Gardening shows a man scything, making and steadily enlarging a colour field in which he finds himself; with a few exceptions, when for instance the telephone rings and he leaves the colour field. The scythe becomes a ‘brush’ and part of a personal, individual conception of painting. The vegetation of the image area to be mowed is a little different: the colour change (the difference between mowed and unmowed surface) seems to be less, and the boundary of the colour fields (the flower cover on the edge of the surface to be mowed) is more densely structured.
We think of Vincent van Gogh, Korenveld met maaier en zon, 1889, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, that probably was no direct inspiration for Barnett Newman."

READING HANDS WRITING BODIES

Du jeudi 8 février au dimanche 11 mars 2018, le Centre culturel de Namur vous ouvre les portes sur une double exposition littéralement passionnante autour du corps et du livre, aux Abattoirs de Bomel. Le département de philosophie de l'UNamur et le Centre culturel de Namur vous invitent au vernissage en pésence des artistes - le mercredi 7 février 2018 à 19h00

Commissariat : Philippe Hunt (BE) et L'Homme-Livre d'Alain Volut (BE) - Commissariat Nicolas Monseu (BE)

"Déjà écolier, Kurt Ryslavy avait une propension à passer à côté du sujet, et une fois devenu artiste, il s’est attaché corps et âme à défaire, refaire, détourner les mots (ou les non-mots), les langues, les livres, à leur prêter un drôle de corps, en corps à corps avec — le corps social, et le monde de l’art."
Philippe Hunt

M HKA Antwerpen (BE)
«Muße, ausnahmsweise augesetzt» (bookpresentation)

Salon Kunstbuch 21er Haus Wien (AT)
«Negotium» (bookpresentation)

Material Zürich (CH)
«The Collection for the Poor Collector (ed. by Thomas Geiger)»

Sperling München (DE)
«The Collection for the Poor Collector (ed. by Thomas Geiger)»

Molière Project 6th edition Bruxelles (BE)
«A l’œil»

NICC Antwerpen (BE)
«20 jaar NICC»