Collège des Bernardins
Paris
jusqu'au 28 juillet 2013
Dans toutes les cultures l'arbre symbolise la vie, sa force, sa longévité, sa beauté, sa fécondité. Il accompagne l'imaginaire. Il symbolise l'homme lui-même. Pour les artistes contemporains, comme pour ceux d’hier, montrer l’arbre c’est ouvrir le questionnement de l’homme sur son corps, sur le sens de sa vie, sur son rapport au monde.
Cette exposition investit les différents espaces du Collège des Bernardins (nef, ancienne sacristie, douves, jardin) et montre des œuvres qui manifestent la richesse et la complexité de ce sujet au fort pouvoir symbolique.
M Museum
Leuven, Belgique
14.02 - 19.05 2013
Geert Goiris’ photographs often denote a fundamental tension between man and nature. His collection of architectural and utopian landscapes showing traces of human presence are haunted by an uncanny proximity. Goiris regularly takes the standpoint of the ‘outsider’, thereby creating a tangible distance between photographer and subject. His camera makes us aware of the paradoxical position of ‘close to and yet far away’. All sense of time and space is banished as he plays with form, abstraction, light and depth. Figures are more likely to appear in his recent work and open story lines are suggested.
M brings together a selection of existing photographs and new work never exhibited in Belgium. The selection will be combined with a new analogous slide projection.