KATLEEN VINCK
GUEST ARTIST
Alain Declerq
Carolein Smit
Claudy Jongstra
Frans Beerens
Hannes Wallrafen
Jan Banning
Jehoshua Rozenman
Julia Aurora Guzmán
Juliane Hundertmark
Martine Feipel &
Jeam Bechameil
Max Kraanen
Morad Bouchakour
Ophélie Asch
Robert Polidori
Ruben Terlou
Simone Hoang
Susanne Ring
Tilman
Yves Marchand &
Romain Meffre
Guest Artists
Anneke Eussen
Caroline van den Eynden
Katleen Vinck
Patrick Koster
In her work, Katleen Vinck often makes use of scalemodels in which she relates the characteristics of sculpture, architecture and theatre scenography to one another. Her education in architecture, art and scenography makes such an overarching approach obvious yet challenging at the same time. Vinck focuses on phenomena that occur spontaneously in nature. However, once man has assimilated them, it becomes a matter of ‘staging the natural’‚ which results in new meanings. In terms of content as well as form, the artist investigates archetypal structures from nature that can be rediscovered in culture like an echo.
Her interest in the landscape gravitates to forms such as caves‚ cliffs‚ hills, trees… She inquires about their possible function, symbolism and the way in which they are processed by humankind. For instance‚ she interprets the bunker as a sublimated form of shelter that can be typologically reduced to the cave: an archetypal form.
Similar to the contrast (or relationship) between cave and bunker, Vinck develops systems of oppositions and models through which she perceives reality and which form the basis of her artworks. Strict ordering and classifications
are usually made difficult by exceptions and intermediate positions. Consequently, Vinck’s attention is drawn to the notion of ‘realia’, a term from library science for things that do not fall within a normal classification system. They hover somewhere between or fit into several categories, leading to a status of indefinability.
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Acrylic, resin, celent, pu, sponge, paint, steel, Formaat: 30 x 30 x 30 cm, Unique piece
C-print on wood Format: 30 x 30 x 3,5 cm Unique piece
Wood, pu, acrylic, cement, paint, plastic, aluminium, Format: 150 x 100 x 50 cm, Unique piece
Clay, pur, acrylic, resin, format: 35 x 25 x 35 cm, Unique piece
Acrylic, resin, pu, cement, steel, cardboard, copper, Format: 60 x 45 x 45 cm, Unique piece
C-print on wood Format: 30 x 30 x 3,5 cm Unique piece