Exhibition: Let's Expand The Sky – in Black and White
Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp, Objectif Exhibitions
16 April 2016 - 04 June 2016
Hugo Roelandt (1950–2015) was a photographer, performance and installation artist who played a pioneering role in the Antwerp avant-garde of the 1970s and 1980s. This exhibition – the first in a series of two curated by Marc Holthof at Objectif Exhibitions – is the first opportunity to rediscover Roelandt’s work in over twenty years.
As a photographer Roelandt was constantly confronted with the essential question ‘colour or black and white?’, which informs the two consecutive exhibitions at Objectif: the first concentrates on Roelandt’s performance career in the late 1970s and 1980s, while the second, Let’s Expand the Sky – in Colour (16 June–30 July 2016) focuses on his photographic work in the early 1970s and 1990s. Taken together, the two exhibitions present Roelandt’s work as if by a ‘new’, emerging artist and argue that, although produced in very different circumstances, it remains as relevant today as ever.
Let’s Expand the Sky – in Black and White is the first stage of The Hugo Roelandt Research Project, a collaborative research initiative between Objectif Exhibitions, M HKA, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp and Argos.
WorksShow artists
> Zonder titel / Untitled, bekend als 'Sint Sebastiaan', een uit een serie van tien grafisch bewerkte foto's / known as 'Saint Sebastian', one of a series of ten graphically modified nude photographs, 1885. Collage.
> Hugo Roelandt, Een dag in het leven van een ster / A Day in the Life of a Star, 1971. Video, 16 mm film, 00:12:01.
> Hugo Roelandt, Untitled / Zonder titel, vier zelfportretten in travestie / Four Self-Portraits in Drag, 1974. Photography.
> Hugo Roelandt, Naaktportretten / Nude Portraits, 1976. Photography, ink, paper.
> Zonder titel / Untitled, contactafdruk van Solo-performance, Stadtarchiv Kassel / contact sheet of solo performance, Stadtarchiv Kassel, 1977. Photography, photo; ink on paper.
> Hugo Roelandt, Wit Zwart, fotoserie / photo series, 1977. Photography.
> Hugo Roelandt, Zonder titel, schoenen in plaaster / Untitled, Shoes in Plaster (Solo-Performance Stadtarchiv Kassel), 1977. Object, cardboard, plaster, shoes, 2 x (28.5 x 39 cm).
> Post Performance Project 2(b), reconstructie gebaseerd op performance in De Warande, Turnhout, 1980 / Reconstruction based on performance in De Warande, Turnhout, 1980, 1980-2016. Installation.
> Hugo Roelandt, Affiches van Post Performance Project 1 / Posters of Post Performance Project 1, 1980. Photography.
> Hugo Roelandt, Paul Geladi, Wit Zwart / White Black , 1980. Video, u-matic, 00:10:00.
> Hugo Roelandt, Post Performance Project 1, 1980. Performance.
> Hugo Roelandt, Aeromatic Art Project 1, 1983. Performance.
> Hugo Roelandt, Auto Mobile Tergicristallo, 1985. Performance.
> Hugo Roelandt, Boelproject / Boel Project, 1985. Performance.
> Hugo Roelandt, Zelfportret met monitor/ Self-portraits with monitor, 1990. Photography.
> Hugo Roelandt, Zonder titel / Untitled, vier zijden van monitor / four sides of monitor, 1992. Video, 00:00:02.
> Hugo Roelandt, Zonder titel / Untitled, Cactus, 1992-2016. Installation.
> Hugo Roelandt, Zonder titel / Untitled, Strepen / Stripes, Detail uit/from video installation Remote Control, 1993. Video.
> Hugo Roelandt, Zonder titel / Untitled, plaasteren buste / plaster bust . Object.