X of Y [X or Y], 1985
Installation, (l) 1700 cm.
©image: Syb'l S'Pictures
Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp / Collection Flemish Community (Inv. no. BK5220_M33).
Guy Rombouts is a fanatical collector of all kinds of objects and materials. He continually explores the delicate nature of found – often natural – materials, using them to explore the sculptural possibilities for his script. In this way, he makes his language tangible, and investigates the link between form and content, sign and meaning. In this installation, X of Y, his feeling for materials is prominently displayed. He presents a three-dimensional display of the letters X and Y. In the Azart (the alternative lettering system developed by Guy Rombouts and Monica Droste) these letters are actually replaced by a straight line, referring to the X or Y axis.
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> Guy Rombouts.
Exhibitions & Ensembles
> Exhibition: The collection XXX – The Museum of Forgotten History, with intervention by Maarten Vanden Eynde. M HKA, Antwerpen, 29 June 2012 - 16 September 2012.
> Exhibition: Urgent Conversations Athens - Antwerp. National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST), Athens, 31 October 2016 - 05 February 2017.
> Ensemble: Collectie Vlaamse Gemeenschap.
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> Ensemble: M HKA_DEFAULT_WORKS.
> Ensemble: Structured Sensibility.
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> Ensemble: Emptiness is Form.
> Ensemble: NUCLEUS.
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> Ensemble: An Architecture for Art - Guy Rombouts.