Zonder titel, schoenen in plaaster / Untitled, Shoes in Plaster (Solo-Performance Stadtarchiv Kassel), 1977
Object, 2 x (28.5 x 39 cm).
©photo: M HKA, 2016
Collection: Estate Hugo Roelandt, Antwerp.
Solo-Performance Stadtarchiv, in the fringes of the official programme of Documenta 6 in Kassel, 1977
Remake for 10 years New Reform, Oud Hospitaal, Aalst, 1988
Roelandt was never represented by a commercial gallery. He was not even interested in selling his work. Roger D’Hondt tells the anecdote that after the artist’s 1977 performance in Kassel a collector so insisted on buying the remains of it (a pair of old shoes in a box full of plaster) that Roelandt finally consented – in order to stop the nagging. In the artist’s archive two similar boxes were found – the remains of a tryout and a remake. Yet these are clearly exceptions; very few artefacts remain of his performances and installations. For Roelandt, art was always a performance, a temporary event, whose remains only have documentary value. (Marc Holthof, 2016)
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>Shoes in Plaster, solo-performance Stadtarchiv Kassel (exhibition view Objectif Exhibitions, 2016)
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Artist
> Hugo Roelandt.
Exhibitions & Ensembles
> Exhibition: Let's Expand The Sky – in Black and White. Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp, Objectif Exhibitions, 16 April 2016 - 04 June 2016.
> Exhibition: Hugo Roelandt — A Choice from the Archive. M HKA, Antwerp, 09 February 2018 - 29 April 2018.
> Exhibition: Hugo Roelandt — The End Is a New Beginning. M HKA, Antwerp, 14 February 2025 - 25 May 2025.
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