Pierre Clemens
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Pierre Clemens, born 1970, is a belgian artist who lives and works in Brussels
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[edit] Work
Opting as an artist for a mix of hybrid techniques (photography, drawing, digital pictures, soundtrack) Pierre Clemens explores the relation existing between the landscape an its numerous definitions. To either artistic, political, social or even economic representations, he adds pictures, words, titles or legends and in doing so, diverts their signifying quality and confronts us with an altered poetical vista.
Conceptual in appearance, his work scrutinizes the intricate relationship between space and its definitions, affectively or otherwise. His works of art take serial, multiple yet never identical shape. In fine, it’s up to the spectator to decide as to wich of the different proposals he adheres.
Pierre Clemens underwent the influence of the documentary and photographic current, surrealism an its word-pictures, the conceptual approach of the link representation/designation in the seventies. After his studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels and Athens (drawing 1992-96), he takes a vivid interest in 2D and 3D digital technology which allows for fictitious documentary evidence of the landscape an its definitions.
Pierre Clemens teaches at La Cambre (National School for the Visual Arts, Brussels)
[edit] Literature
As a young belgian artist from Brussels, Pierre Clemens privileges digital technology which he masters with intelligence and skill, capturing all kinds of images he manipulates to derive rigourous settings. His first principle being demultiplication, he then goes for variation and finally for repetition of forms. In these digital pictures, reality is illusion and so the artist takes pleasure in varying the appearances and arranging the contents in preset identical formats. Each format amounts to one line and one quadrangle. All these fragmented squares – accumulated, joined, added upon – destabilize the convictions which a single image, taken seriously, might convey. If you follow the arrow, you lose track ! Science, landscape, sky… all lose their meaning to regain a new one. Claude Lorent
[edit] Exhibitions (excerpt)
- 1994 : Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. Créez d'après la Ville, during the manifestation La Ville. From 27 April to May 31. Catalogue.
- 1997 : Maison de l'Art Actuel, Brussels, solo show, from 5 to March 28.
- 1999 : NICC, Free Space, Antwerp, October. With Ryan Gander, Guido'Lu, Christina Della Giustina and Ben Cain.
- 2000 : Brussels 2000 - Artists confront television, 1', NICC Television. With Koen Theys, Guillaume Bijl, Gwendoline Robin, Angel Vergara, Sophie Whettnall, Dimitri Vangrunderbeek, Alec De Busschere, Marie-France & Patricia Martin, Jacques Lizène, Patrick Guns, Claudia Radulescu... Brussels 2000 Center.
- 2000 : Galerie B-312, Montreal, Canada. Solo show, from May 13 to June 10.
- 2001 : Chateau Malou - GPOA, Brussels. Le numérique : nouveau médium de l'art with Michel Mouffe, Robert Gligorov, Aziz & Cucher, Margi Geerlinks, Didier Decoux, Cécile Massart, Matt Marello, Stéphan Balleux...
