Dirk Braeckman

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Dirk Braeckman was born in 1958 in Eeklo, Belgium. He lives and works in Ghent, Belgium.

Braeckman started his artistic career as a photographer of portraits and self-portraits. Later, he chose subjects of abandoned spaces and deserted rooms, body parts, surfaces of desks, walls, beds, etc for his black-and-white photos. Fragments are enlarged and take up the dimension of an all-embracing still life. With vague contours, the enlarged detail aims at catching a pure and essential, universal and anonymous image. By direct attention for the detail, the minuscule is elevated to auratic dimensions of the icon. The pictures are diaphanous yet suggestive: one recognises a personal narrative behind the large, unframed, black and white, but mainly grey photos.

Braeckman had a solo exhibition “z.Z(t)” at SMAK, Ghent in 2001. The Royal Family of Belgium commissioned the artist in 2002 for a permanent installation in the Sphinx Room of the palace in Brussels. He exposed work at “Beaufort 2003: Triënnale voor Hedendaagse Kunst aan Zee” at PMMK in Oostende. In 2004, Braeckman had a solo exhibition at de Pont Foundation in Tilburg. In 2006 his work was included in the group show 'clickdoubleclick', which travelled to Munich (DE) and Brussels, and in 'DARK' at Boijmans Van Beuningen museum in Rotterdam (NL).

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