Art Brussels: Everlyn Nicodemus & Group Show | Booth 5C-39/43

This solo focus will be in tandem with an exhibition celebrating influential artists with strong connections to Belgium, which includes an iconic work by Andre Cadere (1934–1978), Barre de bois rond noir, blanc, rouge (1975). This sculpture exemplifies his radical reimagining of Conceptual Art through repetition, error, and mobility: the "Barres de bois rond", made of painted wooden segments of differing sizes that were handmade by the artist. Determined for his work to exist outside traditional art circuits, he carried these bars through daily life, presenting them in museums and galleries, invited or uninvited. Barre de bois rond noir, blanc, rouge (1975) was the sole work featured in his lifetime exhibition 26.02.1975 – 26.02.1976 at ICC in Antwerp, Belgium.

Also featured is Henri Chopin (1922–2008), a significant figure of the French and British concrete poetry and lettrist movements. A curator, editor, musician and poet, he worked in a variety of materials, although his most notable works take the form of typewriter poems, each unique and influenced by the artist's preoccupation with ideas of order and disorder; a result of his wartime experiences.

To conclude the presentation is Belgian artist Ria Verhaeghe (b. 1950), who explores images of death and tragedy found in discarded newspapers. She classifies, reorients, and affixes these visuals vertically to wooden panels, evoking a form of pictorial ‘resurrection’. Reminiscent of the Flemish Primitives, her Verticals are spiritually suggestive through the use of gold leaf. These works were central to a five-year installation in the Medieval Art galleries of MSK, Ghent (2017–2020), curated by Catherine de Zegher.

 

Additional works will be on view by Caroline Achaintre (b. 1969), Suzanne Van Damme (1901–1986), Carmen Dionyse (1921–1992), Barry Flanagan (1941–2009), Fernand Khnopff (1858–1921), Pierre Klossowski (1905–2001), Anna Perach (b. 1985), Jacqueline Poncelet (b. 1947) and Greta Schödl (b. 1929).