| Finissage Thursday April 23, 1 – 8 PM |
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You are invited to Whitehouse Gallery Brussels for the finissage of ‘Fleshy pink, a murmur in blues’, a duo show by Anton Cotteleer & Simona Mihaela Stoia. The artists will be present for a chat and a drink.
Anton Cotteleer & Simona Mihaela Stoia
Fleshy pink, a murmur in blues
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Anton Cotteleer (°1974, Kapellen) lives and works in Kalmthout (BE). He is mainly known for the combination of modelled human and animal fragments and deconstructed domestic objects. He is interested in the relationship of humans and animals to the domestic biotope.
Ambiguities and dualities keep the work in a gray zone. Eroticism, innocence, mysticism and banality each claim their presence but are always negated by each other. Visual and content contradictions set the tone. As a result, the works are rarely explicit and remain partially elusive. In addition to memories from the collective memory, the sculptures also contain autobiographical traces; memories, whether or not fueled by personal photo material.
Simona Mihaela Stoia (°1982, RO – lives and works in Ottenburg & Overijse (BE). She studied law in Romania and subsequently obtained a Masters degree in painting at KASK in Ghent, where she currently teaches. In her layered paintings with very different colour registers, she creates a tension between intense, passionate brushstrokes and calm, reasoned surfaces. She models volumes that evoke the image of body parts, animals or plants against an abstract background. In this way she builds paintings that are at the same time sensual, mysterious, compact, open and bold.
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Openings in the area on Thursday May 23
Galerie La patinoire royale, Lab (au) Farben, 5-8 PM
Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Cornelia Baltes / Matthew Hansel, 6-8 PM
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Ch. de Charleroi, 54 1060 Brussels – [removed]
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