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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 in Painting at the 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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