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Het boek is samengesteld door de kunstenaar i.s.m. Roger Willems en focust op het gehele oeuvre van Michel François. Het besteedt zowel aandacht aan sculpturen en installaties als aan fotowerken en posters. Sleutelwerken worden aan de hand van korte beschrijvingen door de kunstenaar toegelicht. Het geheel wordt verrijkt met een essay van Guillaume Désanges en een uitgebreid gesprek tussen Michel François en Jean-Paul Jacquet. Het boek wordt ingeleid door Philippe Van Cauteren en Nathalie Ergino en afgesloten met een biografie van de kunstenaar. Alles tezamen biedt het boek een helder inzicht in de ontwikkelingen en dwarsverbanden binnen het werk van Michel François en zal het als onmisbaar referentiewerk gaan dienen voor toekomstige reflectie over het werk van Michel François.

François, Michel --- François, Michel, --- Exhibitions --- Art vidéo --- Installation-art --- Sculpture --- Michel, François, --- (069) --- 7.07 --- Affiches ; posters ; ontworpen door kunstenaars --- Beeldende kunst ; 1980-2010 ; Michel François --- Belgische kunstenaars --- Fotografie ; videokunst ; installaties ; sculpturen --- François, Michel °1956 (°Sint-Truiden, België) --- Humor in de kunst --- Mixed media --- Tentoonstellingscatalogi ; Gent ; S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst --- 7.071 FRANçOIS --- België --- François Michel --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- fotografie --- installaties --- kunst --- tekenkunst --- twintigste eeuw --- 706.9 --- affiches --- beeldhouwkunst --- conceptuele kunst --- (Musea. Collecties. Tentoonstellingen) --- Kunstenaars met verschillende disciplines, niet traditioneel klasseerbare, conceptuele kunstenaars A - Z --- kunstgeschiedenis, België, 21e eeuw --- François, Michel. --- François, Michel, --- installations [visual works] --- art [fine art] --- video art --- sculpting --- Art --- sculpture [visual works] --- Beeldende kunst ; 1980-2010 ; Michel François --- François, Michel °1956 (°Sint-Truiden, België) --- 7.071 FRANçOIS --- België --- François Michel --- François, Michel --- kunstgeschiedenis, België, 21e eeuw --- 790 --- installations (art) --- Belgique photographie --- kunstenaars --- artistes --- Michel, François, 1956 --- -François, Michel, --- -(069) --- -Art vidéo --- -François, Michel. --- art [discipline] --- -François, Michel

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sculpture [visual works] --- installations [visual works] --- painting [image-making] --- photography [process] --- Morandi, Giorgio --- Evenepoel, Henri --- Cordier, de, Thierry --- Tahara, Keiichi --- Kawara, On --- François, Michel --- Fabre, Jan --- Anselmo, Giovanni --- Darboven, Hanne --- Laib, Wolfgang

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Michel François’s studio is like a garden—un jardin contre nature—in which objects hang, transform, appear, disappear. Through minimal gesture with maximum effect, François transforms seemingly meaningless objects and materials into meaning-laden objects. Their spiritual character makes us pause in amazement at the artist’s impact on his surroundings, but in a larger context also on our own influence on the world we inhabit. In an agonisingly slow manner, a black block of marble is dripped with vinegar from above via an infuse, causing the surface to slowly burn and dissolve—la torture Chinois. Neon lights are laid in long strips on the ground, after which the artist walks over them, leaving a trail of destruction. A schematic view of the armed forces in Syria is drawn on the wall in chalk. Hundreds of dandelions are hung inverted from the ceiling at their most vulnerable moment—PAS TOMBER !. Michel François conceives exhibitions as ‘total works of art’: his works occupy the entire space, and the exhibition space becomes an extension of the studio. Works become, as they are combined and arranged, new installations that evoke new internal associations. The book Contre nature is the exhibition catalogue accompanying the leading Belgian artist’s eponymous retro/prospective exhibition at Bozar – Centre for Fine Arts Brussels—and casts a look at his artistic career of 40 years. The book follows a similar structure to the exhibition and highlights the many aspects of François’ work: sculpture, installation, drawings, video and photography.

kunst --- België --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- twintigste eeuw --- 7.071 --- installaties --- videokunst --- fotografie --- François Michel --- tekenkunst --- Arte Povera ; invloed 21ste eeuw --- Beeldende kunst en poëzie --- Tentoonstellingscatalogi ; Brussel ; Bozar ; Paleis voor Schone Kunsten --- Belgische kunstenaars --- François, Michel °1956 (°Sint-Truiden, België) --- 7.07 --- Kunstenaars met verschillende disciplines, niet traditioneel klasseerbare, conceptuele kunstenaars A - Z --- François, Michel, --- François, Michel --- Art --- paintings [visual works] --- sculpture [visual works] --- assemblages [sculpture] --- installations [visual works] --- photography [process] --- iconography --- video art --- environments [sculpture] --- materials [substances] --- philosophy of art

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Art --- drawings [visual works] --- photographs --- sculpture [visual works] --- installations [visual works] --- mixed media --- easel paintings [paintings by form] --- airplanes --- kunst en technologie --- Maeyer, Marcel --- Lohaus, Bernd --- Tuymans, Luc --- Delvoye, Wim --- Cordier, de, Thierry --- François, Michel --- Fabre, Jan --- Corillon, Patrick --- Keyser, de, Raoul --- Bijl, Guillaume --- Panamarenko --- Belgium

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Art --- installations [visual works] --- art [discipline] --- Copers, Leo --- Eerdekens, Fred --- Swennen, Walter --- Droste, Monica --- Jadot, Philippe --- Janssens, Ann Veronica --- François, Michel --- Villers, Bernard --- Yande, Claude --- The Joseph Boys --- Coeckelberghs, Luc --- Straatman --- Bruneau --- Daems, Walter --- Gentils, Frans --- Vercammen, Wout --- anno 1900-1999 --- Belgium