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Tim Van Laere Gallery presents its first solo exhibition by Bram Demunter, Ancient Alligator Swimming from the Sea to the River.Anaximander drew one of the first world maps based on a subdivision by water. Since then, our worldview has continued to change, but the seas, oceans, and rivers have always played an important role. The mystical value of water and all the secrets of its unknown depths have inspired many stories, myths, and sagas. For this show, Bram Demunter was also inspired by different stories about the sea, the ocean, and its rivers. Demunter understands the lure of the sea and regularly looks at the seas of Ensor and Turner (who never ventured offshore). As in any good epic or hero?s tale, the sea plays a major role, though hardly a positive one. Herman Melville?s sea teaches us about evil, pride, and punishment, while the incredible floods in the Gilgamesh epic and later in the Bible make us shudder just thinking about the sea.At the centre of the exhibition is the work Ancient Alligator Swimming from the Sea to the River, which depicts several islands with all kinds of human activities. All the other canvasses, with different islands and populations, spring from this work. Bram Demunter?s oeuvre is about us, humankind, and the place we occupy in the world, the myths we create about ourselves, the stories and visual cultures that spring from us, and the changes we bring about in nature and our world view. Demunter digs through our history, making new connections that reach out from obscure stories, forgotten symbolism, Christian iconography, myths and sagas, to contemporary events and marginal anecdotes from literature. For this, he doesn?t just look back at the past but also links these elements with our present and his own environment. Through this synthesis of past and present, he arrives at a unique new visual language that is very much his own. A visual language that has echoes of artists such as Rogier Van der Weyden and the Flemish Primitives, but also Matthew Paris and James Ensor. With these elements, Demunter has developed his own universe, in which different stories from his investigations, collections, and passions take on new meaning.bron: https://www.copyrightbookshop.be/shop/bram-demunter-ancient-alligator-swimming-from-the-sea-to-the-river/

Demunter, Bram --- Zee --- Oceaan --- Rivier --- Water --- Wereld --- Ensor, James --- Turner, Pete --- Eiland --- Mens --- Natuur --- Painting, Belgian. --- Demunter, Bram, --- Demunter, Bram.

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?Bram Demunter is beeldend kunstenaar en een meester in toespelingen. Visuele intertekstualiteit is een van de belangrijkste elementen van zijn foto?s en is onmogelijk te controleren.? ? Till-Holger BorchertHet werk van Belgisch kunstenaar Bram Demunter (1993) is bewust associatief van karakter. Geïnspireerd door het werk van Vlaamse Primitieven en hedendaagse kunstenaars, maar ook door legendes en mythen, combineert Demunter moeiteloos een arsenaal aan mensen, dieren, bloemen, rivieren, heuvels en bergen in gedetailleerde composities voor zijn kleurrijke schilderijen en tekeningen. Dit boek biedt inzicht in het levendige oeuvre van Demunter en zijn vernieuwende beeldtaal van kleur, vorm en betekenis.Publicatie bij de tentoonstelling Burrowers, Climbers, Crawlers in Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerpen, van 30 november 2023 tot 20 januari 2024.Bron : https://www.copyrightbookshop.be/shop/bram-demunter/

Painting --- painting [image-making] --- Demunter, Bram --- Kunstenaar --- Beeldtaal --- Vlaamse primitieven --- Hedendaagse kunst --- Zien

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This catalog was published on the occasion of Swim the Mountain Climb the Sea, a group exhibition showcasing new work by Bram Demunter, Isabella Ducrot, Adrian Ghenie, Anton Henning, Ben Sledsens, Ed Templeton, Dennis Tyfus and Rose Wylie alongside works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, James Ensor, Cameron Jamie, Pablo Picasso, Ceija Stojka and Franz West. This exhibition thus includes a selection of contemporary and modern artists who share the same pioneering spirit. The concept of a group exhibition, where the general public is invited to view new work by a collection of artists, is relatively recent in art history: it all started with the Paris Salon, first held in 1737. Those jury salons with pre-established rules lasted for about 130 years until the art world revolted. Since The Salon des Réfuses in 1863, a showcase of artworks rejected by the Paris Salon, a series of groundbreaking group exhibitions have followed, presenting works that changed not only art, but Western culture itself. Most of these pre-1960 group exhibitions, from the Impressionists? first exhibition in 1874 to the Gutai Art Association shows in Japan and London?s Independent Group in the late 1950s, were all organized by artists. In contrast, from roughly the 1960s onward, the groundbreaking group exhibitions were curated by professional exhibition makers, from galleries to biennials. This shift brought about a change in the dialogue, where previously only artists and the public came together, there is now also a third player present. This is also the case with this group exhibition. Curated by Tim Van Laere Gallery, this exhibition includes a selection of artists whose most pronounced characteristic is their idiosyncrasy. Each of these artists has idiosyncratically constructed their own universe with their own visual language, with which they started new conversations in art history by questioning and examining its foundations. Showing both works by modern and contemporary artists, this exhibition not only reveals the individual profiles of the artists, but also allows us to re-evaluate their unique position and concept. Pablo Picasso, James Ensor, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Franz West and Ceija Stojka have left behind a body of work that continues to inspirenew generations of artists to this day. Placing their work in dialogue with contemporary works not only reveals the influence of the modern artists on this generation, but also shows how their work has remained current over the years. In the opposite direction, this combination also illustrates the strength of the individual voices of this selection of contemporary artists, who can engage in conversation both with the work of each other and with the work of generations before them.

Art --- Contemporary [style of art] --- Picasso, Pablo --- Basquiat, Jean-Michel --- Ensor, James --- West, Franz --- Stojka, Ceija --- Demunter, Bram --- Ducrot, Isabella --- Tyfus, Dennis --- Templeton, Ed --- Wylie, Rose --- Sledsens, Ben --- Jamie, Cameron --- Henning, Anton --- Ghenie, Adrian --- Art, Modern --- Picasso, Pablo. --- Basquiat, Jean-Michel. --- Ensor, James. --- West, Franz. --- Stojka, Ceija. --- Demunter, Bram. --- Ducrot, Isabella. --- Tyfus, Dennis. --- Templeton, Ed. --- Wylie, Rose. --- Sledsens, Ben. --- Jamie, Cameron. --- Henning, Anton. --- Ghenie, Adrian.

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Art --- art [discipline] --- Heck, Kati --- Tyfus, Dennis --- Dubuffet, Jean --- Velde, van de, Rinus --- Meese, Jonathan --- Kunath, Friedrich --- Visch, Henk --- Pils, Tobias Raphael --- West, Franz --- Sledsens, Ben --- Tal R --- Demunter, Bram --- Kieboom, van den, Inès --- Spaletti, Ettore --- Kovalcikova, Stanislava --- Ikemura, Leiko --- Oehlen, Albert