Keteleer Gallery, Art Antwerp 2024 Cc. David Plas
As Nele Verhaeren, director, explained during the press conference Antwerp launched the first art fair during the XVth and XVI th century.A unique expertise for a vibrant local ecosystem. As an anchored Antwerp gallery but with international connections, The Keteleer Gallery is presenting a conjuncture of established and emerging artists, at the image of the city looking to the past and future. Located near by the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, the gallery is a must-see. Frederick Keteleer gives us the reasons of the success of the fair.
Joëlle Dubois, Falling out of Love, 2024 courtesy the artist, Keteleer Gallery
What is your proposal for Art Antwerp 4th edition ?
As Antwerp is our home city and the public very familiar with our artists and program we present a combination of 11 artists young, emerging with more established ones, as Antwerp’s capacity to offer such diverse scene.
What are the highlights of the booth ?
Floris Van Look’s very long painting (10 meters) is one of the highlights of the booth. After psychology and architecture, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp. His work was recently acquired by M HKA museum. “Crash studies” is a strong visual experience.
Clara Spilliaert a Belgian-Japanese artist. Born in Tokyo she moved to Belgium and studied at LUCA School of Arts in Ghent. She works in different mediums such as sculpture, ceramic, installation and video. She as a solo show right now at the Kunsthal space in Ghent. She is collected by Belgian institutions such as the National Bank, the Flemish Government. Her remarkable work, subtile and fragile is autobiographical and universal at the same time.
The photographies are made by of Sybren Vanoverberghe as part of a whole process. He studied at KASK, Ghent where he lives. He has a very unique idea of the medium including diverse printing techniques and discovered objects. The images he uses become something completely different before of the print process. Between space and time his landscapes are vanishing under the action of the aluminium.
Keteleer Gallery, Art Antwerp 2024 Cc. David Plas
Some of your artists give a strong tribute to The Old Masters
Yes. Antoine Roegiers is Belgian artist, living in Paris. His gallery is Templon in France. These paintings were made for the fair. He is inspired by the Old Masters, his mentors. An heritage he translates in a contemporary scope.
Enrique Marty is a Spanish artist. We had a beautiful project with her at the Cathedral of Antwerp last year inspired by Rubens and the Flemish Masters. These paintings are a continuation. They are located in Cologne cathedral where Rubens spent his childhood with the same technique as the old masters.
Keteleer Gallery, Art Antwerp 2024 Cc. David Plas
Patrick Van Caeckenbergh joined the gallery after the closure of Xeno X. He uses an encyclopedic knowledge and compulsive collection of curiosities or relics. He combines them with strange elements of daily society.
Why is Guillaume Bijl so famous ?
Guillaume Bijl is one of the iconic artists of the gallery. He is Flemish and self-taught. He makes his compositions from the ready-made and “objet trouvé” form art history by presenting souvenirs shops or museum shops in a perfect imitation of reality revealing our consumption and fetichism and articiality of normal situations.
The artists of the booth : Joëlle Dubois, Clara Spilliaert, Guy Van Bossche, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Floris Van Look.
Practical Infos :
ART ANTWERP 4th edition
Jan van Rijswijcklaan 191
2020 Antwerp
OPENING DAY
Thursday 12 December 2024
Preview | 11am – 4pm
Vernissage | 4pm – 9pm
PUBLIC DAYS | 11am – 7pm
Friday 13 December 2024
Saturday 14 December 2024
Sunday 15 December 2024
TICKETS
Standard
20€
https://www.art-antwerp.com/en/keteleer-gallery
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