So, this is one blog post in English, because it concerns a great exhibition by international renown and -since 1991- Ghent based artist Ricardo Brey. 

Galerie Tatjana Pieters has the honour to host the first solo exhibition at their gallery of internationally renown artist Ricardo Brey (1955, CU), marking the start of a longterm collaboration between the artist and Galerie Tatjana Pieters as his Belgian representative. ‘Gasoline Around the Moon’ concerns the first major exposure of his work in Belgium since his monumental project ‘Universe’ at the Museum of Contemporary Art S.M.A.K. Ghent in 2006. ‘Universe’ was a large scale installation of 1004 drawings unfolded within 99 glass vitrines, making the lecture of the drawings transparent. The next chapter in Brey’s work does the opposite. The exhibition presents an installation of black boxes that when opened reveal a highly personal and multidisciplinary universe, inviting the viewer to engage and discover. 

The referential cycle of works presented in this exhibition is closed with ‘Oxidation’, a series of black & white drawings of graphite & iron oxid presented in metal frames. They represent an answer to a certain drawing crisis, in which the artist wanted to take drawing as a medium to its limit, discovering the almost alchemical power of the materials becoming signs in the paper. Produced in 2009, they were the starting point of ‘Every Life is a Fire’.

As an alchemist Ricardo Brey creates his own world view with remnants of a consumer society, succeeding in visually expressing the unspoken, mutual solidarity of what the artist defines as the ‘Universe’. Through his imagination, he is able to develop a stimulating world based on combining his materials and creative intervention. The artistic results are fascinating world views where man is not at the center of the world, but functions as a mere link in an incomprehensible evolving chain of processes.

Read more here.

Performances by the artist at friday june 7 and saturday june 22 at 7PM.

Galerie Tatjana Pieters

Wed - Thu - Fri - Sat - Sun
from 2 till 6 pm
or by appointment outside of regular opening hours

Nieuwevaart 124/001
9000 Gent

picture (c) by Ricardo Brey / Galerie Tatjana Pieters