Guided visit "LIEN/S - LINK/S - A Tribute to Peter Downsbrough"
Follow along a guided tour by collectors Odile and François Huet-Repolt and Peter Downsbrough partner, Kaatje Cusse.
Following a proposal by Odile Repolt and François Huet, and subsequent conversations with Christian Besson and Kaatje Cusse, the exhibition was conceived starting from the room piece LIEN, LA, 2017, acquired after the 2017 exhibition, and explores a few links between some aspects of the work, and between places, such as Brussels and Burgundy. A major figure in contemporary art whose charisma stems from the economy of the means he used and their formal diversity, Peter Downsbrough owes his reputation to the extreme coherence of his work. From the very onset of the Two Poles and Two Pipes that marked sites and architectures with their two parallel verticals, his reflections on space as places, distances, situations, territories, contexts and languages continued with the Wall Pieces and the Room Pieces, for which he used pipes, black tape and adhesive letters to make lines and words. Framing, symmetry, perspectives and polarity are in their own right aspects of the gaze exploited by his diverse practices: sculpture, photography, public commissions, work on paper, books, film and video, and even sound works. Always open, his work is sensitive to the importance of position, hence, the role of the public.
Tour in French & English.
Follow along a guided tour by collectors Odile and François Huet-Repolt and Peter Downsbrough partner, Kaatje Cusse.
Following a proposal by Odile Repolt and François Huet, and subsequent conversations with Christian Besson and Kaatje Cusse, the exhibition was conceived starting from the room piece LIEN, LA, 2017, acquired after the 2017 exhibition, and explores a few links between some aspects of the work, and between places, such as Brussels and Burgundy. A major figure in contemporary art whose charisma stems from the economy of the means he used and their formal diversity, Peter Downsbrough owes his reputation to the extreme coherence of his work. From the very onset of the Two Poles and Two Pipes that marked sites and architectures with their two parallel verticals, his reflections on space as places, distances, situations, territories, contexts and languages continued with the Wall Pieces and the Room Pieces, for which he used pipes, black tape and adhesive letters to make lines and words. Framing, symmetry, perspectives and polarity are in their own right aspects of the gaze exploited by his diverse practices: sculpture, photography, public commissions, work on paper, books, film and video, and even sound works. Always open, his work is sensitive to the importance of position, hence, the role of the public.
Tour in French & English.