"PERMANENT VACATION"
with Grégoire Bergeret, Rainer Ganahl, International Festival, Benoît Police, Bas Schevers, Yann Sérandour, Joris Van de Moortel
opening Friday July 2nd 2010 - 6 to 10 PM
Nine and a Half Weeks project was an attempt to push the gallery to live outside the usual openings. Each day was an opening, a residence, a workshop, an event or a meeting. The function of the gallery itself was widely surpassed by practices that were outside the assigned frame. Permanent Vacation lays the foundations of another experiment within the «gallery» device by taking the exact opposite direction. It is an experimental process of the most basic. To the continual chain and profusion of short-lived proposals answers a handful of permanent works which will silently accompany the gallery over the upcoming years. Modestly, it is a matter of questioning this obsolete tool that does not hold any more the same place in the art market (supplanted, among others, by art fairs) and that is having hard time now in competing with the sharpest curatorial proposals.
With Permanent Vacation, ELP proposes an exhibition which will take sense with time, when, during upcoming hangings, the artists will dialogue with a place which is not neutral any more, but has become a text full of meanings. The future exhibitions will thus take place in this discreet and peripheral layout. Paradoxically, in this hollow display, the seven proposals will have the space and furthermore all the time needed to expand.
The works presented this evening will be indicated afterwards systematically in parallel to the other exhibitions, as well on the website as in further communications etc. …
For the opening of this project, guests Ivo Provoost and Simona Denicolai will introduce galerie Edla, an immaterial gallery project. However different it might be, this proposal is based on the same questionings: what other gallery is possible? What is the current relevance of this device?
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At the opening, galerie Edla offers you the possibility to co-finance Martine Doyen's movie, Tomorrow.
These contributions, from 20 euros on, will finance the last scene of the movie :
TOMORROW#6
Séquence finale/EXTERIEUR JOUR :
"Quiet Stars go to Tatooine"
http://tomorrow09.wordpress.com/
EDLA www.evolutiondelart.net / www.evolutiondelart.net/edla/brussels.html
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At 8 PM, Quiet Stars will play live the soundtrack from a sequence of Martine Doyen's movie.
QUIET STARS http://www.myspace.com/quietstarsmusic
