actionfields contemporary art gallery presents vincent verbist

Handmade

Stefan Annerel

OPENING
You are kindley invited to the opening in the presence of the artist.
Thursday 26.06.2008 from 6 to 10pm
EXHIBITION
Saturday and sunday from 11am to 6pm
Or by appointment

ACTIONFIELDS temporary art gallery
Hoogstraat 323
1000 Brussels( Belgium)
www.actionfields.be
actionfields@gmail.com
Vincent Verbist; 00(31)486 57 32 63

Stefan Annerel °1970 lives and works in Antwerp. His works present themselves as shiny, transparent and abstract. Actually, the works are blow-ups of details from reality. Annerel isolates motifs he borrows from everyday images (advertisement photographs, patterns of textiles,… i.e. all sorts of images trouvées) and blows them up to such a size that they are no longer recognisable. Or rather: to such a size that they just become unrecognisable, because looking at these images amounts to balancing between seeing and not seeing, to anticipating the slight shock of sudden recognition, which, however, usually does not follow-but only just.

Annerel’s images are like words that are on the tip of one’s tongue. And there they stay, eluding us. It’s like being almost happy, because we almost overcome a failing memory.

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