dogs & dolls & toys at AAF

At some point one could wonder if we didn't end up in a toy or pet Fair.  Dogs seemed to be quite prominent and the amount of photographs with toys too.

Laureano Gisca with an interesting 'pet'

Clyde Knowland at Galerie Art City (FR)

Guy Von Ofterdingen (the 'chocolate' bears top left) at Xavier Ronse Gallery (BE)

Laurence Afano at Automates Galerie (BE)

Pierre-Augustin Marboeuf - Eugénie at Galerie François Giraudeau.

artitled! contemporary art (NL)

and more dogs by Ela Janzcak at Tom Joye art center (BE)

and more 'toys' by Kathy Mueller Moser at Wanrooij Fine Art (NL)

and these cuties

by Celine Jégou at Galerie Artima (FR)

and many more dogs, birds, crocodiles, butterflies,...  on almost every stand in the Fair.

Affordable Art Fair

Tour & Taxis Brussels - Belgium
25-28 February 2011
Contemporary art from 50 to 5000€

www.affordableartfair.be/

more impressions on the fair click label below

Affordable Art Fair - faces

Before entering the actual Fair hall a large wooden wall tells us that a special focus on street art with live acts is going on during the event.  More on that in a later post.

Looking at the pictures I've taken I notice a lot of faces in the artworks displayed...

detail of work by Thierry Vieux on the right.

Already in the first stand we discover François du Plessis'  latest work (left) more posts on the artist in 'search this blog'.

Gallery Chiefs and Spirits (NL)

Heidi Wulms (left)

Bram de Jong - Olea europea - felt (left)

Galerie Kap Pur (NL)

Noumeda Carbone - Lydia Dekker at  Triple X Art Gallery

I do recognize this face ...

I'm pretty sure these are close-ups from the actress in the movie L'Amant (The Lover)

sculpture by Mauro Molteni

Monique Reyniers - Little Doll at Gallery More (BE)

Sonia Aniceto (right) at Galerie Libre Cours (BE)

Another déjà-vu and a pretty recent one ... remember the mixed-media work on the right from Truc Troc Fair two weeks ago?  I guess the exchange offers weren't satisfying.

Living with Art Gallery (USA)

Johan Thunell at Villa del Arte Galleries (SP) pretty much reminded me of THIS we saw last year.

update : went back to the fair on saturday afternoon and already more than half of them were sold

Juan Pajares also at Villa del Arte Galleries

one last face...

two days later the doggy is gone... dogs seemed a very popular item on this fair so I'll post a few more in the next post.

Affordable Art Fair

Tour & Taxis Brussels - Belgium
25-28 February 2011
Contemporary art from 50 to 5000€

www.affordableartfair.be/

more impressions on the fair click label below, more in the next days.

Raf Veulemans & Marc Janssens

detail

Marc Janssens (left) & Raf Veulemans (right) are two artists who occasionally work together to create intriguing pieces.

detail

Waiting to go up on the wall.  On show this weekend at the Affordable Art Fair Brussels at Gallery Art Cezar (stand I6).

Gallery Art Cezar also organized the Upcycle Festival and the expo Survive last summer.  Here are a few pictures taken back then I haven't published yet.

Raf Veulemans

Raf Veulemans

Marc Janssens (right)

View more posts on the artists and the gallery in the 'search this blog' on top right of page.

www.artcezar.be
www.marcjanssens.be/
raf veulemans : www.iconchildren.com/

Affordable Art Fair
Tour & Taxis Brussels - Belgium
25-28 February 2011
Contemporary art from 50 to 5000€

www.affordableartfair.be/

more impressions on the fair in the next posts.

Engels & Quix - Stereo

A playful installation that makes funny little sounds. 

Walking around the installation one has the impression of hearing little crickets and other funny sounds coming from the ceiling or elsewhere in the room.

Why did I take so many pictures? I do have this shadow addiction, can't help it, it's fascinating. So ... one more...

Ludo Engels & Stefaan Quix - Stereo 

more on the work HERE

ARTEFACTFESTIVAL 2011
THE EMERGENCE OF THINGS
15 - 24 February 2011
STUK arts Centre
Leuven (Louvain)- Belgium

www.artefact-festival.be/
www.stuk.be/

all posts on artefactfestival HERE

Dear Steve

Herman Asselberghs (BE) - Dear Steve 

video letter to Steve Jobs, view part of it HERE

Herman Asselberghs & Fairuz (BE) - P.S.:

the postscript to the letter reveals all the parts of the laptop that is dismantled in Dear Steve.

more on this HERE

ARTEFACTFESTIVAL 2011

THE EMERGENCE OF THINGS

15 - 24 February 2011

STUK arts Centre

Leuven (Louvain)- Belgium

www.artefact-festival.be/

www.stuk.be/

more posts on artefactfestival the next days

Bubblewrap is ART

Yesterday's post took us to the technology used in the early years of industry, this one however is something quite different.  I am absolutely fascinated!

Gebhard Sengmüller (Austria) - Very Slow Scan Television (VSSTV) 2005

Needles inject colour into the individual bubbles.



VSSTV - Large television images with a rate of one per day.  I'm speechless...

View the video HERE to have a look at this amazing engine at work.

Another smaller work ...

Gebhard Sengmüller - A parallel image - 2009

an electronic camera obscura - more information HERE

www.gebseng.com

ARTEFACTFESTIVAL 2011

THE EMERGENCE OF THINGS
15 - 24 February 2011
STUK arts Centre
Leuven (Louvain)- Belgium

www.artefact-festival.be/
www.stuk.be/

more posts on artefactfestival the next days