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| Jeff Wall @ Bozar |
Looking for something to do during this rainy weather? Grab the opportunity and discover Canadian contemporary photographer Jeff Wall. The Bozar Fine Arts Centre in Brussels shows an exceptional exhibition of the artist's work, who is especially known for his large-format photographs displayed in light boxes. Doesn't ring a bell? Might be that you have seen some of Jeff Wall's pictures in your music collection - Sonic Youth as well as Iggy Pop used his photographs for album covers.
The show "The Crooked Path" displays 25 of Jeff Wall's works from the 1970s to today which the artist selected himself. But it is not just an ordinary retrospective: some 130 works of Wall's favorite artists are integrated in the exhibition. The goal: to focus on Wall's rich creative process and make visible the relationships with and influences by other pieces of art - be it literature, cinema, paintings or photography, from Rainer Werner Fassbinder to Marcel Duchamps. And this is exactly what makes the exhibition so fascinating. It vividly reveals one of the most striking aspects of Wall's work: his references to the history of art and more particularly to classical painting.
So stop whining about the weather, grab an umbrella and prepare to be captivated by the haunting work of one of the great photographers of our time!
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| The Thinker by Jeff Wall (1986) |
Bozar Centre for Fine Arts
Entrance rue Ravenstein 23, 1000 Brussels
27.5.2011-11.9. 2011
Tuesday to Sunday, 10 am to 6 pm
Thursday, 10 am to 9 pm
Tickets: 8 Euros
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