Photography always puts reality into frames. The photographer takes a picture of something and thereby decides to leave everything else out of it, whereas it might well be possible that the things left out are far more important than the objects in the picture. We tend to object to this by saying that photography violates or undermines truth and reality because it distracts us from the essential events happening at the same time. In a way, that is a valid objection: a picture evidently will never be able to render or reproduce reality more genuine than reality does itself. You always "should have been there yourself", to put it i...

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Inspiration in practice

For the first time, Peter Lemmens (Mechelen 1975) shows his work in Galerie van der Mieden. Earlier, he already exhibited in Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer in Antwerp, MAC's Museum in Grand Hornu, Verbeke Foundation in Kemzeke, at Liste Basel and Frieze in London. This exhibition shows 3 video installations, photo work and an installation mounted on the wall. However, it's not about multimedia art, photography or video. Peter Lemmens looks at these art forms purely as instruments, as if you would look at a normal hammer. It's a simple, practical and useful object, but you can't '...

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In Wild Signals (2007, 9:42 min), a video by Canadian artist Kevin Schmidt (1972), a concert stage is installed in the center of an uninhabited and snowy landscape. Suddenly, out of nowhere, music starts and colored light beams start flashing. It's the theme sound that was used to communicate with aliens in Spielberg's classic Close Encounter of The Third Kind' (1977). Spielberg was inspired by 19th century scientific sound and light research, like the musical language Solresol, created by Jean-François Sudré. His idea was a universal communication system based on tone.

In Kevin Schmidt's video the static surro...

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Christian Noirfalise (°1979, Laken, België), who majored in painting, creates portraits, landscapes and still lifes, classical themes which constantly reappear. However, his work is anything but classical: he doesn't work on canvas but uses a camera and Photoshop. Christian doesn't hide the fact he works with Photoshop because his work isn't about creating the perfect photograph. He uses pieces of photographs as strokes of paint as it were. With a painter's eye, he applies light and shadow, various tints and certain proportions to create a balanced work.
His early work consists of a series of portraits which are simultaneou...

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