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La BF15espace d'art contemporain
11 quai de la Pêcherie69001 Lyon
T/F 33 (0)4 78 28 66 [email protected]
www.labf15.org
Perrine Lacroix Direction & ProgrammationFlorence Meyssonnier Coordination
association soutenue par la Ville de Lyon, la Région Rhône-Alpes et le Ministère de la Culture / DRAC Rhône-Alpes
Wesley Meuris EXPANSION
This year’s program for La BF15 focuses on issues, devices and mechanisms inherent to the various aspects of exhibitions: works, space, display, surveillance, public reception, media, cultural meetings, etc. Wesley Meuris’s work fits in these questions, particularly focusing on the construction and understanding of space and knowledge. His work, consisting of diagrams, posters, drawings or life-sized models, is built through various types of modelling for demonstration spaces (zoological pens, hypothetical archives, museum furniture, fictional exhibitions programs etc). His work focuses more on the contextualisation of the contents rather than the contents themselves, therefore highlighting the conditioning of our experiences.
His exhibition at La BF15, points at the contradiction of spaces designed to fit human activity despite being cut off from all external reality by their mechanism.Wesley Meuris chooses to reveal the less obvious aspects of our environment’s domestication, by reconstructing flow dynamics in two works produced for the occasion.The first one, Exhibition Floor, takes the shape of an exhibition floor that is raised and crossed by air circulation. It becomes at once the sculpture, the pedestal, the architecture and mechanics of an atmospheric device.Under the canopy, Fountain, deconstructs the frame of a fountain, which still remains animated by the movement of water.These new productions reveal the mechanisms which influence the context of the exhibition, which constitute the extension of it.
opening Friday 4 April from 6pm to 9pmexhibition 5 April to 31 May 2014opening hours Wednesday to Saturday from 2 to 7pm (Hôtel de Ville subway)
in partnership with parisARTwith the support of the Flemish authoritiescurator Perrine Lacroix
Wesley Meuris, Museum Kiosk for Camera Services, 2008. 300 x 360 x 210 cm. Wood, glass, lighting and tiles. Photo : Eric Chenal
© Wesley Meuris, Fountain, 2014. Preparatory drawing.
[…] Instead of producing forms that are both modular and “supergeneric” in a straight modernist line, the sum of these cannons of construction engenders a summary that resists the homogeneity that predetermines it. How can the accumulation of stereotypical structures engender singular forms? In other words, how does Meuris manage to foil the norm, whereas the latter constitutes the basic material of his work? To start with, Meuris’s work is – against all expectations – characterised by manual – even handicraft – construction; sculptures that he makes entirely by himself without borrowing existing elements: “I need to make these objects so that I can talk about their reality without an intermediary.” When he finished his art studies, the artist underwent training as a joiner in a company that made prefabricated buildings, where he learnt to master technical engineering, management strategies and industrial design. Concurrently master builder and client, he is the author, technician and producer of all diagrams, technical plans and volumes used in his work, from cut to installation. Whereas the physical encounter of the spectator with these normative structures is at the heart of his production, Meuris’s work is in parallel geared to a more conceptual practice through the elaboration of a set of classification and archiving systems, by way of caption to his sculptures, drawings, plans, posters and books of artists. In 2004, the Zoological Classification System listed the animal species in accordance with their conditions of exhibition in a zoo, the ambient temperature, humidity and available light, as well as the appropriate materials and measurements for the cages and aquariums that Meuris creates on a life-size scale. […] For a number of years now, Meuris has conducted in-depth research into the means of transmitting knowledge in museums. He has developed several typologies of exhibition furniture which reiterate the setting devices of large museums and mass events inherited from the world exhibitions of the 19th century. “To exhibit art is to create a clinging situation that is never pure. My aim is not to show the content but the context and the structure that exhibit it,” specifies Meuris directly in line with the conceptual adage of Michael Asher: “context as content.” The result is a series of showcases and caissons, exhibited as such, emptied of their content, intended to compare, juxtapose, isolate and confront art objects.. […]Meuris combines the archetypal forms that give the impression of a “semi-realistic” facsimile. Although the reference of the original object remains plausible, the result tends towards a generic abstraction that leaves the visitor in uncertainty as to the exact nature of the place. With its green plant and its gate, Corner (2013) is a hybrid sculpture half way between a waiting room and a showroom.. […] Turned inside out like a glove, the exhibition is traversed concurrently from the inside and the outside, revealing that concepts materialise not only outside.
Florence Ostende, extracts from the text of the exhibition Sightseeing, Jérôme Poggi gallery, September 2013.full version on the website http://www.galeriepoggi.com
1 - Interview with Wesley Meuris, May 2012.2 - Cf. Wesley Meuris, ed., Feak: The Foundation for Exibiting Art & Knowledge, Artist Books Limited, 2012.
Wesley Meuris, Cage for Alopex lagopus, 2006. 260 x 210 x 850 cm. Wood, tiles, glass and lighting. Photo: Carine Demeter.
Wesley Meuris, Corner, 2013150 x 180 x 90 cm, bois, carreaux et plante
To exhibit art is to create
a clinging situation that is never pure.
My aim is not to show the content
but the context and the structure
that exhibit it.
Recent and upcoming solo exhibitions (selection)2014 Ronny Van de Velde Gallery, Knokke-Heist, (B) Expansion, La BF15, Lyon (F)2013 Les Apparitions, Sightseeing , Jérôme Poggi Gallery, Paris (F)2012 Collection Rooms – Constants and Variables, Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp (B) R-05.Q-IP.0001, Casino Luxembourg forum d’art Contemporain (L) Disclosure, Mediaruimte, Brussels (B)2010 Research Building, CC Knokke-Heist (B)2009 C.C.C.A.I. – Annie Gentils Gallery (B) Sculptural intervention, Lannoo 100, BOZAR, Brussels (B)2009 April -The World’s most Important Artists, Art & Essai Gallery, University Rennes (F)2008 We believe in our idea that an exhibition could be fun for everyone, Annie Gentils Gallery (B)2007 Artificially Deconstructed, De Bond, Bruges (B)2006 Cage for Pelodiscus sinensis, Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp (B) Cage for Australian night animals, Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (NL)2005 Cage for Dendrolagus dorianus, Kunstnu, SMAK, Ghent (B) 17 1-person cabins, Kulak, University Campus Kortrijk (B)
Recent and upcoming group exhibitions (selection)2014 Museum to Scale, Kunsthal, Rotterdam, (NL) Field Works, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland Art Brussels, Galerie Jérôme Poggi (B) Museum to Scale, Baker Museum, Naples, Florida (US)2013 Grenzen/Loos, Emergent, Veurne (B) Museum to Scale, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Brussels (B) La Tyrannie des Objets, Galerie des Galeries, Paris (F) What Matters, Psychiatric Hospital, Duffel (B) The Mind of the Artist, Galerie Ronny Van de Velde, Knokke (B) Les Nouvelles Folies Français, Domain Saint-Germain-en-Lay, Paris (F) Route N16 – Public Shelters for Private Experience, Mechelen, (B) Rêves d’architecture, L’espace de l’art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux, (F) Dreaming of the South, Gallery Marion de Cannicre, Antwerp (B) How High the Moon, Gallery Jérôme Poggi, Paris (F)2012 Unexpressive, De Ketelfactory, Schiedam (NL) Façades, Be-part, Waregem (B) Between Memory and representation, De Bond, Brugge (B)2010 Crossover, Royal Academy, Brussels (B) The power of drawing, Geukens & Devil Gallery, Antwerp (B) Horizon / Exhibition Models, De Bond, Brugge (B) ABC, Art Belge Contemporain, Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing (F) Ceusta 010, In-Situ, Tielt (B) Coup de Ville, City Project, Sint Niklaas (B) Silent Passage, Psychiatric Hospital, Duffel (B) Sun Light, City project, Nieuwpoort (B) New Monuments, Middelheim Sculpture Park, Antwerp (B) Methamorphosis III’, San Gimignano (I) Out of control, MAMAC, Liege (B) Animism, M HKA, Antwerp (B) ARTchitectuur, Monumental, Bornem (B)
Wesley Meuris born in1977
lives and works in Antwerpwww.wesleymeuris.be
www.anniegentilsgallery.comwww.galeriepoggi.com
Wesley Meuris, Cage for Galago crassicaudata, 2005. 220 x 180 x 350 cm. Wood, tiles, glass, water, air ventilation and lighting. Photo: Carine Demeter
Compare two magnificent pieces of the collection, 2012360 x 400 x 900 cm. Wood, metal and lighting
Photo: Eric Chenal
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