Consistencies, Harlan Levey Projects 1050
Harlan Levey Projects 1050, Brussels (Ixelles)
September 8 - October 22, 2022
Consistencies presents two works that propose alternative painterly notions of consistency/coherency in relation to (self) expression, commerce and creativity. The first room houses Cereal Space, a panorama of decorative panels depicting a segmented view of a microscopic grain of wheat. This abstract image of agricultural genesis is used to unfold the domestic, civic and (micro)cosmic consistencies of painterly space simultaneously.
Meanwhile, 30 paintings of edible or toxic flowers, each painted in lead and iron pigments within a single day, are installed in the next room.
The installation - dubiously titled Quotidean Pain - reframes the innocuous motif of flowers within 2 steel baker trolleys, serving up a calendar month of industrial production and consistencies of painterly time, du pain quotidien.
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Photos: Adriaan Hauwaert and Sean Crossley
Installation view (Cereal space #3, #4, #5, #6, #7)
Installation view (Cereal space #6, #7, #8, #9, #10)
Installation view (Cereal space #1, #2, #3, #4, #5)
Installation view (Cereal space #7)
Cereal space (#1 - #10), 210 x 21 cm each, oil on linen, 2022
Installation view (Quotidean Pain (second cycle) and Cereal space)
7 consistency paintings from Quotidean pain (second cycle), 53 x 65 cm each, oil on linen, 2022
15 consistency paintings from Quotidean pain (second cycle), 53 x 65 cm each, oil on linen, 2022
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Quotidean Pain (first cycle), stainless steel baker trolley, 15 consistency paintings, 53 x 65 cm each, oil on linen, 2022
7 consistency paintings from Quotidean pain (first cycle), 53 x 65 cm each, oil on linen, 2022
15 consistency paintings from Quotidean pain (second cycle), 53 x 65 cm each, oil on linen, 2022
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