Curating the Campus - Joëlle Tuerlinckx
Terrasse sur Terrasse
2006
Grid pattern milled into the floor on the outdoor terrace adjacent to the corridors of the Stynen building
4 parts, totalling 420 x 4000 cm
On permanent loan from the artist
Since 2006
In 2004, the then curator at deSingel, Moritz Küng, initiated the Curating the Campus project. The intention was to give visual art a permanent place on the campus alongside architecture, dance, music and theatre. Each year, Küng invited an artist to conceive a new work, or else he retained a site-specific work after the end of an exhibition. The project gradually expanded into a collection of permanent works created by eleven artists from Belgium, France, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Following Joëlle Tuerlinckx’ solo exhibition ‘After Architecture After’, one of the works – ‘Terrasse sur Terrasse’ – was incorporated into the Curating the Campus series. The title refers to the ‘After Nature’ art movement, but more importantly to the secondary perception of architecture and the after-image it leaves in the memory. In her intervention, this recollection was uncoupled so that two spaces literally overlapped with each other. The floor of the terrace alongside the corridors of the Stynen building is laid with 40 x 40 cm tiles. The pattern of the seventy-eight 105 x 190 cm tiles on the terrace adjoining the performers’ bar is milled into this floor. The ephemeral result embodies the modernist doctrine that architecture should be transparent.
Joëlle Tuerlinckx (1958, Brussels, BE. Lives in Brussels). Her work has been shown at the Arnolfini in Bristol (2013, solo exhibition), Wiels in Brussels (2012, solo exhibition), the Secession in Vienna (2011), and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid (2009, solo exhibition).
Grid pattern milled into the floor on the outdoor terrace adjacent to the corridors of the Stynen building
4 parts, totalling 420 x 4000 cm
On permanent loan from the artist
Since 2006
In 2004, the then curator at deSingel, Moritz Küng, initiated the Curating the Campus project. The intention was to give visual art a permanent place on the campus alongside architecture, dance, music and theatre. Each year, Küng invited an artist to conceive a new work, or else he retained a site-specific work after the end of an exhibition. The project gradually expanded into a collection of permanent works created by eleven artists from Belgium, France, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Following Joëlle Tuerlinckx’ solo exhibition ‘After Architecture After’, one of the works – ‘Terrasse sur Terrasse’ – was incorporated into the Curating the Campus series. The title refers to the ‘After Nature’ art movement, but more importantly to the secondary perception of architecture and the after-image it leaves in the memory. In her intervention, this recollection was uncoupled so that two spaces literally overlapped with each other. The floor of the terrace alongside the corridors of the Stynen building is laid with 40 x 40 cm tiles. The pattern of the seventy-eight 105 x 190 cm tiles on the terrace adjoining the performers’ bar is milled into this floor. The ephemeral result embodies the modernist doctrine that architecture should be transparent.
Joëlle Tuerlinckx (1958, Brussels, BE. Lives in Brussels). Her work has been shown at the Arnolfini in Bristol (2013, solo exhibition), Wiels in Brussels (2012, solo exhibition), the Secession in Vienna (2011), and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid (2009, solo exhibition).
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