Curating the Campus - Pierre Bismuth
From hot to something else, 2001 - 2006
2001-2006
Graffiti in various colours and dimensions in several locations:
HOT (surgical green), director’s office
SPICY (planet blue), cloakroom toilets (restored)
PIQUANT (electric blue), cloakroom window
SPARKLING (hope blue), small inner garden (restored)
GLIMMERING (Marseille blue), large pool
DAZZLING (blue violet), north façade
RADIANT (purple), south façade
Commissioned by deSingel
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.
Pierre Bismuth often takes the deconstruction of conventional patterns of perception as the basis for his work. ‘From hot to something else’ consists of a continuing series of synonyms whose meaning gradually evolves. The work was created for a solo exhibition in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius, where Bismuth surreptitiously sprayed the initial word – ‘Hot’ – on a wall of an art institution. He left the second word – ‘Spicy’, a synonym of ‘hot’ – at his next solo exhibition, which was in Luxemburg. The work at deSingel is special because the artist not only added a new word – ‘Radiant’ – but for the first time sprayed the whole series at various points on the campus. By giving each one a different shade of colour, he added to the synonyms not only content, but also a visual dynamic.
Pierre Bismuth (1963, Neuilly-sur-Seine, FR. Lives in Brussels). His work has been shown at Kunsthalle Wien (2014), the Berlin Biennale (2012), De Appel in Amsterdam (2011), and the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2010).
Graffiti in various colours and dimensions in several locations:
HOT (surgical green), director’s office
SPICY (planet blue), cloakroom toilets (restored)
PIQUANT (electric blue), cloakroom window
SPARKLING (hope blue), small inner garden (restored)
GLIMMERING (Marseille blue), large pool
DAZZLING (blue violet), north façade
RADIANT (purple), south façade
Commissioned by deSingel
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.
Pierre Bismuth often takes the deconstruction of conventional patterns of perception as the basis for his work. ‘From hot to something else’ consists of a continuing series of synonyms whose meaning gradually evolves. The work was created for a solo exhibition in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius, where Bismuth surreptitiously sprayed the initial word – ‘Hot’ – on a wall of an art institution. He left the second word – ‘Spicy’, a synonym of ‘hot’ – at his next solo exhibition, which was in Luxemburg. The work at deSingel is special because the artist not only added a new word – ‘Radiant’ – but for the first time sprayed the whole series at various points on the campus. By giving each one a different shade of colour, he added to the synonyms not only content, but also a visual dynamic.
Pierre Bismuth (1963, Neuilly-sur-Seine, FR. Lives in Brussels). His work has been shown at Kunsthalle Wien (2014), the Berlin Biennale (2012), De Appel in Amsterdam (2011), and the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2010).
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