Book presentation Beyond Brutalism, Kunstenbibliotheekresearch presentationAgendaArtistic activitiesOnderzoekDrawing on more than a decade of research, Beyond Brutalism and the Postwar Architecture–Sculpture Network explores how artists and architects reimagined the relationship between sculpture, architecture and public space in the decades after the Second World War. Moving beyond Brutalism as a style, the book uncovers a network of collaborations, magazines, and experiments that sought to integrate art into everyday life; from sculptural buildings to artworks encountered in motion and in public space. During this presentation, Angelique Campens reflects on the making of the book and revisits the postwar ambition of a synthèse des arts, the idea that art, architecture, and lived experience can form a shared environment
Angelique Campens is an art and architecture historian, curator, and writer whose work reshapes how we understand the intersections of sculpture and architecture, monumental public sculpture and sculptural concrete. Campens previously published works on Juliaan Lampens, Jacques Moeschal and André Bloc. She holds a PhD in Art sciences at Ghent University, teaches at KASK & Conservatorium and serves as Review Editor for Public Art Dialogue.
The book will not be for sale on the event. More information on the publication here.
Godshuizenlaan 2A
9000 Gent
Zurkhaneh, Archisculptureresearch presentationAgendaOnderzoekEvery Thursday from November 7th to December 19th, visitors are invited to experience an octagonal Persian-inspired installation. Weekly, the installation comes to life with evolving animations, colors, and artistic collaborations.
Planning
07.11.24 Poetry14.11.24 Cooking21.11.24 Music28.11.24 Calligraphy- 05.12.24 Archisculpture
- 12.12.24 Painting
- 19.12.24 Dance (Yalda night)
Pedram Kargar is affiliated as an artistic researcher to KASK & Conservatorium, the school of arts of HOGENT and howest. The research project Behind the Curtains of Animation was financed by the HOGENT Arts Research Fund.
Zurkhaneh performance, 19:00
Angelique Campens is an independent art historian, writer, educator, and curator whose work focuses on interactions between sculpture and architecture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the integration of sculpture in public spaces, and sculptural concrete (béton brut). Born in Belgium, she has worked for international museums and public art spaces including the Whitney Museum, Kulturprojekte Berlin, Fondazione Sandretto, Bozar, and Wiels. She has written for various catalogues and magazines including Taschen’s Art Now Vol. 4, Abitare, Domus, Sculpture Journal, and Aspect. In 2007-2008, she was a Curatorial Fellow at the International Study Program (ISP) at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
In 2010, she published her first monograph on the architecture of the Belgian Modernist Juliaan Lampens. She teaches at KASK & Conservatorium and recently published a monograph on the artist and architect Jacques Moeschal (1913-2004), and curated the accompanying project at Bozar Brussels. In 2022, she obtained her PhD in art history from Ghent University, where she wrote about the legacy of André Bloc, who proved to be a key figure in a network of architects, artists, critics, and theorists at the center of the architecture-sculpture debate