English:Pieterjan Ginckels (Q100069)
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Pieterjan Ginckels is one of the youngest generation of artists whose work goes
beyond any limit set by a medium and acts consistently at a level of communication
that is physically tangible. That the choice of medium is not based on theory, but
rather lies in subjective and rather banal reasons, is a theme addressed humorously
by Ginckels in the 2005 work "why I don't like to paint" where he lists these reasons on
a canvas. While Walter Benjamin speaks about the loss of aura in relation to the
emergence of a photograph, so the response to a digitally-permeated world lies in
the rendering visible of the traces left behind by human use on the surfaces of
everyday objects. The borderlines between performance, installation and concept
art are dissolved so as to unfold an artistic idea and communicate it in an
environment that can be really experienced.
beyond any limit set by a medium and acts consistently at a level of communication
that is physically tangible. That the choice of medium is not based on theory, but
rather lies in subjective and rather banal reasons, is a theme addressed humorously
by Ginckels in the 2005 work "why I don't like to paint" where he lists these reasons on
a canvas. While Walter Benjamin speaks about the loss of aura in relation to the
emergence of a photograph, so the response to a digitally-permeated world lies in
the rendering visible of the traces left behind by human use on the surfaces of
everyday objects. The borderlines between performance, installation and concept
art are dissolved so as to unfold an artistic idea and communicate it in an
environment that can be really experienced.
