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Gert Verhoeven

Exhibitions

Sabah & Farah & Elina, brons textiel, 2023

Gert Verhoeven is a Belgian artist, born in Louvain (BE) in 1964. He works and lives in Brussels (BE). 

 

Gert Verhoevens work is at first sight complex, elusive and very diverse. His  work includes drawings, videos and installations, but mostly revolves around sculpture. Content reigns over means of elaboration. Verhoeven assumes a critical stance as regards (art)history, which he considers too deterministic. His art works address possible means of escape, in art and in life. He rejects the choice between yes and no, between possibilities and non-possibilities. Verhoeven wants to keep all options open and so keeps his distance from categories and definitions laid down in art history. 

 

Gert Verhoeven was the first Belgian artist in residency at MoMa PS1, New York in 2000-2001. He was a Guest teacher in Det Kongelige Akademi (Danish Royal Academy of Arts), Copenhagen – Denmark.

His work is in important institutional collections (M HKA (BE), SMAK (BE), The Morgan Library & Museum, New York) as well as in several leading private collections.

Gert Verhoeven

LALALALALALALALALA 

 

LALALALALALALALALA is a series of sculptures based on the lost wax technique, an ancient (the earliest example was found in Pakistan, dated to 4000 BC) and globally distributed technique.

 

The series consists of eight pieces, named after seven Siamese twins and a man who was married to Siamese twins; Sabah and Farah, Jaga and Kalia, Sita and Gita, Shivanath and Shivram, and Mohna and Sohna, Radica and Doodica, Maria Clara and Maria Eduarda, Ganga and Jamuna and Jasimuddin Ahmad, the man married to Ganga and Jamuna. All the twins, mostly female and of Indian origin, are connected in different ways, some were once connected and later separated. Shivanath and Shivram and Mohna and Sohna are connected in a similar way. Jasimuddin Ahmad is an exception, since he is not a twin, but married to a twin.

 

Each piece consists of two or four plastic child pots, cast in brass in the same way the twins were originally connected. The casting channels are mounted in the foundry in such a way that the pots remain connected and form one piece. Jasimuddin, the exception, consists of just a single pot connected to an original crucible, used to melt and cast metal in the plastics and wax moulds.

 

The title of the series, LALALA, and the individual pieces are based on the frequent presence of the vowel A. The titles of the works are the names of the twins and the people involved in the production process and distribution of the work whose first name contains the vowel A, such as Rodica & Doodica & Elina &Marko & Elina & co or Masha & Dasha & Marko & Elina & Yana & Ivan & Blagovest & Cvetan & Stoyan & co, etc.

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