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Angel Vergara
In the Instant
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This book accompanies the 2023 retrospective exhibition "In the Instant" at MACS in Mons, Belgium, offering an in-depth look at Vergara's career and his close relationship with cinematic art.
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This book will appeal to readers interested in contemporary art, visual culture, and the intersection of painting and film. It is especially suited for those curious about experimental forms of artistic expression and socio-political commentary through image-making.
Angel Vergara’s work tests the limits of art and reality by questioning the way the contemporary image shapes the intermingled public and private spheres—as well as our own experience
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Angel Vergara’s (1958 – based in Brussels) work is a continued investigation into the power of the image. By means of performances, videos, installations, paintings and drawings, he tests the limits of art and reality. Each of his works is an attempt to break through the image and to make its impact on an aesthetic as well as a socio-cultural and political level. Thus, Vergara creates a new, suspended reality, grown from the artist’s personal dialogue with reality and with the image by which it has already been transformed.
Decontextualised images of reality are mediated by the artist and transformed into art, encouraging the viewer to question their way of perceiving the everyday as well as the way it is presented to them in images. Vergara’s art disorients and disconcerts the viewer. It questions what is known and opens paths to new modes of signification.
Accompanying the 2023 retrospective exhibition In the Instant that the MACS is dedicating to Angel Vergara, this important book reviews the career of the Belgian artist and highlights the close relationship between his painting and the cinematic medium.
Distributed for Mercatorfonds
Exhibition Schedule:
02.11.2022 – 02.06.2023
Outside installation. Musée de la batellerie – Conflans Sainte Honorine, France.
24.11.2022 – 19.03.2023
Photo Brut - Centrale for Contemporary Art, Brussels
23.04.2023 – 08.10.2023
Angel Vergara. In a Moment. Monographic exhibition. MAC’s in Mons, Belgium.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780300270167
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 23 May 2023
Country: United States
Imprint: Yale University Press
Illustration: 150 color illus.
Contributors:
- Edited by Denis Gielen
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Width: 206.0mm
Height: 279.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 256
About the Author
Denis Gielen is director of MACS, Mons. Jérôme André is head of conservation department at MACS, Mons. Philippe Van Cauteren is director of SMAK, Ghent. Olivier Michelon is a French art historian, heritage curator & chief curator at the Fondation Vuitton since 2016.
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