Dear,
What a journey it was.
We’d like to thank you for the warm support and the many conversations we’ve had.
Our deepest gratitude goes to the artists whom we’ve had the privilege to represent and the enchanting encounters they brought about.
With that, Otty Park closes her doors, but never the heart.
Tomorrow will be the last day of Ai, the solo exhibition by Benny Van den Meulengracht-Vrancx. Turns out Benny will be able to be present after all, so pass by and share with him its final moments.
Ai is Japanese for love. It is a word we use in dutch when we hurt ourselves and it is A.I.
‘The flower bouquets, that had been dried over the past years and presented here in bone like, spinal cord ceramic vases, refer to the gift of giving. A universal act, to celebrate each other, during the good times and the bad. Much like other pieces in the exhibition which are the result of years of collecting and treasuring, the flowers radiate a sense of pure beauty, one which can only be attained through the passing of time.’
Spinal vases - 2023, Ceramics
Bouquets- 2022/2023, dried flowers
‘Ai’ Benny Van den Meulengracht-Vrancx
02.06- 08.07.2023
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You’ll be able to visit my solo show Ai at Otty Park gallery this Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 14-18h. I’ll be present for the entire duration of the show, so come say hi.
Ai runs until July 8, showing new work, found relics, ceramics and poetic writing. The address is Laar 54, Borgerhout.
Thank you all for joining me in great numbers yesterday at the opening of my new solo show titled Ai at Otty Park gallery! And for all the positive comments! Couldn’t have wished for a better turn out, I am beyond happy 😻🥰
The show is now open and will run until July 8, from Thursday to Saturday, from 14-18h. I am present for the entire duration of the show, so pass by and come say hi ✨
My second solo, titled Ai, at Otty Park Gallery opens today at 18:00! Hope to see you all there 😻
Address: Laar 54, Borgerhout
Photo depicting Uniform #1, by the great @jefclaes
In exactly one week, Benny Van den Meulengracht-Vrancx’ second solo show at the gallery, titled Ai, will open. You are cordially invited to join us from 18:00 onward on Thursday June 1st.
Ai is love in Japanese, Ai is what we say in Dutch when we hurt ourselves and Ai is A.I.
We will be serving Ai cava and Benny beer, both by @caminoantwerp and Angel Piss, cold tea brewed by the artist himself.
LAISSE BÉTON
Adrien Tirtiaux
This weekend is the last chance to see the exhibition LAISSE BÉTON by Adrien Tirtiaux
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The growing importance of a construction’s impact on the environment is discussed further in the new series La Carbonatation des ruines, a collection of plants made of broken concrete. Carbonation is a chemical process by which concrete structures absorb CO2 from the atmosphere. Depending on the sources, one can read that over the lifecycle of concrete carbonation will result in the reabsorption of a tenth to a third of the CO2 emitted when making cement. As this process is particularly effective in broken concrete - offering more surface in contact with the air -, will the ruins of the modern age help humanity to reduce its CO2 footprint?
The exhibition runs until Saturday May 27- Finissage from 2-6 pm
Welcome! 🍀
@ottypark #adrientirtiaux#ottypark#laissebeton#concretesculpture#beton
Announcing Benny Van den Meulengracht-Vrancx’ second solo exhibition at the gallery, opening Thursday, June 1st. The culmination of a two year journey of creating new works, collecting relics and poetic writings, further building upon his previous solo Through My Eyes, Otty Park presents: Ai.
Ai is Japanese for Love, it’s a word we use in Dutch when we hurt ourselves and it’s A.I.
You are cordially invited to join us at the public opening night on Thursday, June 1st, where we’ll be serving Ai Cava and Benny Beer, both by @caminoantwerp and Angel Piss, cold tea brewed by the artist himself.
The exhibition will run from June 1-July 8 from Thursday to Saturday from 14-18h. Address: Laar 54, 2140 Borgerhout.
Photography by @jefclaes portraying the artist in his Uniform #1 in his studio and one of the dead flower bouquet series, which will be presented at the exhibition in new ceramic vases and serves as the poster image for the show.
LAISSE BÉTON
Adrien Tirtiaux
Helix #6 (Endless Tower), 2022 Wood, steel, varnish, rammed earth
Helix #5 (Objectif Terre), 2022 Wood, steel, cement, rammed earth
Helix #7.1 (Triangles), 2023
Helix #7.2 (Marbré), 2023
Helix #7.3 (Béton de terre), 2023
Concrete, earth.
Started three years ago, the Helix series consists of massive sculptures cast progressively with an integrated turning formwork, exposing a potentially infinite fabrication process. Whereas the first sculptures in the series looked like big concrete screws, the ones presented here explore the ancestral technique of rammed earth. Helix #5 (Objectif Terre) is the model of a participative sculpture conceived with the architecture faculty of UC Louvain-La-Neuve and built on Place des Sciences last spring with earth coming from a nearby construction site.
Helix #6 (Endless Tower) is a proto- type for an observation tower made with prefabricated elements, which are progressively filled with earth collected directly from the site. Once the tower is dismantled, the main construction material goes back where it came from in the most natural way.
The exhibition runs until Saturday May 27, and will be on view during the Antwerp Art Weekend, happening 18-21 May, 2023.
Images: Tomas Uyttendaele
@ottypark #adrientirtiaux#ottypark#laissebeton#concretesculpture#beton
Join us tomorrow for the opening of the exhibition LAISSE BÉTON by Adrien Tirtiaux
between 17:00- 21:00.
“Will the ruins of the modern age help humanity to reduce its CO2 footprint?”
For his first solo exhibition in the gallery, Adrien Tirtiaux presents a new series of sculptural works, standing on their own but also serving as prototypes or sketches for the large-scale installations he is known for. Taking some distance from the heroic reinforced structures built in public space these recent years, LAISSE BÉTON shows concrete in a vulnerable light and explores alternative construction materials such as rammed earth. If concrete in ruins has long been a symbol for the end of the modernist ideal, it also alludes to the problematic ecological impact of the material and calls for a complex but necessary transition.
Thereafter the exhibition runs until May 27, and will be on view during the Antwerp Art Weekend, happening 18-21 May, 2023.
@ottypark #ottyparkgallery @adrientirtiaux #adrientirtiaux #béton #environment #antwerpart #contemporaryart #artantwerpweekend
FROM THE STUDIO TO THE GALLERY
Exhibition ‘LAISSE BÉTON’ - Adrien Tirtiaux
Opening: Next Thursday 27th of April between 6-9pm
Welcome!
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For his first solo exhibition in the gallery, Adrien Tirtiaux presents a new series of sculptural works, standing on their own but also serving as prototypes or sketches for the large-scale installations he is known for. Taking some distance from the heroic reinforced structures built in public space these recent years, Laisse béton shows concrete in a vulnerable light and explores alternative construction materials such as rammed earth. If concrete in ruins has long been a symbol for the end of the modernist ideal, it also alludes to the problematic ecological impact of the material and calls for a complex but necessary transition.
@ottypark #adrientirtiaux#ottypark#laissebeton#concretesculpture#beton
