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Maxime Le Bon, Odds & Ends

The drawings by Maxime Le Bon grouped together for his exhibition Odds & Ends at rue_du_chapeau_10 make me think of a Japanese corporation–its inner workings, to be precise. The drawings aren’t in any way about a Japanese corporation. Rather, their apparent chaos-turned-coherent speaks to me about deeply structured things that we can’t structure from without, like a Japanese corporation; in the shoes of a Toyota worker, I'd be very familiar with the institution’s law and order, things alien to me if those shoes were off. Another point is whether I should care about someone else’s procedures.

My attempted answer is that people end up drawn to things that are dramatically odd, like Odds & Ends. Pen marks shaping an abstracted flower bunch on a yellowed paper exist near a cutout page with ink gestures in its margins, and a skeleton. A jigsawed house mingles with a comma. Carnivalesque faces on the wall, skewed and textured, tie the room together. This is what Le Bon gives us, and I am sold. Someone, the artist, gave a fair amount of thought in first making and then joining these things–must not there be a reason, a rationale, an agenda? Le Bon’s selection of drawings invites you to seek meaning; the pictures and figures are minimally given to you, stripped, like signs–things that must signify when put together. Soaking them in, I feel close to those who uprooted ancient hieroglyphs, a language nobody had read for 3000 years.

However, I suspect that the point of Odds & Ends is not to waste time interpreting. I am invited but I don’t attend, and that’s good enough. Even though there might be some sort of relevant truth in the mind of the artist, him who delivers it through a disparate selection of drawings, I want to keep the exhibition away from utilitarianism and believe it doesn’t want to teach me. It’s sufficient for me to experience that pleasing alienation of not being in Le Bon’s shoes, while guessing they exist, and they might even look smart. I am reminded of how psychologist Théodore Flournoy recalled a medium séance and his spiritual interaction with Esenale, the main interpreter of Martian language in the early 20th century (according to him):

"Esenale has gone away ... he has left me alone ... but he will return, ... he will soon return. ... He has taken me by the hand and made me enter the house. ... I do not know where Esenale is leading me, but he has said to me, 'Dode ne haudan te meche metiche Astane ke de me veche.'"1

Piero Bisello

1. Théodore Flournoy, From India to the Planet Mars: A Study of a Case of Somnambulism with Glossolalia,

trans. Daniel B. Vermilye (New York: Harper & Bros., 1900).

Opening

Wednesday 08.06.2022 - 5-9 p.m.

On view - Exhibition

08.06 - 26.06.2022

Rue du Chapeau, 10

B-1070 Brussels

By appointment only

Call: +32 (0)471 67 90 34 (Saskia Gevaert)

Mail: saskia.gevaert@gmail.com

[6 June until 26 June 2022]

miss LUNA & Caroline Sebilleau, Rouge nuage Violet argenté

[1 June until 5 June 2022]

Daniel Dariel, Benjamin Installé, Elise De Maio, Eve Satagarski, Closer

Opening and edition presentation

Thursday 28.04.2022 - 5-9 p.m.

On view - Exhibition

28.04 - 29.05.2022

Rue du Chapeau, 10

B-1070 Brussels

By appointment only

Call: +32 (0)471 67 90 34 (Saskia Gevaert)

Mail: saskia.gevaert@gmail.com

[23 April until 29 May 2022]

Diego Thielemans, The Silly Running Troubled Dots

Opening and edition presentation - My Printer's Speech

Thursday 17.02.2022 - 6-9 p.m.

On view - Exhibition

17.02 - 31.03.2022

Rue du Chapeau, 10

B-1070 Brussels

By appointment only

Call: +32 (0)471 67 90 34 (Saskia Gevaert)

Mail: saskia.gevaert@gmail.com

[16 February until 31 March 2022]

Pierre Lauwers, Mol (Paulista), 2021

Set of twelve stickers, 21 x 5.8 cm each

Edition of twelve copies signed and numbered by the artist

(Ed. 3/12)

Published by Keijiban, Kanazawa, Japan

[4 February 2022]

Denicolai & Provoost, Colour and design may differ by country

Edition presentation by MOREpublishers

Saturday 29.01.2022 - 1-7 p.m.

On view - Exhibition

29.01.2022 - 02.02.2022

Rue du Chapeau, 10

B-1070 Brussels

By appointment only after 29.01.2022

Call: +32 (0)471 67 90 34 (Saskia Gevaert)

Mail: saskia.gevaert@gmail.com

[28 January 2022]

Daniel Dariel, Tunneling (R.S.)

[21 January 2022]

[18 January 2022]

[14 January 2022]

[12 January 2022]

[10 January 2022]

[7 January 2022]

[4 January 2022]

[1 January 2022]

[29 December 2021]

[26 December 2021]

Thiel E.Man, In a Strange Country

Opening

Friday 19.11.2021 - 6-9 p.m.

Saturday 20.11.2021 - 2-6 p.m.

(by appointment after these dates)

On view - Exhibition

19.10.2021 - 05.12.2021

Rue du Chapeau, 10

B-1070 Brussels

By appointment only

Call: +32 (0)471 67 90 34 (Saskia Gevaert)

Mail: saskia.gevaert@gmail.com

[15 November 2021]

Carole Melchior, Eleutheromania

Edition presentation

Friday 8.10.2021 - 5-9 p.m.

Saturday 9.10.2021 - 2-6 p.m.

On view - Exhibition

8.10.2021 - 24.10.2021

Rue du Chapeau, 10

B-1070 Brussels

By appointment only

Call: +32 (0)471 67 90 34 (Saskia Gevaert)

Mail: saskia.gevaert@gmail.com

[8 October until 24 October 2021]

Pour D. T., La trame

[5 September until 27 September 2021]

Nataša Grujović, Duet

[1 August until 1 September 2021]

Claudia Passeri / Saskia Gevaert, Divieto di affissione

[22 June until 31 July 2021]

[7 June until 21 June 2021]



Keijiban, nr. 32

[31 May 2021]



Keijiban, nr. 87

[27 May 2021]



Keijiban, nr. 15

[23 May 2021]

Kristien Daem, Mode d'emploi

[5 May until 19 May 2021]

Daniel Wagener, test print

[15 April until 1 May 2021]

Sylvie Eyberg

extrait : revue POSITIF, 227, février 1980, pp. 16-17. Imprimé par Axel Claes - chez rosi, Bruxelles.

[4 April 2021]

extrait : revue Cinematographer, March 1968, p. 185. Imprimé par Axel Claes - chez rosi, Bruxelles.

[26 March 2021]

Hommage au printemps et à Virginia Woolf. Sylvie et Asger.

extrait : publication the she, Gevaert Éditions, cahier I, 2014, The String Quartet (1921) by Virginia Woolf. Imprimé par Axel Claes - chez rosi, Bruxelles.

[21 March 2021]

extrait : publication the she, Gevaert Éditions, cahier I, 2014, The String Quartet (1921) by Virginia Woolf. Imprimé par Axel Claes - chez rosi, Bruxelles.

[16 March 2021]

Raphaël Van Lerberghe, La nef des fous

[9 March 2021]

[6 March 2021]

[3 March 2021]

[28 February 2021]

[25 February 2021]

[22 February 2021]

[19 February 2021]

Diego Thielemans

[11 February 2021]

[9 February 2021]

[7 February 2021]

[5 February 2021]

[3 February 2021]

[1 February 2021]

[29 January 2021]

[27 January 2021]

[25 January 2021]

Pour Y. G., S. Guidon

[8 January until 22 January 2021]

Laurianne Bixhain, Nom de sommeil (2020) - silkprint

[17 December until 31 December 2020]

Jason Dodge, They lifted me into the sun again and packed my skull with cinnamon

"They lifted me into the sun again and packed my skull with cinnamon" is an exhibition as an edition of six shown in six venues simultaneously during the last week of October and the first week of November. Participating venues include MOREpublishers with Gevaert Editions (Brussels), Guimaraes (Vienna), Akwa Ibom (Athens), Gern en Regalia (NYC), Gilles Drouault galerie/multiples (Paris), and Galleria Franco Noero (Torino).

The exhibition begins with the artist not being there, in all the different ways that "not there" can mean. Absence becomes a component of the show, which the title, borrowed from a poem by Thomas James titled "Mummy of a Lady Named Jemutesonekh XXI Dynasty," further highlights. The poem charts the ultimate presence of absence, death, as a complex entanglement of the corporeal and the spiritual. The narrator describes their own mummification process, described impartially as an emptying and filling method that treats the body as an aesthetic, artistic object. While within the poem's bounds, the spirit remains mostly autonomous, Dodge's exhibition negotiates a spiritual, also authorial presence that actively involves others in its corporeal becoming. A set of specific items: 20 Bayer Aspirin advertisements, a missing animal flyer, loose Marigold petals, batteries, forks, and fabric, and a found shopping list, is sent to each space to be installed following instructions sent electronically by the artist. Within this set of instructions is the; conversational, improvisational, and accumulative, employment of different practices, other bodies, and touches, the exhibition's own poetics is animated through a series of choices akin to the translator's entanglement in a poem. In each incarnation of this exhibition Dodge has asked someone to perform the installation as a surrogate, here in Brussels the installation will be performed by Tom Engels.

The dancer and choreographer Alix Eynaudi has composed a score to follow in order to install all of the exhibitions. The score addresses the buying of the items listed in the shopping list and to unpack them in the room; things understood firstly as products to be consumed inside the body, applied outside the body, and to clean what the body uses. Unrelated to randomness, but open to interpretation, this show builds on Dodge's previous habit of inviting friends and colleagues to lend titles and texts to his exhibitions, but here inspires a freer movement in a conversation with things, an improvisation using a shared score that is not concluded by a single iteration.

On view

20.10.2020 - 15.11.2020

Rue du Chapeau, 10

B-1070 Brussels

By appointment only

Call: +32 (0)489 98 58 87 (Tim Ryckaert) / +32 (0)471 67 90 34 (Saskia Gevaert)

Mail: info@morepublishers.be / saskia.gevaert@gmail.com

[20 October 2020]

Baptiste Saint-Pé

[12 October 2020]

[10 October 2020]

[7 October 2020]

[5 October 2020]

[2 October 2020]

[29 September 2020]

Yuki Okumura

"Combien d'éternuements surviennent en synchronistion parfaite chaque jour en différents lieux sur terre ?"

"Hoe vaak niest men dagelijks perfect synchroon op verschillende locaties op aarde?"

[11 until 25 September 2020]

Use Japan Owls, Le poème du bonheur

[26 August until 9 September 2020]

Denicolai & Provoost

[7 until 23 August 2020]

Pietro Gaglianó, Le Voci

"Durante la residenza Commonwealth a Scheggia in Umbria si sono svolte alcune conversazioni con gli abitanti alla ricerca di memorie dirette o tramandate sul tempo della seconda Guerra Mondiale, del passaggio della linea gotica, dell’arrivo degli alleati. Alcune parole comuni e brevi frasi, ricorrenti in tutti gli incontri, sono state scelte e stampate e disposte in vari spazi del paese come un coro di voci sul tempo, sui luoghi e sulla memoria."

Layout by Saskia Gevaert, transposed rue_du_chapeau_10 from 14 May until 5 July 2020.