123
Black Fall (2009)
Black ink on canvas
2x (200 x 105 cm)
123
Drawing Rats Breath for you (2009)
Black ink on canvas
2x (105 x 200 cm)
123
Adios Paradise (2008)
Black ink on canvas
160 x 120 cm
123
4th Reich (2007)
Photo on metal
ø 99 cm
123
Almost Real (2007)
Photo on metal
ø 99 cm
123
Coma (2007)
Photo on metal
ø 99 cm
123
Gaze Monologue (2007)
Photo on metal
ø 99 cm
123
Rob Zone (2007)
Photo on metal
ø 99 cm
123
The Chords of Floor (2007)
12 street stones
13 x 12 x 14 cm each
123
Ideal Ruins (2005)
Lambdaprint on dibond
110 x 170 cm
123
White Sentenced (2009)
Lacquered aluminium
158,2 x 199,4 x 4 cm
123
Black Fall (2007)
Stone coal
31 x 42 x 87 cm
123
Oxy-Date (2005)
Bronze and paint
18 x 12 cm
123
Soul Killers Don't Quit I (2009)
Inkjet print on white paper
150 x 150 cm
123
Soul Killers Don't Quit II (2009)
Inkjet print on white paper
150 x 150 cm
123
Soul Killers Don't Quit III (2009)
Inkjet print on white paper
150 x 150 cm
123
Soul Killers Don't Quit IV (2009)
Inkjet print on white paper
150 x 150 cm
123
Hate Delivers Majority I (2009)
Inkjet print on white paper
150 x 150 cm
123
Hate Delivers Majority II (2009)
Inkjet print on white paper
150 x 150 cm
Andy Wauman – "The Quota Copies"
14 November 2009 – 30 January 2010   |  Bourouina Gallery

A pack of black letters. They re-form themselves over and over, but the message stays the same: Soul Killers Don't Quit and Hate Delivers Majority. The letters are free when they find a new form. In their existence in the media machinery, those very Soul killers, they have to copy apparent truth. But what is truth anyways? Can a copy possibly be more authentic, than the assumed original? Are we still aware of authentic meanings in a society manaced by distorted messages?

Andy Wauman tackles these very issues. He is a man of both, many and few words: Language figures prominently in his work – his works „consists“ of language so to speak– but word are always used moderately, yet emphatically. His works maintain a clear and simple nature, without becoming minimalistic. His use of colour is reduced to the essential: black and white are pretty much the only colours available in Wauman's World. In this polarisation ,the opposites „art“ and „language“ can develop the best. Wauman focuses on playing with words and symbols that have been overused and missused in media and popular culture. He recycles terminological concepts, creates new concepts and leads us back to original meanings.

The three pins in the middle corridor are oversized versions of those buttons that became symbols of self-expression and identity, political statement and revolt. The zone of daily routine that steals a part of our freedom - the Rob Zone, the world simulated by the media: Almost Real, or the 4th Reich, the dictatorship of consumption in that we find ourselves already in, typified by a bar code.

Waumans developes his own poetical language, a language, that categorically spoken probably could be best described as post-broken English: Dance Wires Rose Thorns. Wauman, who calles himself a „poetical terrorist“, reanimates through his associative word games the power of the ordinary and ubiquitous. Invoking the rediscovery of social energy, freedom and anarchy. Confrontated with Waumans fragmented and pointed words and haikus, the viewer shall question his own values and presupposed ideas to then look into existing concepts, in a search for true authenticity.

Andy Wauman - Bibliography  (selection)
Catalogues
Wet Feet Bet  |  Deweer Gallery, 2006
The Quota Copies  |  Exhibition Newspaper, Bourouina Gallery, 2009
ARTIST BOOKS
Rack Novel  |  (poems), Deweer Gallery, 2007
Rack Novel  |  (poems), limited edition of 80, signed and numbered, Deweer Gallery, 2007
 

Andy Wauman - Biography
Born 1975 in Wilrijk, Belgium
Currently lives and works in Antwerp and Amsterdam

Solo Exhibition
2009  
The Quota Copies | Bourouina Gallery, Berlin
 
Post Everybody | Deweer Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
 
Empathy Leak | Self Service Art Space, Stuttgart, Germany
2008  
Calligraphs & Body Traps | Art Statements Gallery, Hong Kong
2007  
Black Marks / The Mask That Fails To Touch The Face | Project Room ZUID, Rijksacademy for Visual Arts, Amsterdam
2006  
Wet Feet Bet | Deweer Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
2005  
There should be no law for anybody | Window Gallery Walter Van Beirendonck, Antwerp
2003  
Don’t Sell The Middle Brow Short  | Fifty One Gallery, Antwerp
 
Cat & Dogs | Studio Eric Lenoir, Charleville-Mezières, France

Group Exhibitions
2009  
Rijksakademie OPEN 2009 | Rijksakademy for Visual Arts, Amsterdam
 
Contemporary Art Parcour | FRAC Champagne Ardenne, Studio Lenoir, Charleville Mézières, France
 
Splav Meduze | Center for Contemporary Art Celje - Likovni salon, Celje, Slovenie
 
Quantum Vîs 5 | De Service Garage, Amsterdam
 
The Hands of Art |  Drawing Center, New York
 
Shoes or no Shoes at SONS Museum | Kruishoutem, Belgium
2008  
Marcel Broodthaers | A Project by AmuseeVous, Logement, Antwerp
 
Rijksakademie OPEN 2008 | Rijksakademy for Visual Arts, Amsterdam
 
Laugh Track | Brussels Biennale I Off Programm, Brussels
 
Update | Deweer Gallery, Ottegem, Belgium
 
The Hands of Art | Martha Herford, Museum for Contemporary Art and Design, Herford, Germany
 
POPEYE The Art of Music / The Music of Art | The Old Prison, Hasselt, Belgium
 
Error #10 | Extra City - Center for Contemporary Art, Antwerp
 
Veronique Branquinho | MOMU ModeMuseum & Flanders Fashion Institute, Antwerp
 
Director’s Cut | Zuiderzeemuseum, Enkhuizen, The Netherlands
 
Doing it My Way. Perspectives on Belgian Art | Museum Kueppersmuehle, Center for Modern and Contemporary Art, Duisburg, Germany
 
The Hands of Art | SMAK - The Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Gent, Belgium
2007  
Tumbleweed - Breda Break | Lokaal 01, Breda, The Netherlands
 
Surfaces | Flanderns Fashion Insitute, Antwerp
 
Small Stuff Three | Herrman Teirlinckhuis & Frankveld, Beersel, Belgium
 
Isel Foundation, Merelbeke, Belgium
 
Sway | Gallery Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
 
To Be Political It Has To Look Nice | Annette De Keyser Gallery, Antwerp
 
Black, White, Gold, Yellow and Blue at Gallery Klerkx | Gallery Klerkx, Milano, Italy
 
The Moss Gathering Tumbleweed Experience | NICC, Antwerp
 
Floods Saint Agostino Exhibiting Space in coop. w/ GAMeC ( Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art) , Bergamo, Italy
2006  
Artist Without Borders | Gallery of Contemporary Art, Przemysl, Poland
 
Shibboleth | Café Gallery Projects, London
 
First Sudden Gone the One. First Sudden Back | Project 133, Peckham Rye, London
 
PERSEvérance | Het Godshuis, Sint Laureins, Belgium
2005  
CHAT & CHAT 2005 - Dialoog I | Etoiles-Polaires & Vis à Vis Art Lab, Xiamen, South China
 
Expo Coquina!, Antwerp
 
Dalect 02 | Gun Shooting Gallery, Antwerp
 
T142 |  Transfo, Zwevegem, Belgium
 
SuperHasseltum  | Z33 Museum, Hasselt, Belgium
2004  
98% Belgian | Fifty One Fine Art Photograph, Antwerp
 
Free Space NICC, Hessenhuis Museum, Antwerp
2003  
932m³ | Gun Shooting Gallery, Antwerp
 
Art Meets Inkjet | Box 38, Oostende, Belgium
 
Young talents | Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp
 
Vitrine 2003 | Flanders Fashion Institute, Antwerp
2002  
A Ticket To The Big Toe  | Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp
 
2060 Vision Gallery, Antwerp

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