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Artist Statement:
With his objects and
installations, Alex Valle has
embarked on a process of
continuous interaction between
science, art and spirituality
infused with a cocktail of
belief, desire, illusion and
anxiety.
The child-like element
embodied by the humble marble
in his ‘bolas de gude’ works
on two levels: scientific
analysis in the more obvious
symbolisation of living things
as represented by cells and
embryos and, at a more sublime
level of consciousness, the
impressions gained from life
and deeper sensorial
perception.
As hybrid products of memory
and contemporary experience,
these “glocal” marbles can be
seen as the expression of both
global and local experiences.
The objects with which the
marbles interrelate are all
things with a specific past
and a particular energetic
value destined in time to
perish. In their new role,
they acquire new life as a
context for the marbles while,
at the same time, the
macroscopic representations of
cells and embryos conveyed by
the marbles become –
inseparably? – bound to them
in a ritualistic relationship.
The impact of the resultant
symbiosis is disconcerting and
highly effective in provoking
the subjective involvement of
the viewer.
Veerle DECLERCQ 2002
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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1999 Centre d Art Chapelle de Boendael, Brussels;
1998 Espaço Cultural do Banco do Brasil, Brussels;
1997 Halle du Nord, Liège;
1996 Galerie Seul, Brussels
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2002 Rites - Myths - Beliefs, De Melkerij, Veltem-Beisem;
2001 Praça XV - Galerie SEUL, Brussels ;
2000 Saudade - 500 years since the discovery of Brazil, Espace Pierre Cardin, Brussels; Galerie du Haut-Pavé, Paris ;
1999 Panorama Van Braziliaanse Hedendaagse Kunst III - Holiday Inn Gent Expo, Ghent; Première partie - Peint, Cacco Zanchi Art Gallery, Aalst;
1998 Regards de L Amérique - Maison Pelgrims, Brussels; Panorama Brasilianischer Kunst der Gegenwart - Fabrik Schlegelstrasse, Berlin; Xylos, Brussels;
1997 The Mysterious Face of Art - Cacco Zanchi Kunstgalerij, Aalst; Galerie Bortier - Ville de Bruxelles, Brussels; Expos St Art - Galerie du Meir Square, Antwerp; Expos St Art - Centre Culturel les Chiroux, Liège; The Spirit of Lost Dreams II - Espaço Cultural do Banco do Brasil, Brussels;
1996 Brasil 14 daagse - Wilkcentrum de Kattepoel, Brussels; The Spirit of Lost Dreams I - Cacco Zanchi Kunstgalerij, Aalst; Pianofabriek, Brussels; Expos St Art - Chapelle de Boendael, Brussels;
1995 Green Art Gallery, Brussels; Galerie Patrick Vicqueray, Brussels
COMPETITIONS
2000 Prix Médiatine, Brussels;
1997 Salon de Mai, Brussels;
1996 Salon de Mai, Brussels; Prix des Arts de Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, Brussels; Prix Louis Schmidt, U.L.B., Brussels;
1995 Salon de Mai, Brussels;
1994 Prix Louis Schmidt, U.L.B., Brussels;
HAPPENINGS
2001 LITERARTE - >biVA - Brussels;
1999 Bruxelles ma découverte - Pentagone, Brussels;
1998 Les Nuits Shenan Doah - Boitsfort, Brussels;
1996 De Waterman, Brussels; Trott Art Boniface - 7 ème édition, Brussels
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Belgium, Brazil, France, Germany, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and UK
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Centre d Art de la Chapelle de Boendael - Ed. Fondation De Cloedt, 2000
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2001 Director >biVA - Brazilian Institute for Visual Arts, Brussels; Concept for « Praça XV », Galerie SEUL, Brussels;
2000 Exhibition Director « Saudade » - 500 years since the discovery of Brazil - Espace Pierre Cardin, Brussels; Jury member of exhibitions Kiezen voor Kunst - Contrasten VZW.
1999 Cover - Annuaire d'immobilier Belge;
MEMBER
Culture et Démocratie - Brussels; ADAGP - Société des Auteurs dans les Arts Graphiques et Plastiques - Paris
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