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KATRIEN DE BLAUWERLove me tender

Exhibition from 18 May to 15 June 2019Opening Saturday 18 May 2019 (3pm to 8pm)

17, rue des Filles-du-Calvaire 75003 Paris01 42 74 47 [email protected]

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The artistic practice of Katrien de Blauwer, who lives and works in Antwerp (Belgium), explores the realm of collage. Rather than a category or a compartmentalising genre, this term should be

interpreted as a notion of total commitment. Her artistic idyll with collage started early, when, as a young woman, she studied art and fashion. Like a prelude to her current research, her mood books from that period already displayed a compulsive desire for images and for what lies beyond the image, a fascination for the image’s construction.

The brushstroke is as terse and precise as a scissor cut. Behind this intransigent “cut,” similar to photomontage and film editing techniques, there is a determination to reconstruct the image, to make a tale arise from it, and to give back to this raw material all its past “glamour.” She composes these collages from a selection of images found in old magazines. The collages feed off these old, forgotten photographs that De Blauwer recycles, cuts and links together. Hence an unexpected connection takes shape between several figures, between motifs and colours. More than merely formal, these associations are dictated by an immediate feeling and reflect the stimulating paradox of her practice. The choices she makes in the treatment of these fragments in fact relate back to her intimate thoughts, even though she manipulates anonymous images, which, at first sight, could seem to bear no relation to her.

“My collages speak about myself, about what’s keeping me busy. They’re my stories, how I deal with the past. My grip on reality, my ritual and routine.”

By excluding the gazes and faces of her compositions, she preserves a certain neutrality, a freedom of interpretation which deliberately allows room for whoever wants to imagine themselves inside the image. The narrative and memory potential of the artist’s collages stem from this attention to universality.

Two years after her solo exhibition, the galerie Les filles du calvaire is delighted to announce the exhibition Love Me Tender by Katrien de Blauwer, simultaneous with the release of two new books by the artist «Why I Hate Cars» and «Dirty Scenes», published by Libraryman.

17, rue des Filles-du-Calvaire 75003 Paris01 42 74 47 05 / www.fillesducalvaire.com / [email protected]

KATRIEN DE BLAUWERLove me tender

Love me tender 74, 2018Courtesy Galerie Les filles du calvaire

Exhibition from 18 May to 15 June 2019Opening on Saturday 18 May 2019 (3pm to 8pm)

17, rue des Filles-du-Calvaire 75003 Paris01 42 74 47 05 / www.fillesducalvaire.com / [email protected]


Katrien De Blauwer Why I Hate CarsEditions Libraryman (2019)

20 x 25 cm72 pages, paperbound hardcover with tipped in pictures on front and back coverFirst Edition: 700–1,000 copiesSpecial Edition: 50 copies, signed and numberedRetail price: €45

Katrien De Blauwer Dirty ScenesEditions Libraryman (2019)

16 x 20 cm40 pages, softcover, 70 g paper publication placed inside of paperboard slipcaseFirst Edition: 400 copies, signed and numberedRetail price: €40

PUBLICATIONSBook signing at the gallery sunday 19th may - 3 pm

For the galerie Les filles du calvaire, Katrien de Blauwer has developed two new series, two narratives in which she delicately reveals herself. As a support to her painted collages, the artist finds inspiration in her childhood memories. In Love Me Tender, both the title of the series and of the exhibition, the male figure is central through its absence. Only men’s attributes remain: cars, roads taken and the elegance of the women encountered; all viewed through the fantasies of a young girl. As for the Dirty Scenes, although they remain discreet, they reveal a little more femininity. For the first time since Katrien de Blauwer

was first revealed to the Parisian public, the artist experiments with other formats, different forms and new materials. Here again, let us forget about the question of genre, of its reproducibility and its unicity, because the power of the proposition finds its origin in the indiscriminate reuse of the elements of which the work is composed. It is at once surface, collage, painting and photography.

KATRIEN DE BLAUWER

RECENT EXHIBITIONS (sélection)

2019 Love me tender, Galerie Les filles du calvaire, Paris, France Attack, Fotomuseum de Rotterdam, Pays-Bas2018 New work Part III : subject : Group - Cob Gallery, Londres, UK Reprise, Ffotogallery, Cardiff, UK Double, Gallery Fifty One Too, Antwerp, Belgium Photo friction, Cultuurcentrum Mechelen, Belgium Iconobelge, Antwerp Photo International Photography Festival, Anvers, Belgium Adoptive, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Canada2017 Scenes, Le Chateau d’Eau, Toulouse, France The Photography Show by AIPAD, New York, USA Seventeen by FIFTY ONE, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium Art Brussels, Brussels, Belgium Without Camera, Hopstreet Gallery, Brussels, Belgium Galerie Municipale du Château d’Eau, Toulouse, France Fugue - Tique Art Space, Antwerp, Belgique2016 Fragments, Galerie Les filles du calvaire, Paris, France Paris Photo, Paris, France Unseen, Amsterdam, Netherlands Best OFF the wall on the gallery wall, Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris, France The Summer show, Ravestijn Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands Single Cuts, Galerie Les filles du calvaire, Paris, France Prove di fotografia #1, Spazio Labo’ Fotografia, Bologne, Italy Stories of places and spaces, bodies and ties, Arendt House, Luxembourg Les adoptés, Galerie RueVisconti, Paris, France2015 Spiegel im spiegel, Psychiatrische Inrichting Sint Amandus, Beernem, Belgium Nottiluca, The Others Art Fair, Turin, Italy Jouez avec elle, Tique Art Space, Antwerp, Belgium Kunstrai 201, bootGallery Lokaalwv15, Amsterdam, Netherlands FotoLegendo 2015, Roma, Italy DISPARITIONS, Galerie RueVisconti, Paris, France UmbriaWorldFest, Palazzo Trinci, Foligno, Italie2014 La(b) Galerie ArtyFact, femme(s), Paris, France The age of collage, Galerie Feinkunst Krüger, Hambourg, Germany Nothing but good live, Park, Tilbourg, Netherlands Une Femme est une Femme, Pak Gistel, Belgium You have no idea, Galerie 6b, Elingen, Belgium Close, Het Nutshuis, La Hague, Netherlands

PUBLICATIONS

2019 Why I Hate Cars, Libraryman Dirty Scenes, Libraryman2018 Katrien de Blauwer – When I was a boy, Seasons Series #2, Libraryman, Paris2017 Pan & The dream Magazine #1, The Emperor’s New Clothes, UK Jane. by the grey attic, issue two, the strongest of the strange, Australie2016 Stills, IIKKI BOOKS2014 I do not want to disappear silently into the night, Avarie Collage, Chronicle Books, USA Mékanik copulaire #6, Strasbourg Making Art a Practice, Findhorn Press, USA The Age of Collage, Gestalten, Allemagne

Born in 1969 in Ronse, BelgiumLives in Antwerp, Belgium

IMAGES FOR PRESS

Katrien de Blauwer, Love me tender 216, 2018Courtesy Galerie Les filles du calvaire


Katrien de Blauwer, Dirty Scenes 11, 2018Courtesy Galerie Les filles du calvaire




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