GUSTAV
GUSTAV
BRUSSELS BASED CONTEMPORARY ARTIST
news: October 2022 solo exhibition Bert Koeck (Gustav) art gallery "Zebrastraat" - Ghent / Belgium
also...coming up: new art book -already available to order- ("contact")
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"Ask me how I feel (art-installation) (2022)
This installation is about the war in Ukraine, the aggression, the occupation of a country, shrinking its territory, a claustrophobic feeling in your own habitat, your own apartment.
Materials: rusted steel, audio (Russian message on an ukrainian answering machine), model with concrete walls, wooden furniture scale 1:20, old clamp screws. ( 150 x 160 x 90cm / 62,99 x 59,06 x 35,43 inch)
Listen to the audio (Russian phone message), read the translation & the explanation of this installation.
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"preparing a controlled apocalypse" (installation- 2022) "Environmental 4D-scanning". Scanning a route/traject from A to B through "space and time". Space, time and movement cause distorted results. These digital 3D (4D)-images/point clouds are being 3D-printed as "earth shells". Negative moulds are made of them and bronze casted. Soon: ("earth shells". Futuristic and archaeological at the same time. (measurements 2.0m x 1.0m)
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"don't tell God your plans-01 (series) (2015)
self developed "laser light bodypainting"-techniques. (100 x 150cm / 41,3 x 59 inch)
exploring the human body by converted laser beam and image-capturing devices. (DIY-tools)
"Don't tell God your plans", a psycho-antropology research. Inner conflict about "sharing others
your intentions/ goals". Painting several body parts (with laser light-beam/longer exposure times) and leaving others unpainted, creates new physical structures.(to see whole project, click the image).
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"Your shadow on my wall-01" (-series) ( 2018)
converted photo finish camera tech/ misuse
"when flatland meets fatland"-series DIY-tools
framed / museum glass (20 x 12cm / image)
(to see whole project, click the image).
"protein pills...check! Helmet on...check!" - " penetrating surroundings" (2012)
abuse of lenses / variabel dimensions. (to see whole project, click on image).
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"mathematical hyper order" "mass to dust, dust to order" "the none image"
extracting dimensions: from 3D+ > 1D- "POWERS OF TEN" Charles & Ray Eames
extreme conditions / adjustments / light reflection on dust particles / selfportrait
"a letter in your writing doesn't mean you're not dead" (spatial installation - 2021)
A spatial blend between a very technical set-up and dramatic / poetic issues.
As we know, the "Don't tell God your plans"-series as a 2D-matter, this work is
a sequel in 3D. Mixed media: photogrammetry, body distortions, 3D-printing,
matrix, moulding, lasercutting. 120cm x 50cm x 130cm / 47,24inch x 1 9,7inch x 51,2inch
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(to see whole project, click on the image).
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"They say jump, you say how high" (2022) -alternating traffic lights-
"when flatland meets fatland"-series
converted photo finish camera-techniques (sports) /DIY tools / night vision
diasec framed / variable dimensions)
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"your soul deserves to die twice-01" (monochrome series)
self developed "laser light-body painting" techniques-
So you think you can dissolve ?! - night vision / overexposed
diasec framed (100 x 70cm / 39,4 x 27,5 inch) variable dimensions
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"Law and order" "I died before, I'm not impressed"(2018)
exploring anthropology / body spasms / body distortions
DIY-manipulated lens-techniques / technical abuse / misuse.
diasec framed / mat (100 cm x 150 cm / 41,3 inch x 59 inch)
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"Death struggle of a blue tuna" (2018)
"when flatland meets fatland" ( series)
converted photo finish camera-techniques-/DIY tools /
framed /museum glass (20 x 12cm (image) / 3x (120 x 22cm)
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"symbiotic antibodies-01" (time/movement (2014)
exploring human interactions / merging bodies / symbiosis
framed /museum glass (20x30cm-variable measurements)
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"008734" installation developed 1996 - restored 2021
development of a stealth principe full radio controlled
underwater camera / espionage / Lockheed / NASA
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"light penetration" "when flatland meets fatland" (2018)
light /shadow /texture /architecture /variable exposure
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"surgical stretch" ("when flatland meets fatland" (series) (2018)
converted photo finish camera-techniques-/DIY tools / night vision
framed / museum glass (20cm x 12cm / 7,87inch x 4,72inch)
(to see whole project, click on the image)
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"Borderline" "surgical stretch" of a security line.
converted photo finish camera-techniques/DIY tools
framed / museum glass (20cm x 12cm / 7,87 x 4,72inch) (2019)
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"PIXEL DISORDER" (satellite/drone/night vision cam) "traffic bug-01"
multile scans/video/film + "tv-treated DIY-techniques"
DIY-developed image capturing tools / handscan-device made of flatbedscanners.
prints mounted on alu-dibond (variable dimensions)
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"I died before, I'm not impressed-01" (2014)
"my shadow on your wall" - (series) ( time / movement)
exploring anthropology / body spasms / body distortions
framed /museum glass (12 x 20cm - var. measurements)
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"vertical horizon" "foiled" (series)
experiment / rotating multiple exposures / architecture
monochrome / diasec framed (70 x 100cm/41,3x59 inch)
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"don't tell God your plans-02 (series) (2015)
self developed "laser light-body painting" technique
diasec framed (100 cm x 150cm / 41,3 inch x 59inch)
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"PIXEL DISORDER"
video/film + "tv-treated DIY-techniques" DIY-developed image capturing tools /
handscan-device made of flatbedscanners.
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"Everybody has a weapon to fight you with"
"when flatland meets fatland" (airplane) (2020)
converted photo finish camera-techniques / DIY tools
framed / museum glass (20 x 12cm / 7,87 x 4,72inch)
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"Ashes to dust, dust to mass-01" (series) organic disorder"
get yourself (postmortem) upgraded / r eïncarnated in artwork
Human ashes 1D>4D+ / upgrading dimensions / exposure time
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"poetry in motion-01" (nude series)
simultanious multiple scans techniques installation with 2 converted flatbed scanners
diasec framed (120 cm x 70 cm ) var. dimensions)
"A one-second dream of a tormented light line, being a plane-01" (series) (2015)
self developed "laser light spatial painting techniques" (variable exposure times)
inspired by the book "FLATLAND" (Edwin Abbott Abbott) (a romance of many dimensions)
"your soul deserves to die twice" "consuming spatial sensitivity"
self developed "laser light-body painting" -techniques
"So you think you can dissolve ?! night vision / overexposed
exploring anthropology/ body spasms/ distortions/ exposure times
diasec framed (100 x 70cm / 39,4 x 27,5 inch) variable dimensions
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"when flatland meets fatland" (series) "So you think you can flatten" / "extracting dimensions"
experiment rotating multiple exposures / architecture -
monochrome, on alu mounted, framed / (150 x 100cm (23-1) / 70 x 100cm (23-2) ( variable dimensions)
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"symbiotic antibodies" (time/movement (2014)
exploring human interactions / merging bodies / symbiosis
framed /museum glass (20x30cm-variable measurements)
"urban radiation" (series) "environment scans" HDR in motion / multiple-underexposure/ distortion
experiment rotating multiple exposures / architecture -
monochrome, on alu, framed / (150cm x 100cm (23-1) / 70cm x 100cm (23-2)( variable dimensions)
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"Time-shifting"
project: Airplanes, elegantly taxiing at airports and the dancers of the belgian choreographer A.T. de Keersmaeker, have great simularities.
Exploring this "mensch /machine"- comparison (mixed-media)
techniques: drone (airport) and video (dancers) / old tv-screens (scanning+ "tv-treated") (cfr project: tv-treated) / DIY-converted scanning devices.
"time shifting": "pixel digging", distortion /pixel movement / instant manipulation while "shooting".
print mounted on all-dibond (variable dimensions)
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"drifting districts" (-series) (Paris / La Défence)
multile scans /video - film/ "tv-treated DIY-technique"
DIY-developed image capturing tools / handscan-device made of flatbedscanners.
print mounted on alu-dibond (variable dimensions)
"Did you make mankind after we made you?"(-series) multiple scans techniques
DIY-developed image capturing tools / handscan-device made of flatbedscanners.
print mounted on alu-dibond (variable dimensions)
(to see whole project, click on the image)
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"my shadow on your wall" (series)
"consuming spatial emotiveness"
framed/museum glass (variable dimensions)
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"Inter dimensional data dating" ("when flatland meets fatland")
"extracting dimensions" rotating multiple exposure. (Bretagne France)
image framed + mounted on alu base (variable dimensions)(2013)
"TV-treated" (-series) "ROOFTOP-01" / Brussels)
multile scans- video / film - "tv-treated DIY-techniques"
DIY-developed image capturing tools/ handscan-device made of flatbedscanners / old tv-screen / tv-treated (pixel digging)
image framed , mounted on alu-dibond) (variable dimensions)
(to see whole project, click on the image)
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"a letter in your writing doesn't mean you're not dead" (spatial installation - 2021)
A spatial blend between a very technical set-up and dramatic / poetic issues.
As we know, the "Don't tell God your plans"-series as a 2D-matter, this work is
a sequel in 3D. Mixed media: photogrammetry, body distortions, 3D-printing,
matrix, moulding, lasercutting. 120cm x 50cm x 130cm / 47,24inch x 1 9,7inch x 51,2inch