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Dirk Braeckman | LUSTER./
20 January – 26 February, 2022
54 White Street, New York, NY (US)
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Dirk Braeckman's photographs are enigmatic in their evasion of clear, linear narratives; an approach that can be seen as contradictory to the traditional deliberations of the medium. Explorations of time, however, remain in focus through a disrupted, abstracted means. Braeckman’s compositions are pulled from a seemingly endless archive of negatives that the artist has built over decades. Oftentimes a negative does not see the light of day for years until the artist is ready to employ its image. Images are then merged, manipulated, to create new inexplicable worlds, pushing the boundaries of photography by the sheer refusal of offering practical or evidential representations.
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Dirk BraeckmanR.N.-W.S.-21, 2021Ultrachrome inkjet print mounted on aluminium in stainless steel frame180 x 120 cm | 70 7/8 x 47 1/4 in
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Dirk BraeckmanF.W.-S.V.-21, 2021Ultrachrome inkjet print mounted on aluminium in stainless steel frame180 x 120 cm | 70 7/8 x 47 1/4 in
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Dirk BraeckmanT.S.-O.S.-18 #1, 2018Gelatin silver print reversibly mounted on aluminium support and frame180 x 120 cm | 70 7/8 x 47 1/4 in
Unique in a series of 3 (#1/3)
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Featuring distant seascapes, architectural details and blurred nudes, Braeckman’s photographs are more akin to a painterly worldbuilding rather than documentation. The artist, much like the rest of the us, has retreated the past two years to a more localized life. An impulse for travel has shaped much of Braeckman’s life and practice, but recently the artist has returned to the studio and his darkroom, experimenting with new techniques and utilizing everything within his reach to create new confounding compositions.
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Dirk BraeckmanL.U.-A.L.-21, 2021Ultrachrome inkjet print on matte paper mounted on aluminum in stainless steel frame120 x 180 cm | 47 1/4 x 70 7/8 in
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Dirk BraeckmanO.G.-O.H.-20, 2020Ultrachrome inkjet print mounted on aluminium in stainless steel frame120 x 180 cm | 47 1/4 x 70 7/8 in
Edition of 3 plus 1 artist's proof (#1/3)
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Dirk BraeckmanE.N.-C.K. -12 - 2013, 2013Gelatin silver print mounted on aluminium support and frame180 x 120 cm | 70 7/8 x 47 1/4 in
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Dirk BraeckmanS.G.-B.S.-21, 2021Ultrachrome inkjet print mounted on aluminium in stainless steel frame180 x 120 cm | 70 7/8 x 47 1/4 in
Edition of 3 plus 1 artist's proof (#1/3)
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Also included in the exhibition is the video work Hemony (2012), which features a swinging monumental church bell filmed from below. Tension builds as the swinging speeds up. The viewer waits for the bell clapper to hit, to hear the familiar strike of a bell’s tone, though the film remains silent. The absence of anticipated sound echoes themes of desire, offering a beautiful harmony to the darkness and voids of the photographs
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Dirk BraeckmanU.M.-V.P.-16, 2016Gelatin silver print mounted on aluminium support and frame180 x 120 cm | 70 7/8 x 47 1/4 in
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Dirk BraeckmanS.N.-U.N.-21, 2021Ultrachrome inkjet print mounted on aluminium in stainless steel frame90 x 60 cm | 35 3/8 x 23 5/8 in
Edition of 5 plus 1 artist's proof (#1/5)
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About the artist
Dirk Braeckman studied photography and film at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent (BE) from 1977 to 1981. Braeckman has taken part in numerous exhibitions including The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX (US); BOZAR, Brussels (BE); S.M.A.K., Ghent (BE); Fotohof, Salzburg (AT); Museum De Pont, Tilburg (NL); Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (DE); Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro (BR); Whitechapel Gallery, London (UK); WIELS, Brussels (BE) and Museum M, Leuven (BE). In 2017, Braeckman represented Belgium at the 57th Venice Biennale (IT).
Braeckman’s work is included in many institutional and important private collections, such as Artothèque, Annecy (FR); Belgacom Art, Brussels (BE); Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris (FR); Centraal Museum, Utrecht (NL); Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris (FR); Centro de Fotografia de la Universidad, Salamanca (ES); Fondation nationale d’art contemporain, Paris (FR); Frac Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkirk (FR); Frac Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbanne (FR); Kunstmuseum, The Hague (NL); M HKA, Antwerp (BE); MAC’s Grand-Hornu, Hornu (BE); Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris (FR); Ministère de la Communauté française, Brussels (BE); Ministerie van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap, Brussels (BE); Musée Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône (FR); Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi (BE); Musée d’Art Contemporain et Moderne, Strasbourg (FR); Mu.ZEE, Ostend (BE); De Pont, Museum voor hedendaagse kunst, Tilburg (NL); Provinciaal Museum voor Fotografie, Antwerp (BE); Royal Palace, Brussels (BE); Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Brussels (BE); Sammlung Goetz, Munich (DE); Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst S.M.A.K., Ghent (BE)
GRIMM represents the artist in collaboration with Zeno X Gallery in Antwerp (BE) and Galerie Thomas Fischer in Berlin (DE). -
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