Save the Date: the MACS presents two solo exhibitions by Léon Wuidar and Tamara Laï
From 26 September 2021 to 30 January 2022, the MACS in Grand-Hornu presents two solo exhibitions by two artists from Liège: Léon Wuidar and Tamara Laï.
The exhibition of Léon Wuidar is a major retrospective which brings together a number of his paintings, collages and sketchbooks created between 1962 and the present day. With its title À perte de vue (As Far as the Eye Can See), the exhibition emphasises the immense labyrinth of his oeuvre, as well as the “smiling rigour” of an artist who plays with lines and colours, words and objects. It's the artist’s first major monograph exhibition in a museum in Belgium.
In the 1990s, at the time when digital arts were emerging, Tamara Laï was one of the first Belgian artists to use the CD-ROM and the Web as supports to develop multimedia, interactive works which stood out through their poetic hypertext and rhizomatic narrative. The MACS has chosen to focus on her videos, in a device that highlights the poetic blend of interwoven sensations and affects, images and sounds.
Léon Wuidar: À perte de vue
Practising an art that has been built up assiduously and not without a few notes of humour, in the house designed for him in the 1970s by the architect Charles Vandenhove, for whom he has also created certain artistic integrations, the Liège artist Léon Wuidar has produced a body of work that is as coherent as it is surprising. After the Museum Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich, the MACS is staging a major retrospective which brings together a number of his paintings, collages and sketchbooks created between 1962 and the present day. With its title À perte de vue (As Far as the Eye Can See), the exhibition emphasises the immense labyrinth of his oeuvre, as well as the “smiling rigour” of an artist who plays with lines and colours, words and objects.
Born in Liège in 1938, Léon Wuidar began teaching himself to paint in 1955. In 1963, he abandoned figuration in favour of abstraction. At the same time, he continued his teaching career as a lecturer in graphic arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Liège, working alongside Jacques Charlier. In 1998, he gave up teaching to devote himself full-time to painting. At this time he undertook numerous architectural integrations, notably for Charles Vandehove whose work he admired. After a series of exhibitions in Belgium, his work was the subject of an exhibition at the Haus Konstruktiv Museum in Zurich in 2020. The exhibition Léon Wuidar. À perte de Vue is the artist’s first major monograph exhibition in a museum in Belgium.
Léon Wuidar: À perte de vue
26.09.2021 - 30.01.2022
MACS Grand-Hornu
Images Léon Wuidar:
Tamara Laï: Silent Noise
In the 1990s, at the time when digital arts were emerging, Tamara Laï was one of the first Belgian artists to use the CD-ROM and the Web as supports to develop multimedia, interactive works which stood out through their poetic hypertext and rhizomatic narrative. Through her short, experimental road movies and subsequent, prolific video poems, she captured the experience of her journeys and encounters in the moment, reworked them with subtle special effects and shared them with these close yet distant virtual communities, whose members sometimes took part in her videos, often after chance meetings on the Web. Although her websites, cam & chat performances and videoconferences form a relatively ephemeral oeuvre and are selected regularly by international festivals, the MACS has chosen to focus on her videos, in a device that highlights the poetic blend of interwoven sensations and affects, images and sounds.
Born in Italy, Tamara Laï lives and works in Liège. After starting as a video artist, in 1993 she turned to digital techniques: interactive multimedia, infographics and special effects, along with interactive novella, story and poetry writing. As an early web activist and internet artist (1997), she directed her research to Net art/Web Art and specifically the creation of digital community spaces.
During more than 35 years of artistic activities, she has created some forty videos, over twenty websites that form part of the “Tell A Mouse” web ring, a dozen video, cam & chat and multimedia shows/performances, several interactive works on CD-ROM and a collection of some twenty poems. “Between happening and ephemeral art”, her works have been included in the official selections of numerous international festivals and shows.
Tamara Laï: Silent Noise
26.09.2021 - 30.01.2022
MACS Grand-Hornu
Images Tamara Laï:
