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Photographs by Stephan De Broyer & Sculptures by Nathan Clumeck
Exhibition from 15 November - 28 December 2019
The photographer Stephan De Broyer (Brussels, 1978), a graduate of the Agnès Varda School of Photography in Brussels,
has carried out a path linked to photographic publishing with View Magazine, a national and international reference published in 3 languages (one exception in Belgium). After years of human and physical peregrinations in the Matta Atlantica forest of Brazil, which borders the Atlantic Ocean and is reputed to be richer in terms of flora than the Amazon, he has taken a carefully chosen corpus of images which also refers to the importance of the ecological stakes linked, notably and symbolically, to this region and well beyond.
Nathan Clumeck's sculptures (Cairo, 1949) also combine, in their own way, trees, wood and the inscription of time in a trace. This is also his first personal exhibition, and with good reason: the sculptor is a doctor. A specialist internationally recognised for his research on AIDS, Nathan Clumeck has spent his life for this cause. If, after the dark years of the early years, immense therapeutic progress has enabled patients to rethink the disease and to inscribe it in a normal screw expectation, sculpture has been for Nathan Clumeck for more than fifteen years a way of transcending the difficulties involved in his practice, and the constant struggle it has implied against decay, suffering and death.
An art that is sincere, intuitive, full of sensuality and revitalisation. An art that integrates the folds of time, not between beauty and ugliness but between fleeting and permanent.
Two original artists, whose human, ecological, scientific and artistic consciences and considerations lead to an exciting dialogue, putting wood back in the middle of life in our famous anthropocene moment.
You can see the images in more detail below.
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