Pieterjan Ginckels/Adam Leech/Artstation

Pieterjan Ginckels

Pieterjan Ginckels is one of the youngest generation of artists whose work goes beyond any limit set by a medium, acting consistently at a level of communication that is physically tangible.

For his exhibition ‘piste’ in Netwerk Pieterjan Ginckels built a wooden velodrome. The boundaries between performance, installation and concept art are dissolved so as to unfold an artistic idea and communicate it in an environment that can really be experienced. A bike team (4 bikers with professional bikes and outfit) performed races on the velodrome at specific times during the exhibition.

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Adam Leech

The main concerns of Adam Leech’s work are the semantics of voice versus speech and the political engineering of public space and community. This ranges from his portrait of gated communities in Florida to an analysis of the immigrant population of Brussels, Illinois.

For his exhibition at Netwerk he presented ‘Blanket Apology’, a recent video project that shows the stageing of a public apology in the aftermath of a politicians escapade. Posed behind a golden pulpit and background, the protagonist is invoking shame not as an intimate feeling of guilt, but as a rhetorical construction to resecure and strengthen his endangered position.

Leech’s paintings, which will be presented in conjunction with the video, tend to replace the overt narrative of the moving images with a more reflective and silent condition. Presented with cool and laconic temperament, Leech’s paintings seem to absorb critical distance, then sublimate it into a language of neuroses, fantasy and play.

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Artstation

Glenn Davidson from Artstation has been active in the art world since the late seventies. Because of his interest in conceptual art and sharing authorship that was linked to the emergence of new media art, he developed a practice that focuses on systems rather than objects. For several years he examines how, for example, SMS traffic functions. In Netwerk he presented all the messages sent by his son over a period of six months: in this case thousands and thousands of messages. As such the artist is trying to actually grasp the continuous series of pulses and fingered submissions, not just pertaining to the life of his son, but also that of many others.