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'Danse Macabre' is a life-size, monochrome grey sculpture of a carousel. The 'classic' carousel as we still know it today in many variations, is usually a baroque, brightly coloured, sparkling kitsch object that refers nostalgically to the times of yesteryear, when the attraction had little competition with all the current fairground commotion.
In 1999, at the very beginning of Hans Op de Beeck's career, he realised the video work 'Blender', in which a pompous colourful carousel begins to spin slowly and then magically dissolves into an unreadable candy floss whirling movement, and then returns to stillness. The carousel has since then become a sporadically recurring subject in his work.
Op de Beeck considers the merry-go-round as a typically human, somewhat tragicomic staging of entertainment. It is also a rather absurd object: we lift our children and place them on wooden horses and then let them spin aimlessly in circles.
Such amusement objects or constructions that are not or no longer in use take on a melancholic quality. Silenced or bygone cheerfulness gives those objects, which are primarily made to be in motion and crowded with people, a sombreness, like the emptiness after a party.
The grey monochrome of 'Danse Macabre' gives the carousel a completely petrified, inert appearance, as if it were a fossil, frozen in time. By removing all the colour, the carousel is stripped of the last layer of vibrancy, moving it further away from the actual object. This work is a sculptural interpretation, not an imitation. The matt, grey colour subdues the image, like an ash-covered remnant object after a major fire.
The title 'Danse Macabre' alludes to the halted procession of carriages, horses and objects that refer to death, which Op de Beeck designed as a kind of oversized still life. The still life as a historical genre has the tradition of being a 'memento mori'; a reminder of the ephemerality and relativity of our lives.
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The life-sized sculpture ‘Dancer’ (2019) presents a Brazilian dancer during an 'off' moment. Resigned, and with her eyes closed, she is smoking a cigarette in an old Chesterfield chair. Her exuberant clothing, with an impressive crown of plumes, contrasts sharply with the performer who is not performing and taking a quiet moment for herself. The sculpture expresses a frozen, silenced cheerfulness.
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"Tatiana (Butterfly)" is a life-size sculpture of a seated girl with closed eyes and a butterfly that seems to have just landed on her index finger.
For several years now, Op de Beeck has been creating life-size sculptures of men, women and children, all of which were realised from a monochrome, matte, soft grey, concrete-like material. Each figure, standing or lying down, has closed its eyes. This makes the viewer voyeur, because the image does not look back.
All figures have the name of the model as title, but can be called universal. The artist combines each character with a prop: a handful of blackberries, a bubble with a bubble, a string stretched between the fingers to form a geometric figure, a cigarette, headphones...
With "Tatiana (Butterfly)" that is a butterfly. What these props have in common is that they capture a moment; the moment the butterfly lands, a bubble is blown, a drink of water is drunk, cigarette smoke is blown out...
The smallest, most banal objects thus acquire the status of something wonderful that is frozen in the act. The stone coating of the sculptures refers to Pompeii, where figures were frozen in time in everyday actions. The figures communicate the poetry of the small. Their closed eyes give them something meditative and calming.
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For the In The Elbow location, this is a winter water landscape with a horizon. On the Beeck: "Water not only reflects in a literal sense, but figuratively stimulates reflection, reflective, contemplative thinking about being and the world."
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