Hans Op de Beeck: Sea of Tranquillity

29.03.2012 – 20.05.2012
Vernisaj/ opening, joi/ Thursday, 29.03, 19h00
invitat de/ invited by Ruxandra Balaci

Filmul de mediu-metraj “Sea of Tranquillity” (2010) este o combinatie de inregistrari video cu actori si cadre digitale generate 3D in care privitorul face o vizita in toiul noptii pe un vas de croaziera misterios si mitic: “Sea of Tranquillity”.

Fictivul vas de croaziera a fost proiectat de catre Hans Op de Beeck, dupa o scurta sedere la Saint-Nazare in Franta in 2008, timp in care artistul a fost impresionat de remarcabila poveste a acestui oras-port din timpul celui de-al II-lea razboi Mondial si de reconstructia sa postbelica. Saint-Nazare are cele mai mari santiere navale si produce cele mai mari vase de croaziera din lume. Pentru Hans Op de Beeck atat vasul Queen Mary 2 - abia terminat –cat si Burj Khalifa din Dubai (cea mai inalta cladire din lume), ar putea fi metafora potrivita pentru credinta noastra in valori false si in concepte precum munca, loisir-ul si consumerismul de lux. Folosim in ziua de azi categorii precum “cea mai inalta”, “pe primul loc”, “cea mai mare” dar ce spun acesti termeni despre calitatea reala a lucrurilor?

Piesa de jazz centrala din aceasta lucrare este compusa de Hans Op de Beeck; celelalte piese au fost compuse de Sam Vloemans.

Hans Op de Beeck s-a nascut la Turnhout (Belgia) in 1969. Traieste si lucreaza la Brussels. Printre cele mai recente expozitii la care a participat se numara: Aichi Triennale (2010); Hangar Bicocca, Milan (2010); Galleria Borghese (solo, 2009); Galleria Continua, Beijing (solo, 2009); Art Unlimited, Basel (2009, 2007, 2004); Singapore Biennale (2008); Centraal Museum, Utrecht (solo, 2007).
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The medium-length film 'Sea of Tranquillity' is a combination of live video recordings of actors and digitally-generated 3D environments in which the viewer makes a night-time visit to a mysterious, mythical cruise liner, the 'Sea of Tranquillity'.

This fictitious cruise liner has been designed by Hans Op de Beeck, following a short residence at Saint-Nazaire in France in 2008, during which the artist became intrigued by the remarkable Second World War story and postwar reconstruction of this harbour town, whose shipyards produce the worlds largest cruise liners. It seemed to the artist that the Queen Mary 2, then just completed, was, like the Burj Khalifa in Dubai (the highest building in the world), a suitable metaphor for our belief in spurious values and in such concepts as work, leisure time and luxury consumerism. We nowadays use such categories as the highest, the first and the biggest, but what do these terms say about the actual quality of things?

The central jazz song is composed by Hans Op de Beeck; additional music has been composed by Sam Vloemans.

Hans Op de Beeck was born in Turnhout (Belgium) in 1969. He lives and works in Brussels. Recent exhibitions include Aichi Triennale (2010); Hangar Bicocca, Milan (2010); Galleria Borghese (solo, 2009); Galleria Continua, Beijing (solo, 2009); Art Unlimited, Basel (2009, 2007, 2004); Singapore Biennale (2008); Centraal Museum, Utrecht (solo, 2007).
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Partener MNAC: BRD Groupe Societe Generale, illy
Sponsor: Murfatlar, Avitech
Parteneri media: Igloo Habitat & arhitectura, Zeppelin, 24Fun, Radio France Internationale, feeder.ro, Cocor MediaChannel