Art Brussels

Axel Vervoordt Gallery’s presentation at Art Brussels includes the works of artists: Otto Boll, Lucia Bru, Peter Buggenhout, Tsuyoshi Maekawa, Renato Nicolodi, Bosco Sodi, and Angel Vergara.

Thematically, the stand explores the power of regeneration and recreation, in particular with the installation of work by Buggenhout and Sodi. Peter Buggenhout's unpolished, raw sculptures evoke images of destruction, desolation, dirt, and ruins. They have been described as “archaeological discoveries of a distant future.” His sculptural installations are made of diverse found materials: industrial trash, household dust, natural horsehair, or animal remnants. These are detached from their original context and are reassembled in a new constellation. Underneath a seeming chaos of composition lies a carefully considered logic that is an equivalent representation of the complex reality that surrounds us.

Bosco Sodi has discovered an emotive power within the essential crudeness of the materials that he uses to execute his paintings. His vividly coloured, large-scale paintings are like Mother Earth — powerful and overwhelming. Focusing on material exploration, the creative gesture, and the spiritual connection between the artist and the earth, Sodi’s work seeks to transcend conceptual barriers.

In the Rediscovery presentation, Axel Vervoordt Gallery focusses on the work of Tsuyoshi Maekawa. His tactile works are not to be interpreted as direct representations. They’re without reference other than the artistic gesture inherent in their creation. The viewer sees his paintings the way he feels them. The sensitive interpretation of Maekawa's paintings does not stop at their surface, which only acts like a skin, hiding a much deeper and less straightforward level of interpretation.