Lots of people prefer to listen to music than look at art.

The musical medium offers instant communication, is accessible to large groups and opens up a broad range of human emotions. Music and its specific position in popular culture can help us define our identity, especially in the teenage years when the foundations of an individual’s ultimate identity are laid. This is also normally the period when being a fan is at its most intense and when one is able to enter with total abandonment and emotion into what the music represents.

Youth culture transforms and redefines itself again and again by coming into conflict with what is considered mainstream. Music repeatedly plays an important, defining part in the external, visual aspects of new subcultures and their new insights. It provides a guideline for the way one can take an alternative view of the world. Even if the truth of this alternative view only lasts as long as the piece of music, the record or the concert.

Music is a powerful medium which, just like visual art, tries to persuade the listener or spectator to join it in this one truth.

There are musicians and bands that make artistic music. There are also artists who would have preferred to be a rock star. The feelings are quite often reciprocated.

The yearning for this other side and a fondness for the subject are important elements in the genesis of this exhibition.

The aim of the TROMPE LE MONDE exhibition is to examine the links between the experience of music and the creation of a work of art.

All the artists taking part refer in their own way to the influence of music on their daily artistic practices. The exhibition brings together works that explore the highly visual aspect of musical culture from various angles and probes the parallels between the two worlds in a reflective manner.

This exhibition runs parallel and in collaboration with the 5th Bienniale of Moving Image CONTOUR, with identical opening hours:
Thursday, Friday & Sunday 10 am - 6 pm | Saturday 10 am - 10 pm

artists:

Daniel Barroca [PT]

Christophe Floré [BE]

Pieterjan Ginckels [BE]

Marijn van Kreij [NL]

Mark Titchner [UK]

Roman Wolgin [RU]

Curated by Thomas Raat [NL]

Open:

don, vrij, zon 10 – 18 u  &  zat 10 – 22 u

Deze tentoonstelling loopt volledig parallel met de 5de Biennale voor Bewegend Beeld CONTOUR, met identieke openingsuren.

Mark Titchner (UK)
Born in Luton in 1973.

Mark Titchner works in a wide range of media including sculpture, installations, banners, posters, video and performance. He frequently explores the ways in which communication engenders belief and the ways in which our minds can be subtly manipulated. Text commonly features within his work and he draws from a wide range of sources including song lyrics, advertising, utopian statements and political manifestos. Mark Titchner lives and works in London. He is currently exhibiting 'Be True To Your Oblivion' a solo show at the New Art Gallery, Walsall and was recently included in ‘Nothing is Forever’ at South London Gallery and ‘The Dark Monarch’ at Tate St. Ives (2010). Titchner was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2006 and has had solo museum shows at the Hellenic American Union (2009), BALTIC, Gateshead (2008 and 2007) and Arnolfini (2006). In 2007 he participated in "A Poem about an Inland Sea" for the Ukraine Pavillion at the 52nd Venice Biennale. In 2012 he will have a solo show at the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece.

He had solo shows at major institutions including, De Appel, Amsterdam (2004). He has also participated in group shows at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Petrovka (2007), ZKM, Karlsruhe (2007), Hayward Gallery, London (2006), South London Gallery, London (2005), Royal Academy, London (2004) and Tate Gallery, Liverpool (2004).