Angel Vergara's (1958 - based in Brussels) work is a continued
investigation into the power of the image. By means of performances,
videos, installations, paintings and drawings, he tests the limits of
art and reality. Each of his works is an attempt to break through the
image and to make its impact on an aesthetic as well as a socio-cultural
and political level. Thus, Vergara creates a new, suspended reality,
grown from the artist's personal dialogue with reality and with the
image by which it has already been transformed. Decontextualised images
of reality are mediated by the artist and transformed into art,
encouraging the viewer to question their way of perceiving the everyday
as well as the way it is presented to them in images. Vergara's art
disorients and disconcerts the viewer. It questions what is known and
opens paths to new modes of signification.
Accompanying the 2023 retrospective exhibition "In the Instant" that the
MACS is dedicating to Angel Vergara, this important book reviews the
career of the Belgian artist and highlights the close relationship
between his painting and the cinematic medium.
Distributed for Mercatorfonds
Exhibition Schedule:
02.11.2022 - 02.06.2023
Outside installation. Musée de la batellerie - Conflans Sainte Honorine,
France.
24.11.2022 > 19.03.2023
Photo Brut - Centrale for Contemporary Art, Brussels
23.04.2023 - 08.10.2023
Angel Vergara. In a Moment. Monographic exhibition. MAC's in Mons,
Belgium.
