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전시기간 2015. 4. 16 ~ 5. 16
전시장소 갤러리바톤 Gallery Baton, Seoul
갤러리 주소 서울시 강남구 압구정로29길 65 | 02 597 5701
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Gallery Baton is pleased to announce a new solo exhibition by the Belgian artist Dirk Braeckman (b. 1958, photographer) from April 16 to May 16 at its Apgujeong space.

Photography’s recent growth and strong presence in the art market is noteworthy. Many top-tier museums across the world have opened photography departments, and prominent art fairs such as Paris Photo in France and UNSEEN in the Netherlands are successfully hosting major art events specifically focusing on photography. This exhibition of the work of Dirk Braeckman is his first showcase in Asia, and reflects contemporary photographic trends, utilising the qualities unique to the medium, while at the same time revealing Braeckman’s special darkroom practice.
  • ⓒDirk Braeckman
    27.1/21.7/024/2014
    2014, 90 x 60cm, gelatin silver print mounted on japanese paper – aluminium support & frame
  • ⓒDirk Braeckman
    27.1/21.7/035/2014
    2014, 180 x 120 cm, gelatin silver print mounted on aluminum
  • ⓒDirk Braeckman
    A.D.F.-S.B.1-03
    2003, 180 x 120 cm, gelatin silver-print mounted on aluminum
  • ⓒDirk Braeckman
    27.1/21.7/027/2014
    2014, 90 x 60 cm, gelatin silver print mounted on japanese paper – aluminium support & frame
  • ⓒDirk Braeckman
    T.W.-G.P.-11
    2011, 120 x 180 cm, gelatin silver-print mounted on aluminum
  • ⓒDirk Braeckman
    M.T.-T.P.-12 ,
    2012, 33x50cm Ultrachrome Inkjet Print on Japanese Silk Paper stretched on a panel
Gallery Baton is pleased to announce a new solo exhibition by the Belgian artist Dirk Braeckman (b. 1958, photographer) from April 16 to May 16 at its Apgujeong space.

Photography’s recent growth and strong presence in the art market is noteworthy. Many top-tier museums across the world have opened photography departments, and prominent art fairs such as Paris Photo in France and UNSEEN in the Netherlands are successfully hosting major art events specifically focusing on photography. This exhibition of the work of Dirk Braeckman is his first showcase in Asia, and reflects contemporary photographic trends, utilising the qualities unique to the medium, while at the same time revealing Braeckman’s special darkroom practice.

Dirk Braeckman was born in Eeklo, Belgium in 1958 and studied photography and film. He has been working not only as an artist but also as a lecturer at the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent. Since 1999, Braeckman has shown with Zeno X, widely regarded as one of the world’s leading gallery. He has participated in many solo and group exhibitions worldwide, and his works can be found in well-known public collections.

The elements in Braeckman’s work are dark, tenuous, and suggestive. The photographs have a distinctive quality—gray-toned images of spaces swept by time and experience—depicting empty corridors, abandoned hotels, curtains, chandeliers, and female nudes. Braeckman does not intentionally seek out a place or a subject to photograph. His images are discovered in his everyday life and are developed through darkroom experiments with light, brushes and sponges, and even dust, as if carving out the images with these tools. The places Braeckman chooses as backgrounds—a corridor, an abandoned hotel room, a wall, a corner of a room—present an altered idea of a non-place. His depictions are different from conventional concepts of non-place, suggesting that there have been interactions and experiences between people.

This idea of “non-place”, which has been explored by masters of modern photography, from Benhard and Hilla Becher to Lewis Balts, borrows the concept of French cultural critic Marc Augé : “non-place is space created out of today’s function-oriented architecture, such as shopping malls, airports, and parking-lots, that are uniform and characterless, lacking a sense of reality and human sensibility.” On the other hand, Braeckman’s altered non-places, through such elements as walls that suggest the traces of time, chairs that once seemingly were occupied by someone, and abandoned places that are greeted only by wind-blown curtains—invite us to ask what might have happened there. Braeckman, through the medium of photography, addresses the real world, and simultaneously negates the weight of time and space with an atmospheric gray tone. He presents objects in relatively strong tones in order to make them the focus of the image, carefully controlling the formulation, surface, and concentration of gray, while eliminating or blurring distracting elements to complete the work.
갤러리바톤은 벨기에(Belgium) 출신의 사진작가 덕 브렉만(Dirk Braeckman, b. 1958)의 개인전을 4월 16일부터 5월 16일까지 압구정동 전시공간에서 개최한다.

최근 미술시장에서 주목할 점 중 하나는 사진장르의 급부상이다. 세계 유수 미술관에서 사진 섹션이 신설되고 사진 전시가 개최되고 있는 것과 더불어, 미술시장에서도 그 성과를 나타내고 있다. 프랑스의 파리포토(Paris Photo), 네덜란드의 언신(UNSEEN) 등 사진을 전문으로 하는 세계적인 수준의 아트페어가 개최되고, 경매에서도 사진작품이 수십억을 호가하며 거래되고 있다. 이번에 갤러리바톤에서 아시아 최초로 선보이는 덕 브렉만의 작품은 동시대 사진의 흐름을 잘 보여주는 동시에 사진이 가진 매체특징을 이용하면서도, 암실에서 면밀한 실험을 통해 명확히 표현하고자 하는 대상을 드러낸다.

덕 브렉만은 1958년 벨기에 엘크로에서 태어났다. 사진과 필름을 공부했고, 2009년부터 벨기에 헨트 왕립 아카데미에서 강의와 함께 작가활동을 하고 있다. 1999년부터는 벨기에 대표 갤러리인 제노엑스(Zeno X) 갤러리 소속으로 활동하고 있으며, 크고 작은 개인전과 그룹전뿐만 아니라 벨기에, 프랑스, 스페인, 독일 등 약 24개 미술관에 작품이 소장되며 공공기관 컬렉터들에게도 인정받는 작가임을 보여주고 있다.

브렉만 작품의 중심 요소들은 “어둡고(darkening), 사라지며(vanishing), 암시적이다 (suggestive).” 작품을 특징짓는 것은 “회색 톤의 이미지, 시간과 경험이 휩쓸고 간 공간, 그리고 마치 무슨 일이 일어났음을 암시하는 사물”이다. 작품에 나타나는 공간은 복도, 버려진 호텔, 구석진 공간 등이며, 오브제로는 커튼, 샹들리에, 여자누드 등이 나타난다. 하지만 작가는 소재를 찾아 어디론가 떠나거나, 일부러 작품의 주제를 나타내기 위해 의도적인 사진은 찍지 않는다. 작가는 철저히 현재 생활 속에 발견되는 오브제를 담는다. 하지만 중심 대상을 명확히 전달하기 위해 암실에서 빛, 브러쉬와 스폰지, 심지어 먼지 등을 도구 삼아 이미지를 조각하듯 실험한다.

브렉만이 선택한 배경인 복도, 버려진 호텔방, 벽, 구석진 공간 등은 ‘non-place(비-장소)’가 변형된 곳으로 기존의 non-place의 개념과는 다른 “사람의 경험과 교감이 있었을 것으로 암시되는 곳”들이다.이러한 non-place은 베허부부(Bennhard Becher, Hilla Becher)부터 루이스 발츠(Lewis Baltz)까지 현대 사진의 거장들이 천착해온 개념으로 프랑스 문화이론가 마르케 오제(Marc Augé)의 표현을 빌려 말하자면, ‘non-place 란 쇼핑몰, 공항, 주차장 등 현대사회의 기능중심의 건축이 만들어낸 공간으로, 획일화 되고 실체성이 결여되고, 아무런 특이성도 존재하지 않는 장소로 인간의 오감적 감응이 상실된 곳’을 말한다.하지만 브렉만의 변형된 non-place는 ‘시간의 흔적이 묻어나는 벽, 누군가 앉은 듯한 의자, 커튼이 바람에 날리는 구석진 공간’ 등으로 우리에게 “무슨 일이 있었던 곳일까?”란 질문을 하게 만든다.

브렉만은 사진이란 매체를 통해 작품은 현실세계임을 말함과 동시에 작품 전체를 감도는 회색으로 시간과 공간의 중요성을 상실시킨다. 오브제는 상대적으로 선명하게 보여줌으로써 중심 대상에 집중하게 한다. 이러한 표현을 위해 “형식, 표면, 회색의 농도”는 일정하게 하여 규격화된 수준에 도달하도록 노력하고, 오브제에 주목하는데 방해가 되는 요소는 제거하거나 흐릿하게 하는 과정을 통해 작품을 완성한다.
Dirk Braeckman

°1958, Eeklo
lives and works in Ghent, Belgium

1977–1981 Educated at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Ghent, BE (department of photography & film)
1982–1989 Co-founded Galerie and photomagazine XYZ, Ghent, with Carl De Keyzer
1998–2002Involved as lecturer at the Nationaal Hoger Instituut voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp
2009 Started as guest lecturer at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Ghent

Solo exhibitions
2015 Dirk Braeckman, Gallery Baton, Korea
2015 ‘1/1’, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp Borgerhout , Belgium
2014 Dirk Braeckman, Le Bal, Paris
2014 twentyseven.one.seven, Zeno X, Belgium
2013 Dirk Braeckman, Galerie Thomas Fischer, Berlin, Germany
2012 Dirk Braeckman, De Appel, Amsterdam
2012 Dirk Braeckman, Kunsthalle Erfurt, Germany
2011 Dirk Braeckman, Zeno X, Antwerp
2011 Dirk Braeckman, Museum M, Leuven
2008 Robert Miller Gallery, New York
2007 Bernier/Eliades Gallery, Athens
2005 Zeno X Storage, Borgerhout, Antwerp
2004 Additional Photos, Museum De Pont, Tilburg
2001 z.Z(t). (‘94-’01), Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst S.M.A.K., Ghent z.Z(t).Volume
0000 II, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp
1999 z.Z(t)., Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle

Group exhibitions
2014 Secret Passions – Private Flemish Collections, Lille, France
2014 The Sea, Salut d’honneur Jan Hoet, Ostend, Belgium
2013 Opening New Space, Zeno X, Belgium
2013 A.W.-M.P.-13-2013, Antoine Watteau, Bozar, Bxl
2012 Mindscapes, La Centrale électrique, Bxl
2012 Sint-Jan, Saint-Bavo’s Cathedral, Ghent
2012 Private, Galerie Thomas Fisher, Germany
2010 Xanadu, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst S.M.A.K., Ghent
2010 The State of Things, National Art Museum Of China, Bejing, China
2010 Robbrecht and Daem. Pacing Through Architecture, Whitechapel Gallery, London
2010 In Praise of Shadows. Dirk Braeckman, Bill Henson, Josh Lehrer, Robert Miller Gallery, NY
2009 The Portrait. Photography as Stage. The photographic portrait from 1980 until now,
0000 Kunsthalle Wien, Austria
2008 Darkside. Photographic Desire and Sexuality Photographed, Fotomuseum, Winterthur,
0000 Switzerland
2007 Extremities. Artetage, Museum of Modern Art, Vladivostok, Russia

Publications
2014 Sisyphe, Dirk Braeckman, Editions Xavier Barral / Le Bal
2013 schwarzschild, anonymus // Dirk Braeckman, Pandora Publishers – Ronny Van de Velde, Antwerp
2011 Dirk Braeckman, Dirk Braeckman, Roma Publications, Amsterdam
2003 Dirk Braeckman, Chiaroscuro. A commission from Queen Paola for
0000 the Royal Palace in Brussels, Toohcsmi Uitgevers, Ghent
2002 A-Prior: Dirk Braeckman, No.7, Ghent
2001 Dirk Braeckman, z.Z(t). volume II, Ludion Ghent / Amsterdam
1998 Dirk Braeckman, z.Z(t)., Ludion Ghent / Amsterdam

Public collections
Centraal Museum, Utrecht
Royal Palace, Brussels
Ministère de la Communauté française, Brussels
Ministerie van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap, Brussels
Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst S.M.A.K., Ghent
MAC’s Grand-Hornu, Hornu
Musée d'Art Contemporain et Moderne, StrasbourgGemeentemuseum, The Hague
De Pont, Museum voor hedendaagse kunst, Tilburg
Sammlung Goetz, Munich



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