1969 B Philippe Van Snick lives and works in Ghent. G — Plus Kern (run by Yves De Smet and Jenny Van Driessche)
in Ghent : from autumn 1969 to early 1971. — X-one gallery (run by Marc Poirier dit Caulier) in Antwerp (in two different locations) : from late 1969 to early 1971. E / I In 1969 Ph. Van Snick is strongly impressed by the exhibition
Vladimir Tatlin, Eindhoven, Van Abbemuseum, 12.9 – 15.10 1969, a retrospective that includes documents on the various models of Monument to the Third International (1920-1925) and an attempt to reconstruct it (1967-1968). Ph. Van Snick has the catalog of this exhibition. At this time, he is working on the construction of cages and the L-vormige kamer [7]. These works reflect the same spirit. [Interview with Ph.V.S., studio, Brussels, 6.12 2009]
An influential catalog is Kunst der Sechziger jahre in WallrafRichartz Museum Köln, published by the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in 1969 (visual presentation : Wolf Vostell). At the Sixième Biennale de Paris, Paris, October – November 1969, Ph. Van Snick is struck by an installation of Christian Boltanski, Jean Le Gac, and Gina Pane : La concession à perpétuité, 1969. In the parallel exhibition Jeunes Artistes à Paris in the Musée Galliera, he is impressed by the work of Daniel Buren (Bandes verticales, égales et alternées, de 8,7 cm de large), Niele Toroni (Empreintes d’un pinceau n° 50, répétées à intervalles réguliers [30 cm] ), and Christian Boltanski (Le repas, 1969).
[8] Invitation card, 1969
[Interviews with Ph.V.S., studio, Brussels, 2006-2009 + exhibition catalogs, archive Ph.V.S., Brussels] R — 1969-1970 : the catalog of the reconstruction of Marcel
Duchamp’s Le Grand Verre by Richard Hamilton, published at the occasion of the Duchamp retrospective in the Tate Gallery in London, reverberates strongly with Ph. Van Snick and exerts influence on his process of thought. H / — Quatre projections de façades, or Window Suite [13], 1969. T W The work is realized for the Sixième Biennale de Paris. Mani-
festation Biennale et Internationale des Jeunes Artistes, Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2.10 – 2.11 1969. The project dates from early June 1969. The work starts from the projection on a flat surface of the front side of three-dimensional constructs. It is a steel construction of four frames, placed in the room one after the other. The first element is of metal. The second is of metal, filled with colorless Perspex, with the text window suite printed on it in pale blue lettering. The third is of metal, filled with meshed wire. The fourth element, also of metal, comes with polystyrene brickwork. The bricks are wrapped in cellophane with the printed text window suite in pale blue lettering. [10] [9] Quatre projections de façade / Window Suite, preliminary drawing, 1969
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Chronology
1960 -1969