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of Joseph Beuys in January 1986, exactly ten years after the passing of Marcel Broodthaers in January 1976. It is an homage to both artists, whom he knew, met, and valued (for instance, in the context of the Wide White Space Gallery, Antwerp). In his view, both were active in the field of tension between art and not-art.
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— Smalle doorgang, 1986 : group of eleven works, vinyl paint on paper, glued on cardboard, 11 × (28 × 38 cm). On all works, Dag (pale blue rectangle) is added in the lower left corner and Nacht (black rectangle) in the lower right corner. Each time thereby the distance between Dag and Nacht changes one mm (evolving from 25 mm in polychrome to 15 mm in silver). The remaining space in the ten works is monochrome (each of the ten colors) and in one work polychrome (the ten colors). — 2 1/2 1/2, 1986 : vinyl paint and Indian ink on cut-out cardboard, glued on paper, (27 × 36 cm). — Twee Kolommen Dag en Nacht Polychroom [158], 1986 : 2 × (120 × 60 × 60 cm), painted multiplex and glass. The outside of the columns is painted in the Dag and Nacht colors. The inside is painted polychrome. The two columns have a different random ten-part pattern, filled with the colors differently. The bottom of the columns is painted. The upper side is covered with a glass plate. [158] Twee Kolommen Dag en Nacht Polychroom, 1986
— Twee Kolommen Dag en Nacht Polychroom met spiegel, 1986 : 2 × (120 × 60 × 60 cm), painted multiplex and glass + mirror. The outside of the columns is painted in the Dag and Nacht colors. The inside is painted polychrome. The two columns have the same random ten-part pattern, filled with the colors differently. The bottom of the columns is covered with a mirror. The upper side is covered with a glass plate. EX — Antwerpen – Brussel Aller – Retour, Antwerp, Winkelgalerij
Torengebouw Schoenmarkt-Eiermarkt, 14.3 – 12.4.1986. Participants : Bernd Lohaus, Guy Mees, Rudi Rommens, Jef Somerlinck, Philippe Van Snick. [159] Ph. Van Snick exhibits : Beuys – Broodthaers, 1986. — I d’A. Initiatief d’Amis, Ghent, Vooruit, 21.6 – 7.9.1986. Group exhibition of 45 Belgian artists, organized at the initiative of Leo Copers, Wilfried Huet, and others, in response to the large-scale projects of Jan Hoet, Chambres d’Amis (various locations in Ghent), and Initiatief (Sint-Pietersabdij Ghent), whereby, as the organizers claim, few Belgian artists are being involved. Catalog. [159] Invitation card, Winkelgalerij onder het Torengebouw, Antwerpen, 1986
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