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Throughout the summer and at least until the end of the event, Art on Paper will be showcasing the art of drawing! In order to do so, VO EVENT and BOZAR have therefore joined forces to produce an exhibition comprising a number of specific events commissioned by Sophie Lauwers (Exhibition Manager at the Palais), who has given Henri Jacobs carte blanche. The artist has created Vaporisation - Crystallisation, a work that comprises three drawings drawn directly onto the walls of the corridors and hallways of the Palais. Each of the three compositions, made up of these lines and forms that have become so characteristic of the artist's approach - a flowing and profuse form of geometry - , offers an admiring, appreciative nod. More than just a trilogy, this is a truly reverential triade. The rotunda at the entrance, for example, bears a frieze drawn in graphite that he dedicates to the goddess Kali, whilst the wall in the entrance hall features a striped design created in Chinese ink entitled Hommage à Marcel B., which echoes the fact that in 1974, in this very location, Broodthaers presented something that would leave a lasting impact on the history of art. Last but not least, Henri Jacobs has chosen the basement entrance hall to pay tribute to the dear Victor Horta.

Dedicated to the valorisation of the contemporary art scene, Art on Paper, in collaboration with Bozar and with the support of EECKMAN ART & INSURANCE, has launched an appeal for artists and art students who have dedicated themselves to the art of drawing and its myriad possibilities, to submit their projects. Following the appeal, the exhibition has been flooded with some 380 submissions from around the globe! The jury, which is composed of Paul Dujardin/Bozar, Catherine Henkinet/l’ISELP, Marc Ruyters/H ART, Cédric Liénart de Jeude/Eckman Art & Insurance and Pascale Viscardy/l’Art Même, is happy to announce the winner of the Eeckman Prize for contemporary drawing. Seduced by the elegance of her lines and purity of approach, the jury chose the young artist Anastasija Pandilovska, whose work will be exhibited to the public for the duration of the exhibition in a dedicated room. Born in Macedonia in 1991, Anastasija Pandilovska is currently living and working in Amsterdam where she is continuing her training at the department of Inter-Architecture of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Her work is rooted in what makes up the essence of a drawing, the line, which she meticulously applies to the paper, and then coaxes towards an inquiry into the time spent looking at and reading the drawing. As hinted at by the artist, the drawing should be construed as a text written in a language whose grammar could be invented by anybody. Open shapes, detached lines, scattered across large sheets which are then superimposed, or which might share the pages of a notebook, inviting the viewer/reader to turn them over, in a sort of gradual discovery, saccadically, ever so delicately.

The En d’autres termes exhibition comprises works by Chiara Colombi, Surya Ibrahim, Joséphine Kaeppelin, Almudena Lobera and Gwendolyn Lootens, under the commission of Pauline Hatzigeorgiou. The artists involved in the exhibition share their thoughts on what constitutes the essence of drawing, the staging achieved through the lines drawn and their immediate consequences, expressiveness, and how the lines drawn become symbolic - a specificity whose value will be challenged and the meaning of which there will be attempts to interpret. The exhibition will be staged in the corridors leading the visitor to the solo shows housed in the ‘Terarken’ rooms. These areas of transition, which are generally invisible, will be taken over by a series of processual works that attempt to incorporate other spaces. The installations will be presented as of the opening of the show on Thursday 8 September and will form the anchor point for a series of performance initiatives that will take place on Saturday 10 September between 7.30pm and 9pm, during the course of which the artists will talk through and indeed offer alternative interpretations of their works.