„Exhibition Walter Leblanc – Keisuke Matsuura : Resonance“

A dialogue between Belgian artist Walter Leblanc and Japanese artist
Keisuke Matsuura

18.09.2020 – 27.05.2021

Walter Leblanc Foundation – Brussels, Belgium

For this very first in-house curatorial project Japanese artist Keisuke Matsuura (°1970, Kyoto) was given carte blanche to imagine a conversation between his own works and works by Leblanc selected from the Foundation’s collection on the theme of natural energy fields. An immersive installation has been created to mark the occasion and can be experienced in the Foundation’s garden.

Keisuke Matsuura (Kyoto 1970) studied at Tama Art University in Tokyo and then studied with Christian Megert and Daniel Buren at the Düsseldorf Academy. During a trip to Europe, he discovered the artists of the ZERO movement whose spirit would mark him and influence his future research. Inspired also by Walter Leblanc, his work lends itself particularly to this dialogue between two generations.

Walter Leblanc (1932 – 1986) is an important Belgian figure of European post-war art. Over the years, he has built an extremely coherent oeuvre staging light without artifice or any disrupting elements. Within the international, neo- avant-garde network of the Nouvelle Tendance, ZERO, op art, kinetic art, concrete art and (neo)constructivism, Leblanc gained both national and international recognition.

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Keisuke Matsuura Installation “resonance” Details >>>

Curator

Keisuke Matsuura

Coordination

Géraldine Chafik, Eleonora Antico

Communication

Tine D’haeyere

resonance – Walter Leblanc

Installation

2020, 2021

„Exhibition Walter Leblanc – Keisuke Matsuura : Resonance“

Walter Leblanc Foundation – Brussels, Belgium

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resonance – St.Antonius

Installation

18.10.2018 – 20.10.2018

ZERO. Please turn! Open Air Exhibition

ZERO foundation | Düsseldorf

St.Antonius Kirche – Düsseldorf, Germany

resonance – Socle du Monde Biennale

Installation

2017

Socle du Monde Biennale

Heart Museum – Herning, Denmark

Monuments to mundanity at the Socle du Monde Biennale

by Dr. Nausikaä El-Mecky / 28 APRIL 2017

” I am in the middle of nowhere and absolutely terrified. All around me, long strips of white canvas stretch into the distance, suspended above the grass; the wind plays them like strings, making them howl and snap. They are precisely at the level of my neck, and their edges appear razor-sharp. Walking through Keisuke Matsuura’s brilliantly simple Resonance, with its multiple slacklines stretched across two small rises, is like going through a dangerous portal, or navigating a set of laser-beams.

Matsuura’s work is part of the 7th Socle du Monde Biennale in Herning, Denmark. To get there, we drive through an industrial estate in the middle of grey flatlands. Steam billows from a chimney nearby, and a massive hardware store flanks the Biennale’s terrain, which consists of manicured green lawns dotted with several buildings, and intercut by a road or two. Rather than ruining the experience, the encroaching elements of daily life make for a compelling, unpretentious backdrop to the art on display.

Matsuura’s work is typical of this Biennale, where things that appear simple, even mundane, suddenly swallow you up in an intense encounter. Even the main building, Denmark’s HEART museum, is a surprise.”

Review from APOLLO MAGAZIN THE INTERNATIONAL ART MAGAZIN

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Installation

2015

Raketenstation, Museum Insel Hombroich – Neuss, Germany

„JIBA SN“

Installation

2014

Magnet, Cloth, Wood / 460 x 300 x 200cm

Nordrhein-Westfalen, NRW Landtag – Düsseldorf, Germany

„Le Nôtre – Spiegelung“

Installation

2013

Schloss Benrath – Düsseldorf, Germany

Spiegelung

Installation

Der in Düsseldorf lebende japanische Künstler Keisuke Matsuura reflektiert in seiner spektakulären Textinstallation vor dem Schloss das Verhältnis von Innenraum und Außenraum. Wie in den Gärten André Le Nôtres Schloss und Garten aufeinander bezogen werden, nimmt Keisuke Matsuuras Installation Bezug auf ein Detail im Inneren von Schloss Benrath. Das Muster des Holzfußbodens inspirierte den Künstler zu seiner Arbeit. Die strenge Komposition wird durch die sich im Wind bewegenden Stoffe aufgelockert. Das aufgespannte geometrische Raster verweist zudem auf die Geometrie als Grundlage der rationalen Erfassung von Garten und Landschaft. Der Besucher eines Gartens wird je nach seinem Standpunkt oder der Tages- bzw. Jahreszeit unterschiedliche Eindrücke erfahren. So ist auch bei Keisuke Matsuuras Installation der Standpunkt des Betrachters wichtig und die Wahrnehmung des Kunstwerkes verändert sich mit der vom Besucher gewählten Perspektive, dem auf das Kunstwerk Einfluss nehmenden Windes sowie Licht- und Schattenspiel.

Exhibition
Illusion and Imagination
André Le Nôtre’s gardens reflected in baroque prints
15. September – 15. November 2013
by Stiftung Schloss und Park Benrath

http://www.schloss-benrath.de

„Tijdverdrijf Waldesrand“

Installation

2010

Tijdverdrijf Kunstmanifestatie rondom slow art
Schutterspark Brunssum, Netherlands

„weisse nepix“

Installation

2009

Schlosspark Moers, Germany

“Spieler des Randes olympic project”

Installation

2008

Sport in Art, BeijingToday Art Museum / Beijing, China

Gallery of Luxun Art Academy / Shenyang, China

RCM The Museum of Modern Art / Nanjing, China

Art Museum of Guangzhou Art Academy / Guangzhou, China

2007

Sport in Art, Museum of Contemporary Art-Shangha MOCA / Shanghai, China

Art Museum of Guangzhou Art Academy / Guangzhou, China