Messieurs Delmotte

monsieur delmotte

Multidisciplinary

 

Born in Belgium in 1967
Lives and works in Liège

 

Messieurs Delmotte positions himself somewhere between reality and imagination, between genius and dilettantism. Distinguishing himself through a formal dress code, poker face expression and meticulously combed hair, Delmotte presents himself as a dashing character (a double) that surprises his audience with – unpredictable and absurd – gestural discoveries. And yet such gaiety and nonsensical behavior betray an existential and poetic revolt. Delmotte engages himself in a hilarious and heroic battle dealing with objects, humans or animals alike. In so doing, he undermines ‘the rules of the game’.

http://www.argosarts.org/artist.jsp?artistid=eba63176a2284171aa004584f3578d7a

 

Experience :

Graduat à l’Institut des Beaux-Arts St-Luc (Liège, 1992) – Workshops : Afrikanisch-Europäische Inspiration, Goethe

Institut (Pédagonji/ Lomé, West Africa, 1995), 3 months work period, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten (Amsterdam, 2000),

Tokyo Touch Project, Akihabara TV (Tokyo, 2002)

 

Selected Exhibition – Festivals – TV  :

2003

– Adolescent and Living Rooms, The 21 st L.A. Lesbian & Gay Festival, Platinum section, Los Angeles (USA) – Paysage vu de

profil, MAMAC, Liège (B) – International Exhibitionnist, Curzon Soho Cinema, London (GB) – Carte Blanche, Musée d’Art

Contemporain “Les Abattoirs”, Toulouse (F) – The Making of Balkan Wars : The Game, Personal Cinema, Thessanolica (G)

2002

– Street Show, Contemporary performance videos, William College museum of Art, Massachusetts (USA) – Octopus,

Brugge 2002, Bruges (B) – Looking is better than Feeling you, Museo Tamavo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City (M) – Mic Mac,

ARTE (D) – Akihabara TV, Command N, Tokyo (J) – 9th New York Underground Festival, 2002 Anthology Film Archives, New

York (USA)

2001

– Instants Fragiles, Passage de Retz, Paris (F) – In the Mean Time, De Appel (Cin, De Balie), Amsterdam (NL)/Kino Central, Berlin

(D)/Museo Nacional Centra de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid(S) – Strobe, This Way Up, London (GB) – 3 months work period,

Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten, Amterdam (NL) – Recent Video from Belgium, Museum of Modern Art, Philadelphia

(USA) – Rentrez Chez ou/et En Vous ( The Dansant II ), everywhere in the world (letters)

http://www.3015.fr/include/mediatheq/media/delmotte/bio.pdf

 

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