Biography
The works of the Belgian Marc Angeli reveal an investigation of the conditions of painting as a process. In a protracted procedure, Angeli “treats” his pictorial media – these are virtually always a matter of individual pieces of wood that he’s found – with various materials. The contribution made by the wood to the ultimate image is not exhausted by its materiality, i.e. by its color, consistency and thickness. Indeed, other factors, such the original purpose of the wooden objects (e.g. their being a part of a stained oak barrel or a piece of a board), also play an important role in the appearance of the individual works.
Since the middle of the 1980s, Angeli has incorporated other natural materials along with his wooden substrates, including animal glue, oil, red wine, milk and pigments. The result is that every image is based on a unique, non-reproducible mixture of pigments that determines both the color and the consistency of the various layers.
The reality of the materials and their processing is made visible in Angeli’s paintings. This other reality is equal to the aesthetic reality of the image, which is perceived differently by each beholder.
Born in 1954, Marc Angeli lives and works in Liège, Belgium.
Exhibitions
2012
Andres Van Hove Gallery, Antwerpen;
Sebastian Fath Contemporary, Manheim, Germany
Andres Van Hove Gallery, Antwerpen;
Sebastian Fath Contemporary, Manheim, Germany
2011
Huize St-Bonaventura, “monochrome werken”, Gent;
Galleria ArteSilva, Seregno (Milano) catalogue
2010
Galerie Schlassgoart, Esch sur Alzette, Luxembourg (with Nicolas Kosakis),( cat.);
Galleria Peccolo, Livorno (cat)
2009
peintures-installation Placard à balai, Liege, (cur. carl havelange)
2008
Maison de la Culture de Namur, peintures
2007
E2N Des Arts, peintures, Bruxelles; Espace 251 Nord, “images”, peintures et dessins, Liège
2006
Galerie S 65, Koln, Germany, peintures et dessins;
Galerie its-art-its, peintures, Waterloo (Belgium)
2005
Peintures, Centre d’Art Contemporain du Luxembourg Belge, Jamoigne
2004
Raumwechsel 1, Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Freiburg, Germany
2003
Verein for Aktuelle Kunst, Oberhausen, Germany (with Jus Juchtmans)
2002
Galerie S 65, Aalst (with Pascale Rouffart);
Centre culturel de Grand-Marchin, Grand-Marchin
2001
Galerie Le Triangle Bleu, Stavelot;
Peintures Blanches, Galerie C. De Vos, Aalst
1999
Galerie Gille-Stiemet, Brussels;
Galerie S 65, Aalst (with Joseph Marioni)
1998
Galerie C. De Vos, Aalst
1996
Huize St. Jacobus, Gent;
Peintures et Dessins de Montagnes, Espace Contemporain, Sion, Switzerland;
Wettering Galerie, Amsterdam (with L. Claus)
1995
Wall Paintings, Moltkerei Werkstadt, Cologne, Germany;
Espace 251 Nord, Liège (with M. Boulanger)
1994
Galerie Gille-Stiernet, Brussels;
Galerie C. De Vos, Aalst
1990
Galerie Gille-Stiernet, Brussels
1985
At work, Gent (with C. Vandresse)
1984
Vereniging van het Museum van Hedendaagse kunst (with J. Van Oost and P. Van Caeckenbergh), Gent
1981
Galerie l’A, Liège (with C. Vandresse)
1978
Cercle Royal des Beaux-Arts, Liège
1976
Cercle Royal des Beaux-Arts, Liège