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Atelier Jespers is pleased to present his new exhibition #itinerance13 during Art Brussels Fair on the occasion of “Noir Brussels”, the first convention combining visual arts, design, and tattoo, that will take place at the Art & History Museum, in the Cinquantenaire Park. For this show, the curator Jean-François Declercq is putting on display artworks of Alain Berteau/6+2edition (BE), Bela Silva (PT), Bou-Ge (FR), Bram Vanderbeke (BE), Damien Gernay (FR), David Umemoto (CA), Destroyers/Builders (BE), Gerard Kuijpers (BE), Labaye (FR), Noro Khachatryan (BE), Thomas Serruys (BE), Studio KRJST (BE), Yann Dessauvages (BE) and ceramic sculptures of Abel Jallais (FR) and Maarten Stuer (BE). The particular selection of minimalistic and monolithic pieces finds its resonance among the archaeological treasures of the Art & History Museum. It reveals a subtle dialogue between art across continents and historical periods. Itinerance #13 at “Noir Brussels”, Art & History Museum, Cinquantenaire Park, from the 26th to the 28th of April 2019. In collaboration with Aurélien Gendras, Spazio Nobile and Modern Shapes Galleries.

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MUSÉE ART & HISTOIRE PARC DU CINQUANTENAIRE 10 1000 BRUXELLES 26-27 — 28.04.2019

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6+2 EDITION & ALAIN BERTEAU (BE).............. 8 BOUNOURE & GENEVAUX (FR) �� 12 YANN DESSAUVAGES (BE) �� 16 DAMIEN GERNAY (FR) �� 20 ABEL JALLAIS (FR)............................ 24 NORO KHACHATRYAN (BE) �� 28 KRJST STUDIO (BE) �� 32 GERARD KUIJPERS (BE) �� 36 LABAYE – SUMI (FR) �� 40 LUCIEN PETIT (FR)............................. 44 THOMAS SERRUYS (BE) �� 48 BELA SILVA (PT) �� 54 MAARTEN STUER (BE) �� 58 DAVID UMEMOTO (CA) �� 62 BRAM VANDERBEKE (BE) �� 66 CONTACT ��123

ALAIN BERTEAU www.alain-berteau.squarespace.com

Established in Brussels since 2002, architect designer Alain Berteau and his team develops products, buildings and creative strategies. Designing stationary, textiles, tableware, glassware, lighting, indoor and outdoor furniture collections for both residential and contract markets. Alain is the happy creator of several successful product collections. He’s working with Bulo, Montis, Gispen, Lensvelt, Delvaux, SmartDaimler, Wildspirit, Magazin, Objekten Systems, Othr, TossB, Modular, XLBoom and many other leading brands. Always looking for lasting relevance, his designs are recognized for their simple but decisive functional innovation, smart eco-friendly solutions and versatile convenience. Part of several design museum collections and winner of various awards such as Red Dots, IF or “Designer of the Year nomination”, Alain is also a furniture design professor (La Cambre 2003-2013) and now CAD since 2014.

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REMPARTS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 2018 Three gently rounded and polished stones cut out of a single marble slab, 45 x 30 x 25 cm Manufactured by Van den Weghe.

ALAIN BERTEAU

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For this first design edition, Brussels-based gallery Atelier Jespers unveils exceptional pieces from architect-designer Alain Berteau, an influential figure of European design, well-known for its seminal inventions in the furniture industry.

BOUNOURE & GENEVAUX www.bou-ge.com www.clementcividino.com

Guillaume Bounoure was born in 1978 in Lyon. Chloé Genevaux was born in Strasbourg in 1984. They live and work together in the south of France since 2005. Before devoting themselves exclusively to art in 2018, they had various professional experiences as architects, designers, researchers, book authors... They have been working on the fold thematic for about fifteen years. Bounoure & Genevaux decline the formalism of the fold through various media to reveal the universality of this language. Their current work theme is untitled “Fragments of Infinity”. They use various as support materials such as composites, wood, aluminum, paper... At the first steps they make drawing and small models, sometimes also they work on computer to find form with algorithms that they develop to model complex folded shapes in 3d and 2d. The techniques used by the two artists are : painting, sculpture, printing. The real or figured fold has become the plastic goal in itself that transcends technique, to invent new fictions.

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POLYPTIQUE BOIS — 2017 Charnière textile et bois engravé huilé, 180 x 120 x 1 cm

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YANN DESSAUVAGES www.dessauvages.com

Yann Dessauvages °June 1989 born in Brussels is a Belgian autodidact artist-designer. As the child of a teacher and a metalworker, he grew up in a house with a workshop, where he created his first metal sculptures at the age of 16. He started his professional life working in a second-hand shop, where the sculptural furniture of designers like Armand Jonckers and Ado Chale struck him. Their capacity to transform brass, copper and semiprecious stones into glamourous, sophisticated objects inspired Yann to quit his job and elaborate his skills as a smith. After his first furniture experiments in recycled tin, he refined his style by using brass and gemstones. Without any background in art or design, Yann Dessauvages creates his furniture by intuitively sculpting the materials available in his workshop. The references to organic, planetary or geological forms come from his unbiased imagination. More than a collection of tables, he creates a coherent oeuvre that mixes functionality and art, object and subject, tradition and innovation.

DINA Brass, 60 x 38 cm

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YANN DESSAUVAGES

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DAMIEN GERNAY www.damiengernay.com

Damien Gernay’s work is highly experimental, driven by his desire to challenge boundaries between art and design. To date, his practice spans furniture, lighting, and accessories. His pieces often reflect a reverence for nature and the enigmatic; his larger oeuvre focuses on materiality, texture, and ambiguity. Close to the considerations of a painter or a sculptor, the imponderable plays a decisive role in his practice. The error is accepted and assimilated, making each piece unique with its own history, complexities, and intimate paradoxes. He combine control with spontaneity, mixing the smooth with the rough.

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MER NOIRE, leather, patinated steel 120 x 36 cm (Ø x H)

DAMIEN GERNAY

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ABEL JALLAIS www.abeljallais.wordpress.com

Abel Jallais (1992) is a french artist, currently living and working in Bruxelles. He obtained his master’s degree from the Ceramic section at la Cambre (BE) in 2018, after he was graduated from the Fine Arts School of Angers (FR) in 2015. His practice consists of going back and forth between a formal research and a reflection on the useful object, exploring it as a fictional territory, it generate a dialogue of misunderstanding between the shape and the viewer. When he blurs the tracks on the primary utility, the object becomes a free form of interpretation, with multiple possibilities. The quest for understanding becomes a way to get in direct contact with the shape, to look, to turn around, as a sort of primitive apprehension.

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BONBONNE #4 — 2017 Grès noir, fine chamotte blanche, 1250° 40 x 20 x 20 cm

BONBONNE #6 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 2017

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BONBONNE #5 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 2017

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NORO KHACHATRYAN www.studiokhachatryan.com

Studiokhachatryan, founded in 2010 by designer Noro Khachatryan, is active in various felds of product and architectural design. The studio designs installations, interiors and architectural elements for public and residential spaces. Experimental work, functional objects and furniture are selfproduced or manufactured in cooperation with Belgian and international companies. Noroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s design seems to provide objects with a wider experience: they loose their static and project themselves into a metamorphic universe. The designer loves natural materials and drives them carefully to new dimensions, emphasizing one texture or combining different ones: wood, metal, stone.. become words for a new language whose syntax is ruled by a combination of ancient and contemporary dialects. The Eastern and Western heritage and industrial know-how interact to generate a poetic design, made with honesty, technical knowledge and craftsmanship.

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MERONYMS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; COLUMN 42 x 35 x 30 cm edition: 5 p + 2 ap

NORO KHACHATRYAN

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KRJST STUDIO www.studiokrjst.com

Portrait: © Alexander Popelier – Studio KRJST

KRJST Studio’s story started in 2012 launched by Erika Schillebeeckx (KR) and Justine de Moriamé (JST), both graduated in Stylisme at La Cambre (Belgium) where they developed their knowledge for textiles, colors and shapes. KRJST Studio became a world dedicated to plastic research and development based on a quest for spirituality. Through their creative process, they reinvent iconographies from the past, crystallizing their research on protection, symbolism and the Sacred. Their strong identity, close to neo-baroque, incorporates pictural and technical exploration. Painting, drawings, 3D works and results of our alchemic experiments are filling the studio. The translation of the research into clothes and weaving represents the heart of their creative approach. KRJST Studio takes its root in the unexpected symbiosis between fashion and art, mixing works in colors, 3D, technology, textile and craft.

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AWE-UNDERWATER â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 2018 Merino wool, Mohair, Polyamide, Elirex, Polyester, Acrylic, Monofil, Coton 300 x 400 cm

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AWE-UNDERWATER â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 2018

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For thirty years Gerard Kuijpers, autodidact, has been researching the essential qualities of steel, stone glass and wood. In this way he meets the core of his materials, whereafter he uses the power of their interaction. Glass becomes even more transparent, steel even stronger; while wood obtains more warmth, stone becomes eternal. Moreover, even more fundamental opposites arise: resistance versus movement, severity versus organic, and usability versus poetry, which then merge into the magical harmony of the present. In all their simplicity the works are timeless.

Represented in France by Yves Gastou Gallery. Portrait: ÂŠ Tim van de Velde ÂŠ Stijn Van Hulle

GERARD KUIJPERS www.gerardkuijpers.be

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LES ÉLÉPHANTS (THE ELEPHANTS) — 2016 Noir de Mazy, steel 60 x 30 cm, Unique piece

GERARD KUIJPERS

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LES ÉLÉPHANTS (THE ELEPHANTS) — 2016

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LE SALON, SEAT 4 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 2019 Stainless steel, aluminum and cow leather 80 x 94 x 65 cm

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LUCIEN PETIT

Lucien Petit was born in Sancerre in 1957. He lives and works in Boisbelle, close to the village of La Borne in central France. Schooled in industrial ceramic techniques, his early personal production began with a series of small-scale houses, huts, and shelters, often rudimentary in design. The theme of dwellings, abodes and containerswas to become a recurrent motif in his work. With the principles of artistic inquiry as the basis of his approach, Lucien Petit applies a solid knowledge of a variety of ceramic techniques to the production of unique objects. Adept at applying mixed techniques to create assemblages of materials, Petit uses materials as diverse as cardboard, wood, resins, alloys, and bronze to create distinctive pieces. The life-size sculptures are installed and exhibited in open spaces, configured to suggest dialogue and interaction.Becoming the protagonistsof a silentchoreography, or the disparate elements of a mise en scene, the landscape is constantly shifting, its boundaries indistinct.

COLONNE #20 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 2019 63 x 12 cm

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COLONNE #20 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 2019

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THOMAS SERRUYS www.thomasserruys.com

“When i grow up i want to be a psychopath” thus said a very young Thomas Serruys (°86 Bruges) to an inquisitive nun in preparation of his first communion. Of course he meant psychologist and even though his life took a whole different direction than the academic study of human psyche his words did have a certain ring to them. Like the mind the steel needs to be bend in previously unknown forms so as to attain true perfection. These unorthodox forms and curves need to be wire fed so the whole can become a radiant structure. A flick of the switch and voilà let there be light. But there is no rest on the seventh day. The autodidact Thomas has enveloped himself in the work ethic of his atelier’s location: the port of Ostend. The cool sea breeze feeds the fire of the furnace, the incessant hammering collides with seagull screeching. In 2018 a more inland liaison has been established as a resident in the Zaventem project by Lionel Jadot. The atelier will be operational by the end of November.

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ORION â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 2016 Hammered and turned aluminium structure with movable forged brass elements 120 x 74 cm

Thomas Serruys

RESSOURCERS 1 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 2019

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Thomas Serruys

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PROTOTYPE BOUBOUKS CHAIR â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 2019 Leather & steel, 46 x 43 x 40 cm

Bela Silva is born in Lisbon, Portugal, and studied at both the Porto and the Lisbon Fine Arts Schools in Portugal; ArCo, Lisbon; Norwich Fine Arts in the UK; School of The Art Institute of Chicago in the USA. She currently lives between Lisbon and Brussels, Belgium. She has created several public art pieces, namely tile panels for the Alvalade subway station in Lisbon; panels for the Sakai Cultural Center’s gardens in Japan; and panels for the João de Deus School in the Azores Islands.

JUG â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 2017 STONEWARE, PURE ITALIAN EARTH 23 X 38 X 34 CM

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BELA SILVA

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MAARTEN STUER www.maartenstuer.net www.aureliengendras.com Portrait: ÂŠ Pascal Vangysel

Graduate of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, where he specialized in graphic arts, drawing and lithography, Maarten Stuer moved to Barcelona in the 1990s, where he learned to work with clay. In 1995 he moved to the Gers, France, where he still lives. A lover of nature and landscapes, he turned to clay to develop his art. In his hands, the clay is not so dense, not so heavy, not so lifeless... It becomes aerated and pierced, coils up and takes air, space, life and movement, apparently sensitive to weather conditions, to time passing and to the looks that it receives. Through his different series his works increase in scale. However, the shapes that emerge from a made-to-measure kiln remain inspired by the natural world, seeds, shells, waves, coiled fibres: a powerful, subtle world that combines archaism and spirituality. In collaboration with AurĂŠlien Gendras, Kolkhoze.fr

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STUUL â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Kolkhoze.fr, 2017 Clay, 48 (H) x 37 (l) x 38 (L) cm

MAARTEN STUER

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DAVID UMEMOTO

Born 1975, Hamilton, Canada The stairs lead to a void, the walls rise to nothing, the ceilings seem useless.Â The work of David Umemoto exudes mystery, stimulates the imagination, but at the same time gives a sense of reflective discipline. After graduating in Architecture, David works for several years in established firms gaining solid practical experience. Thereafter, he opens his own consulting studio where for ten years he participates in numerous architectural competitions and collaborates on various artistic projects. He develops an interest in object creation and furniture design while refining his expertise in 3D computer graphics. In 2010, he spends a year in Indonesia, where he studies printmaking, sculpture and foundry. Upon his return, he launches the DXU collective that specializes in creating murals in aluminum and bronze. His current work stands between architecture and sculpture.

ZAIRA â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 2018 Concrete 62 x 25 x 25 cm

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ZAIRA â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 2018

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BRAM VANDERBEKE

Bram Vanderbeke is a Ghent-based, Belgian designer. He graduated from the Design Academy, Eindhoven in 2016, complementing a prior training in Interior Design at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Ghent. His practice is diverse but consistent and stands out for its material, sculptural and monumental qualities. Bram explores and transforms the possible interactions between an object, its architectural environment and its user, further challenged by raw materiality, form and functionality. His works are in the same time autonomous artistic manifestations and utile solutions, an ambiguity Bram deliberately aims for. He creates his Architectural Objects and rhythmic installations in varying dimensions, both in private and in public contexts. The works often influence the spatial perception of the environment they become part of, sometimes by extending an existing space through creating a new space within it.

NEW PRIMITIVES 1 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 2017 Waxed Concrete 70 x 60 cm

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NEW PRIMITIVES â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 2017

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Over twenty years ago, a passion for design filled the world of Jean-François Declercq. In September 2015, he decided to transform his home into a centre for the arts dedicated to cultural exchanges and exhibitions. The 400 m² Atelier Jespers renews this mission: showing art. The modernist setting of the building hosts artistic projects of all varieties – design, visual arts, sound – with the humble ambition of creating a dialogue between Victor Bourgeois’s architecture and new art forms. Allowing himself complete freedom, Jean-François Declercq opens his doors to various forms of expression, provided they are in line with his own minimalist and conceptual choices: “I like things simple and beautiful!”.

CONTACT Erfprinslaan 149, Avenue du Prince Héritier Brussel 1200 Bruxelles, Belgium Jean-Francois Declercq +32 475 64 95 81 Elsa Sarfati +33 6 10 84 27 48 jf@itinerance-project.com www.itinerance-project.com

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