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Old 06.22.2012, 11:08 PM   #1
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Lee Ranaldo


Constellations
Drawings 2005 - 2011


Curated by Jan Van Woensel


June 24th till July 29th 2012
Opening Sunday June 24th 2012, 4pm - 7pm

More info (pics & text) on www.jandhaese.be


Widely known as one of the original, founding members of New York City’s groundbreaking, experimental rock band Sonic Youth, and currently touring to scattered parts of the world with his new band, Lee Ranaldo is a musician, artist, writer, performer, publisher and a restless, observant traveler. “Constellations”, a selection of paintings on paper produced in the past couple of years, is his first, major solo exhibition in a Belgian contemporary art gallery, and offers us a glimpse of Ranaldo’s inexhaustibly growing oeuvre.


Closing event: Saturday, July 28th at Boothaus Brauhaus with live music by Jan Van Woensel’s noise-rock band Pilots & Waves and video projections of Lee Ranaldo. More information will follow soon!


Galerie Jan Dhaese
Ajuinlei 15B
9000 Gent
Belgium

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Old 06.23.2012, 08:34 AM   #2
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Here's the text blurb from that site. Had to cut/paste it to a txt file casue the font is too freaking small to read ...

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CONSTELLATIONS
Lee Ranaldo
Curator: Jan Van Woensel

“The world is moving so fast and all our lives are so fast because of the internet and modern culture in general. Nobody has time to linger on any one thing. That's the value of doing something like handmade time consuming artworks. It seems significant somehow, trying to slow things down. This is something everybody is grappling with these days, the lack of time to focus on anything in a deep way. That's why I go bike riding and play tennis. Those are activities that I do lately that I find greatly rewarding.” (Lee Ranaldo interviewed by Niels Van Tomme and Jan Van Woensel for Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, April 2007, NYC, USA)

Widely known as one of the original, founding members of New York City’s groundbreaking, experimental rock band Sonic Youth, and currently touring to scattered parts of the world with his new band, Lee Ranaldo is a musician, artist, writer, performer, publisher and a restless, observant traveler. “Constellations”, a selection of paintings on paper produced in the past couple of years, is his first, major solo exhibition in a Belgian contemporary art gallery, and offers us a glimpse of Ranaldo’s inexhaustibly growing oeuvre.
Painted pictures of private airplanes, ballet dancers and foreign landscape sceneries, a blindfolded performer, palm trees, an armed soldier, handwritten poems, a pair of hands, street signs, the Beatles and a portrait of composer Glen Gould, each based on newspaper photos -- this collection of (at first sight) randomly selected images show how Ranaldo observes the world around him. The absence of any clear hierarchy or favoritism in his paintings’ subject matter proves an equal interest in a seemingly endless multitude of objects, places and people. Ranaldo is a worldwide drifter, a fascinated, destined wanderer into the unpredictability of infinite space and time. On his path he collects images from the never-static world and persistent media flow, and turns them into personalized, sober black and white paintings. Irrevocably divorced from their original context, Ranaldo’s media-inspired images evidently turn into ghosts or shadows: their image is still readable to the viewer but their message has gone astray. Being faithful to the initial context in which these images first appeared is not, however, significant to Ranaldo’s work process. He explains: “… newspaper photos are the most ephemeral; they're on our table today and in the trash tomorrow. I'm trying to 'liberate' certain images that appeal to me from their original contexts and give them a new and different life...” (Lee Ranaldo interviewed by Scott Indrisek for Art Info, Sep 2010, NYC, USA)

In “Constellations” the artist creates unique meanings by confronting diverse, random images in clusters on the gallery walls. The combinatory possibilities are endless and inexhaustible, and none of the created constellations are absolute or permanent. By creating these temporary groupings, Ranaldo seems to simulate the transient experience that the public has with his live music performances on guitar, feedback and distortion effect pedals and a variety of percussion instruments: dissonant, monotone sounds appear; they grow louder and more intense and are able to move the audience to distant places, even if only for a couple of seconds, before they crumble down, fade out and eventually disappear. Such momentary, yet impactful grasps of attention are custom to Lee Ranaldo’s artistic work method and life in general. Ranaldo is on the road, he is a passenger. Everything passes by and through him, before him, beside and behind him as he moves forward or in any other direction. He collects, recreates and re-presents. In his practice, Ranaldo determinedly confronts the restless, fast paced character of his life as a traveling musician and artist with the time, concentration and consuming character of making paintings, with ink and acrylic paint on paper, by hand in his studio.

“Constellations” is one of the few, large-scale exhibitions in which only the artist’s painted artworks take up the gallery space. The rather unobvious absence of his video, installation, live performance and collaborative artworks (with experimental filmmaker, artist, designer, and partner Leah Singer) is sort of unique. “Constellations” is probably one of Ranaldo’s most quiet exhibitions, in which old and new painted memories from home and far away meet. The exhibition is a temporary gathering and momentary confrontation of thoughts, destined to disperse in indefinite directions: from here to infinity.

Jan Van Woensel, Brussels 2012

Might be worth visiting, unfortunately it's opening times are quite limited
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24/06/2012 > 29/07/2012
THURSDAY > SATURDAY 2PM - 6PM
SUNDAY 11AM - 2PM
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The show officially closed but is extended for one more week by appointment only. thanks to everyone who visited!
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I was wondering if you could tell about the upcoming events for the same, where I could get some more art forms, as I am very much fond of these art exhibitions.
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The show officially closed but is extended for one more week by appointment only. thanks to everyone who visited!
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A catalogue would be great, Lee.
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has anyone ever seen any of lee's paintings before?
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also here, on my site:
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That's a picture of the assassinated Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn in a Dutch newspaper. How did you come across that one?
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