A Group Show : (werktitel) = (working title)

Yesterday I saw a wonderful group exhibition organized by three artists: Maarten Dings, Joachim Naudts and Egon van Herreweghe. What gripped me immediately was the way the works of the participating artists (Alexandra Leykauf, Anouk Kruithof, Claudia Weber, Dominque Somers, Edward Clydesdale-Thomson, Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky, Jimmy Robert, Katleen Vinck, Michèle Matyn, Sara Deraedt, Saskia Noor van Imhoff, Tania Theodorou and Valérie Mannaerts) engaged in a fascinating dialogue with each other. Colours, tones, objects, subjects and images were recaptured and repeated, like a fugal conversation between people who listen to each other. The result is extraordinary, especially when one considers that the organizing artists had not chosen a single work but had given the artists carte blanche (with the added bonus that most of the works are new or on show for the first time). At the same time this does not surprise me, because the organizers are a collective, and master the art of holding differing opinions and making beautiful things together. In 2008 I saw their splendid exhibition 'Een foto zegt meer dan duizend woorden' (A photograph says more than thousand words), which was notable because of its cautious, precise and poetic approach to the exhibited works and the exhibition space. These men have a formula that produces very fine exhibitions.
Source: Hans Theys, hanstheys.ensembles.org