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Sven't Jolle

AUSTERITY MUMS
05.23.14 - 07.12.14
Exhibition — BBB centre d'art

Austerity Mums (2014) Sven't Jolle, BBB Centre d'art. Photo: Nicolas Brasseur, Toulouse International Art Festival 2014 ©Le Printemps de septembre

Austerity Mums (2014) Sven't Jolle, BBB Centre d'art. Photo: Nicolas Brasseur, Toulouse International Art Festival 2014 ©Le Printemps de septembre

Austerity Mums (2014) Sven't Jolle, BBB Centre d'art. Photo: Nicolas Brasseur, Toulouse International Art Festival 2014 (c) Le Printemps de septembre

Austerity Mums (2014) Sven't Jolle, BBB Centre d'art. Photo: Nicolas Brasseur, Toulouse International Art Festival 2014 (c) Le Printemps de septembre

Born in 1966, he lives and works in Antwerp (Belgium) and Melbourne (Australia).

 

With Sven’t Jolle we can be sure to avoid slickness and cliché. For over twenty years, this Belgian artist has been developing a singular body of work combining formal experiment and social critique. He explores the possibilities of figurative contemporary sculpture, from statues to the readymade, from monument to installation, referencing both the history of western art and the early civilisations of the Middle East. In these connections and mixings, art, culture and political thought are intimately linked. Jolle’s work makes no attempt to exclude the noise and bustle of the world; on the contrary, it affords room to the underdogs of  our society, to workers on the edge, the undocumented and the homeless, resisting the dominant modes of thought in both art and economics.  Jolle’s work has been shown around Europe but his show at BBB centre d’art is his first of this type in France. Sculptures produced specially for the occasion will sit alongside older pieces, with sketchbooks providing a sense of the scope of this artist's work.

 

Austerity Mums is the first personnal exhibition of the artist in a French art center. 

 

His pieces are held in public collections in Belgium, France and Germany (Frac Basse-Normandie and Frac Nord – Pas-de-Calais; Smak Ghent Muhka Antwerp and Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf). He has had solo shows at Smak, 2005 and the Laurent Godin and Stella Lohaus galleries and featured in group shows at Mamac, Nice and Frac Basse Normandie in 2013, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Crac Alsace, etc. He is represented by Galerie Laurent Godin.

Curator: Cécile Poblon

Co-produced by BBB centre d’art, Festival international d’art de Toulouse/Le Printemps de septembre, Laurent Godin gallery (Paris), with the support of Flemish Authorities.