Exhibition at Xavier Hufkens explores how artists use systems and structures to free expression
Colour and language also converge in Alighiero Boettis (1940-1994) arazzi [tapestries], Made during the 1980s and 90s in Peshawar, they reflect the artists abiding interest in Afghan culture.
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.- Featuring the work of ten artists and spanning a period of forty-five years, Gridscape explores how artists use systems and structures to free expression. The exhibition brings together different generations of artists who have approached one of the defining questions of Modernism: how can systems be used to investigate, contain or liberate the self?
The confrontation between regimentation and chaos, rules and imagination, limits and freedom has given birth to some of the most fascinating artworks of the twentieth century. Taking this as a starting point, Gridscape presents the work of artists who have continued to use and challenge systems as a way of expressing the complex relat