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Jan de Cock: Don’t Mention the Chipboard
August 24, 2009
By Vicky Richardson
After working with the material for most of his professional life (albeit he is just 32), Jan de Cock wants to talk about something other than chipboard. ‘Would you ask Rubens why he uses oil paint?’, de Cock complains vociferously. It’s clear that a lot is at stake with this new exhibition, which he has been working on for nearly two years, and tensions are running high.
Titled, Repromotion, the show fills the main upper galleries of the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, and consists of a sequence of 100 complex sculptures – mostly made from chipboard, but also particleboard and laminate – that have been created in response to the architecture.
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