Nel Aerts: Jack and the Paradise Cruise

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2016.10.02-11.09

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Jack and the Paradise Cruise "My solo exhibition Jack and the Paradise Cruise brings together a series of new self portraits. All the drawings and collages were made during a recent stay at Casa Lina. Casa Lina is a holiday house of a friend of mine. It is located on the top of a mountain in Arenas, Andalusia. Over the past years numerous colleague artists and friends have stayed and worked there. All one does while staying at Casa Lina is swim, draw, eat, drink and sleep. The only reason to leave the house and go down the mountain is to buy more food and drink. Jack and the Paradise Cruise documents my Spanish Paradise Cruise."

Nel Aerts Nel Aerts (born 1987, Antwerp) focuses on an intermedial versus a (semi-)iconic way of handling materials and media. Furthermore, she observes how the position of the artist is represented by the world. In her drawings, paintings, performative videos and sculptural installations she questions how various media, artistic calling and the world relate, using a mix of tragedy, poetry, fiction, humour and art historical references.

The caricatures Aerts presents in her work reflect on reality and sometimes mock the role or expectations that are projected onto a young artist. They bear the consequences of contradictions: they drink, they are sad, lonely, timid, and on the other hand, they are also funny.

Humour, loneliness, sadness, taboo, escapism, the journey, the boat trip, optimism, the mask/masquerade—all of these are elements that recur in her paintings, drawings, collages, sculptures and actions. At the same time her practice and work also bear witness to a stubborn faith in the creative, material and moving powers of contemporary art.

Nel Aerts is represented by the Carl Freedman Gallery in London. Her works have been presented at international art institutions like the Kunsthalle Wien, the Astrup Fearnley Museet in Oslo, the Kunstraum in London and at Wiels in Brussels. Her works are also present at many prestigious art fairs including Art Brussels, Armory Show in New York or the Liste in Basel.

left: Jack and the Paradise Cruise, 2016 Ballpoint on paper, 29,7 x 21 cm 5

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left: The Casa Lina Dolphin Lover, 2016 Ballpoint on paper, 29,7 x 21 cm right: The Spanish vessel bearer, 2016 Ballpoint on paper, 29,7 x 21 cm 7

left: Spaanse Bourgondiër, 2016 Ballpoint on paper, 29,7 x 21 cm right: Bon Vivant (Bonviván), 2016 Ballpoint on paper, 29,7 x 21 cm 8

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left: De Mango Plukster (Mangószedők), 2016 Ballpoint on paper, 29,7 x 21 cm right: Zomers communicantje (Nyárias hírközlő), 2016 Ballpoint on paper, 29,7 x 21 cm 11

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left: Troon bezitter (A trón tulajdonosa), 2016 Ballpoint on paper, 29,7 x 21 cm right: Zelfportret (Önarckép), 2016 Ballpoint on paper, 29,7 x 21 cm 13

left: De zonneklopper (Napenergia verő), 2016 Ballpoint on paper, 29,7 x 21 cm right: Mijn nieuwe arbeidsplaats (Az új munkahelyem), 2016 Ballpoint on paper, 29,7 x 21 cm 14

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left: Spanish Cowgirl, 2016 Ballpoint on paper, 29,7 x 21 cm right: Portret van een zelfportet (Portré, önarckép), 2016 Ballpoint on paper, 29,7 x 21 cm 17

left: Schaduw Schilder (Árnyék festő), 2016 Ballpoint on paper, 29,7 x 21 cm right: Tripper, 2016 Ballpoint on paper, 29,7 x 21 cm 18

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NEL AERTS 1987 Antwerpenben él és dolgozik | Lives and works in Antwerpen, Belgium Tanulmányok | Studies 1999 – 2005 KSO, Heilig-Grafinstitute, Turnhout 2005 – 2009 Master in the Arts, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Ghent (KASK) Válogatott egyéni kiállítások | Selected solo exhibitions 2017 Solo at Carl Freedman Gallery, London, (UK) 2016 Mural at Beurskafee at Beursschouwburg, Brussels, (BE) 2015 De Zundert tekeningen, solo show at Vincent van GoghHuis Galerie, Zundert, (NL) 2015 Residency at Vincent van GoghHuis, Zundert, (NL) 2015 Billenkoek, solo show at KIOSK, Ghent, (BE) 2015 Verzopen vaarwaters, solo show at Trampoline, Antwerp (BE) 2015 Lord Nelsons Poster Cabinet, solo show at Stadslimiet, Antwerp (BE) 2014 Döbbelganger, solo show, Trampoline, Antwerp, (BE) 2014 Lord Nelsons Portrait Gallery, solo show, Carl Freedman Gallery, London, (EN) 2014 Duo show w/ Kristian Devantier, Galleri SPECTA, Copenhagen, (DA) 2013 Solo, Liste Basel, represented by Galerie VidalCuglietta, (CH) 2013 POST, solo, curated by Jacob Fabricius, Kunsthalle Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, (DA) 2012 De dans rond het uurglas, solo show, project space, Galerie VidalCuglietta, Brussels, (B) Válogatott csoportos kiállítások, projektmunkák | Selected group exhibitions, projects 2017 ‘Living in Dreams’, groupshow curated by Frank Koolen and Els Fiers, De Bond, Brugge 2016 ’11 kunstenaars tegen de muur’, groupshow curated by Lieven Segers, Antwerp 2016 Frieze NY, represented by Carl Freedman Gallery, New York, (US) 2016 The Armory Show, represented by Carl Freedman Gallery, New York, (US) 2016 'Ten Dans', groupshow curated by Lieven Segers, Cultuurcentrum, Maasmechelen (BE) 2015 Rock, Paper, Scissors, groupshow at Primo Piano, Paris, (FR) 2015 Wrijving van gedachten / Antwerpen-Zundert, groupshow at Vincent van GoghHuis, Zundert, (NL) 2015 Character Traits, groupshow, Asya Geisberg Gallery, New York, (US) 2015 The Best Couples in the World (Like Salt and Pepper), edition published by MOREpublishers, ongoing project at GRAMM restaurant, Brussels, (BE) 20

2015 Inhabitants, groupshow, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland, (CH) 2015 Six possibilities in painting, groupshow, Galerie Bernhard, Zürich, Switzerland, (CH) 2015 Blue Pink Black, groupshow, Carl Freedman Gallery, London, (UK) 2015 Tranen uit de Schelde, Art’s Birthday, mural for MuHKA Antwerp, (BE) 2014 De vierkantigste rechthoek, groupshow curated by Tom Barman, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, (NL) 2014 ATLAS, groupshow w/ Kasper Bosmans & Julien Meert, MOTInternational, Brussels, (BE) 2014 VIRUS, groupshow, Netwerk, Aalst, (BE) 2014 L'Europe des Artistes, groupshow curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Thomas Boutoux and Gunnar B. Kvaran, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, (NO) 2013 Salon der Angst, curated by Cathérine Hug & Nicolaus Schafhausen, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, (AT) 2013 Time Space Poker Face, curated by Sofie Van Loo, Be-Part, Waregem, (B) 2012 Definitional Disruptions, /w Filip Gilissen & Hedwig Houben, Kunstraum London, (EN) 2012 Un-Scene II, curated by Elena Filipovic and Anne-Claire Schmitz, Wiels, Brussels, (B) 2011 You can’t have your cake and eat it, curated by Cakehouse, Scheld’apen, Antwerp, (B) 2011 Art’s Birthday, groupshow, Muhka, Antwerp, (B) 2010 Traveling after Zbigniew Herbert and Pan Cogito, Poetry and Arts festival, Watou, (B) 2010 POP ART, groupshow curated by Kati Heck, Lieven Segers, Dennis Tyfus and Michèle Matyn, NICC, Antwerp, (B) 2009 Coming People, curated Meruro Washida & Thibaut Verhoeven, S.M.A.K., Ghent, (B)

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IMPRESSZUM | IMPRESSUM Kiadó | Publisher: © Horizont Galéria | Horizont Gallery © Arató Balázs www.horizontgaleria.hu H-1066 Budapest, Zichy Jenő u. 32. © Nel Aerts Szöveg | Text: Nel Aerts, Sofie Van Loo Grafika | Graphic design: Gábor Csongor Szigeti, Anna Bárdy Külön köszönet | Special thanks: Carl Freedman Gallery, Casa Lina Nyomda | Printed by: GabbianoPrint Budapest, 2015.

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