Vergara, Angel
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft];
Biasino, Fabrice
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]
;
Communauté Française de Belgique,
Biennale di Venezia 54. 2011 Venedig,
Exhibition Feuilleton: Angel Vergara 2011 Venedig
Feuilleton - Angel Vergara
: [occasion of the Exhibition Feuilleton: Angel Vergara, Venice Biennale 2011, Belgian Pavillon, Communauté Française de Belgique and Wallonie-Bruxelles International 4 June - 27 November 2011]
Titel:
Feuilleton - Angel Vergara
:
[occasion of the Exhibition Feuilleton: Angel Vergara, Venice Biennale 2011, Belgian Pavillon, Communauté Française de Belgique and Wallonie-Bruxelles International 4 June - 27 November 2011]
Anmerkungen:
Text in engl., franz. u. niederl. Sprache
Text in engl., franz. und niederländ
Beschreibung:
Angel Vergara is a performance artist with a critical and political vision of reality. He has made a reputation with the décor of cafés in which he criticizes capitalism. Vergara draws his inspiration from the street where he gives his performances as Streetman (L'Homme des rues). In those performances a white sheet functioned as a mobile studio beneath which he made drawings inspired by the street. Vergara is no detached, cerebral 'maker' of art, but lives and experiences his work. He often refers to the School of Barbizon, whose members tried to coincide completely with their subject. This is what Vergara does too. He invites he viewer to participate and to join in thinking about his art in order to share the experience of feeling, thinking and experiencing. He opens cafés, a money exchange office, a grocer's. He observes and records