wed8dec'10

Tomorrow (thursday) Vaast Colson is opening a show at Maes 'n Matthys gallery. i wanted to share the very nice invitation photograph here:

this is a text that came along with the invitation: ------------------------------------- The Turkish word ‘Hüzün’ stands for a certain melancholy which the author Orhan Pamuk describes as “a mood conveying worldly’s failure, listlessness and spiritual suffering. It is an awareness that implicates us all, a feeling of deep spiritual loss but also a hopeful way of looking at life: a state of mind that is ultimately as life-affirming as it is negating. Hüzün is not a singular preoccupation but a communal emotion, not the melancholy of an individual but the black mood shared by millions.” In this way, for Pamuk the feeling is directly related to the city of Istanbul. “Perhaps the hüzün of autumn is a quality particular to northern cities, or at least cities that go through seasons.”
Vaast Colson lends this term for the title of his 4th solo show in our gallery. The exhibition ‘Hüzün’ is fetishist, frank and seized with emotion but effective as a grappa after a fine meal with friends in seasonal Antwerp. 37 dark ink & tears drawings materialize a gloomy period (October 2009 - May 2010) in the artist's life. The drawings strongly resemble nightly pictures of starry skys but are made in a corner of his studio. Hüzün is also the title of the accompanying artist book. It includes images of the drawings and a quote by Samuel Beckett: “The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.”

well well well. the dark days are over?

also our most intriguing tearjerk songwriter of Flanders, Guido Belcanto will play live in the gallery, from 6 to 9.