Andy Wauman - Post Everybody

'Post Everybody', consisting almost entirely of new works, is Andy Wauman’s second solo show at DEWEER gallery. It illustrates some major changes and developments his oeuvre has went through since his first exhibition here, three years ago. Wauman has clearly made choices, both in form and content. In this context, his experimental 'Black Marks' project - initiated at the Rijksakademie where he is currently a resident - was important. It has resulted in a set of strategies which are likely to become recurrent elements in his esthetics. To name some of these evolutions: a more symbolical and reduced use of colour, the convergence of the written poetry with the visual work, a tighter relation between various objects within installations, and the increasing focus on complex ethical principles.

The show testifies of Wauman’s waxing material vocabulary, but more importantly, it also reads like a thematical chain of works. A booklet with a great poem written by Wauman, Broke Plumes of Sensation, is an important poetical guide to the show. The booklet is an edition but one copy is displayed on socle to illustrate how united words, images and forms are in the mind of this artist.
(prolonged (by appointment only) until 10 July)

Andy Wauman, White Sentenced, 2009, lacquered aluminium, 199,4 × 158,2 × 4 cm


Andy Wauman, Stay in body - Gaze monologue, 2009, spraypaint on metal, each 99 cm diameter