Silvia Hatzl's 'Gestalten' are made of different materials and currently occupy the nave of the Chapel of Boondael in Ixelles. Away from forests, meadows, lakes and rivers, they wander forward resolute, proud and tall, forming a procession. Somehow strangely, these figures are symbols and present traces of lives lived, paths walked, souls lost and memories inherited from abandoned and forgotten stories. They are diaphanous and imbued with love, full of strength and gentleness, filled with life and death - these forms draped, stretched and wrapped - are a group of phantoms that momentarily inhabit the Chapel of Boondael.
Imzgd: Other exhibiting artists: Edith de Vries, Richard Laillier, Susanna Malzacher, Francis Schmetz, Michel Thuns and C.A. Wasserburger.
Music evenings with: Joseph Maria Balanyà, Pierre Coulon, Bénédicte Davin, Raymond Delepierre, Jean-Paul Dessy, Stéphane Ginsburgh, Walter Hus, Lithos Music, Seijiro Murayama, Baudouin Oosterlynck and Daniel Stokart.
Performances: Bénédicte Davin and Sabine Oosterlynck will create performances.
Talks: Sabine de Ville, Pierre Coulon, Richard Laillier, Francis Schmetz, Michel Thuns and Roger-Pierre Turine.
Pars Pro Toto, from 23 September – 31 October 2021.
Chapel of Boondael, Square du Vieux Tilleul 10, 1050 Ixelles, Belgium.
Courtesy and ©Silvia Hatzl and Renée Pfister Art & Gallery Consultancy, 2021.
Images: Installation view various textiles by Silvia Hatzl, Chapel of Boondael.
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