DIETER VAN CANEGHEM. Living and working in Belgium

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1 DIETER VAN CANEGHEM CONTACT Born ( 1990) in Beveren, Belgium info@dietervancaneghem.be Living and working in Belgium SOLO EXHIBITIONS /3, Felix Art Museum, Drogenbos (BE) België, Belgique, Belgien, Photography Circuit Flanders, Traveling exhibition trough Flanders untill Disarray, Gallery TZIEN, Mechelen (BE) GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2018 Art recycling terminal, The Replica: Johan Van Geluwe, Recyclart, WTC1, Brussel, (BE) 2017 Dia-loog, ARTchitect home Johan Van Geluwe, Waregem (BE) OPEN M, Cas-co, Leuven (BE) Arnoevoo, MEC Staf Versluys, Bredene (BE) 2016 TWENS, Unexpossed Fotografie Circuit, Leuven (BE) WAK, Beveren (BE) 2015 Espectro, Room Athena, Antwerp (BE) Festival of the future, Concert hall, Brugge (BE) Flemish port day, MBZ nv, Zeebrugge (BE) 2014 Check, M museum, Leuven (BE) Kirchberg a form of Europe, A. Demeulemeester, Brussel (BE) Ithaka 22, Metamorphosis, Leuven (BE) Testcase, SLAC, Leuven (BE) 2012 #3, Recyclart, Brussel (BE) Street View, Sint-Lukasgalerie, Brussel (BE) End-of-year exhibition Urbanism & Spatial Planning Ghent, Sint-Lucas Ghent (BE) Green Room, International Photo Festival Knoke-Heist, Knokke (BE) KADOC/ EXPO 8, Migrant associations in Flanders, Leuven (BE) MAGAZINES / PUBLICATIONS Photo s, , Therapy Tower Pellenberg, Leuven, March 2018, // ISBN: Johan Van Geluwe, Remake 1:1, Brussel, September D!NG 3 year Anniversary issue 2014 Seminarch 6, Thing Theory & Urban Objects for the European Capital City: Kirchberg Plateau, Eindhoven, November 2014, // ISBN: Kirchberg a form of Europe, Andreas de Boeck, KU Leuven, LUCA, Leuven, Art Magazine Flanders, n 347, Filled Flanders between city and open space, Gent, december Math Art Summit, Dirk Huylebrouck, Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for sciences and art, 2012 // ISBN: Fragile, nr 5, Sint-Lucas, front page, Brussel April 2011

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5 FORT DE LA CHARTREUSE In 2012, Dieter presented a photograph of the fortress of La Chartreuse in Liège, at Recyclart in Brussels. This majestic image, that is over four meters long, confronts the viewer with specific details thanks to its scale: nature is slowly reclaiming the fortress. These micro stories were the starting point for Dieter s next project. In 2014 he presented two images that capture this process at Ithaka in Leuven. He consciously chose to present in a compact format, allowing more emphasis on the main composition, instead of drawing attention to details and textures. The relationship between these two images highlights aspects that were already in play in the initial image. For the exhibition 200/3 he explored this initial image even further. Through a sequence of 200 images, he confronts the viewer with a transformation that cannot be captured in one snapshot. In contrast to the images presented earlier, Van Caneghem s video-installation deals with the effect of gazing at something, without becoming aware of the transformational process. (Exposition text, 200/3, Felix Art Museum) 1 1/3, 100cm x 400cm,inkjet print, /3, two times 50cm x 200cm,inkjet print mounted on dibond, /3, 200 photo s, video, 2016

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11 ACCIDENTAL ENCOUNTERS With his series CHANCE ENCOUNTERS, Van Caneghem registers unique architectural constructions within the urban landscape. He shows us his fascination for architectural elements (floors, ceilings, walls, roofs, doors, windows, etc). We see surprising images of (fragments of) buildings, taken at a remarkable moment in its existence. They make us reflect on the lifecourse of these constructions and show us how architectural elements can enter a different dialog with each other than was originally envisioned. Much like the Comte de Lautréamont ( ), Dieter Van Caneghem wishes to explore the beauty of interplay between random objects (like de Lautréamont did with a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissection table). It s these poetic moments that he wishes to capture and share with us in his series CHAN- CE ENCOUNTERS. (Exposition text, Disarray, Gallery TZIEN, Mechelen) , :25, 80cm x 100cm, inkjet print, , :30, 80cm x 100cm, lambda print, , :36, 80cm x 100cm, lambda print, , :55, 80cm x 100cm, inkjet print, , :44, 80cm x 100cm, lambda print, 2015

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15 CITY VIEW The installation that Van Caneghem made for the exhibition in the M-Museum in Leuven is a dialogue with the architecture of the building the museum is housed in, designed by Stéphane Beel ( ). A striking aspect about Beel s work, are the large window-panes that are present in the different places in the building. Van Beel adopted the mindset of a photographer and framed the landscape of Leuven from within the museum using windows. Beel describes these vistas as points of light that we encounter during a tour of the museum and guide the visitor. So doing, the museum not only shows its permanent collection and temporary exhibitions, but also a view of the city. Van Caneghem decided to work with analog material for the exhibition. Two windows in room 31 of the museum were central to the work. The museum-council covered one of the windows that normally show a typically Belgian view: a large facade in brick next to houses with small gardens. Van Caneghem introduces this image again in the museum by constructing an installation that features, among other things, an image of the rear facade. With this work he creates a separate space in the exhibition-space that refers to the original idea of Beel. (Exposition text, Check, M museum, Leuven) 001 Location, photo of wall, technical drawings installation, Photo of installation, Photo of installation, 2014

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22 ARCHI-PHOTO With ARCHI-PHOTO, Dieter Van Caneghem analyses the Belgian landscape in search of the archetypes of Belgian architectural elements such as guard walls and the solitary townhouse. In this series, Dieter documents the surreal aspects (what the Dutch would describe as typically Flemish ) in documentary fashion, to first present it as an autonomous piece of work. Afterwards, he sublimates these images using collage techniques. When capturing the Belgian landscape, Van Caneghem pays close attention to uniformity (lighting, point of view, etc). This results in a series of autonomous, large-format, photos. Presented together, the series emphasize the uniqueness of every surface, causing the remaining forms to start interacting with each other. (Exposition text, België, Belgique, Belgien, Photography Circuit) Dieter Van Caneghem ( 1990) obtained a Master s of Photography from Sint-Lukas Brussels in His focus has since been on the Belgian architectural landscape. In his photographic work, he has collaborated several times with architects and urban developers to research urbanization. (Exposition text, OPEN M, Cas-co, Leuven) 0001 Huis, Maison, Haus, 20cm x 25cm, inkjet print, framed, B-9690, 40cm x 50cm, inkjet print, framed, B-7861, 40xm x 50cm, inkjet print framed, B-3071, 40cm x 50cm, inkjet print, framed, URBS , five times 60cmx 75cm, inkjet print, framed, URBS , two times 120cm x 150cm, inkjet print, 2018