Angel Vergara

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In an Instant

Edited by Denis Gielen with contributions from Jérôme André, Nicolas Bourriaud, Philippe Van Cauteren and Olivier Michelon

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Angel Vergara’s (1958 – based in Brussels) work is a continued investigation into the power of the image. By means of performances, videos, installations, paintings and drawings, he tests the limits of art and reality. Each of his works is an attempt to break through the image and to make its impact on an aesthetic as well as a socio-cultural and political level. Thus, Vergara creates a new, suspended reality, grown from the artist’s personal dialogue with reality and with the image by which it has already been transformed. Decontextualised images of reality are mediated by the artist and transformed into art, encouraging the viewer to question their way of perceiving the everyday as well as the way it is presented to them in images. Vergara’s art disorients and disconcerts the viewer. It questions what is known and opens paths to new modes of signification.

Accompanying the 2023 retrospective exhibition "In a Moment" that the MACS is dedicating to Angel Vergara, this important book reviews the career of the Belgian artist and highlights the close relationship between his painting and the cinematic medium.

Distributed for Mercatorfonds

Exhibition Schedule:

02.11.2022 – 02.06.2023
Outside installation. Musée de la batellerie – Conflans Sainte Honorine, France.

24.11.2022 > 19.03.2023
Photo Brut - Centrale for Contemporary Art, Brussels

23.04.2023 – 08.10.2023
Angel Vergara. In a Moment. Monographic exhibition. MAC’s in Mons, Belgium.

Denis Gielen is Director of MACS, Mons
Jérôme André is head of conservation department at MACS, Mons
Philippe Van Cauteren is Director of SMAK, Ghent
Olivier Michelon is a French art historian, heritage curator & chief curator at the Fondation Vuitton since 2016.

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE