Patrick van Caeckenbergh

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Artist's Name:

Patrick van Caeckenbergh

Preferred medium:

installation

birth year:

1960

Nationality:

City:

Sint-Kornelis-Horebeke

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The work of Belgian artist Patrick van Caeckenbergh presents images of a fantastical world. Van Caeckenbergh adopts the persona of an eccentric, obsessive anthropologist, making sculptures and collages that offer a distinctly individual view of the world, and reveal the artist's uncontrollable urge to collect and to order. He sets out to explore grand universal questions, such as the origins of human existence and the inner workings of the universe, and then, in the long tradition of Belgian Surrealism, posits surreal answers. Van Caeckenbergh's installation at White Cube included a collage, The Bum (1995), in which the earth is represented as a digestive system, centred on a pair of buttocks that discharges clouds of gas to produce an atmosphere, while being fed continually by pairs of winged hands. In its almost hallucinatory intricacy, this collage resembles an illuminated manuscript or an ancient map. This and other collages that were on display are filled with references to philosophers, writers and poets, and to the distorted myths that are passed down through the generations like Chinese Whispers. The incalculable plays an important part in van Caeckenbergh's work since the humorous systems he builds are based on instinctive, random ordering, rather than any rational logic. His works are motivated by a desire to escape what he calls the 'small-minded pigeon-holing of art history.' (White Cube/Jay Jopling, London)

important exhibitions from Patrick van Caeckenbergh

Exhibition	Location	City	Country	Date
45. Biennale Venedig 1993	Biennale Venedig	Venedig	IT	13.06.1993

Patrick Van Caeckenbergh La ruine fructueuse	M. M for Museum Leuven	Leuven	BE	02.02.2012

L'Institut des archives sauvages	Villa Arson Nice	Nizza	FR	17.02.2012

Hareng Saur Ensor and Contemporary Art	Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (SMAK)	Gent	BE	31.10.2010

For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn't there	De Appel	Amsterdam	NL	15.02.2010

La dégelée Rabelais	Palais de Tokyo	Paris	FR	06.06.2008

For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn't there	Museum of Contemporay Art Detroit	Detroit	US	05.02.2010

For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn't there	ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts London	London	GB	03.12.2009

"For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn't there"	Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, CAM	St. Louis	US	11.09.2009