Artwork of the month - video (59 sec).
Friendship surmounts
Year | 2024 |
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Size | 22.5 cm × 5.7 cm × 5.7 cm |
Materials | yellow clay, mortar |
Edition | 1/1 |
For Sale | No |
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Frank&Robbert Robbert&Frank have known each other since high school. They have spent much of their lives together - making art, travelling the world, empowering people, performing rituals and much more. In the last few years, many things have changed; both artists became fathers, started a family, renovated a house, etc. Their friendship and artistic practice has been transformed and enriched once again.
To celebrate this, Frank made a special brick for Robbert's birthday. The brick is inscribed with the quote 'Friendship surmounts' and is a product of deep-rooted love. It symbolises both the beauty and the struggle of the deep friendship the two artists share. It's a token of good luck and a bearer of hope, protecting Robbert's house and his family.
Once again, it's a work of art that derives its meaning from context and connection to real-life situations and interaction with the physical world. This brick is part of a new tradition that Frank and Robbert have been practising; a tradition in which they ritually protect a building by removing an existing brick and replacing it with one of their own.
The artists have already placed bricks in private buildings in Ghent, Meulebeke and Hamburg (DE), as well as at the STUK Kunstencentrum in Leuven (BE) and at the Stanton Drew Stone Circle in the UK.
* Special thanks to the neighbours of Robbert&Lize for their beautiful Halloween Trick of Treat cameo.
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ARTWORKS
Theater
Table Dialogues | 2021 - ongoing | |
Don't we deserve grand human projects that give us meaning? | 2017 - 2021 | |
To Break - The window of opportunity | 2014 - 2015 |
Performances, Actions, Rituals
(Solo) Exhibitions
Magic Mirrors - Ceramic Shrine
Fred&Ferry Gallery, Antwerp (BE) |
2021 | |
Breadcrumbs
Be-Part, Waregem (BE) |
2020 | |
Dr. Valcke
Water Clinic, Kortrijk (BE) |
2015 |
Drawings
Other sculptures & installations
Other video works & projects
PONG
video installation |
2014 | |
Faces
video installation |
2014 | |
The Gilded Child
video |
2010 | |
A Documentary
video |
2010 |
Other prints, books & editions
Clay tablets
Hugging | 2020 | |
Helping Hand | 2020 | |
Lunch | 2020 | |
To Break (theatre scene) | 2020 | |
Gemini Ritual | 2019 | |
Mask Totem Pole | 2019 | |
Ritual Fire | 2019 |
Shrines
Archetypes
Sculpture |
2019 - 2021 | |
Janus Self-Portrait
Sculpture |
2021 | |
Magic Mirrors - Shrine
Sculpture |
2021 | |
Shredding Sorrows
Sculpture |
2019 | |
To Break
Sculpture |
2021 |
Go away sorrow of the world
Suitcase projects
Weakness is provocative
Surveillance
Ceramics & Wood |
2020 | |
Guns
installation (2014) / artist publication (2015) |
2014 - 2015 | |