At My Own Risk. Couldn't Be Better.
September 18 — October 25, 2015
New York: 24th Street
Gladstone is pleased to announce At My Own Risk. Couldn’t Be Better., an exhibition of new work by Belgian artist Walter Swennen. This will be Swennen’s first American exhibition in over twenty years. The exhibition will feature Swennen’s humorous and incisive brightly hued paintings that move between representation and abstraction. Language, legibility, subjectivity and symbolic meaning are explored and challenged in Swennen’s uncompromising works, which are at once lighthearted and deeply resonant.
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About
Walter Swennen (b. 1946, Brussels) lives and works in Brussels. His work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions at international institutions including Kunst Museum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland; Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterless, Belgium; Kunstmuseum Den Hague, Netherlands; La Triennale di Milano, Italy (2018); Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany (2015); WIELS Contemporary Art Center, Brussels (2013); Culturgest Lisbon (2013); Kunstverein Freiburg (2012); MuKHA Antwerp, Belgium (1994); and Kunsthal Rotterdam, The Netherlands (1994). Swennen has also been included in notable group exhibitions including: “Atopolis, Manège de Sury,” Mons (2015); “The Importance of Being...,” Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana (2015); “Idiolect,” Arentshuis, Bruges (2009); “La Belgique Visionnaire/Visionair België,” curated by Harald Szeemann, Palais des Beaux-Arts/Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels (2005); “Voir en Peinture,” FRAC Ile de France/Le Plateau, Paris (2003); “La Consolation,” Centre d’Art National Contemporain, Le Magasin, Grenoble (1999); and “Trouble Spot. Painting,” MuKHA Antwerp (1999).
