Exhibitions
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Conception par Alinoa.
IN THE STREETS //
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RUE DE LA JOIE : GEORGES THIRY (1904-1994)Georges Thiry (1904-1994), a native of Liège, was a self-taught photographer, a great friend of the Surrealists and the subject, in 2001, of a retrospective in the Museum of Photography in Charleroi. Georges Thiry took photos of, amongst many others, his confidantes and prostitute girlfriends. These magnificent images in black and white, where humour and tenderness are always present, give the portraits an exceptional dimension of humanity. A selection of these portraits will be presented throughout the town in the Decaux sites usually reserved for advertisements. Perfectly in tune with the theme of BIP2012, these images taken in the 50s and 60s show that Thiry’s work, representing, as it does, woman not just in terms of her form and shape but in her whole personality, is sober, rather like a documentary, thus reflecting a style which radically breaks away from the codes of today’s advertising which is often outrageous, colourful and sometimes obscene. The use of urban furniture locations and billboards as a vehicle for the spreading of art is not totally new. Among the best-known artists, Felix Gonzales-Torrès, actually designed one of his series of photographs expressly for poster campaigns on panels usually reserved for advertising (Billboards, 1989-1995).
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LOVE'S IN THE AIR
"Does love speak to you? Tell us about it with an image! Open up your family albums, pull out the drawers in your cupboards or your sets of photos and send us a photo which, for you personally, best represents love. Whether it’s in colour or black and white, very old or brand new, a bit damaged or frayed at the edges, whether it shows your mum, your canary or your other half, it doesn’t matter, as long as it’s - for you - your very dearest image."
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