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patrick everaert / tuer le temps april 25 – june 9, 2002 B.P.S. 22 (bâtiment provincial solvay) , charleroi, belgium --- the plastic arts section of the province de hainaut in belgium has organised artist patrick everaert’s first big monographic exhibition with about forty photographs. everaert has created photographs printed with what could be termed a 'disturbing strangeness', to use a freudian expression also often applied to surrealist inspired works. his pictures, taken from magazines and computer processed afterwards, seem to materialise visual impossibilities which would have been familiar to rené magritte. however, he doesn’t give in to the brutality of 'fragment and chock aesthetics' peculiar to collage and photomontage, for which magritte may seem to be the creator, because he uses emotional and provocative overstatement made possible by the new technologies for processing digital pictures. --- patrick everaert’s works are truly a form of 'eye exercise', as opposed to the sensationalism in advertising. The familiar components in his pictures do not lend themselves to being read directly and require decoding, going far beyond being an 'immediately' consumable photograph. open to all possible interpretations - none is a priori false - his works pave the way for reflection, both poetical and critical, about our world with its abundance of images. --- patrick everaert is far more established abroad than in his country of origin (born in charleroi, belgium in 1962). his work has been exhibited in several galleries in paris (météo, brownstone - corréard) and he was invited by the 'centre national de photographie' to participate to the paris 'biennale de l’image' in 1998, which introduced him to an international artistic audience. he was chosen to represent the belgian french-speaking community, and participated 'a latere' at palazzo francetti in the venice biennial 2001. http://www.patrickeveraert.info --- patrick and his wife alix everaert are good friends of designboom. the everaerts are collectors and experts in design of the 60's and 70's, and own a private collection of design objects with about 1500 pieces. their passion for design has led them to create the very useful resource site 'design addict' in 1997. http://www.designaddict.com ------- monthly designboom newsletter ------- ------- ? comments and contact us ? -------	untitled, 2001 © patrick everaert untitled, 2001 © patrick everaert untitled, 2001 © patrick everaert untitled, 1996 © patrick everaert untitled, 1993 © patrick everaert