Jan Lauwers - Silent Stories - McaM 2016

In May 2016, Jan Lauwers became the first Belgian to exhibit at the brand new McaM in Shanghai, a museum of contemporary art headed by the Chinese artist Qiu Zhijie. Part of this large-scale exhibition was also presented at BOZAR.
Silent Stories was the title of a monumental installation, in which Lauwers reinterprets and combines past works and materials. For this exhibition he uses so-called inferior material such as used packing cases, old wainscoting, and pieces of discarded wood, to which he gives a new value by transforming them into supports for images. A portrait in graphite of an old beggar in Shanghai on a discarded piece of felt was the first picture Lauwers produced for this installation. This kind, laughing man, whose name he doesn’t know but whose face radiates an almost historical beauty, was a silent story.

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