BRUNO HELLENBOSCH - BANC TITRE

Vernissage Saturday Sept 12 6pm

Exhibition Sept 10 - Oct 17
Booklaunch with Sabine Dupont

Banc titre

Starting from a collection of old books—taken apart, handled, and re-inked—Banc titre establishes an experimental process without a predetermined outcome.

Through redaction, displacement, and accumulation, the images lose their original function and enter into new relationships.
Banc titre forms an open-ended corpus, one that can be continually recomposed.

The book brings together an initial state of this work. The exhibition extends its material into space, between printed fragments, images, film, and projection.

 

Bruno Hellenbosch (born 1977, Brussels) is a Belgian artist working across woodcut, painting, drawing, printed matter, analogue film and installation. Trained in printmaking at La Cambre, where he graduated in 2002, his practice is rooted in the material and reproductive processes of the printed image. Drawing on art history, literature, popular culture and existing printed sources, his work proceeds through operations of cutting, displacement, inking, printing and recombination. Images are removed from their original contexts and brought into new relationships, while the resistance of wood and the materiality of paper and ink remain central to his practice. More recently, books and printed matter have become both source and material, forming bodies of images that are dismantled, altered and recombined across publications, installations and moving-image works. This approach extends to analogue film, where Hellenbosch works directly on the surface of the film stock through scratching, incision, inking and printing, treating film itself as a material surface. Images circulate between wood, paper, books, photography, film and projection, shifting through changes of scale, support and context.
In 2007, Hellenbosch received the Prix de la Gravure et de l’Image imprimée in La Louvière for a woodcut triptych. His subsequent projects have included extensive bodies of work developed from Dante’s Divine Comedy and Boccaccio’s Decameron.
He lives and works in Brussels.