GLÄSER
by Walt Van Beek
Project/work in progress

Artist in residence - April/May 2010

With Gläserbol, Walt Van Beek (BE, °1981) questions the transitoriness of an object and tries to transform that into a transitoriness of thought.

Gläserbol arises from an intimate relation and a personal attraction; and is the love for a banned and lost object. It is an attempt to crystallize time by reversing the process, from stable to fluid in different circumstances which would then in principle evoke endless transparencies. Gläserbol is the coming into existence of a project and a work in progress. In the second phase of the exhibition WVB wants to literally burry the bottle banks in order for it to lose its ‘Dinglichsein’. You could compare it with the work of an archaeologist who discovers things that have been preserved for future generations. But by putting the bottle banks into the ground, WVB, reverses the traditional working methods of an archaeologist.

Gläserbol is an installation of bottle banks. The first fase comprises the restoration of the containers and the new given functions. In de second fase the Gläserbol is buried.

Walt Van Beek works as an artist and as a curator for WaiWaiSpace.

Website: Gläser + (RHoK, current) >
Website: WaiWaiSpace # 6 (past) >
Contact: waiwai@woutwalt.be