In her work, Lili Dujourie (1941, Roeselare) combines the influence of such Flemish Primitive painters as Jan van Eyck with her personal artistic approach. She works in marble, papier-maché, steel, lead, velvet and ceramics, giving a leading role to decoration and ornamentation and playing with the sensuality and directness of the materials. Her sculptural interventions struggle between painting and sculpture, balance and gravity, abstract and figurative, and their physical presence and their surroundings. In addition, Dujourie is also developing videos which are highly unique. Her core themes are the relationship between nature and culture, the passing and the weight of time and her quest for an emotional understanding of space.
This exhibition will be on in parallel at both S.M.A.K. in Ghent and Mu.ZEE in Ostend. The two sections, one inland and one on the coast, cover Dujourie’s work from her debut in the 1960s until the present.
The exhibition gets an extra dimension: Lili Dujourie has chosen the MSK in Ghent to exhibit the very first work she made using velvet, ‘Maagdendael’ from 1982.
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