Bart Lodewijks

The Dutch artist Bart Lodewijks will fill an entire room of the S.M.A.K. with a huge mural in chalk. The lines of this drawing suggest a sort of perspective that arises out of the individual nature of the space as perceived by the artist. Lodewijks also looks at the relationship with the world outside the museum. He goes in search of ‘residual space’ in Ghent, a place for art experiences that in no way resembles the white museum rooms. For the Moscou-Bernadette project he will be doing chalk drawings on walls in various parts of the city. He will go to places that have no notable character, places in dilapidated public spaces, and there introduces his minimal line compositions. Time and rain will erase these subtle chalk drawings and thereby add to their individual nature. He will do this at regular intervals to enable a growth in personal contact between the passing artist and the local residents. The neighbourhood stories that will then be told may at a later stage evolve into an actual contribution by the residents. His solo presentation in the Kunst Nu rooms will be accompanied by the launch of the book Ghent/Lisbon/Porto Drawings, a publication on Bart Lodewijks’ projects in 2005 and 2006, published by ROMA publications.

Bart Lodewijks