Galerie Fortlaan 17 @VOLTA9 - Basel, Switzerland

Manor Grunewald

‘ONE DAY SHE HEARS HER VOICE CALLING HER TO THE ATTIC’

Manor Grunewald's work is composed primarily of painting and collage drawings. He is looking for new possibilities to challenge and expand the classical constraints of the canvas. He wants to break with the rules and structures inherent in this medium.

The title "One day she hears her voice calling her to the attic" refers to the cult horror movie "Do not look in the attic". The horror mystery is set within the threatening atmosphere of an attic. The characters in this film are lured there by an uncontrollable compulsion.
The project "One day she hears her voice calling her to the attic" is also a reference to the historical and stereotypical idea of tormented artists with a studio practice in a small attic. This specific setting of the studio atmosphere invites collectors to have a closer look at the process of an oeuvre.
Manor Grunewald brings a banal small surface of wood, a piece of his artist studio, back to life through a displacement of context. This piece is marked by many years of paint-traces linked to the production of former work and shows traces of destruction as well as large gaps, caused by pulling and dragging while removing the wooden floor from the artists’ studio.
The context of an art fair is of importance for this specific installation as it is intended to be an interaction between the collectors and the artist by reconstructing a studio visit within the fair.

Manor Grunewald (1985, Ghent, Belgium) received several prizes in the field of painting and installations. In 2008 he received the ‘Gaverprijs’, Waregem (B), in 2011 he won the ‘BNP Paribas Fortis Young Ones Award’, Brussels (B) and he was selected for the ‘Young Belgian Painters Award’ and exhibited at BOZAR, Brussels (B). In 2012 he was nominated for the ‘Provinciale Prijs Beeldende Kunst Oost-Vlaanderen’, Ghent (B).
His residencies include “Kulturbunker”, Frankfurt Am Main (D) in 2010, Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee (B) in 2013 and now he is planning his residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York for 2014.

In September 2013 Manor Grunewald will present his third solo exhibition "Life’s a beach and then you die" at Galerie Fortlaan 17.

Galerie Fortlaan 17 @VOLTA9

Solo-project by Manor Grunewald - booth C19

VOLTA9, Dreispitzhalle, Basel, Switzerland

10 - 15 juni 2013

VOLTA9 - Basel's cutting-edge art fair for new and emerging art.

@Galerie Fortlaan 17, Ghent (B)

until 29 June 2013

/NL/ ‘ONE of a kind' is een groepstentoonstelling met 1 zorgvuldig geselecteerd werk van elke deelnemende kunstenaar: 'Less is more'.
De tentoongestelde werken zijn een favoriet werk van de kunstenaar, de galeriste, een verzamelaar of een curator. Alle media komen aan bod, van schilderijen en sculpturen over tekeningen en foto's tot geluidskunst en installaties. Deze tentoonstelling kan ook geïnterpreteerd worden als een ‘staalkaart’ van Galerie Fortlaan 17.

/E/ 'ONE of a kind' is a groupshow including 1 carefully selected work by every participating artist: 'Less is more'.
The exhibited works are a favorite work of the artist, the gallerist, a collector or a curator. All media are covered, including painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, sound art and installations. This exhibition can also be interpreted as a 'sample' of Galerie Fortlaan 17.

'ONE of a kind'
with
Jacques Charlier - Christoph De Boeck - Jan Willem Deiman - Stief Desmet - Gloria Friedmann - Manor Grunewald - Aernoudt Jacobs - Tom Kok - Joey Kötting - Christopher Le Brun - Lawrence Malstaf - Bruce McLean - Pieter Laurens Mol - Hermann Nitsch - Eva Schlegel - Kiki Smith - Erica Svec - Günter Tuzina - Lotte Van den Audenaeren - Jan Verbruggen - Zachary Wollard

Galerie Fortlaan 17 is open:
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday: 14:00 - 18:00 and
Saturday: 12:00 - 18:00