{"id":4757,"date":"2025-03-22T16:31:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T15:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.galeriebernardbouche.com\/?page_id=4757"},"modified":"2025-03-25T15:38:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T14:38:59","slug":"rui-chafes-bernd-lohaus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.galeriebernardbouche.com\/en\/rui-chafes-bernd-lohaus\/","title":{"rendered":"RUI CHAFES &#8211; BERND LOHAUS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4757\" class=\"elementor elementor-4757\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-965c2cf elementor-section-content-middle elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-items-middle wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-equal-height-no\" data-id=\"965c2cf\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" 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role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\" data-attrid=\"title\">February 6 - March 22, 2025<\/div><div role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\" data-attrid=\"title\">\u00a0<\/div><\/div><div role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\" data-attrid=\"title\"><div><p>The exhibition brings together two artists who did not know each other, Bernd Lohaus and Rui Chafes. The latter discovered the work of his elder following a visit to the Grand Hornu and the reading of a conversation between Bernd Lohaus and Denis Gielen, leading the idea of this small exhibition where important works, sculptures and drawings, of these two artists will be presented. If, at first glance, their work differs, several points nevertheless connect them.<\/p><p>Historically rooted in Fluxus and minimal art, Bernd Lohaus's works are in a way vulnerable. By embracing the found personality of wood, without directly referencing it, his sculptures are imbued with meaning through minimal intervention. Prepositions, nouns, or fragments of sentences sometimes adorn the extremely heavy presence of the ash-colored pieces, providing clues about possible relationships.<br \/>Although heavy and static, the arrangement of Lohaus's sculptures implies a potential for movement: wooden beams are placed in a way that suggests a possible rearrangement. The pieces are not attached to each other, but stacked or placed freely, which adds to their internal tension.\nBien qu\u2019elle soit lourde et statique, la disposition des sculptures de Lohaus implique un potentiel de mouvement : des poutres en bois sont plac\u00e9es d\u2019une mani\u00e8re qui propose un r\u00e9arrangement potentiel. Les pi\u00e8ces ne sont pas attach\u00e9es les unes aux autres, mais empil\u00e9es ou pos\u00e9es librement, ce qui ajoute \u00e0 leur tension interne.<\/p><p>The enigmatic and mysterious sculptures of Rui Chafes are almost always made of iron, painted black, with an extraordinary consistency and rigor that, to paraphrase the artist, are shadows or negatives of a world that traps emptiness, silence in its most absolute form: cocoons, nests, insects, armor, masks, or elements of clothing represent both a memory and a skin that protect and testify to an absent body. In essence, Chafes seeks to reach immateriality and represent the invisible, challenging the limits of iron and the weightless.<\/p><\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div><p>Bernd Lohaus was born in Du\u0308sseldorf in 1940 and passed away in Antwerp in 2010. In 1965, he founded the Wide White Space Gallery in Antwerp with his wife Anny De Decker (until 1976). After starting with Fluxus-style Happenings, he made his international artistic debut in 1969 at the exhibition When Attitudes Become Form by Harald Szeemann at the Kunsthalle in Bern. Lohaus's work has been presented in international institutions, most recently at the Skulpturenhalle Neuss (2019) and at the Palazzo Grassi, Punta Della Dogana, Venice (2020).<\/p><p>Rui Chafes was born in Lisbon in 1966. Between 1990 and 1992, he studied with Gerhard Merz at the Kunstakademie Du\u0308sseldorf in Germany. During this stay, immersed in German culture, he translated Fragments by Novalis into Portuguese. He began an international career early on, representing Portugal at the Venice Biennale (in 1995 with Jose\u0301 Pedro Croft and Pedro Cabrita Reis) and then at the Sa\u0303o Paulo Biennale (in 2004, in a project with dancer and choreographer Vera Mantero). Several of his sculptures are now in important public collections. In 2004, he received the Robert-Jacobsen Sculpture Prize from the Wu\u0308rth Foundation in Germany, the Pessoa Prize in Portugal in 2015, and the AICA Prize in 2021. \u00a0<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-61862cf\" data-id=\"61862cf\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-8ee7023 elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-items-middle wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-equal-height-no\" data-id=\"8ee7023\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7175b18\" data-id=\"7175b18\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f8ea776 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"f8ea776\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-8f8d2a4 elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-equal-height-no\" data-id=\"8f8d2a4\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5c6895a\" data-id=\"5c6895a\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d33d598 elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"d33d598\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-e759a1f elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-equal-height-no\" data-id=\"e759a1f\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-46f22dc\" data-id=\"46f22dc\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c70f00c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c70f00c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>\u00a92022 All rights reserved Galerie Bernard Bouche<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.galeriebernardbouche.com\/en\/mentions-legales\/\">Legal mentions<\/a> &#8211; 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Si, du premier abord, leur travail diff\u00e8re, plusieurs points les relient n\u00e9anmoins. Historiquement ancr\u00e9es dans Fluxus et l\u2019art minimal, les \u0153uvres de Bernd Lohaus sont en quelque sorte vuln\u00e9rables. En embrassant la personnalit\u00e9 trouv\u00e9e du bois, sans y faire directement r\u00e9f\u00e9rence, ses sculptures sont charg\u00e9es de sens gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 une intervention minimale. Des pr\u00e9positions, des noms ou des fragments de phrases inscrits ornent parfois la pr\u00e9sence extr\u00eamement lourde des pi\u00e8ces de couleur cendr\u00e9e, donnant des indices sur les relations possibles.Bien qu\u2019elle soit lourde et statique, la disposition des sculptures de Lohaus implique un potentiel de mouvement : des poutres en bois sont plac\u00e9es d\u2019une mani\u00e8re qui propose un r\u00e9arrangement potentiel. Les pi\u00e8ces ne sont pas attach\u00e9es les unes aux autres, mais empil\u00e9es ou pos\u00e9es librement, ce qui ajoute \u00e0 leur tension interne. Les sculptures \u00e9nigmatiques et myst\u00e9rieuses de Rui Chafes sont presque toujours de fer, peintes en noir, avec une coh\u00e9rence et une rigueur hors du commun qui, pour paraphraser l\u2019artiste, sont des ombres ou n\u00e9gatifs d\u2019un monde qui emprisonne le vide, le silence dans ce qu\u2019il a de plus absolu : cocons, nids, insectes, armures, masques ou \u00e9l\u00e9ments de v\u00eatement repr\u00e9sentent \u00e0 la fois une m\u00e9moire et une peau qui prot\u00e8gent et t\u00e9moignent d\u2019un corps absent. Au fond, Chafes cherche \u00e0 atteindre l\u2019immat\u00e9rialit\u00e9 et \u00e0 repr\u00e9senter l\u2019invisible, en d\u00e9fiant les limites du fer et de l\u2019impond\u00e9rable. \u00a0 Bernd Lohaus est n\u00e9 \u00e0 D\u00fcsseldorf en 1940 et est d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 \u00e0 Anvers en 2010. En 1965, il fonde avec sa femme Anny De Decker la Wide White Space Gallery d\u2019Anvers (jusqu\u2019en 1976). Apr\u00e8s avoir commenc\u00e9 par des Happenings de type Fluxus, il fait ses d\u00e9buts artistiques internationaux en 1969 lors de l\u2019exposition \u00ab When Attitudes Become Form \u00bb de Harald Szeemann \u00e0 la Kunsthalle de Berne. Le travail de Lohaus a \u00e9t\u00e9 pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 dans des institutions internationales, plus r\u00e9cemment \u00e0 la Skulpturenhalle Neuss (2019) et au Palazzo Grassi, Punta Della Dogana, Venise (2020). Rui Chafes est n\u00e9 \u00e0 Lisbonne en 1966. Entre 1990 et 1992, il \u00e9tudie avec Gerhard Merz \u00e0 la Kunstakademie Dusseldorf en Allemagne. Pendant ce s\u00e9jour, impr\u00e9gn\u00e9 de culture Allemande, il traduit en portugais les Fragments de Novalis. Il a tr\u00e8s t\u00f4t d\u00e9but\u00e9 une carri\u00e8re internationale, en repr\u00e9sentant le Portugal \u00e0 la Biennale de Venise (en 1995 avec Jos\u00e9 Pedro Croft et Pedro Cabrita Reis) puis \u00e0 la Biennale de S\u00e3o Paulo (en 2004, dans un projet avec la danseuse et chor\u00e9graphe Vera Mantero). Plusieurs de ses sculptures se trouvent aujourd\u2019hui dans d\u2019importantes collections publiques. Il a re\u00e7u en 2004 le Prix de sculpture Robert-Jacobsen de la Fondation W\u00fcrth en Allemagne et en 2015 le Prix Pessoa au Portugal, puis en 2021 le prix AICA. \u00a0 \u00a92022 All rights reserved Galerie Bernard BoucheMentions l\u00e9gales &#8211; Politique de confidentialit\u00e9<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_canvas","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4757","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galeriebernardbouche.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galeriebernardbouche.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galeriebernardbouche.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galeriebernardbouche.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galeriebernardbouche.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4757"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.galeriebernardbouche.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4810,"href":"https:\/\/www.galeriebernardbouche.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4757\/revisions\/4810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galeriebernardbouche.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}