Dirk Braeckman was born in 1958 in Eeklo, Belgium. Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Eeklo is a Belgian municipality in the Flemish province of East Flanders. The Kingdom of Belgium is a Country in northwest Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts its headquarters as well as those He lives and works in Ghent, Belgium. Ghent (ˈɡɛnt Gent ʝɛnt in Dutch, Gand in French, and formerly Gaunt in English) is a City and a The Kingdom of Belgium is a Country in northwest Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts its headquarters as well as those
Braeckman started his artistic career as a photographer of portraits and self-portraits. A photographer is a person who takes a Photograph using a Camera. A portrait is a painting, photograph, Sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person in which the face and its expression is predominant Later, he chose subjects of abandoned spaces and deserted rooms, body parts, surfaces of desks, walls, beds, etc for his black-and-white photos. Fragments are enlarged and take up the dimension of an all-embracing still life. With vague contours, the enlarged detail aims at catching a pure and essential, universal and anonymous image. By direct attention for the detail, the minuscule is elevated to auratic dimensions of the icon. The pictures are diaphanous yet suggestive: one recognises a personal narrative behind the large, unframed, black and white, but mainly grey photos.
Braeckman had a solo exhibition “z. Z(t)” at SMAK, Ghent in 2001. The Royal Family of Belgium commissioned the artist in 2002 for a permanent installation in the Sphinx Room of the palace in Brussels. He exposed work at “Beaufort 2003: Triënnale voor Hedendaagse Kunst aan Zee” at PMMK in Oostende. In 2004, Braeckman had a solo exhibition at de Pont Foundation in Tilburg. In 2006 his work was included in the group show 'clickdoubleclick', which travelled to Munich (DE) and Brussels, and in 'DARK' at Boijmans Van Beuningen museum in Rotterdam (NL).
External links
- Artist's website
- Zeno X Gallery - Dirk Braeckman images, biography and cv
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