SECOND FLOOR CHOIR

He was born in Ghent and studied at the Rijksnormaalschool there under Octave Landuyt. In 1962 he was awarded the Belgian Young Painter Prize and in 1963 the Godecharle Foundation Prize. Always attentive to the Flemish tradition, his work exists between figurative and abstract: landscapes, still lifes and portraits. In 1984 the artist represented Belgium at the Venice Biennale. From 1995 onwards, he collaborated with the German gallery Hachmeister, and attended important international fairs (Cologne, Basel). Dierickx was a guest lecturer at the Kanazawa School of Art (Japan) and a member of the Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten. From the 1970s until his retirement in 1999, he taught at the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten van Gent (Wim Delvoye, Yves Beaumont, Marc Maet and Philipp Vandenberg were his students). In 1985 he exhibited at the International Cultural Centre in Antwerp and in 1988 at the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (Ghent), as well as at the Hachmeister, Lelong and Arteba galleries (Zurich), and the Roberto Polo Gallery (Brussels). Ergo Pers published Leonard Nolens’ Negen schlaploze gedichten (Nine Sleepless Poems) with five etchings by Dierickx in 2006, and Giotto’s himel (Giotto’sSky) in 2012, a book of poems by Stefan Hertmans with engravings done by the artist. In 2014 after his death, a tribute exhibition was organised at the Roger Raveel Museum (Mechelen). His work can be found at the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique (Brussels), the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (Ghent) and the LWL (Münster).

Born in Boston, Massachusetts. At the age of 19, Turbeville travelled to New York with the hopes of becoming a dancer or an actress, but she met designer Claire McCardell and started collaborating with her. In 1963 she worked as a fashion editor for the first time at Harper’s Bazaar magazine. The artist began doing photography by chance but managed to transform it into avant-garde art; she switched from catwalks and advertising to art galleries. Known for her blurred technique, Turbeville created the surprising Bath House series(Vogue, 1975), where the models appear in bathing suits in a public toilet, blurred and languid. In 1978 the artist published in that same magazine the images titled Women in the Woods, the result of a commission for Valentino, a fashion designer for whom she was advertised the spring-summer 2012 collection in Mexico. Brands such as Chanel, Oscar de la Renta, Ungaro, Yamamoto and Comme des Garçons requested her for their campaigns. In 2007 she travelled around Europe, taking snapshots of peculiar people and places.

Twins born in Cap-Haïtien, Haiti. They started working with wood at the age of 15, in a cabinetmaking workshop in their hometown. A growing interest in this material led them to the Professional School of Cap-Haïtien, where they worked on ornamental pieces that brought them closer to sculpture. In order to dedicate themselves fully to it, they completed a course on Artistic Anatomy by correspondence, which taught how to use prints in the form of illustrated descriptions. Together, the brothers created works that have prompted some to say: “All they lack is speech.” The exact procedures they used are unknown, but it is very likely that they worked with live models and made preliminary sketches. Having only Haitian models, they naturally created Haitian images. On the other hand, they preferred not to be intuitive sculptors and chose forms more in line with academic practices. In their case, their style did not evolve. Their sculptures could be described as “classical” due to the search for harmony in proportions, along with their decision to show the figures in natural poses. They also have a “typical” facet that would link them to Indigenism in painting.

Born in New York, the artist studied at the Art Students League with Alexander Brook and Yasuo Kuniyoshi. In 1936 she entered the Honolulu Academy of Fine Arts and married the British art lover John Elliott, taking his surname. Her first realistic paintings show the influence of the Ashcan School, which represented everyday urban life. Ronnie then turned to collage, which would earn her the greatest recognition. In 1937 she held her first solo exhibition at the Delphic Gallery. Ronnie made contact with outstanding exiled European artists such as Duchamp, Ernst and Tanguy. In 1945 she participated in The Women (The Art of This Century Gallery, led by Peggy Guggenheim), together with Louise Bourgeois, Leonora Carrington, Lee Krasner, Nell Blaine, Alice Trumbull Mason, etc. In 1948 the painter was the only woman selected for the collage exhibition at MoMA, where her work was exhibited alongside Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, Jean Arp, Georges Braque, Kurt Schwitters, Robert Motherwell, and others. Her work can be found at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Neuberger Museum (New York State).

Born in Arnhem (Holland), his family immediately settled in Amsterdam, where he studied graphic design. In 1979 the artist went to Brussels and he opened a galleryin 1980. Since 1988 Stoeltie has published photographs in many major magazines with his wife, Barbara, an artist and art critic. He worked in interior design in numerous cities while exhibiting photographs and publishing books. In 2013 they opened the Geminal Gallery (Brussels), which moved to Latam-Saint-Martinin 2018.

Born in Hexham (Northumberland, England). Murdoch studied at Chelsea College of Art and Design (London) and at Leeds Metropolitan University. She was Abbey Rome Scholar at the British School in Rome in 2002 and participated in the Independent Studies Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2003–2004. The artist is currently a lecturer at Goldsmith College (London.) Her work deals with gender and pays special attention to the representation of women in modern art, exploring photographic archives that she decodes and reconstructs with her feminist gaze. Murdoch creates collages from photos by creators that have special meaning for her and looks for particular readings, often featuring chromatic anomalies and disarticulated fragments of the body. A review of her work was presented in SOURCE Photographic Review in 2011. In 2016 she presented her project SSS-MM in Haus Konstruktiv (Zurich), which was accompanied by the artist’s book Omnipulsepunslide. In 2017 she was featured in the exhibition of English artists Brexit-Out of the Matrix?(Kunsthalle Palazzo Liestal, Basel).