Jan Lauwers presents “The Archives of Saul J. Waner”
In ‘The Archives of Saul J. Waner’, an anagram of Jan Lauwers, the artist tells in watercolours, photos and sculptures of his young man’s quest for his mother, Mickey Venus, a woman he had never known and whom, obsessed by her absence, he took as his muse. Her existence was only revealed after his father’s death in 2002. On his deathbed, his father told him that he had been conceived in a small nomad’s tent in the Far North. After his death he found three small photos of this tent in his father’s house in Hoboken:
They had been mounted in a secret family album. The caption said:
‘1956, August. I have never experienced such a sultry night. The Laps are the heartiest of people. While they spent the night amongst their reindeer, I was making wonderful love with Mickey Venus in this smoke-permeated tent. If a child is born as a result, we shall call him Saul, said Mickey. After Paul, before God struck him down.’
By coincidence, the name Saul can be made from the letters in Jan Lauwers’ name. And this is how his alter ego, Saul J. Waner, was born.
For this exhibition the focus will lay on Last Guitar Monster.
Jan Lauwers
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1957 geboren in Antwerpen, lebt und arbeitet in Brüssel
AUSBILDUNG I EDUCATION
1976-1980 Studium der Malerei an der Kunstakademie, Gent
TÄTIGKEITEN I ACTIVITIES
1979 Gründung des Epigonenensembles
1981 Umwandlung in das Kollektiv Epigonentheater zlv
1985 Gründung der Needcompany
ARBEITEN | WORKS
1993-1997 The House of the Fisherman
1997-2002 Hong Kong Room
2002 No beauty for me there, where human life is rare (Installation)
2002-2006 The Paradise of Camel Leon
2003 C-Song (Video)
2005-2006 A12-cycle, den Boomsesteenweg
2006 Untitled Construction including The Moustache of Duchamp (video-work 1997)
(Video-installation)
2006 The Draughtsman's Room
2007 Deconstruction (Installation)
2009 The House of Our Fathers (Installation in development)
EINZELAUSSTELLUNGEN I SOLO EXHIBITONS
2007 RESTLESSNESS, Jan Lauwers, PSK/PBA Brussels
GRUPPENAUSSTELLUNGEN I GROUP EXHIBITONS
2002 Grimbergen 2002
2004 Grasduinen 2004, SMAK-aan-zee, Bredene
2006 DARK, Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
2009 Down to Earth, Strombeek cultural centre
2009 curated by_vienna 09, From Europe to Asia and back, again. Living in a suitcase
THEATERVORFÜHRUNGEN I PERFORMANCES
1997 Caligula, No Beauty for me there where human life is rare, part one, Documenta X,
Kassel
2006 O.H.N.O.P.O.P.I.C.O.N.O., Temps d'Images, Paris
2007 DECONSTRUCTION, PSK, Brussels
2007 DECONSTRUCTION, Haus der Kunst, Munich
LITERATURVERZEICHNIS I BIBLIOGRAPHY
1998 The Lucidity of the Obscene, Needcompany in cooperation with IT&FB publishing
company, Vanden Abeele, Maarten (Brussels/Amsterdam)
2006 DWB 06 4 - Literary Magazine (Dutch) - Texts from & about Jan Lauwers, a
separate quire (16 pages) is available: Polaroids: 'The Paradise of the Camel Leon'
2007 No beauty for me there, where human life is rare. On Jan Lauwers' theatre work
with Needcompany, Stalpaert, Christel, Bousset, Sigrid, Le Roy, Frederik,
Academia Press (Ghent), IT&FB publishing company (Amsterdam)
2007 RESTLESSNESS, Jan Lauwers, Brussels, by fonds Mercator, Bozar Books &
Needcompany, 176 p., English (ISBN 978 90 6153 730 4), French (ISBN 978 90
6153 768 7) |
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