Didier Vermeiren
° 1951
Born in Brussels (Belgium).
The work of Belgian artist Didier Vermeiren [°1951] is richly textured and touches upon a broad range of concepts and ideas, but perhaps the one overarching concern in his practice is that of the relationship between pedestal or plinth and sculpture – between the work of art and the institutional conditions of its apparition, that which Jacques Derrida named “the parergon”. In this sense, his work clearly embodies the more intellectualist strand within the eighties’ 'retour à la sculpture'.
Works
>Didier Vermeiren, Bronze 1984, socle du Middelheim supportant l'age d'Airlan, bronze 1876, 1984.Sculpture, bronze.
>Didier Vermeiren, Un bloc de pierre 80 x 80 x 20 cm sur un bloc de polyuréthane 80 x 80 x 20 cm, 1985.Sculpture, stone, polyurethane, 40 x 80 x 80 cm.
>Didier Vermeiren, Untitled, 1985.Sculpture, gypsum, 242 x 43 x 47.5 cm.
>Didier Vermeiren, Untitled, 1985.Sculpture, iron, 167 x 81 x 88 cm.
>Didier Vermeiren, Plâtre 1988, soccle de Musée Rodin, Meudon, supportant Victor Hugo debout, plâtre 1897, 1988.Sculpture, gypsum, 18 x 100 x 140 cm.
>Didier Vermeiren, Untitled, 1992.Sculpture, iron, plaster, 165 x 81 x 89 cm.
Exhibitions & Ensembles
> Exhibition: Collection Summer 1987 — A Selection of Recent Acquisitions. 21 June 1987 - 16 August 1987.
> Exhibition: EXTRA MUROS: Tracés, Similarities and Dissonants — Bie Michiels . 01 March 2012 - 31 March 2012.
> Exhibition: Narcisse Tordoir – The Pink Spy. 13 March 2014 - 25 May 2014.
> Exhibition: The collection XXVIII — If You Shoot a Bullet in a Vacuum, Will It Keep Travelling Forever? (Emily Wardill). 17 June 2011 - 18 September 2011.
> Ensemble: ARCHIEF JEF LAMBRECHT.
> Ensemble: Collectie Vlaamse Gemeenschap.
> Ensemble: De M HKA - Collectie [The M HKA Collection].
> Ensemble: ESTATE JEF LAMBRECHT.
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> Ensemble: M HKA_DEFAULT_WORKS.