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BELGIUM / Brussels: Mark Leckey: Lending Enchantment to Vulgar Materials
by Modem
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until Sunday January 11 2015

Wiels
T : +32 (0)2 340 00 50
Av. Van Volxemlaan 354
1190 Brussels
Belgium



Lending Enchantment to Vulgar Materials is the largest exhibition to date of Turner Prize winning artist Mark Leckey. Taking his title from a letter by Guillaume Apollinaire, where he claims that he and the filmmaker Georges Méliès ‘lend enchantment to vulgar materials’, Leckey identifies a similar impulse at the heart of his own practice.

Spread across two floors of WIELS as well as the auditorium, the exhibition features nearly all of the artist’s videos, including his 1999 video of dance hall youth culture, Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore, and others that have been rarely shown, alongside key sculptural works from the last decade, providing a long overdue survey of Leckey’s remarkable oeuvre.
It also features a major new installation, entitled UniAddDumThs, which acts as an ersatz exhibition within the exhibition.

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