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BELGIUM / Hornu: Peter Downsbrough
by Modem
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until Sunday January 08 2017

Grand-Hornu Images
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Rue Sainte-Louise, 82
7301 Hornu
Belgium



In collaboration with the SMAK of Ghent, the Museum is organising a travelling exhibition of the numerous postcards - nearly 400 listed - which Peter Downsbrough has been creating since the 1980s, and of which nearly 250 have been sent to friends or acquaintances.

The creation process is simple: on existing tourist postcards, linked to sites which are often towns, the American artist places straight lines and letters, sometimes cut or reversed, using a Letraset type dry transfer sheet, so that our perception, our identification and our reading of the space are changed.

This exhibition, which will also include an installation of the artist created specifically for the Grand-Hornu, and which will be held at the same time in the two Belgian Museums, will be accompanied by a book dedicated to this particular, and less well-known, aspect of his work, near the Mail Art.

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