Since January 2010, McBride Fine Art has shown portraits of Otto Dix photographed by Hugo Erfurth. Currently, images by Miroslav Tichy may be viewed at The Green Cabinet, our print sales room at Marialei 30 in Antwerp.
December
Wiim de Schamphelaere has been revisiting rural communities in Africa. This is the first solo show of a Belgian photographer, who has dedicated himself to the documentation of the social landscape of the African village.
October
The second slot of the fall season was given to an overview of what has been shown at McBride Fine Art in the past six years.
September
At the gallery, Boy & Erik Stappaerts is installing a condensed version of his Pentagronium, which proclaims to function as an open-source database for artistic design in future industrial production. This project is based on complex virtual structures and contains examples of Stappaert's raw data and practical implementations. Opening reception September 10th, 19:00 at Pourbusstraat.
Bert Danckaert will participate in a group show with three Belgian artists, curated by the reknown Belgian photographer Dirk Braeckman - BEST GENERAL VIEW - opening on Sept. 4th at Kunsthaus Essen in Germany.
April
Mona Breede is exhibiting in St. Petersburg. "Choreographed City" at the Russian Centre of Photography, 03. April - 31. May
The gallery will collaborate with Boy& Erik Stappaerts for a show in September. see: http://www.boy-erik.org
January 2009
Simon Norfolk is showing at two places in the Netherlands: in the context of the Rotterdam Film Festival - work from the "The Spirit of Enquiry" series, while the "Missile Show" has moved on to Amsterdam, to Wieden and Kennedy.
December
Simon Norfolk's FULL SPECTRUM DOMINACE: MISSILES, ROCKETS, SATELLITES IN AMERICA will showing until January 24th. On January 29th the Belgian Photographer and art critique Bert Danckaert will have a first exhibition in our gallery: SIMPLE PRESENT until March 14th.
September
In exchange for the exhibition of Benjamin Katz in Brussels, CCNOA brought two artists to the gallery: Tilman and Ward Denys. They both approached photography from their particular craft - painting, sculpture and site specific installation. Parallel to the exhibition in the gallery Tilman produced his "House of Colors" for the Antwerp Sculpture Show.
McBride
Fine Art will participate, as the first Belgian gallery, at the Art Beijing
2008, which will take place at the National Agricultural Exhibition Centre from
September 6th to 9th
, Booth A8. (see:www.artbeijing.net).
McBride Fine Art will bring photographers, as Simon Norfolk (UK), who has made the most formative of all human endeavors - warfare - the topic of his analysis.
Also
on show are rare Dye-transfers by the German artist Thomas Gruenfeld (best know for his “Misfits” Series) depict
apparent classical nude photography. The portfolio is conceptual in spirit and
as such, a reference to the work of the Italian designer and architect Carlo
Molino.
Deeply
steeped in the Basel school of graphic design, the work of Dirk Broemmel takes on everyday large objects - such as a s h i p, or a t r e e, which eventually resurface, de-contexualized, reformatted
and surprisingly intelligible on di-bond and behind acrylic glass.
A
full-fledged discovery of 2008 has been the color-photography of the Singapore
born, Brussels based, Michael Chia.
His work is decidedly upbeat and has already been extremely well received by
European collectors.
A mood apart lies in the photography of Thomas Thys, which dwells on the presence of surrealist twists and turns, typical for a specifically Belgian perception - with a universal appeal.
Aug. 2008 - The gallery has moved to a new location at Pourbusstraat 3b, 2000 Antwerp more central to the Antwerp museums and a cluster of galleries in the South of the city.
July 2008 - In the context of the Brussels Summer of Photography the Center for Contemporary and Nonobjective Art -CCNOA invited MCBRIDE FINE ART to present work of the German/Belgian Photographer BENJAMIN KATZ in the confines of their exhibition space.
Past exhibitions have included work by the following artists.
Ø Martin Classen
Ø Claudia Desgranges
Ø Will McBride
Ø Tilman