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Lesley Vance and Ilse Roosens | In Conversation | Xavier Hufkens

In this new video, Lesley Vance discusses the exhibition, "Fired and painted" (23 November 2023—3 February 2024) with curator Ilse Roosens.  “I think what activates Ken Price’s work is gesture. It is that feeling of his hand over different parts of the sculpture. Certainly, that’s a connection I feel with his work — the importance of gesture on something that feels so finished and controlled.” "Fired and painted" brings together a recent series of paintings by Lesley Vance and a group of ceramic sculptures by Ken Price. Two American artists of different generations and disciplines but whose abstract works share a number of affinities. Taking scale as a departure point, Vance has pushed her practice in new directions for this exhibition, her fifth with the gallery. Lesley Vance (b. 1977, Milwaukee, WI, USA) is an abstract painter whose visual language is rooted in her early engagement with still-life painting. Seeking to move beyond the boundaries of representation, Vance departs from entirely invented and improvised forms, which she brings towards the allusion of a physical reality. Working wet-on-wet in concentrated bursts of activity, the artist follows her intuition and allows form and colour to develop their own individual trajectories. From the 1950s onwards, Ken Price (b. 1935, Los Angeles, CA; d. 2012, Taos, NM, USA) committed to clay as a material and was a key figure in the rising Los Angeles art scene. His small-scale brightly coloured ceramic sculptures have been equally inspired by ancient Mexican earthenware, traditional folk pottery and the Bauhaus fusion of crafts and fine arts. Developing high craftsmanship, he handmade very different series of abstract and biomorphic forms imbued with suggestive associations. Ilse Roosens is a cura­tor cur­rent­ly wor­king at Mu.ZEE in Ostend (BE), the muse­um for modern and con­tem­po­ra­ry Belgian art. Post-colo­ni­al, geo­po­li­ti­cal, eco­fe­mi­nist and post-capi­ta­list topics lay the ground­work for her work both insi­de and out­si­de the muse­um. Ilse Roosens ques­ti­ons exis­ting power struc­tu­res and focu­ses on the soci­al res­pon­si­bi­li­ty of insti­tu­ti­ons, govern­ments and artists. Co-author­ship and polypho­ny are focal points of her wor­king ethic. She is acti­ve­ly rethin­king the for­mats for pre­sen­ting col­lec­ti­ons by expe­ri­men­ting with trans­his­to­ri­cal and trans­cul­tu­ral concepts. More on Lesley Vance: https://www.xavierhufkens.com/artists... More on Ken Price: https://www.xavierhufkens.com/artists... More on the exhibition: https://www.xavierhufkens.com/exhibit...