Simon Laureyns

He was born in Belgium, in 1979. He lives and works in Ghent.

His most significant solo exhibitions include Early Bird (2022, Geukens & De Vil Gallery, Antwerp), Sunbathing in the mud (2021, A+B Gallery, Brescia) Fontaines (2021, Galerie Alber, Cologne) Rover (2019, Galerie Gerome Pauchant, Paris) Skinny Dipping (2018, A+B Gallery, Brescia), Six Milions Ways To Die (2017, A+B Gallery, Brescia), Bellos Horizontes (2015, LE CABANON/VOSSELARE PUT, Deinze), Cover up the grey (2014, ROSSI CONTEMPORARY, Bruxelles). Among his group exhibitions: De Deur Op Een Kier (2021, Backyard space, Otegem), Fools from the same Kingdoms (2019, duo show at Barbé Urbain Gallery, Ghent) One day Art Project (2019, group show, Salon Blanc, Oostend, BE), Neightbours vol.8 (2019, group show, Riot Gallery, Ghent), Neighbours – vol. VII (2018, Jean Colle Gallery The Gathering, at Panthera Studio, Brussels), What about the color pink, do you like pink? (2017, GEUKEND & DE VIL gallery, Knokke, BE), Slash (2016, A+B Gallery, Brescia, curated by Gabriele Tosi)

A+B Solo show:

2021, Sunbathing in the mud

2018, Skinny Dipping

2017, Six Milions Ways To Die

Group show:

2015, Even A Birch Can Be Real

2016, Slash

The practice in the studio and practice of the world are moments that remain distinct, but that influence incessantly. A relationship that is also the one between the artist and the definition of a space for the image. This manifests itself in Simon Laureyns works. The artist maps the places for poster advertising in the city of Ghent, where he lives, by controlling the recycling of posters. Once they are layered enough, Laureyns waiting for the rain to disconnect a single mass, roll them and take them in the studio. In the closed materials are compounds, mounted on canvas and then stretched in a frame. The exposure of the back, made of glue on the billboard blue, as if it were a complaint made by a silent rebellion against the condensing uniqueness of advertising images, opens a space open and manifold. Here the perception meets a vent field of its mnemonic potential, visual and imaginative.