"Jacques Charlier: Art foREVER".CASINO-LUXEMBOURG Born in 1939 in Liege liege In European feudal society, an unconditional bond between a man and his overlord. Thus, if a tenant held estates from various overlords, his obligations to his liege lord, to whom he had paid “liege homage,” were greater than his obligations to the other , Belgium, Jacques Charlier is a sedentary sedentary /sed·en·tary/ (sed´en-tar?e) 1. sitting habitually; of inactive habits. 2. pertaining to a sitting posture. sedentary of inactive habits; pertaining to a fat, castrated or confined animal. artist, showing mostly in his own country. This first retrospective, which brings together some sixty pieces, pays overdue homage to a body of work that knows few limits on form (painting, music, assemblage, photography, Super 8 film, performance). Indeed, Charlier's La surface de l'art, a work realized in 1997 by cleaning a rectangular patch of the Casino's facade (making it look as if a painting had just been removed), suggests a devotion to satirical sa·tir·i·cal or sa·tir·ic adj. Of, relating to, or characterized by satire. See Synonyms at sarcastic. sa·tir  i·cal·ly adv. explorations of the ways in which images accrue meaning - putting him squarely in the tradition of compatriot com·pa·tri·ot n. 1. A person from one's own country. 2. A colleague. [French compatriote, from Late Latin compatri Marcel Broodthaers, with whom he rubbed elbows in the late '60s. Oct. 23, 1999-Jan. 5, 2000. Translated from French by Jeanine Herman. |
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