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The Big Escape
Peggy Wauters
2015
HC with replacable cover images / 170 pages / 34 x 25,5 cm
Published by
MER. Paper Kunsthalle with Zebrastraat Gent
Language
EN / NL / FR
Author
Inge Braeckman
Design
Studio Luc Derycke
Print
Lannoo, Tielt
ISBN
978 94 9177 574 1
Price
45.00 euros
Peggy Wauters (°1968, Aalst) once stated that she paints quicker than she talks about things. For her, painting is like language, like speech, a way of thinking. The exhibition The Big Escape, for which this publication came out, gathers Wauters’ work from the past ten years, comprising small (sometimes not even bigger than 4,5 x 4,5 cm) and larger paintings, drawings, collages and sculptures. Striking is the almost serene and obvious manner in which she demonstrates the soft cruelty of daily life through everyday situations and scenes. In a kaleidoscopic way, Wauters’ work provides alternative contents for banal situations, creating alienations of the things that move and shake us. The sublime and the abject are naturally and subtly intertwined. Her works are riddled with humour. This publication has a foreword by Alain Liedts and is accompanied by a text and a poem by Inge Braeckman.
