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Wonder Festival – van 16 oktober tot 2 november 2025
Hi, Lo-Tek
In the past century human innovation has witnessed a materials revolution. As a result, the daily objects and materials we interact with today would be unrecognizable to those living during the First World War. The introduction of computer aided design has further pushed our shared experience of objects towards new aesthetics. In response to this swift evolution of our visual and tactile experience, Frock Gallery has curated, “Hi, Lo-Tek.” A contemporary art exhibition featuring artists using low-tech processes to produce innovative results and others using High-tech materials and processes to produce novelty works.
American photographer, Betsy Green is an artist working with a camera. Examining her work from that perspective is essential. Her photographic, yet dissonant images carry distinctly the qualities of the lens and camera housing as if it were a theater for the viewer. The trees and landscapes, for which she has such affection, branch out to the edges of the film as if projected on the wall like a camera obscura. Her photographs are an invitation to take a ride in her nineteenth-century field camera and experience the magical sublime of nature as perceived by the artist. Betsy has experimented with analog film and traveled the world for more than thirty years in search of her extraordinary subjects and processes.
Ypres artist, Nancy Demeester’s design background informs her art-making process. She uses magazine clippings as imagery fodder to create collages. The collage compositions serve as drawings for the final acrylic construction. The collages have all the nit and grit from the printed material, glue, and textures of photographed objects creating a busy, juxtaposition of subject material. Whereas, the final acrylic construction resembles the composition, but exists as a true abstraction of the first artwork. The final work showcases the pure essence and the elemental beauty of the drawing.
Ypres sculptor, Palieter Hillewaere’s art works are an interesting combination of old-world and new-world technology. He uses computer software to workout the design of his ideas then materializes the work using CNC technologies. Along the way his creative process will revert to traditional blacksmithing techniques for the final execution of the work. The result is an intriguing 3D aesthetic that combines solid steel with the appearance of an ephemeral lightness. Palieter’s artworks look as whimsically placed in the environment as a leaf fallen from a tree, but upon further investigation the viewer will ironically come to realize they are quite heavy, solid and stable.
American photographer, Betsy Green is an artist working with a camera. Examining her work from that perspective is essential. Her photographic, yet dissonant images carry distinctly the qualities of the lens and camera housing as if it were a theater for the viewer. The trees and landscapes, for which she has such affection, branch out to the edges of the film as if projected on the wall like a camera obscura. Her photographs are an invitation to take a ride in her nineteenth-century field camera and experience the magical sublime of nature as perceived by the artist. Betsy has experimented with analog film and traveled the world for more than thirty years in search of her extraordinary subjects and processes.
Ypres artist, Nancy Demeester’s design background informs her art-making process. She uses magazine clippings as imagery fodder to create collages. The collage compositions serve as drawings for the final acrylic construction. The collages have all the nit and grit from the printed material, glue, and textures of photographed objects creating a busy, juxtaposition of subject material. Whereas, the final acrylic construction resembles the composition, but exists as a true abstraction of the first artwork. The final work showcases the pure essence and the elemental beauty of the drawing.
Ypres sculptor, Palieter Hillewaere’s art works are an interesting combination of old-world and new-world technology. He uses computer software to workout the design of his ideas then materializes the work using CNC technologies. Along the way his creative process will revert to traditional blacksmithing techniques for the final execution of the work. The result is an intriguing 3D aesthetic that combines solid steel with the appearance of an ephemeral lightness. Palieter’s artworks look as whimsically placed in the environment as a leaf fallen from a tree, but upon further investigation the viewer will ironically come to realize they are quite heavy, solid and stable.