Gilles Brenta — F.M.R., Brussels, 1989

Exhibition opening handout / folded exhibition brochure
Offset print on cream paper stock with stapled fold construction
Approx. A4 folded format
Language: French
F.M.R., Rue des Tanneurs 108c, 1000 Bruxelles
Exhibition dates: 20–21 May 1989; opening reception 19 May 1989, 19:00
Condition: good vintage condition; visible fold lines, light age toning, handling wear and soft creasing consistent with period exhibition material

Issued for a presentation of drawings by Belgian artist Gilles Brenta at F.M.R., Brussels. The handout combines exhibition information with original line illustrations and an accompanying text, Un songe entre deux notes (“A Dream Between Two Notes”), with a text by Jean Wallenborn. The reverse notes an edition of thirty copies on laid paper signed by the authors.

Gilles Brenta (1943–2017) occupied a somewhat peripheral but interesting position within Belgian postwar painting and drawing. His work frequently moved between caricature, dream logic, and psychologically charged figuration. Surreal distortions and slightly unstable bodies appear repeatedly throughout his work, producing images that sit somewhere between illustration, private mythology, and symbolic narrative.

As an object, the handout behaves somewhere between invitation, pamphlet, and autonomous printed work. The drawings exceed simple documentation. Exhibition information occupies the same surface as image and text without hierarchy. The artist enters circulation in compressed form: title, address, dates, figure, gesture.

A small support from a local Brussels exhibition structure. Not quite catalogue and not exactly invitation. Printed residue retained after the event itself disappeared.

Original period item. Shipping and handling included in listed price.