Axel King

Opening show sunday 28th of september 2008 at 15h, read more after the break

Rodenbach® Award for professional talent

The RODENBACH® FUND presents their 2008 AWARD for contemporary art.

Character ripens with the time.  That's why the RODENBACH® FUND gives Belgian artistic talent the opportunity to develop.  The fund grants several awards every year.  In 2008 special attention will be given to contemporary art.

The jury is presided by Jan Hoet, Director, MartaHerford Museum, Germany. The other jury members in 2008 are ●Stephan Vanfleteren, photographer●Stany Crets, actor●Luc Zeebroeck (Kamagurka), artist, stand-up comedian, comics writer●Willem Elias, art critic and president of  "Hoger Instituut voor Schone Kunsten"●Kris van ’t Hof, coördinator in Situ3 from the "Koninklijke Academie Antwerpen"●Luc Huysman, docent drawing and painting on the Academy of Leuven.

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In 2009, Rhizome will award seven commissions to emerging artists with amounts ranging from 3000-$5000. This year, the scope of the commissions has been expanded from strictly Internet-based art to the broad range of forms and practices that fall under the category of new media art. This includes projects that creatively engage new and networked technologies or reflect on the impact of these tools and media. With this expanded format, commissioned works can take the final form of online works, performance, video, installation or sound art.
Projects can be made for the context of the gallery, the public, the web or networked devices.

Digital Art (Update II) International Biënnale

For the second edition of Update, Update II, the Liedts-Meesen Foundation invited some guest curators, from who, Peter Weibel, director of the renowned center ZKM (‘Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie) in Karlsruhe (Germany). Once again the bridge is made between art and science, but more important, between audience and artwork. It is often the audience who decides on the construction and the content of the artwork. Creativity no longer seems to be the monopoly of the artist.

We are alpha-testing the final Axel King webplatform for the moment with success. Meanwhile we have launched a mini version of the Axel King site with basic info. www.axelking.com

Axel King is a young painter whose works appear to be conceived digitally. When you visit his website (www.axelking.com) it is striking how often he shows images of himself. Axel King, you do not seem to be the shy type.

Belgian brothers Nicolas and Gregory Leroy, aged 28 and 31 respectively, are the innovative duo behind the online artistic enterprise www.leroyplusleroy.com. We hear more about their hometown and the unique concept behind their art.