DiVA Fair 2007 New York

Hans Op de Beeck has for several years been involved in many individual projects and group shows in quick succession. His work has been shown throughout Europe, Asia and the United States. He is currently preparing exhibitions in Seoul (Korea), San Gimignano (Italy), Burgos (Spain), Arizona (USA) and working on large-scale installations for the cities of Leuven (Belgium) and Towada (Japan).

"The Stewarts" are a fictitious and carefully cast family. The various family members appear and disappear in an abstract, empty white room, like life-sized marionettes dressed in white. As is customary in a sub-genre of conventionalized theater, they are manipulated by puppeteers dressed in black; in this case by the set entourage consisting of production assistants, a makeup girl and a hair stylist. The family members are moved to spots in the space and tidied up for their performance. Then the puppeteers/assistants fasten balloons to the family members and place cardboard party hats on their heads. All of this takes place calmly and in complete silence, with no emotion visible on any of their faces.

The Stewarts have a party, 2006
Dig. Beta - colour and sound
4'19"

Edition: 10 + 2AP
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About the Gallery :

Video works, interactive installations, wilful photographs and paintings: RONMANDOS presents current developments in expressive art and design. In every exhibition RONMANDOS is looking for a steady or just excited combination, where artists in a way are in proportion with the spaces of the gallery. Site-specific installations in combination with two-dimensional work.