LISIER D’ENCRE. DANY DANINO

UNTIL 4 SEPTEMBER 2016

A unique universe where creatures and beings intertwine

Dany Danino, Profil à l'hippocampe, 2013, colour print, ball point pen and felt pen, 40 x 33 cm. Artist’s collection © Atelier de l’imagier.

MUSÉE FÉLICIEN ROPS

Rue Fumal 12
5000 Namur

INFORMATION:

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• Website: www.museerops.be
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• Tuesday and Sunday, 10 am to 6 pm
• Late night openings (until 8 pm), all first Thursdays of the month
• In July and August, open from Monday to Sunday

ADMISSION PRICE:

• Admission: €3
• Reduced rate: €1.50
• School groups: €1
• Under 12, Article 27, 1st Sunday of the month: free
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Valérie Minten
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• valerie.minten@province.namur.be

Over the last 10 years Dany Danino has created a very personal artistic language in which lines, beings and creatures intertwine. It is a unique universe in which motifs, inspired from photographic documents, mix together and repeat themselves in an aesthetic chaos.

Dany Danino was born in 1971, lives and works in Brussels. After studying at the Académie royale des beaux-arts in Brussels, he was artist in residence a number of times in France and in Tournai. The winner of the Jos Albert Prize from the Belgian Académie royale des arts et sciences in 2007, he represented the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles at the Art Fair Brussels in 2013, and he had individual exhibitions in private Belgian galleries and participated in collective exhibitions in Paris, Lyon, Lille, Copenhagen and Venice.

At the end of 2012, Dany Danino exhibited works during the Biennale du dessin contemporain (Contemporary drawing biennial) in Namur and made two works especially for the musée Rops. A number of his works were exhibited in the museum for a number of months. In 2014 he was invited as artist in residence to the Château de Thozée (Mettet), the property of the in-laws of Félicien Rops where the latter invited his friends, contemporary artists, among them Charles Baudelaire. A peace haven and an intimate refuge, it was also here that Rops made his many experiments with engravings.

”The interest Dany Danino has in disorder is rather rare among artists and creators, and it deserves to be mentioned. All major religions, all major systems of philosophy and almost all the major works endeavour to put things in order, to tidy them up, to distribute, classify, organize and arrange them. Yet disorder is probably more prolific than order, and has more to teach us. It is a permanent source of questioning,” Philippe Comar wrote in the preface of the catalogue that accompanies the exhibition.

The museum presents nearly 70 pieces by Dany Danino, mostly engravings. “One of the themes of the exhibition, and of my work, is the idea of recovering, of superimposing forms and motifs, of letting them stagnate in their own repetition and in their mutual contaminations. In order to create organic magmas,” Dany Danino explains.

• Catalogue: 96 pages, 70 illustrations. Edition: Province de Namur.