Distinctive for Gowara Minsa’s woodcuts, drawings, cut outs, etchings and sporadic paintings are the intuitive drawing of creatures between man and animal, and a meaning that develops during the artistic process. There’s something (German) expressionist about her work, but you will also find influences of the naive Art Brut or outsider artist David Shrigley and his irony.
Gowara Minsa‘s horror vacui world is populated with inbetween-creatures: they evolve from raw lines, consist of grotesque hands and facial expressions and create impressions in word and image. The woodcut itself gets more plasticity: with a laser cutter, Gowara Minsa cuts hands, feet or silhouettes that she works on in a rather brutal way, creating a friction between precision and spontaneity.
During her residency at Frans Masereel Centrum, Gowara Minsa is deepening her research on the influence of the background on the final print. You are very welcome to have a look at the result during the DOCU-PRESS 3 Gowara Minsa from August 28th to September 26th at Frans Masereel Centrum.
DOCU-PRESS
For the first time in its history, Frans Masereel Centrum invites artists to reside at the centre and make new work in the workshop. During the stay the experiment is central. The artist is being challenged to critically interrogate the printing techniques and place them in relation to his/her own artistic work. It’s a concrete research into the value of graphic techniques for the artistic process, and into the possibilities offered by new printing techniques to translate content-related and thematical questions.
DOCU-PRESS has an explicit documentary nature. The presentation shows the different layers of the creation process and connects different art disciplines. This review on a residency shows what the graphic techniques mean to the artist, and what impulses they can give to an artistic oeuvre. After Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven and Jan Kempenaers we welcome Gowara Minsa.
Opening Thursday 28/08 – 7.30 to 10 PM
Open Mon-Fri, 9 AM to 5 PM
Distinctive for Gowara Minsa’s woodcuts, drawings, cut outs, etchings and sporadic paintings are the intuitive drawing of creatures between man and animal, and a meaning that develops during the artistic process. There’s something (German) expressionist about her work, but you will also find influences of the naive Art Brut or outsider artist David Shrigley and his irony.
Gowara Minsa‘s horror vacui world is populated with inbetween-creatures: they evolve from raw lines, consist of grotesque hands and facial expressions and create impressions in word and image. The woodcut itself gets more plasticity: with a laser cutter, Gowara Minsa cuts hands, feet or silhouettes that she works on in a rather brutal way, creating a friction between precision and spontaneity.
During her residency at Frans Masereel Centrum, Gowara Minsa is deepening her research on the influence of the background on the final print. You are very welcome to have a look at the result during the DOCU-PRESS 3 Gowara Minsa from August 28th to September 26th at Frans Masereel Centrum.
DOCU-PRESS
For the first time in its history, Frans Masereel Centrum invites artists to reside at the centre and make new work in the workshop. During the stay the experiment is central. The artist is being challenged to critically interrogate the printing techniques and place them in relation to his/her own artistic work. It’s a concrete research into the value of graphic techniques for the artistic process, and into the possibilities offered by new printing techniques to translate content-related and thematical questions.
DOCU-PRESS has an explicit documentary nature. The presentation shows the different layers of the creation process and connects different art disciplines. This review on a residency shows what the graphic techniques mean to the artist, and what impulses they can give to an artistic oeuvre. After Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven and Jan Kempenaers we welcome Gowara Minsa.
Opening Thursday 28/08 – 7.30 to 10 PM
Open Mon-Fri, 9 AM to 5 PM
