<a href="<?php echo $artist->artist_image_extra_large->url ?>">
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André, master of the subtle romance of the everyday, distills only what is essential—still lifes, nuances, spaces, the rhythm of voices—to obliquely portray the personal essence of the women and convey the intimacy between the artist and her female subjects.', 'long_desc' => 'In <i>Galerie de portraits,</i> André sketches the portraits of five women from among her closest friends and family (including her grandmother and daughter), composing an intimate, intensely private space. Her eloquent compositions focus on the quotidian, the richness inherent in such everyday gestures as watering a plant, lighting a cigarette, stirring a cup of tea. A "portrait" of a woman is drawn from a corner of her room, the objects on her table, or the view onto which she gazes from a window. 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In her formal, rhythmic compositions, André observes the intimate detail and familiar gestures of the everyday with striking visual acuity.', 'long_desc' => 'A woman, a man, and a beach on the North Sea are the basic elements with which André constructs an elegant fiction of a couple, and deconstructs the codes and gestures of desire and betrayal. In her formal, rhythmic compositions, André observes the intimate detail and familiar gestures of the everyday with striking visual acuity. Under her focused gaze, the "story" of the relationship is told through the quotidian context and the peripheral details of the scene: the waves, the striped beach chairs, the woman undressing and dressing become charged with an intensity of mood and meaning, time and place. The conversation between the man and woman is seen but not heard — their dialogue appears as subtitles; the unspoken becomes the text. 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Over a period of six months, André recorded De Keersmaeker's dance group, Rosas, as members rehearsed and developed the piece "Elena's Aria," in which ordinary movements are isolated and transformed.', 'long_desc' => 'André's fascination with the eloquence and significance of everyday gestures, particularly those of women, finds its perfect correlative in the postmodern choreography of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. Over a period of six months, André recorded De Keersmaeker's dance group, Rosas, as members rehearsed and developed the piece "Elena's Aria," in which ordinary movements are isolated and transformed. In <i>Répétitions,</i> André's rhythmically composed interpretation, she observes the intensity and concentration of the female dancers as they repeat a series of precise, gestural movements taken from everyday life: brushing their hair back; crossing their legs; sitting down. Repetition and rehearsal are both the theme and structure of this elegant work, as André documents the progression of the rehearsals and celebrates the process, rather than the final production, of the dance.', 'unique_id' => '845', 'extent' => null, 'distribution_terms_and_usage' => null, 'published' => (int) 1, 'program_category_id' => (int) 0, 'date_created' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {}, 'created_by_eai_user_id' => (int) 6, 'date_modified' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {}, 'modified_by_eai_user_id' => (int) 16110, 'for_distribution' => (int) 1, 'contains_multiple_titles' => (int) 0, 'title_ex_id' => (int) 280, 'running_time_seconds' => (int) 2700, 'language' => null, 'featured' => (int) 0, 'contained_titles' => [[maximum depth reached]], 'title_image_small' => object(App\Model\Entity\UserFile) {}, 'artists' => [ [maximum depth reached] ], 'title_ex' => object(App\Model\Entity\TitleEx) {}, 'media_type' => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}, 'containing_titles' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[new]' => false, '[accessible]' => [ [maximum depth reached] ], '[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[hasErrors]' => false, '[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]], '[repository]' => 'Titles' }, (int) 4 => object(App\Model\Entity\Title) { 'title_id' => (int) 3043, 'slug' => 'un-ange-passe', 'title' => 'Un ange passe', 'subtitle' => null, 'title_translation' => null, 'alternate_title' => null, 'completion_date' => '1985', 'media_type_id' => (int) 207, 'running_time' => '41:05 min', 'color' => 'color', 'sound' => 'sound', 'by_credit' => 'Marie André', 'price_scheme_id' => (int) 4451, 'image_url' => null, 'quicktime_url' => null, 'keywords' => 'Andre Marie Andre abuse relationships labour financial economies social interaction narrative feminist money display intimacy Belgium Belgian French language', 'short_desc' => 'is a vivid observation of the social and sexual economies of prostitution, an indelibly envisioned narrative set in the Veemarkt harbor quarter of Antwerp. André's unique visual stylization and framing devices position the woman's body at the intersection of the harbor's financial, social and sexual economies. The disjunctive narrative and sordid social context call to mind Godard and Fassbinder, but André speaks through her heroine with a distinctly female, and ultimately feminist, voice.', 'long_desc' => '<i>Un ange passe</i> is a vivid observation of the social and sexual economies of prostitution, an indelibly envisioned narrative set in the Veemarkt harbor quarter of Antwerp. André tells the story of the prostitute Anita, who displays herself in a "show window" on the square and engages in a self-deceptive love for her abusive pimp. The everyday intimacies of Anita's world—dressing and undressing, servicing her johns, exchanging money—are vividly set against the masculine milieu of the dock workers and sailors. André's unique visual stylization and framing devices position the woman's body at the intersection of the harbor's financial, social and sexual economies. 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She writes that <i>Evento</i> is "a spectacle of dance filmed within the natural decor of a hangar. [It explores] opposition, the duality of two dancers in a variety of architectural movements that emphasize the dancers' strength...The emotion and fascination of this theatrical work is fictionalized in the transposition of the image."', 'long_desc' => 'André brings her minimal yet elegantly sensual aesthetic to this interpretation of dance for video. She writes that <i>Evento</i> is "a spectacle of dance filmed within the natural decor of a hangar. [It explores] opposition, the duality of two dancers in a variety of architectural movements that emphasize the dancers' strength. The light forms a chiaroscuro in a harmony of sepia and gray colors that are reminiscent of Flemish painters; it enhances and reveals this concrete choreography, physical and austere, so that it retains the mysterious and timeless battle fought by these two men. 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Throughout, Andre is engaged in the subtle act of observation. 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Throughout her videotapes, which merge and transcend genres such as narrative fiction, portrait, documentary, and performance, Belgian artist Marie André is engaged in the subtle act of observation. In elegant works that emphasize the significance of the quotidian, the everyday gesture, and the intimate detail, André suggests a personal dialogue between the artist and her predominantly female subjects.
Employing thematic and formal strategies that are often cinematic, André brings the intimacy of scale and observed detail that is unique to video to her eloquent portraits of the everyday. André's singular mode of vision is both precise and sensual. Her distanced camera, reductive editing, and spare mise en scene create formal compositions that suggest framed paintings, while her impassive gaze and visual acuity reveal the private space and psychological nuances of the women on the screen.
In document or fiction, from the dance of Répétitions (1985) to the social critique of Un ange passe (1985), André observes narratives of desire, romances of the everyday. With minimal but lush images that distill the very essence of her subjects, André's works establish a rich, intimate sense of time, mood and place.
Marie André was born in Brussels in 1951. After studying theater at the Institut National Superior des Arts du Spectacle in Brussels, she attended the Byrd Hoffman Foundation workshop's in New York in 1974. She began working in 35mm film after studying screenwriting at an American Film Institute program in Brussels, and later turned to video. She has created video works with German composer Mauricio Kagel and with Belgo/Mexican choreographer José Besprosvany. She has also made radio pieces which have aired on national European radio channels.
Winner of the Grand Prix from the Festival International d'Art Vidéo de Locarno, she is also the recipient of awards from the Festival of San Sebastian, Spain, and the Minister of French Culture in Brussels. Her videotapes have been broadcast widely in Europe and exhibited internationally at festivals and institutions including the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels; the Center Beaubourg, Paris; The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Long Beach Museum of Art, California; World Wide Video Festival, The Hague; and the International Festival of Video Art, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia. Since 2005, she has been a professor at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Brussels.