Quickbird, du nom d’un satellite d’observation terrestre, reprend les images recomposées par ordinateur d’une artère où battent les vaines préoccupations humaines. Cette pièce présentée verticalement renvoie à cette distanciation d’un œil sans regard sur nos déplacements rapides, tournant sur l’orbite orientée Nord-Sud de Quickbird. Les traces de coups de rouleau sont les balayages successifs et superposés de l’appareil photo faisant le tour de notre terre.
Guillaume Hoedt - Artiste
Originally from Belgium, Guillaume Hoedt studied engraving with Xavier Michel and Thomas Amerlynck at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels. This choice gave rise to a privileged commitment in this practice, which allowed him to work in particular within the Cabinet des Estampes of the Royal Library of Belgium as a printer and guide. In addition to exhibitions, he is currently trying to transmit the need for creation through workshops within the Chamber of Art and Culture.
Following questions about the contemporary economic and geopolitical world, Guillaume Hoedt has been working on the geographical territory and architecture using Google Earth’s satellite images since 2013. By drawing attention to the urbanization of land, to the ghettos, to the gentrification and concreting of natural spaces, he explores at the same time all the plasticity that these territories can offer.
This interest came from the desire to understand the issues of the contemporary world that marks the ground and the horizon. Perhaps it is thanks to the mix of typical chaotic construction sites in the Belgian capital. Anyway, this question of «urban plasticity» he explores it in the thickness of the support but also on the ground.
Finally, the broad political question that underpins this approach is: what right do we have to delineate and take possession of the land outside our needs?
Education
2009 - 2015
Study in plastic, visual and space arts, engraving option
2017 - 2018
Aggregation of upper secondary education in plastic art
Awards
2019
Selection for the Médiatine competition, 1 allée Pierre Levie - 1200 Brussels
2018
"Promenade au Sud" laureates at the Nismes Cultural Center
Solo exhibitions
2019
Personal exhibition "Geoplastique" The Chamber of Art and Culture, 11 rue Marcq 1000 Brussels
Group exhibition
2019
"Wireless" exhibition Galerie Lin, 6 rue de la Fourche 1000 Brussels
Exhibition "Trait d’Union, Galerie Trait d’Union, 17 rue Thiers Givet (France)
2018
Post-Printed Exhibition Center for Engraving and Printed Image, La Louvière
Beloeil artist path
2017
“Daring to engrave” exhibition with Gustave Marchoul and Omer Resic, Galerie des Collines
Exhibition at the Kabinet d'Estampes # 2 "Yellow Bridge", Brussels
2016
Exhibition "Promenade au Sud" at the cultural center of Nismes
"Ariadne's Thread" exhibition: Woluwe St Pierre cultural center
2015
"The off-peak hours" exhibition, Espace Voltaire, Brussels
2014
Cochabamb’Arte research residence # 2 Passage de la Cathédrale, 2500 Cochabamba (Bolivia)
Activity
Currently
Organization of Musical Evenings of the Chamber of Art and Culture ASBL
Decoration, Royal Toone Theatre
2021
Multidisciplinary professor at the Academy of Arts of Woluwe St Pierre 30 Av. Charles Thielemans 1150 Brussels
2018
Educational project "My name is someone: shared resources, from knowledge to imagination" Organized by La Chambre de l'Art et de la Culture with the support of COCOF.
Beloeil artist path
2017
Animator engraving of the Royal Library of Belgium
Printer, chalcography of the Royal Library of Belgium
2016
plastic art course, Ecole des Magnolias, 1020 Brussels
2015
"The off-peak hours" exhibition, Espace Voltaire, Brussels
2014
Printer, chalcography of the Royal Library of Belgium
2012 -2016
Puppeteer, Royal Toone Theatre
Contact Me
0496644076
Administrator of the Chamber of Art and Culture