Artists only

Artists only is a duo show featuring works by Dutch artist Marc Nagtzaam and Belgian Koenraad Dedobbeleer. The exhibition is a get together, a sort of exercise of improvisation, far from fitting in any preestablished defined concept. The exhibition’s title comes from a Talking Heads song of 1978. In a recent presentation-performance that Dedobbeleer gave in Paris he played a few songs, Artists only among them. An excellent pick that seems appropriate to give title to a show where “only” the artists work is at play.

From one work to the next, across this bold and somehow eccentric juxtaposition of Dedobbeleer’s and Nagtzaam’s dissimilar universes, a special context is created in which both artists let the works have a conversation with no definite purpose. There may be a connection, an inner logic running from one work to the other, through multiple links and crossed relationships, but one that is not intended to be conclusive. The final interpretation is left to us.