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Sculpture, French --- Verboom, Marion. --- Deacon, Richard, --- Dessauvage, Tjok --- Laurens, Henri, --- Lucas-Gary, Amélie, --- Maris, Maude --- touche-touche --- Vernerey, Chloé

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At La Verrière, the start of 2024 is marked by a selection of elaborate compositions that playfully unbalance visitors through assemblages of fragile materials, which incorporate organic elements here and there. Joël Riff describes these works by Koenraad Dedobbeleer, a Belgian artist born in 1975 in Halle to the south of Brussels, as akin to "panoplies of objects". This art of assemblage is extended through the presence of "a constellation of signatures, a European compendium that Dedobbeleer has organised to freely articulate his own objects". Indeed, this exhibition brings together some twenty creators from a range of backgrounds. Their pieces draw on Koenraad Dedobbeleer's unique recipes and interact with his hybrid creations, painting a portrait of an artist sensitive at once to particular motifs and modernist rigour. Dedobbeleer's studio is a kitchen in the noblest sense of the word, one open to all influences that nourish a daily practice and cultivate a particular artistic curiosity. It serves up a joyful relationship with the world that is reflected in the title of the exhibition, "Emi e dames messeur", a phrase borrowed from an old shop sign that breathes poetry into his weekly routine.