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Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys : objects as friends.
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ISBN: 9783863352196 Year: 2013 Publisher: Köln Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König

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Potpourri.
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ISBN: 9076222169 Year: 2002 Publisher: Antwerpen Middelheimmuseum


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Optimundus : Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys.
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ISBN: 9783943365535 3943365530 Year: 2013 Publisher: Berlin Sternberg


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Jos De Gruyter & Harald Thys : i piccoli pupazzi sporchi di pruppà
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ISBN: 9788867492824 Year: 2017 Publisher: Milan Mousse Publishing

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"Sant'Andrea De Scaphis, Roma, November 21 - December 19, 2015."


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Jos De Gruyter & Harald Thys : 30 Jahre Kunst : Verkaufskatalog
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ISBN: 9789491843891 9491843893 Year: 2017 Volume: 2017-2 Publisher: Amsterdam Roma Publications

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The artists Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys have been collaborating for 30 years. Together, they continue to spawn a legion of videos, drawings, sculptures, installations, performances, and photographs. These materials offer the artists vehicles, which they populate with humans and their stand-ins - stupefied family members, hysterical puppets, anthropomorphized objects. Some of these characters are friends, or intermediaries that serve in their place. Others are the derelict occupants of a 'parallel world' that goes unrecognized by most, despite its being inexorably entangled with the world most of us identify. Sometimes their work is perplexing, but the hushed laughter it elicits is tuned to a rather dark station. After all, or overall, the artists wallow in the most depressing of cultural trenches, in the most vile historical quagmires and, when they emerge indelibly soiled in the moribund and strange aspects of humanity, its absurd technological prosthetics, ist endless neuroses and traumas they wring it out and give it a frozen form, a more appropriately awkward posture.


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Mondo cane
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ISBN: 9789462300033 9789061536673 9462300038 9061536677 9780300247749 Year: 2019 Publisher: Brussel Fonds Mercator/Mercatorfonds

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The publication MONDO CANE is being released to coincide with Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys eponymous exhibition for the Belgian Pavilion of the 58th Venice Biennale. MONDO CANE works as a compilation of articles reporting various facts and events about the world that surrounds us. Each article comprises a descriptive text and one or more illustrations. The book is, from the outset, an international publication. The texts appear, at random, in Dutch, English, French, German and Italian. The tone adopted for the articles and drawings is informative, non-spectacular and monotonous. De Gruyter and Thys have a habit of distilling fictions from a reality that can sometimes be too real. They happily claim to be attracted to the state of psychosis in contemporary society, while at the same time dreading it and disseminating it through their creations. Without ever descending into cynicism or morality, the artist duo manages-with skill, and not without humour-in transforming what looks like fear or a state of latency into an uncanny and critical reality that goes beyond the status quo.

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