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Belgian artist Virginie Bailly (Brussels 1976) lived and worked for many years in what was then a sparsely populated suburb of Brussels, where the possibilities of the urbanized landscape were still open and uncertain. This area is appropriately named "petit île" and provided the perfect fuel for her already extensive, multidisciplinary oeuvre. In the Vide-Plein series, Bailly analyzes the image almost anatomically. On her cutting table, she fillets photographs of ruins, half-demolished houses, and devastated places. In her very individual way, she dissects the structure of the image so that only the essential remains. With telling brushstrokes, Bailly not only chases the pure essence of the image, but explores the fundamentals of painting: color, composition, paint application, and gesture. In addition to the brushstroke, which is a basic building block, gesture is of primary importance here. Through Bailly's precision, it absorbs all facets of the fundamentals and is like the filtered remnant of heterogeneous perceptions.
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