Hreinn Friðfinnsson
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Saint Jerome
17 January — 22 March 2014
Meessen De Clercq
Brussels / Belgium

Ignasi Aballí, Oliver Beer, Susan Collis, Hreinn Fridfinnsson, Nicolás Lamas, Jorge Méndez Blake, Claudio Parmiggiani, Bruno Perramant, Matthieu Ronsse, Fabrice Samyn, José María Sicilia, Thu Van Tran

Under the simple title Saint Jerome, visitors will discover an exhibition, combining ancient works dating from the 16th century with contemporary works, which has been made possible by private collectors showing a part of their collection: a book from one of them and three oil paintings from the other. Words and images combined. The exhibition introduces three avenues for reflection: on the one hand, Jerome as an intellectual, as the patron saint of translators and librarians; on the other hand, Jerome as a metaphor for the artist who, paradoxically, withdraws from the world in order to think more clearly, and finally an avenue dealing with the components of the iconography of the saint.

Work of Hreinn: ​ ​Traces​, 2014, Frottage on paper, photograph, video, stone, wood, glass, mirror, 3 minutes

Exhibited works: