2018

WORKS FROM THE VAN TUYCKOM — TAETS COLLECTION — BOOK

Building up a collection takes decades and generally begins with a coup de coeur — A Selection from the Photographic Series by Kristien Daem — The Nostalgia of the Collector written by André Gordts

2018

Brugge, The Office - Index page
Christian Eckart, Andachtsbild # 708, 1988 - Installation view Brugge, The Office
Olaf Holzapfel, A Man, 2007 - Installation view Brugge, The Office
Olaf Holzapfel, A Man, 2007 - Installation view Brugge, The Office
Constant Permeke, Niobe Alicia Framis, Naia in anti-dog, Hussein Chalayan, 2002 - Installation view Brugge, The Office
R.H. Quaytman, An Evening, Chapter 32, 2017 - Installation view Brugge, The Office
David Nuur, Please release the receiver, 2006-2008 Annelies Strba, Untitled, 2000 - Installation view Brugge, The Office
Reflection of Luciano Fabro, Il joue un concert Sandwich, 2004 in Annelies Strba, Untitled, 2000 - Installation view Brugge, The Office
Sol Lewitt, Untitled, 1990 - Installation view Brugge, The Office
Tony Cragg, Early Form, 1989 - Installation view Brugge, The Office
Varsenare, Living Spaces - Index page
Richard Artschwager, Barn-Barn, 1995 - Installation view Varsenare, Living Spaces
Teresita Fernández, Apparition (Green), 2007 Imi Knoebel, Tag und Nacht III, A1-A5, 1997 Kelley Walker, Untitled, Lotus encrypted (No #15, 2015), 2016 Margherita Manzelli, La materia deve essere ovunque, 2011, (detail) - Installation view Varsenare, Living Spaces
Imi Knoebel, Tag und Nacht III, A1-A5, 1997 - Installation view Varsenare, Living Spaces
George Condo, The Butler, 2000 - Installation view Varsenare, Living Spaces
Varsenare, Rooms - Index page
Gary Hill, Liminal objects #1 (Bed and wheel), 1995 Paul McCarthy, Untitled (Tokyo Santa), 1999 - Installation view Varsenare, Rooms
Sam Durant, Arrested Cave - In devolution, 1999 Sandro Chia, Feu follet, 1990 - Installation view Varsenare, Rooms
Paul De Gobert, Op het strand - Installation view Varsenare, Rooms
Vlerick Bussiness School, Ghent - index page
Rossella Biscotti, key·word, 2018 - Installation view Vlerick Bussiness School, Ghent
Rossella Biscotti, key·word, 2018 - Installation view Vlerick Bussiness School, Ghent
Rossella Biscotti, key·word, 2018 - Installation view Vlerick Bussiness School, Ghent
Other Places, Sint Michiels - Index page
Ann Veronica Janssens, Magic Mirro Pink #2, 2013 - Installation view Other Places, Sint Michiels
Anton Henning, Interieur nr 71, 2000 - Installation view Other Places, Sint Michiels
Pat Andrea, Zonder Title, 1987 Virginia Overton, Untitled (Mirror), 2013 - Installation view Other Places, Sint Michiels
Lorenzo Fernandez, Odalisca, 2006 - Installation view Other Places, Sint Michiels

Building up a collection takes decades and generally begins with a coup de coeur. When then does one become a collector? Out of the many definitions we have drawn the conviction that one becomes a collector once all the rooms in one’s house are full and the art buyer is confronted with the problem of storage: one begins to purchase for the ‘collection’, for the idea that one has developed about contemporary art. Somewhere in the mind of what we can from then on call the collector, a point of no return is reached: the art buyer no longer buys in order to develop a decorative function, but to compose a collection, a balanced ensemble that not only comprises the early coups de coeur, not only the works purchased to create a certain atmosphere at home, but to compose that balanced ensemble in which many works convey that idea that one has formed for oneself and keeps forming for oneself about the art that is close to the collector’s heart. 

Excerpt from the text The Nostalgia of the Collector written by André Gordts

Editor: Leo Van Tuyckom
Concept: Kristien Daem
Authors: André Gordts and Leo Van Tuyckom
Photography: Kristien Daem
Translation : Patrick Lennon
Graphic Design: Kristien Daem
Graphic Design Assistance: Angyvir Padilla
Printing: Cassochrome, Waregem (Beveren- Leie), Belgium