Ives Maes

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Belgium °1976
affiliation: University Ghent / KASK School of Arts Ghent
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Ives Maes (°1976, Hasselt, Belgium) is a multidisciplinary visual artist who lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium. He studied sculpture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent and a post-graduate program at HISK in Antwerp. In 2008 he was a resident at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. From 2012 to 2018 Ives Maes was working on a Ph.D. in the Arts at the University Ghent / KASK School of Arts about the physical, sculptural and architectural aspects of photography.

 

Ives Maes has had institutional solo exhibitions in, among others, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, SMAK Museum, MuHKA Museum, Uqbar Berlin, VOID+ Tokyo, Z33 Art Center, STAM City Museum Ghent and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. His works had been part of group exhibitions at the Prada Foundation Milan, Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco, Museum Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt, the Museo de arte Carillo y Gil in Mexico City, Antwerp Photo Museum, Ludwig Forum Aachen, BOZAR Brussels, the National Museum in Beijing and the 6th Moscow Biennial. His books are published by Mer Paper Kunsthalle and Ludion. He is represented by Sofie Van De Velde Gallery in Antwerp.

 

Website: www.ivesmaes.com

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  • Additive Photography (2019) author(s): Ives Maes published in: Journal for Artistic Research
    Since the invention of photography, there have been numerous hybrid experiments between photography and sculpture that testify to a continuous influence of sculpture on photography and vice versa. In my own visual work, I am researching the physical, sculptural and architectural aspects of photography. I am analysing a number of historical experiments, from the 16th century camera obscura pavilion to 21st century digital processes, which I apply to my artistic practice. A particularly important example is the photosculpture process of François Willème. In the late 1850s, he aimed at reproducing sculpture with the help of photography, creating a distinctive union between the two media. His method to extrude sculptures from photographs laid the ground principles for the 3D scanner and printer. In this exposition I bring to the fore how the work of Willème propelled its significant influence towards today, and how it inspired me to create new visual work. At the same time, this experience constitutes an exemplary case study on how theoretical research can steer the creation of visual research.
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