Cecilia Jaime & Luc Rogiest : Imagine

26 years ago Cecilia Jaime moved from the subtropical North of Argentina to Belgium. In response to this cycle of more than a quarter century she presents, together with her partner in life, the duo show "Imagine" in her own gallery. The common desires to discover distant lands, cultures and art brought these two artists together.

CECILIA JAIME

Cecilia Jaime's work consists of sculptures, installations, drawings, paintings, video work, and photography. Life experiences, travels, memories, great environment changes in the world and the developments in media and technology drove the artist into new reflections and into using new and more diverse media to express her ideas.

Born in the Northwest of Argentina, Cecilia Jaime developed an important landscape photographic work – Photography is combined with a dramatic and poetic tranquility-. In Imagine her recent creations and works should be installed  in a kind of mise en scène. Monumental landscapes of exuberant nature serve as geographic frames of works in which the spectator is positioned over the edge .

/Born in San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina. Obtained in 1987 the degree of MA in Fine  Arts specialty Painting at the University of Tucumán. Taught as an assistant in the Studio I at the same University. Won several awards for her work and a Grant of 'The National Fund of Fine Arts. Has been living in Ghent since 1989. Since 2012 she is Founder / Director of Cecilia Jaime Gallery in Ghent.

The most recent international projects and exhibitions are: Splav Meduze in the Centre of Contemporary Art, Celje (2009), Slovenia, the Collection curator Philippe Van Cauteren, artistic director of SMAK, Ghent and a solo exhibition at CC AT NOYE, Brussels (2010). Her video performance 'Desierto de los Ovidos' was presented in the LAKMA Museum in the Netherlands (2011). She presented her latest work 'Stills and Movements' in the form of an installation with photographs, sculptures, video works and paintings in the Caermersklooster in Ghent and participated in the group exhibition The Connection also in Ghent (2011). Finally, she was invited to participate in the Open Call project Artwiki on the 7th Biennial of Contemporary Art in Berlin (2012). In 2014 Tuinfeest & Auction by Christie's in Museum Dhondt- Dhaenens./


LUC ROGIEST

Sculptures, constructions or scale models (made of plaster, bamboo, iron, brass, wood, concrete) often refer to existing architecture, though they are always imaginary. They symbolize imaginations and fusions of several realities, experiences and fantasies, which gives observers the space to look and find their own way or story in the work.

In a subtle way, the observer is invited to enter the constructions, the construction site, the gantry and  the stairs. In this way the public takes part and so they are able to take the second step in the void and space.

/After his degrees in Law and Criminology, Luc Rogiest (1 April 1950, Ghent) started to take courses in Sculpture at the Royal Academie of Fine Arts KASK in Gent in the 70’s. In this period, he already worked in construction, restoring historical facades and houses. After, on artistic level, he worked for years in as an actor and a singer in several productions, i.a. theater Arena, NTG, de Gentse Opera, het Koninklijk Ballet van Vlaanderen department Musical and in some telivisionseries. In 2014 Luc got his Certificate higher degree in Sculpture, which he obtained by taking classes at the part-time Academie in fine Arts since 2010.

Undoubtedly, his several trips and residences in West Africa and in the desert of Timbuktu left a great impression on him.

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