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Albert

Curriculum vitae
Name and first name: Deremiens, Guy
His artist's name comes from his childhood : Albert
Date and place of birth: 13 / 04 / 58, in Gaume
Address: 18, rue Schmerling, 400 Liège
Phone number: 04/253 39 91
Email: deremiens@swing.be

Education Training
Studies in apiculture
Design
Degree of aptitude for teaching

Job
Teacher in indoor architecture at Saint-Luc School

Exhibitions-Publications-Collections
Rodolphe Janssens Galery (Brussel), february-march 1993.
Janos Gallery (Paris)
Museum of Modern Art (Liège), "L'arbre que cache la forêt"; group exhibition. 1998

Artistic way of working
Albert prefers installation work to traditional fine arts activities (painting or sculpture) because it corresponds more to his way of working. He uses materials from nature that he has been discovering from quite a young age. Albert whose father was a forest warden collected everything he could find on the ways and put coleopteran and butterflies pinned to frames. In his installations works he tries to remember the feeling that went through him as a child. Some magic words, as f.i. ABRACADABRA, help him. Some poets, such as MAETERLINCK are able to express memories from atmospheres or landscapes. That's what Albert has been influenced by.

His Works
"ABRACADABRA": A series of works with one more word from his childhood. A pinned insect or vegetable element right in the center of the frame. He's made 8 similar works in which some finds from the nature are included, and has therefore written the introductory text below for the occasion :

En l'air.
ABRACADABRA
Par terre.
ABRACADABRA
Sous la pierre.
ABRACADABRA
Dans les fougères.
ABRACADABRA
Tout au bord de l'eau.
ABRACADABRA
Jusque dans la boue.
ABRACADABRA
Le monde est merveilleux
ABRACADABRA

Hannetons (beetle) (1992, 80 X 80 cm.) for example, is a polished wooden box of which the heart is a smaller box, with a red tapestry and a glass lid. The first letter A is engraved on it. The "objects" that are part of the text are behind the glass. There are 8 identical frames with a different content Les Hannetons, 1992 (80X80) Hannetons, velours rouge, bois, verre, lettre de bronze Les Gros escargot, 1992 (80X80) Coquilles d'escargots, velour rouge, bois, verre, lettre de bronze

"Elle tourne": Another series of works showing the oppositions between immensely big and immensely small. The Earth is engraved on glass and form an horizontal line that meet a vertical one formed by the animal or the vegetable element included in the frame. "Le travail des abeilles"( Ray of bees) for example, (1990, 117x82) is a part of the series. Albert studied apiculture and he still keeps bees and expresses his passion in his works. Cire d'abeille, verre gravé, tissu mortuaire, sapin rouge du Nord

Os de lapin, 1990 (117 X 82) Os de lapins, verre gravé, tissu mortuaire, sapin rouge du Nord Les roses, 1990 ( 117 x 82)

"Les oiseaux" (birds) : Series of works shown at the Museum of Modern Art (Liège) in 1998 during the group exhibition "L'arbre que cache la forêt". A ladder leads up to a box, decorated with a feather and a bird's name. Inside the box is a decoy , imitating the bird's call. Several similar ladders are exhibited somewhere in the museum. "La buse" (the buzzard) (325 x 60 cm) for example is an artwork made with garden wood, feather's buzzard and a decoy. Bois du jardin, plume de buse, appeau

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