Artists Space

International Projects: Belgium

January 21 – February 18, 1984

Artists Space is pleased to announce the forthcoming exhibition of sculpture by Belgian artists Didier Vermeiren, whose work will be on view from January 21 to February 18, 1984.

A black and white image of a column-like sculpture displayed in the exhibition space.
Installation view from International Projects: Belgium, featuring Didier Vermeiren, Artists Space, 1984 [A black and white image of a column-like sculpture displayed in the exhibition space.]

This exhibition is second of a series, International Projects, taking place at Artists Space during 1983-84. The International Projects series, which has received funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, will present work by five artists. In addition to Belgium, countries represented in the series will be Holland, Italy and Australia. This fall, an artist from Canada, Andy Patton was chosen by curator Tim Guest to exhibit as part of the series. A curator in each country has been invited to select one artist to travel to Artists Space to install an exhibition. The International Projects series is an extension of Artists Space's highly succesful U.S. Projects series, which presented ten one-person exhibitions from 1980-82, also sponsored by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Jan Debbaut, Curator of the Van Abbe Museum in Eindhoven and formerly Curator at the ICC in Antwerp, selected Didier Vermeiren, and has contributed an essay on the artists for the accompanying brochure.

Didier Vermeiren was born in Brussels and now lives in Paris. He has shown recently in Paris at the Galerie Eric Fabre (1983), In Antwerp at the Galerie Micheline Szwajcer (1982) and in Brescia at the Galleria Massimo Minini (1981). Vermeiren has also shown in a church in Audenarde, Belgium (1982) and did an open studio exhibition while in New York in 1978.

A black and white image of a sculpture resembling a rectangular prism displayed in the exhibition space.
Installation view from International Projects: Belgium, featuring Didier Vermeiren, Artists Space, 1984 [A black and white image of a sculpture resembling a rectangular prism displayed in the exhibition space.]

Artists Space activities are made possible by grants from: the New York State Council on the Arts, the national Endowment for the Arts; the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Lauder Foundation, Samuel Rubin Foundation; and our corporate sponsors: AT&T Long Lines, Chase Manhattan Bank, Citibank, Con Edison, EXXON, Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb, R.H. Macy and Company, Morgan Guaranty Trust Company, Phillip Morris, and Warner Communications.