art architeture language

After several exhibitions in major art institutions worldwide, this first solo exhibition in Belgium of Brussels based artist group LAb[ au ] presents over 20 works and installations, giving a comprehensive overview of their recent work. Entitled " coded language ", the exhibition display their research in colour, shape and movement that are organised as a full-fledged language with a vocabulary, grammar and syntax of its own .

This conjunction between art and language conceives art as semantic and semiotic system , exploring the current means of expression in a constant search for contemporary aesthetics. Insofar colour, shape and movement are perceived as language then all their creation is a form of writing, a notation, a program. Their practice refers to a coded language which makes use of binary language, Morse code, the semaphore system as other, new and invented, codes.

LAb[au]'s approach is embedded in the tradition of concrete, kinetic and conceptual art in which focus is the study of signs finding expression in an elementary and systemic form. This exhibition will be held during the exhibitions of 'Jean Prouvé -Takis' allowing us to withdraw parallels between both, like the ones between art and architecture, between science and aesthetics, between methodology and experimentation set in a nowadays perspective beyond traditional ideas of art.