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Jef Geys

Belgian artist

Jef Geys
Born	()29 May Leopoldsburg, Belgium
Died	12 February () (aged&#;83) Genk, Belgium
Nationality	Belgian
Education	photography, painting, experimental education, print
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Jef Geys (29 May – 12 February ) was a Belgian artist born in Leopoldsburg, Belgium.^[1] Geys is known for his photography, painting, sculpture, films, installation art, publishing activities, and experimentation in art education.

Geys grew up in Faytlaan, Leopoldsburg and attended school at the Brothers of Love.^[1] He studied in the Academy of Antwerp under Piet Serneels, Maclot, Dolphyn and Strebelle, then gained a teaching diploma from the state school of Hasselt before starting work teaching in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert.^[1] In , Geys was an appointed Teacher of Positive Aesthetics at a children's school in Balen until he left the position in The school focused on the educational experimentation in the arts, and included a studio and exhibition space, and arts laboratory.^[2]^[3]

Work

Geys is known for the strong social and political motives of his work.

He is perhaps best known for his proposal to blow up the Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten (KMSKA) in Antwerp in at the end of his solo exhibition held there.^[4]

In a letter to the Minister of Culture from November , which was published later in the catalog Ooidonk 78, Geys described his plans about the explosion of the KMSKA as follows: "Departing from the idea that every society, authority, institution, organization, person, etc.

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includes the seeds of its own destruction, the first and most important task of every society, authority, etc. in my opinion is to recognize, isolate and neutralize these seeds. The most efficient way to achieve all this then seems to me to systematically, scientifically and deliberately set about the problem. […] So I would like to start a project, which, if executed, would result in the destruction of the Museum voor Schone Kunsten."^[5]

Kempens Informatieblad

In , Geys took on the freely-distributed newspaper Kempens Informatieblad which was a local publication in Kempen, Belgium, which is also called Campine (French).

Geys prints and distributes Kempens house-to-house, and often produces them in line with his exhibitions.^[2] Geys is also known for having created a meticulous archive of his own work and Kempens since , though the archive has been made inaccessible to all but the artist himself.^[6]

Exhibitions

C’est aujourd'hui dimanche, tiens ma jolie Maman voilà des roses blanches, toi qui les aimes tant!, Cneai, Chatou, France,
Lumière et Architecture, Cneai, Chatou, France,
KOME, Cneai, Chatou, France ()
'As Sombras de Lisboa '(The Shadows of Lisbon), Culturgest, Lisbon (photography exhibition) ()
'KOME', KMSK, Brussels, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten (Royal Museums of Modern Art) ()
"Geys: All the black and white photos to " 'Martin Douven – Leopoldsburg – Jef Geys', M HKA, Antwerp ()^[1]
“Woodward Avenue”, Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD),^[7]^[8] ()
'Quadra Medicinale', Biënnale van Venetië ()^[6]
“Archive Fever“, ICP, New York, USA ()^[6]
“Retrospective-Introspectie” Galerie Erna Hecey, Brussels (–)^[9]
“Deep Comedy“, Marfa Gallery, Texas ()
Orchard Gallery, New York, NY, USA ()
IAC, Villeurbanne, France ()
Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland ()
Kunsthalle Lophem, Loppem ()
Van Abbemuseum, Retrospectieve, Eindhoven, The Netherlands ()
Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany ()^[6]
Galerie Meert-Rihoux, Brussels ()
Kunstverein München, Germany, Solotentoonstelling ()^[2]
Middelheim, Antwerp, Solo Exhibition ()^[1]
Skulptur Projekte, Münster ()^[1]
Frac, Champagne-Ardenne, France ()
Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands^[10] ()
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium (Paleis voor Schone Kunsten) ()^[1]
São Paulo Biennial, Brazil (Biënnale van São Paulo) ()^[1]
Galerie Meert-Rihoux ()
Chambre d’Amis, Gent ()

References

^ ^a^b^c^d^e^f^g^h"M HKA, Martin Douven, Leopoldsburg, Jef Geys > "(PDF).

5 September Archived from the original(PDF) on 4 March Retrieved 24 June
^ ^a^b^c"Jef Geys, Belgian Pavilion, 53rd International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia"(PDF).
Free biography sample Geys grew up in Faytlaan, Leopoldsburg and attended school at the Brothers of Love. The school focused on the educational experimentation in the arts, and included a studio and exhibition space, and arts laboratory. Geys is known for the strong social and political motives of his work. In a letter to the Minister of Culture from November , which was published later in the catalog Ooidonk 78 , Geys described his plans about the explosion of the KMSKA as follows: "Departing from the idea that every society, authority, institution, organization, person, etc. The most efficient way to achieve all this then seems to me to systematically, scientifically and deliberately set about the problem.
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^"Afterall • Journal • The Really Ignorant Schoolmaster: Jef Geys, Amongst Many Others". Retrieved 30 April
^"ScherpteDiepte". Retrieved 30 April
^Jef Geys , 'Letter to the Minister of Dutch Culture' (November 11, ), in: Ooidonk 78, exh.

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^ ^a^b^c^dLuk Lambrecht.
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A brief overview of late Belgian artist Jef Geys, spanning key projects, approaches, methodologies, and complexities. The work of Jef Geys constitutes one of the undisclosed territorialities of the neo-avant-garde, of which the artist gave the international art world a cryptic overview in , within the largest platform for self-promotion: documenta in Kassel. The hour-long projection Day and Night and Day was widely mentioned for its duration but hardly for the way it exposed an entire lifetime trajectory, for its manic exhibitory quality combined with its anti-narrativity. All the photographs that Geys made until passed by in a photo-filmic overflow that laid out the scope of what he considered as constitutive of his practice. Subverting categorisations was a typical gesture for his generation, which used extradisciplinarity as a way to expose the conformism of stylistic and formal classifications based on academic criteria.
"Belgian Pavilion: Jef Geys". Metropolis M. Archived from the original on 18 May Retrieved 23 June
^"Planted Stories: Jef Geys Touches Down in Detroit". 27 May Retrieved 23 June
^Mike Powell (October ). "Frieze Magazine – Jef Geys".
Jef geys biography sample To Jef Geys art did not exist independently but was intertwined with everyday life, from 'his' village of Balen to the whole wide world. Geys resolutely opted for the anti-elitist side of art. In , he proposed blowing up the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp at the end of his solo exhibition held at the very same museum. As of , he developed art from his 'archive of the everyday', a storage space of traces of what had happened in his life and immediate environment. This grew into a widespread tangle of associations.
Archived from the original on 24 June Retrieved 23 June
^"Jef Geys – Retrospectieve-Introspectie"(PDF). Galerie Erna Hecey. 21 December Retrieved 24 June
^"What Are We Having for Dinner Tonight?". Witte de With. 15 October Archived from the original on 4 October Retrieved 23 June