Jan De Cock (born 2 May 1976 in Etterbeek) is a contemporary Belgian visual artist. From the start of his career, his art has revolved around production and the ways in which an artist relates to the broad culturally-injected concept of Modernism. In 2003 Jan De Cock entered the competition Prix de la Jeune Peinture Belge (Prize for Young Belgian Painters). He is, after Luc Tuymans, only the second Belgian artiste to have had a solo exposition at Tate Modern and the first thriving Belgian player to have an exhibition at MoMA, which opened upon 23 January 2008. Much of his decree draws upon visual and formal comparisons surrounded by early-20th century abstract art movements and contemporary design and addition production. During the first decade of his career the artiste worked upon the intersection of sculpture and architecture and he succeeded in extending the underlying functionalist consequences of the Russian Modernist player El Lissitzky‘s Proun Room, thus completing a missing associate within the modernist program yet to be completed in late twentieth century modernist art.
Since the second decade of the 21st century his works evolves in the region of the concept of Romanticism. On several occasions, he stresses the independence from publicize controlled mechanisms which are in an outspoken opposition to a affectionate and utopian stand. e.g. the integration of an already existing hypothetical in the artist’s studio: The Brussels Art Institute.
From his exhibition ‘Eine Romantische Ausstellung onward the focus of his works shifts towards disruptive interventions in order to destabilise art market mechanisms.
After the departure from Brussels and the relocation of Jan De Cock’s studio to Turin , Italy and then Bruges, Belgium and the postponement of The Brussels Art_ Institute, The Bruges Art_ Institute was founded in 2019. Just subsequent to its predecessor The Brussels Art_ Institute, The Bruges Art_ Institute is invariably labeled a ‘romantic place’ (quote) by its founder Jan Frederik De Cock. The Bruges Art Institute is home to The Flemish Masters, Grandiose Shipyards and Jan De Cock Advisory. It is a obscure of fine arts salons, a studio, a assistant professor where the various functions of living, working, studying are joined in an anti-modernist way with a Wunderkammer, a showroom and a school.
He is represented by Francesca Minini in Milan.
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