Culture

Belgian artist Jan De Cock is featured in an exhibition at MoMA entitled The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to today, which will run through November 1. The exhibition, organized by Roxana Marcoci, presents a critical examination of the intersections between photography and sculpture, exploring how one medium has become implicated in the understanding of the other. Through a selection of nearly three hundred outstanding pictures by more than one hundred artists from the dawn of modernism to the present, the exhibition looks at the ways in which photography at once informs and challenges our understanding of sculpture. Addressing how and why sculpture became a photographic subject, the exhibition examines pictures that range in subject from inanimate objects to performing bodies. Jan De Cock is one of Belgium’s foremost contemporary visual artists. He traditionally creates large structures - usually in plywood - that refer to early modernist sculpture and architecture. He also creates photographical and video work. He was educated in Ghent and Brussels and had a solo-exhibition at MoMA in 2008.