Exhibitions

Individual

Purely individual one-person shows are rare. These are mostly to be found at the beginning of the creation of the AZART alphabet and are exhibitions by Guy Rombouts using three-letter systems, object-alphabets and accumulations before developing the form and color version of his alphabet that was to become AZART. Included in the individual exhibition section are the shows presented by the duo Rombouts-Droste until the demise of Monica Droste.

After that, individual AZART exhibitions are mainly work by Guy Rombouts, but increasingly combined with others in various configurations, often as conversations with one or two individual artists.

Presentations

More often than not exhibitions of the AZART can be very temporary and as such qualify as presentations rather than exhibitions – one might also use the word ‘intervention’ or even hark back to the notion of ‘Happening’ while skirting today’s interpretation of ‘performance’ and other contemporary formats.

Group

As mentioned AZART is essentially collaborative, but this does not mean that there are other kinds of interaction possible. Often participations in classic themed exhibitions, but in this group section more aspects of collaboration appear, from the small conversations mentioned in the individual section to larger group happenings where the lines between various presentation forms become blurred…

Performance / Theatre

In this section Theatre and performance are combined to denote the more formal aspect of a theatrical performance rather than the loose performativity mentioned in ‘presentation’… Here we speak of a prepared stage, lighting, script and schedule as well as some impromptu interpretations.