Contemporary European Art

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                 BIO:
                  Born in 1948 in Belgium, pol.knots, (aka José Polet) is an autodidact of visual arts living in France (Alès).
                  Graduated in Journalism and Social communications sciences at the ULB, or Université Libre de Bruxelles, his first steps
                  in the art world were made as a satiric writer. He published " L'autre Belgique" the other Belgium with Yvon Godefroid at
                  Vokaer editions. Pol Knots works for more than 30 years before to exhibit a first time in 2001.
                  He is a member of the "Royal Association of Belgian Plastician Artists" and a founding member of "ART+SCIENCE"

                     Solo

                            2006 Université de Lausanne

                            2005 « Le rendez-vous des coiffeuses» Installation Galerie Le Local, Amiens octobre
                            « Désencombrement» Espace Churchill, Liège 7 septembre - 19 octobre
                            « Le peintre et le cerveau » Maison d'art d'Entremont, Sembrancher, Suisse 18 février - 10 avril
                            « Cog(n)ito ergo sum » Galerie de Wégimont, Belgique 22 janvier - 13 février

                            2004 « Trilogies cognitives » Le Phénix, Valenciennes novembre
                            « Neuvième mouvement » Galerie La Rotonde, Paris mars
                            « Hybrides », Galerie Arthur, Valenciennes février
                            « Septième mouvement » Galerie Voghera, Manosque janvier
                            2003 « Move # 06 » Galerie La Louve, Louftémont-Léglise, Belgique novembre
                            2002 Reopening party ING Bank, Aalst-Erembodegem, Belgique décembre
                            « ERA III. Move# 2 » Harmonia Mundi, Amiens février
                            2001 « ERA III. Move# 1 » Espace Lexon, Bruxelles décembre

                            Fairs

                            2004 : AFFORDABLE ART FAIR, Londres présenté par Aline Hercberg, Galerie Arlevart

                             ST'ART, art fair Strasbourg présenté par Guy Denis, Galerie La Louve

                            2003 : ART IN PROGRESS, Group Art Show, Kortrijk, Belgique

                            LIBR'ART, Libramont, Belgique, présenté par Guy Denis, Galerie La Louve

                            Espace Gibert Joseph, Lyon, France, présenté par Guy Denis, Galerie La Louve

                            Group Exhibitions

                            2004 : Galerie Dialogue, Saint-Gilles /Nîmes (décembre)

                            Galerij de Sigarenfabriek, Delft (avril)

                            2003 : Galerij Castor & Pollux, Bilzen

                    Statements:

                    - I used to stress some links between my work and cognitive sciences. As well to indicate an
                    alleged affiliation with a cosmogonist system as Taoism. Nowadays, I'm happy when I don't need
                    to supply concepts and a lot of explanation. I feel especially satisfied when uneducated people are
                    attracted by my open proposals and not asking for a key and not bothering too much about what's
                    behind. Somewhere, I do believe that I'm working out a small piece of the Garden of Utopia, where
                    human brain is expanding and favouring harmony and peace. | pol knots – 2003 |
                    -My main intention is to foil cognitive routines so firmly anchored all over the world. In my opinion,
                    artists are engaged in an emancipation process and they show less and less up as consensus producers.
                    Since recently, they deliberately take up a duty of dissensus, with all the inherent risks. Contemporary
                    art is carrying ruptures and is not any longer focused on the relations to power and authority, nor on
                    anthropocentric or aesthetic introspection. It's about new models of reasoning. As for me, I invest/investigate
                    the field of cognitive sciences. I don't bring up representation, nor illustration of this set of themes. It constitutes
                    my personal background.   | pol knots – 2003
                    -The reference to Arcimboldo is illustrating how difficult it has been to bring up new questions during all
                    the representative or figurative area. By evidence, this period for plasticians is not finished yet. And more,
                    indeed, abstraction is not as abstract as it could be. There is still ambiguity about concepts, figures, etc...
                    However, the fields of arts are not a constellation of consensus production units. On the contrary. And it
                    is exactly within the spaces liberated from the old (obsolete?) questions about representation that one can
                    find some material to develop and understand more about cognitive systems. That supposes to invest less
                    and less time in Bad Painting and assimilated subjects and to put the highest priority on more crucial themes. | pol knots – 2003 |