Walk & Talk: Guy Mees
Guy Mees, Portraits (Level Differences), 1970, Courtesy Estate of Guy Mees, Lotte Boogh Mees & Micheline-Martha Tob-Szwajcer.
An exhibition tour and talk with Vanessa Joan Müller and Pieternel Vermoortel about the artists influence today and about the exhibition The Responsive Subject 2010 curated by FormContent at Mu.ZEE in Ostend, where curator and writer Vermoortel together with Francesco Pedraglio and Caterina Riva put contemporary artistic positions into a dialogue with the work of Guy Mees.
Pieternel Vermoortel (*1981 in Roeselare, Belgium) is a curator, writer, artistic director of Netwerk Aalst together with Els Silvrants-Barclay and director of the curatorial institute FormContent. She currently teaches curating at Curatorial Studies KASK in Ghent. Vermoortel was a lecturer at Goldsmiths University of London, taught at LUCA, in Brussels, and at HISK, in Ghent. She has written for various catalogues and magazines, such as Art Agenda and Metropolis M and edited several publications.