{"id":1705,"name":"Jos De Gruyter \u0026 Harald Thys","email":"","language_id":1,"permalink":"jos-de-gruyter-harald-thys","deleted":false,"legal_status_id":47,"url_1":"http://www.gms.be/index.php?content=artist_detail\u0026id_artist=65","twitter":null,"category_id":47,"date_of_birth":null,"place_of_birth":null,"country_of_birth":null,"place_of_residence":null,"country_of_residence":null,"cached_privileges_list":"User, Assets Editor, Actors Editor, Streams Editor, Items Editor, Events Editor, Ensembles Editor","cached_tag_list":"video drawing installations text objects","publishing_process_id":1,"can_log_in":false,"firstname":"","lastname":"","annotation":"","url_2":"","url_3":"","cached_name":"Jos De Gruyter \u0026 Harald Thys","date_of_death":null,"cached_name_asc":"Jos De Gruyter \u0026 Harald Thys","stream_count_app":193,"gender":"other","platform_admin":null,"description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/013/620/large/doublePortrait.jpg?1358869072","poster_credits":"(c)Jos De Gruyter \u0026 Harald Thys","media_count":2,"items_count":37,"translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJos de Gruyter and Harald Thys\u003c/strong\u003e\u0026rsquo;s art casts a merciless perspective on reality. Through their numerous artistic approaches \u0026ndash; including installations, video, drawing, sculpture, performance and photographs \u0026ndash; de Gruyter and Thys visualise their imaginings of the parallel world inherent within the modern human psyche, along with how it manifests itself in the everyday aspects of life and civic conformity. Everything from work, leisure and family, to social class, masculinity and marginalization are envisaged through convening an unlikely cast of non-professional actors, family members, friends, beards, objects and mannequins alike, often in banal, homespun settings that are rife with awkward power dynamics Form balances the work of de Gruyter and Thys on the edge of the idiotic. Ragged mannequins are made to share common space with traced drawings of trams, the cries of animals, polystyrene heads with false facial hair, and monotonous monologues about renovations. The artists are inspired by myriad sources \u0026ndash; like key scenes in films by\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVMcyIBDerE\"\u003eVisconti\u003c/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFlpl5fM874or\"\u003eFassbinder\u003c/a\u003e,\u0026nbsp;\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ktZ28BHnNw\"\u003eRobert Bresson\u003c/a\u003e; reality television; the arsenal of videos at YouTube offers, ranging from \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-l4w-DIiXk\"\u003eRussian road rage\u003c/a\u003e\u0026nbsp;to the home videos of Chechen President \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CeSsesCr54\"\u003eRamzan Kadyrov\u003c/a\u003e; as well as traumatic events the artists have experienced over the years with various people and places.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJos de Gruyter\u003c/strong\u003e en \u003cstrong\u003eHarald Thys\u003c/strong\u003e werken sinds de tweede helft van de jaren 80 samen en zijn vooral bekend om hun video\u0026#39;s.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn hun videowerk heerst een verontrustende intimiteit tussen de acteurs en de trage en monotone dialogen, afgeleid van theaterdramaturgie en ge\u0026iuml;nspireerd door kindertelevisie. De acteurs die ze gebruiken, zijn veelal ongeschoold en afkomstig uit de familie- en vriendenkring van de kunstenaars. De overdreven gebaren, sombere omgevingen en verdrietige en ontaarde personages, ge\u0026iuml;soleerd van de rest van de wereld, suggereren een buitenwereld die een onzichtbare aanwezigheid is.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eHet werk vindt haar oorsprong in zeer uiteenlopende inspiratiebronnen, gaande van bepaalde sleutelsc\u0026egrave;nes uit de films van Fassbinder, Visconti en Robert Bresson, over clandestiene reality-programma\u0026rsquo;s, het arsenaal van anoniem geproduceerde films op YouTube, maar ook traumatiserende confrontaties die ze in de loop van de jaren ervoeren met welbepaalde plaatsen en individuen.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"locations":[]}