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In Code Blue 19, the artist takes you into a psychedelic depiction of anger, frustration, sadness and emotional feelings. "Code blue” is a hospital emergency code used to indicate a patient requiring resuscitation or in need of immediate medical attention, most often as the result of a respiratory arrest or cardiac arrest. The artist uses this term in relation to the number 19 referring to covid-19, which emerged in 2019 and manifested itself in a pandemic.
In the video, the artist makes direct comparisons with a sad clown and uses it as a symbol by adopting clownish poses The mouth mask made from shaving soap symbolizes a cleaning process to protect against the virus. The video perfumance evolves from a static and minimal movement to a more intense and aggressive washing of the hands and head. The intermediate shots of the scenes with sunglasses give the perfumance an extra layer, whereby the intended anonymity is interrupted with the expression of one's own personality. At some point we hear the artist sniffing the air clearly. This can be seen as a reference to being able to smell again or to have the desire to smell again. The video perfumance ends with an open question mark where the artist covers with soap disappears from the screen.
Olfactory artist Peter de Cupere, always uses the term perfumance for all his performances in which a reference is made to the sense of smell.
Curated by Karen Grøn/ Director and Katrine Stenum
Trapholt Museum of Modern Art and Design explores the complex interplaybetween the human senses. In a major international exhibition,SENSE ME, artists such as Olafur Eliasson, Wassily Kandinsky, GeorgiaO’Keeffe and Peter de Cupere focus on how sounds, scents, colours and forms affect us personally.
During the second edition, the festival shows 'The nest between truth and memory'. In the old boys' school, the hospital site & the church, various artists will show how they experience this theme. Together with the poetry trail along the Damse Vesten, nature and word enter into an interesting dialogue with each other.
MILAN— We are pleased to announce that artist Peter de Cupere is for the second year nominated for the 2018 Art and Olfaction Awards, which we made public in a special press event at Esxence, in Milan, on April 5, 2018.
With the work Smoke Flowers Peter de Cupere made once more a statement to the society. “Moved by the abusive impact that modern industry and contemporary lifestyles have on nature's purity, the artist has managed to conjure real flowers to regurgitate the fumes of industrial pollution”.
Through a series of delicate mechanisms created by the artist, each of these three benches envelopes the unsuspecting visitor that takes a seat with the scent of a particular condition accompanied by smoke.
The smoke is vapor-based and is not toxic nor harmful in any way.
For over 20 years, Peter de Cupere has been using scent as a medium for his works. He is therefore also the olfactory artist who is most in demand worldwide. An ever reoccurring central theme in his works is the inquiry of climate change. He thus created a very extreme work for the Ijssel biennial in The Netherlands, Salt Flowers.
Starting from traditional art themes like: Still Lifes, Flowers, Food, Landscape, War and Portraits paintings, often referring to famous historical art works. These paintings can only be read by touching them with the fingers, scratching the surface and smelling the scent that's added to the painting to unveil the content of the coloured painted surface. Scent is used to give context to the work.
The paintings are made on a traditional way using oil paint, nevertheless the artist implemented new technologies based on scent micro-encapsulation.
These works are part of several series where artist Peter de Cupere is working on. Besides using the tradition kitschy cadres to refer to old paintings, the artist is also working on scent paintings where no cadre is added. The use of a traditional cadre in some of the works is pure to add a link to the idea of traditional painting.
These works follows previous art works where the artist is using scratch & sniff technology.
The tenth-anniversary exhibition entitled ‘XY’ – ‘X’ for 10 and ‘Y’ for years- at the Lommel GlazenHuis is the glass museum’s twenty-fourth show. GlazenHuis has invited twenty-four artists and designers to demonstrate up-to-date uses of glass within the field of fine and applied arts in Belgium.
Though unnoticed, our sense of smell is a major mood determiner. Scents evoke vivid childhood memories. They are part of our identity: we each have a scent that is as unique as our fingerprints.
Sex Smells Geruch einer antitranspiranten Gesellschaft
Kunstverein Wolfsburg, curator Jennifer Bork, Wolfsburg, DE
02.09–06.11.2016
Until November 6, you can see two drawings that are made with the artist his body sweat (The Runner, 2001, The Blowjob, 2001) in the exhibition Sex Smells in Kunstverein Wolfsburg - Germany. Exhibition curated by Jennifer Bork, more info on http://www.kunstverein-wolfsburg.de The drawings were created with my sweat after doing the visualized action
Texts by Peter de Cupere, Caro Verbeek (Odorama & Rijksmuseum Amsterdam), Ashraf Osman (The Scent Culture Institute), Willem Elias ( Prof. Culture Philosophy, President of the HISK), Hsuan L. Hsu (Prof. English Univeristy of California, Davis), Koan Jeff Baysa ( curator Institute Art & Olfaction, L.A.), Ruth Renders (Art Critic Specialised in Art and Film studies)
From September 12 2015 through March 13 2016, the Fashion Museum Hasselt invites visitors to step into the magnificent and captivating world of the Roaring Twenties. The exhibition is not a chronological overview, but is conceived as a meandering walk along the themes that sketched the exciting history and the context of this ravishing decade. In addition, the exhibition also focuses on the manner in which the 1920s continue to influence today's fashion.
Belgium has a long tradition in the chocolate industry and nowadays Brussels is known as the ‘chocolate city’. Yet the innovation in this industry threatens to stagnate and more than ever there is a need for innovative ideas that vivify this industry. In cooperation with the company Callebaut, Gluon organizes the living lab ‘Una Grande Abbuffata’ that connects artists and important chefs from the chocolate industry in a quest for innovation. This will result in a number of challenging ideas and prototypes for chocolate structures. The results of this search will be exhibited at the World Expo in Milan during the Brussels Days.
In september staat hedendaagse kunst centraal in Tongeren. Tussen 5 en 27 september tonen 14 toonaangevende kunstenaars werk op 11 historische en/of verassende locaties in het stadscentrum van Tongeren. Deze eerste groepstentoonstelling in het kader van het kunstproject ‘De 9de Maand’ wordt een visueel hoogstandje, met werk van gevestigde én jonge, opkomende kunstenaars. De eerste editie zet dus meteen de toon met kunstenaars als Nancy Slangen, Frans Heirbaut, Dave Donné, Liliane Vertessen, Bruno Vekemans, Daniel Hernandez Salazar, Nadia Naveau, Nick Andrews, Nick Ervinck, Tom Liekens, Jan Decleir, Lorenzo Pompa, Serge Gangolf en Peter de Cupere.
An exhibition to remember 100 years first gas attacks World War 1
Curated by Peter de Cupere
01.05.2015 - 30.08.2015
Castle De Lovie, Poperinge
The Smell of War will shed light on the first gas attacks in World War 1 and deals with the fascinating phenomenon of odour and thereby goes beyond the usual museum based form of experiencing art.
International artists from the present day demonstrate that scent can really be context and /or concept of the work. Scents evoke memories and so also emotions and associations, but let the beholder also re-think and reflect about the context of the work.
The main focus of the exhibition lies on the olfactory artworks about gas attacks and chemical wars, as well as on the not-smelling aspect by protection of gas masks. So we also show works that smell of nothing at all and in which the odour is only conjured up by the visitor’s imagination, or translated as an odour through the image.
The exhibition will be supplemented by a publication.
CONTEXT
The context of the exhibition are the first gas attacks in 1915. The aim is to allow the viewer to stand still and reflect on the use of chemical warfare and more specific including gas attacks.
CONCEPT
The exhibition has two parts:
- THE SMELL OF WAR: Smell as medium of the work - THE MASK OF WAR: (Gas)Masks as medium of the work – cfr. (non)-smelling
The choice of this division - that sometimes partially overflows into each other - was made to avoid that an exhibition in which only smell was working as a concept of the exhibition would quickly turn of the idea of protection against gas attacks.
Protection devices protect you from the gas and the smell. You are shielding the nose from the fragrance, the gas. The use of a respirator is also one of the first things we think of when we think iconographic about gas.
Olfactory Art Manifest and the private collection of Peter de Cupere in the exhibition 'Belle Haleine - Der Duft der Kunst' curated by Annja Müller-Alsbach
‘The Paintbrush of Gustave Courbet’ is a paintbrush made of pubic hair and as paint the scent of vagina. It's a reference to L'Origine du Monde by Gustave Courbet
The work will be on view Tuesday 2 December in the exhibition of the conference 'Sense of Smell' in the MOTI Museum, Breda, The Netherlands
During one hour a statue made of frozen holy water melts. In the statue is a spot with real vaginal scent! When the Madonna melts the vaginal scent starts to mix with the holy water. In the room you start smelling the beauty of woman. When touching the melted liquid, the original vaginal scent stays on your finger for a long time.
Peter de Cupere toont 10 vogelkastjes waar de bezoeker letterlijk zijn/haar neus mag insteken. Ervaar intens de geuren van de natuur, maar ook andere geuren die je doen nadenken over de relatie maatschappij / natuur. Na de tentoonstelling worden de vogelkastjes hoger in de bomen gehangen waar ze dienst doen als woonst voor de vogels die overwinteren in het Ekerse park.
For the expo ‘Bloed’ (BLOOD); artists from ARTISIT are teamed up with Belgian artists and invited to engage in dialogue about the central theme. The resulting installations are presented within the walls of the landcommandery of Alden-Biesen.
At living tomorrow a platform for future-oriented art is created. The presentation of the works is not displayed as in a gallery, but is exhibited in a symbiotic integration with an eye on a future way of life. The concept of the exhibition "NEXT DOOR" is simple. Our world is changing extremely fast. Next Door is a network-exhibition, a logical answer to our network society.
Peter de Cupere shows his Invisible (SCENT) Paintings using the scratch & sniff technology. The scent gives in relation to the title of the painting a certain context. Only by scratching the surface and smelling the scent on your fingers you understand the meaning of the title.
'Smell My Color', a perfumance by Peter de Cupere. 3 Naked women and 3 naked men are perfumed with coloured fragrances. The audience is allowed to smell them. See the video of the earlier version here.
This perfumance is a kind of remaked of the Smell My Colours perfumance in the Lupercalia event ( link) and refers to one of his first perfumances 'Black Beauty' from 1999 in Antwerp and in 2000 in Amsterdam. During this periode Peter de Cupere has realised other perfumances by which he used colors in combination with scents.
'Smell My Color' is a new perfumance by Peter de Cupere. This perfumance is a kind of remaked of the color perfumances by 'Black Beauty' from 1999 in Antwerp and in 2000 in Amsterdam. During this periode Peter de Cupere has realised other perfumances by which he used colors in combination with scents.
In the Lupercalia perfumance 'Smell My Color' the models will not be dressed in catsuits but they will be naked. The perfumance starts at 20:10 and will take +/- 20 min.
INTERACT: DECONSTRUCTING SPECTATORSHIP January 2014 - July 2015 Interact explores the place of the viewer in contemporary art.
Contemporary art exhibition of the Courtauld Institute of Art, London.·
The Courtauld is an independent college of the University of London, and one of the world’s leading centres for the study of the history and conservation of art and architecture, and its gallery houses one of Britain’s best-loved collections.
WAR FLOWER 1 smells to gunpowder and is the newest olfactory artwork made by Peter De Cupere.
Middle Gate Geel ’13 is an exposition which focuses on three major categories: myth, psychiatry and art. It looks into the interaction and the mutual influence between mythical and more religious art, outsider’s and insider’s art.
Curator: Jan Hoet
In the solo-exhibition Grand Vin d’Anvers at the Tim Van Laere Gallery (Antwerp 2002), Peter De Cupere at that time showed besides his big wine installation also a few concept drawings of still to realise works with wine. For the exhibition Middle Gate in Geel he further realises the work ‘Wine Table’ (2002) and the performance ‘Drunken’.
In the performance ’Drunken’ one sees the artist as a loner sitting at a table. After drinking the red wine, he opens two drawers of the table. The latter are positioned opposite one another and as such create the shape of a ‘cross’ together with the table. By opening the drawers one sees that a part of the surface of the table also opens up and a space filled with red wine becomes visible. He fills his glass again from this sea of red wine, drinks and crawls into the table, laying himself down in the wine. Waiting on a state of complete drunkenness, not just orally, but physically sucking up the red alcohol into his body. Afterwards he crawls back out of the table and lets his behaviour and stature be determined by the influence of his being drunk. The artist finishes back at the table where he started.
Kortrijk Vlaandert association organizes in cooperation with the City of Kortrijk an art walk through Kortrijk. This discovery shows you Kortrijk in all its facets: musing about the rich past and actively daydream with creative present. Known contemporary artists from all Flemish provinces surprise you with their recent work in unexpected locations.
In good neighborliness Kortrijk Vlaandert also invites Brussels, Wallonia, Northern France and the Netherlands. Art spans borders.
For several years, researchers and industrialists were interested in sensorial effects of their breakthroughs and products on the human-being. New markets were created, in the field of touch, hearing, taste and vision, with more innovative products. But how about the sense of smell and its digitization? Digital Olfaction Society World Congress 2013 will be held in Berlin in April 11-12, 2013 and will aim to open up toward a subject with large scientific and industrial potential, called the olfaction digital science.
With artists from Brazil, Belgium, USA, Germany, Finland, Scotland, Mexico, Italy and South Africa, the 2nd Creativity World Biennale brings interventions, artworks and installations to Rio de Janeiro. The event began in 2010 in Oklahoma and will be curated by Liana Brazil, founder of SuperUber, creative agency that works with the convergence of art, technology, architecture and design. The Biennale is open to the public for free from november 21st to 25th. Peter De Cupere, olfactory artist, living in Belgium, presents his "Blind Smell Stick", ( www.blindsmellstick.com).
Peter De Cupere tested 3 of his prototype Blind Smell Sticks and one Blind Smell Touch (a glove that has the posibility to smell everything you touch) in Rio de Janeiro.
Visitors to the Biennale can try one of the prototypes in the exhibition space.
CBK Drenthe in De Nieuwe Kolk - Assen- The Netherlands
Flower Fragum Cardamomi on show in the exhibition Nature Now.
Flower Fragum Cardamomi is the first scratch & sniff sculpture in the world, shown for the first time on the Creativity World Forum in Hasselt Belgium in 2011. The flower measures 9 m H!
In the exhibition Nature Now you can explore the smells by scratching and sniffing the sculpture.
PREVIEW FUTURES 01.06.2012 - 17.06.2012 Preview from 1 June, 2012 and full exhibition to follow in te autumn of 2012 With work by: Peter de Cupere, Caro Verbeek, Jeroen Barendse (LUST), Philip Schuette, Wim Vriezen, Hans Ligteringen
More than 400 visitors of the event Lupercalia in Ghent-Belgium participated on the 'Scented Kisses Happening'. They got all 1 free limited edition lipstick to kiss the scented canvas. The canvas was perfumed with 27 erotic fragrances in combination with pheromones.How later in the evening people got more excited by the smells... Click on more!!!
Ronny Van de Velde presents a miniature museum with works of contemporary artists.
Mini Olfactology Lab shows the way how Peter De Cupere experiments in his labo. 3 Flowers - and 1 tree sculpture are presented in the mini lab on scale 1:7 Visitors can explore the different scents of these scent sculptures.
Click on read more to see the list of artists and photos of the mini Olfactology Lab
Museum to scale 1/7 is an initiative by Ronny Van de Velde which has been developed by the artist Wesley Meuris. In accordance with a firmly established postmodern tradition, the museum is at once subject and object of an intervention that operates as a mise en abîme – that is, the representation of an object using the object itself as a frame of reference. Museum to scale features more than a hundred miniature exhibition rooms at a scale of 1:7 that are devoted to Belgian artists and Belgian artistic movements.
Museum to Scale 1/7 is a project initiated by renowned Belgian art collector and scholar Ronny Van de Velde and organized by The Baker Museum. Consisting of a collection of close to 70 diorama museum galleries devoted to Belgian artists and art movements, the installation recalls the 17th, 18th and 19th century Wunderkammern, the cabinets of curiosities/wonder, and is also conceived as homage to Marcel Duchamp and his boîte-en-valise and to Grandville’s illustrations for Gulliver’s Travels.
Lupercalia, a night full of love... No Valentine's Day for wimps ... but a total spectacle of love for free thinkers
Wednesday 15.02.2012
Presentation of Peter De Cupere's short movie 'Paris, Mon Amour' in the Bonbonnière room. With 2 smell-happenings by Peter De Cupere - 'Smell Me' and 'Sniff Me' Happening with the 'Smell Me & Sniff Me Perfume' - 'Scented Kisses' Happening For the whole programm, click on read more...
In his lecture "Olfactology Lab" Peter De Cupere talked about the possibilities how he as an artist interacts between nature and society. The relationship between the use of scent as a creative aspect of his work and the references to scientific backgrounds and mental responses (based on the memory of the viewer's mind). As examples of his olfactory artworks he explains his tree - and flower works. He ended his lecture with his "Flower Fragum Cardamomi" which was exhibited during the whole Creativity World Forum 2011 event. November 16th 2011
Introduction opening: Flor Bex, Honorary Director Muhka
Vrijzinnig Ontmoetingscentrum Hasselt
Artists: Koen van den Broek, Peter De Cupere, Nancy Slangen, Gert De Clercq, Caroline Coolen,Ives Maes, Gert Robijns, Fred Eerdekens, Jan Carlier, Carlo Mistiaen, Christian Dotremont, Herman Maes, Tina Gilen, Marc Claes,...
Group show: Peter De Cupere, Philippe Vandenberg, Katie Heck, Peter Rogiers, Guy Rombouts,Tinka Pittoors, Bart Baele, Carole Vanderlinden, Fik Van Gestel, Gery De Smet, Johan De Wilde, Joris Ghekiere, Mario De Brabandere, Nadia Naveau,Philip Aguirre, Thé Van Bergen, Tom Poelmans, Walter Swennen, Werner Mannaers, Wouter Feyaerts
Félicien Rops museum Namur - Belgium Artists: Marcel Broodthaers, César, Charlie Chaplin, Peter De Cupere, Dotremont, Doudelet, Fred Eerdekens, James Ensor, Jan Fabre, Frères Lumière, Goya, Méliès, Morris/Congo, On Kawara, Panamarenko, Redon, Starevich, Koen Theys, Paul Van Hoeydonck, Koen Van Mechelen, Angel Vergara
Gunpowder, grass, jasmine, pine, pollution, and patchouli are some of the odors wafting around galleries, museums, and studios these days as artists incorporate scent into the esthetic experience
Exhibition for a good charity. On the last day, all artworks auctioned for the benefit of the mucosal association, an organization dedicated to patients with cystic fibrosis.
Jan Fabre invited several artists to integrate art into his dance labo Troubleyn.
Peter Cupere made the work 'Sweat'. Sweat is a performance where the sweat of 5 dancers was caught. They wear specially designed costumes that were made out of plastic and connected by tubes. Before the action, the artist made a separate dish for each dancer. The intention is to catch the sweat from the dancers and to distill it. The sweat will be sprayed on a wall of the dance lab and protected by a glass box. In the glass is a small hole where visitors can smell the sweat. The performance is shown by video in the glass tank. More info will follow soon. The performance is shown for a selective audience (200 people, no places available anymore).
Other artists who are invited to realize a new art integration are: Michael Borremans, Koen Van den Broek, Berlinde De Bruykere, Joep van Lieshout, Robert Devriendt, Johan van Geluwe, ... for the total list from the earlier art integrations and more info: www.troubleyn.be
Francis Alys – Steven Baelen – Ruben Bellinkx – Luk Berghe – Fred Bervoets – Michaël Borremans – Peter Buggenhout – David Claerbout – Christine Clinckx – Stijn Cole – Caroline Coolen – Leo Copers – Bert De Beul – Rik De Boe – Berlinde De Bruyckere – Thierry De Cordier – Peter De Cupere – Raoul De Keyser – Ronny Delrue – Wim Delvoye – Jan De Maesschalck – Johan De Wilde – Arpais Dubois – Jan Hillen – Gideon Kiefer – Thomas Lerooy – Valerie Mannaerts – Kris Martin – Wesley Meuris – Peter Morrens – Sofie Muller – Renato Nicolidi – Hans Op de Beeck – Panamarenko – Matthieu Ronsse – Walter Swennen – Ante Timmermans – Luc Tuymans – Guy Van Bossche – Koen Van den Broeck – Rinus Van de Velde – Patrick Van Caeckenberg – Jan Van Imschoot – Koen Van Mechelen – Jan Vanriet – Benoît van Innis – Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven – Marielou van Lierop – Angel Vergara – Pieter Vermeersch – Filip Vervaet – Cindy Wright – Dirk Zoete
The Temporary Stedelijk at the Stedelijk Museum - Amsterdam
Lecture and debat
Thursday September 23th 2010 at 1900h
Participating persons:
Peter de Cupere (kunstenaar) Jim Drobnick (Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto) Caro Verbeek (kunsthistoricus and curator) Yolanda van Ede (Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam) Adam Tasi (Smartnose, Amsterdam) Valentina Hulsman (kunstenaar) Sue Corke (kunstenaar) Circle of Senses (Aroma DJ/VJ).
For the 4 th time in a row, Art Brussels invites upcoming and established artists to create a site specific art work for the fair. The visitor will discover ephemeral and large scale interventions by promising artists, all working and living in Belgium
The attentive Art Brussels visitor will be rewarded by the discovery of a smell installation by Peter De Cupere. Behind an ordinary door, next to the busy media booths, the visitor enters into a completely different environment. Via an intimate long corridor covered with retro wall paper, the visitors steps into two different rooms; a bathroom and a living room which are both filled with its opposite hardly bearable smells. Living the experiences of the intense odors might generate an activation of lost memories as in Prousts’ Madeleine scene.
The Same and The Other: humanism represented 26/09/2009 - 25/10/2009: Het Zelfde en het Andere, humanisme stilstaand verbeeld is een tentoonstelling met 30 Vlaamse kunstenaars van uitgesproken figuratieve kunst die vragen oproept over de mens in zijn dubbel-zinnigheden : vernieling/creativiteit; eros/thanatos; man/vrouw. . .
Soapscapes are cities and landscapes made out of soap. The react with the air by warmness and humidity and create little shiny cristals. Used fragrances are peppermint and grass
A new flower based on the concept flowers 'Alambfleurics'. The Orange Bulb Alambfleuric produces a typical orange fragrance, but has the quality of a perfume made of real flowers. The fragrance is more concentrated.
THE HANDS OF ART, Artbook and exhibitions Scented drawing: "Strawberry finger" Curator: Ronny Van de Velde, Antwerp. 190 paintings and prints of hands by Baldessari, Bernd und Hilla Becher, Michael Borremans, Louise Bourgeois, Peter De Cupere, Raoul Dekeyser, Duchamp, Jan Fabre, Gilbert & George, Thomas Hirschhorn, Jan Hoet, Asger Jorn, Kaspar König, Le Corbusier, Lichtenstein, Paul MacCarthy, Man Ray, Miró, Panamarenko, Gerhard Richter, Dieter Roth, Ed Ruscha, Thomas Schütte, Richard Serra, Luc Tuymans, Uecker, Warhol, Erwin Wurm, ...
NanoLove generates attraction and love between people. It is distilled out of nanoflowers which are cultivated on the hair of the human armpit. NanoLove is: a nanofume (perfume on nano scale!) scentless created with pheromones
Air Polluter is an interactive smell installation which allows the visitor to decide in how far he or she contributes to pollution of the air. By means of a control panel at the start of the installation, visitors can activate good as well as bad smells. This subdivision into two so called Smell Fields is based on the socially accepted appreciation of the various smells.