OBJECTIF-EXHIBITIONS

http://www.objectif-exhibitions.org/

OBJECTIF EXHIBITIONS is a non-profit space dedicated to contemporary art in Antwerp.

objectif [retribution] as a project finds its origins in a visit to Caracas, Venezuela in 2005, where we saw a socio-artistic project by two artists, Jaime Gili and Luis Romero.

Tipos Moviles is an on-going series of posters by different artists, executed in a printing workshop dating back to the 1920’s, that Luis Romero and Jaime Gili wanted to preserve. The posters appear in public space as a somewhat surprising sign of the existance of advanced artistic practice in a third world metropolis. With the years the project has evolved internationally into a visual archive of artistic activity in Caracas, Buenos Aires, London,...

objectif_exhibitions’ own poster project, that stands apart from Tipos Moviles, because in Western Europe the conservation of post-industrial heritage is taken care of via specific networks, intends to visualize the organisations public character and pay respect to local artistic practice.

10 artists were invited to design their own poster within the constraints of a set technical format that could function in public space as a signal for the critical potential and social relevance of all artistic activity, even the most elliptical.