Eric Croes "Bes’s Hand", 2021-2022, Glazed ceramic, 59 x 24 x 28,5 cm,
Eric Croes "Death’s Hand", 2021-2022, Glazed ceramic, 108 x 41 x 56 cm.
Eric Croes "Nout’s Hand", 2021-2022, Glazed ceramic, 75 x 32 x 30 cm.
Eric Croes, "Philosof's Foot" 2021-22 Glazed ceramic, concrete and steel, 206 x 47 x 47 cm.
Eric Croes "Fantomas’s foot", 2021-2022, Glazed ceramic, concrete and steel, 213 x 47 x 47 cm.
Eric Croes "Fakir’s foot", 2021-2022, Glazed ceramic, concrete and steel, 204 x 49 x 47 cm.
Eric Croes "Vesta's Hand" 2021-22 Glazed Ceramic, 71 x 35 x 48 cm.
Eric Croes "Mermaid’s Hand", 2021-2022, Glazed ceramic, 59 x 23 x 29,5 cm.
Eric Croes, "Janus' Hand" 2021-22 Glazed ceramic. 97 x 35 x 47 cm.
Eric Croes, "Self Portrait with Chloé, 2019 Glazed ceramic, 68 x 38 x 30 cm.
Eric Croes, "Ulysses and Parakeet" 2019 Glazed ceramic, 54 x 31 x 33 cm.
Eric Croes, 2019 "Cheeseburger Birds Through" 2019 Glazed Ceramic, 56 x 47 x 59 cm.
Eric Croes, Installation view of "F Like Family" Richard Heller Gallery , January 2019
Eric Croes
Born in La Louvière in 1978
Lives and works in Brussels
Croes’ artistic practice is at once both experimental and disciplined. The objects are playful yet extremely well executed and conceptually rigorous. A unifying theme is that Croes always starts a body of work with a set of rules, much like in his favorite game, Yahtzee.
For this series, Croes gave a disposable camera to his boyfriend, artist Simon Demeuter, along with each member of his close family (his father, his two brothers, and his sister). He then asked them to shoot images of their daily life in a free way. Croes then collaged together selected elements of the resulting photographs as references for this new body of ceramic sculptures.
Like it or not, our families have a great influence on our lives. The concept for this body of work was to find a way to have family shape not only the artist’s life but also to influence the shapes of his sculptures. As a declaration of love Croes is, in essence, bringing his family along to the exhibition for his first trip and solo exhibition in the US.
The titles and forms of the sculptures are composed with each element giving protection to the other. Much in the spirit of Native American totem poles, the two totemic sculptures, Giant with Left Foot and Giant with Right Foot function as guardians, lucky charms, and ancestors of the artist’s loving grandparents (who look after not only him and his family but also offer protection to the other individual sculptures in the exhibition).
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2010-2014 Ceramic studio, Académie Constantin Meunier, Brussels (B)
1997-2003 Sculpture studio, ENSAV La Cambre, Brussels (B)
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2022
The Gods Must Be Crazy, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica (USA) - Forthcoming2021
Always On My Mind, Almine Rech, London (UK)2020
7, Sorry We're Closed - Sébastien Janssen, Brussels (B)2019
F Like Family, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica (USA)Take a Giant Step, The Armory Show with Sorry We're Closed - Sébastien Janssen, New-York (USA)
2018
Threesome, FIAC Projects with Sorry We're Closed - Sébastien Janssen, Paris (F)Neither gray nor green, VNH Gallery, Paris (F)
2017
The foam of days, Atelier Pierre Culot, Roux - Miroir (B)ABECEDAIRE To my old friends, Sorry We're Closed, Brussels (B)
Secret Handshake, Lefebvre & Fils, Paris (F)
2016
Ancora tu, Art Brussels 2016 with Rossicontemporary, Brussels (B)2015
Platypus, Albert Baronian, Brussels (B)The small museum, Chapel of glass, Ronquières (B)
Ich bin wie du, Rossicontemporary, Brussels (B)
2012
ALONE, Botanical Gallery, Brussels (B)2010
Bear Pit - Bear Pit, Congress Station, Brussels (B)2009
Everything I liked, Chapel of Calvairiennes and Castle Museum, Mayenne (F)2007
Small jobs, CODE / BURO, Brussels (B)2006
Moving mountains, Galerie Bis Heute, Bern (CH)2003
Crash test family, Gallery Fast forward, Antwerp (B)2002
Bloodstain, Frame Gallery, Brussels (B) -
2021
Untitled Miami Beach with Richard Heller Gallery, Miami (USA)NADA Miami Beach with Sorry We're Closed - Sébastien Janssen, Miami (USA)
Ik zal je spiegel zijn (Duo show with Julien Meert) Kunsthal, Gent (B)
Monts Analogues, Frac Champagne-Ardenne, Reims (F)
Retrouvailles, Almine Rech, Paris (F)
The Agprognostic Temple, Tour & Taxis, Bruxelles (B)
2020
Les mains dans les poches, Gilles Drouault galerie/multiples, Paris (F)Love My Way#2, Villa Noailles, Hyères (F)
2019
Foncteur d’oubli, Le Plateau Frac île de France, Paris (F)Cultiver son jardin, Villa Noailles, Paris (F)
Art Genève with VNH Gallery, Geneva (CH)
2018
NADA Miami Beach with Sorry We're Closed - Sébastien Janssen, Miami (USA)Untitled Miami with Richard Heller Gallery (USA)
Le quart d'heure américain (Duo show with Jean-Baptiste Bernadet) NICC, Brussels (B)
Design Parade, Villa Noailes, Hyères (F)
Touch Wood, Art Brussels with Sorry We're Closed - Sébastien Janssen, Brussel (B)
Club Conscious, Observatorium, Antwerp (B)
NICC Jubilee, NICC, Antwerp (B)
2017
FIAC 2017 (Duo show with Yann Gerstberger), Sorry We're Closed - Sébastien Janssen, Paris (F)EXPO Chicago, Richard Heller Gallery, Chicago (USA)
Beheaded, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica (USA)
Pre-Capital, La Panacée, Montpellier (F)
You Are My Heroes, Art Brussels with Sorry We're Closed - Sébastien Janssen, Brussel (B)
The cat museum, De Markten, Brussels (B)
2016
NADA - Miami Beach (Duo show with Yann Gerstberger), Sorry We're Closed - Sébastien Janssen - Sébastien Janssen, Miami (USA)As if nothing had happened, Van Buuren House, Brussels (B)
Made in Oven, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels (B)
The Salon invited by Almine Rech Gallery, Independent, Brussels (B)
Green Does not Sell, Art Brussels with Sorry We're Closed - Sébastien Janssen, Brussels (B)
Katsalon, MUHKA, Antwerp
2015
Friendly Faces, Johannes Vogt Gallery, New York (USA)Louise 186, Avenue Louise 186, Brussels (B)
Accidental Colors, Belgisch Institute for Normalisatie, Turnhout (B)
Sometimes the enigma, Rossicontemporary, Brussels (B)
Im Schnitt, CNAEI, Chatou (F)
2014
Lupanar, Forma, Lausanne (CH)Group photo, Rossicontemporary, Brussels (B)
Winterspiele, Abilene, Brussels (B)
PANORAMA, Rossicontemporary, Brussels (B)
Borderline, CEPES, Jodoigne (B)
2013
Expo X3, Ianchelevici Museum, La Louvière (B)Wunderkammer, contemporary cabinet of curiosities, Palazzo Widmann, Venice and Academia Belgica, Rome (IT)
Beware of the surface, Espace LABO, Geneva (CH)
2012
See You There, Middelmarch, Brussels (B)Wunderkammer, contemporary cabinet of curiosities, Le Botanique, Brussels (B)
2011
GANG BANG FOREST, Komplot, Brussels (B)The homesickness, Feast of St. Martin, Tourinnes (B)
Launching, House of Culture, Namur (B)
2009
Prix du Hainaut 2009, BPS22 selection, Charleroi (B)ART 'contest 2009, Espace Black Box selection, Brussels (B)
2008
Honorons Honored, Garage, Mechelen (B)2007
First sight, Passage of Retz, Paris (F)Nuit blanche, City of Mayenne (F)
Philippe Vosges, mountain collector, High night cottage, Ecaussines (B)
2006
STRATE CODE, MAÏS Festival, Brussels (B)MULTI CODE, Le comptoir, Liège (B)
Street Promenade Visarte, City of Lausanne (CH)
2005
Snow Storm, Le Pigeonnier, Brussels (B)The loop is complete, Galerie Basta, Lausanne (CH)
The End of Music, Harlequin, Brussels (B)
2004
Open House, The dovecote, Brussels (B)2003
Camper, Azeri Gallery, Geneva (CH) -
CADAVRES EXQUIS
(in collaboration with Simon Demeuter)Softcover / 210 x 297 mm / 64 pages, 61 images / Edition of 300 / English / Design by Olivier Vandervliet / Triangle Books, Brussels, 2018
ABECEDAIRE
Hardcover / 214 x 270 mm / 154 pages / Interview by Jean-Baptiste Bernadet / English and French / Edition of 300 / Design by Camille Buiatti / Sébastien Janssen - Sorry We're Closed, Brussels, 2017
COLOR ME
Softcover / 148 x 210 mm / 28 pages / English and French / Edition of 3000 / Design by Rachel Cazadamont / Semiose Editions, Paris, 2017
ANCORA TU
Softcover / 210 x 297 mm / 54 pages / English / Edition of 100 numbered and signed / Design by Simon Demeuter / Rossicontempary, Brussels, 2016
ICH BIN WIE DU
Softcover / 148 x 210 mm / 70 pages / English / Edition of 100 numbered and signed with a print enhanced with watercolor / Design by Simon Demeuter / Rossicontempary, Brussels, 2015
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Le Voyage à Nantes, Nantes (FR)
Le Vent des Forêts, Lorraine (FR)
Musée National de céramique, Sévres (FR)
ASU Art Museum Ceramics Research Center, Tempe Arizona (USA)