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INTERVIEW WITH NEW REFORM CURATOR ROGER D'HONDT

Door Sophie Gayerie From 1970 to 1979, Roger D'Hondt ran the avant-garde art centre New Reform in Aalst, where he organised happenings, performances, exhibitions and numerous other cultural events. In this interview, he talks about what led him to start New Reform, his experience of running the gallery and his collaboration with artists from Eastern Europe. New Reform's first exhibition space on Schoolstraat 17, Aalst, Belgium Sophie Gayerie : When did you start organising exhibitions ? Roger D’Hondt: I organised the exhibition ‘Art and Idea’ at the Museum of Aalst, which was on concrete and conceptual art. That was my first big exhibition, in 1970. And then, after maybe one or two years, I moved to performance art. SG: How did you discover conceptual art ? RD : In 1967 and 1968, I was a soldier in Kassel , I was 18 and. I spoke German. At the same moment, Kassel was preparing for the documenta. Christo was the...

NEW REFORM AND THE BEGINNINGS OF PERFORMANCE ART IN BELGIUM

By Sophie Gayerie , art historian based in Brussels In 1971, at 17 Schoolstraat, in a residential street of Aalst, a provincial town of Flanders half-way between Brussels and Ghent, 23-years old Roger D'Hondt opened the first exhibition space of New Reform Gallery. Founded a year earlier, New Reform was a self-proclaimed 'anti gallery' and 'an information center and a communication center for ideas'. Operating from Aalst, outside of major art cities such as Brussels or Antwerp, New Reform's aim was to introduce the local, national and - if possible - international audience to experimental art. Roger D'Hondt had just closed Reform Gallery, which he had run with his friend, the painter Walter Schelfhout. He was familiar with abstract painting, Minimal Art and Pop Art, which formed the main trends in art at the time, but was looking for something different. Influenced by his discovery of the Living Theatre, which relocated to Europe in 1966, an...

NEW REFORM: PERFORMANCES, HAPPENINGS EN ACTIES 1970-1979

Door Thomas Crombez docent kunstfilosofie, theatergeschiedenis en performance aan de Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten (Antwerpen) en aan Sint Lucas Antwerpen. New Reform locatie Peter Benoitstraat, Aalst De in Aalst gesitueerde New Reform Gallery werd opgericht door Roger D’Hondt in 1970. Tijdens het volgende decennium zou het één van de weinige kunstencentra in België zijn die plaats bood aan performancekunst. D’Hondt kon zijn centrum, allicht een juistere aanduiding dan galerie, vanaf juli 1971 onderbrengen in de kelders van een groot burgerhuis in de toenmalige Schoolstraat (nu Bert van Hoorickstraat). Daar, evenals in de straten van Aalst en op andere locaties, zou het centrum tot aan zijn opheffing in 1979 talrijke performances van binnen- en buitenlandse kunstenaars doen plaatsvinden. D’Hondt gaf daarnaast blijk van een levendige belangstelling voor conceptuele kunst, mail art en installaties. Zijn antigalerie was wars van commerciële interesses. Door bew...

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