Harry Irene
The Harry Irene exhibition presents the work of seven American artists for the first time, and includes paintings, collages, ceramics and sculptures. The exhibition’s curator, Joe Bradley, is one of the artists represented by the Brussels gallery.
Pure artistic expression is one of the themes of this exhibition: Hawkins Bolden, who was blind, made his sculptures without any reference to artistic trends or a potential audience.
Hawkins Bolden, half Creole and partially Native American, went blind at the age of 8 after a baseball accident. The small house he lived in in the city was stuck between a car wash and a high brick wall. In the shade of this wall, there was a small garden that Bolden loved and protected from external aggression with “scarecrows” that he made with found objects. These sculptures were embedded in the ground and had faces made of car wheel covers, metal pots and metal plate ends. Each surface was pierced with holes and decorated with rubber hose ends and pieces of carpet.