I’m sure someone somewhere once said something about art being the new rock and roll – doesn’t merit Googling but it’s typical lazy-journo rhetoric nonetheless. Well, rock and roll is going nowhere and doesn’t need superseding by anything, thank you very much, glib statements be damned. Both coexist quite nicely, symbiotically in fact, especially in the world of Joris Van de Moortel, whose latest art collection Getting Comfortable Slowly owes everything to the artist’s adventures in music.

A painter, sculptor, performer and musician, here Van de Moortel is concerned with the repercussions and reverberations of the music performance, what is left behind, the detritus, the unplugged cables and the broken glass. Using the post-industrial environment of Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels, as an integral part of the exhibition, he displays the inner workings of a performance, a curated aftermath of frozen energy. Getting Comfortable Slowly will be playing daily at the gallery until 16 November.

Joris VAN DE MOORTEL
UNTITLED (SMOKE AND NOISE IN GREEN LIGHT), 2013
Duratrans, wood, plexi-glass, light, acrylic,
hinges, bronze 122x122cm (48x48in.)

Joris VAN DE MOORTEL
GETTING COMFORTABLE SLOWLY AND VARIOUS COLLECTABLE
OBJECTS OF WHICH SOME CASTED IN BRONZE, 2013
Aluminum, duratrans, wood, plexi-glas, light,
various objects 200x100x6cm (783/4×393/8×23/8in.)

Joris VAN DE MOORTEL
DITCHER/CLOSER#2, 2013
Aluminium, duatrans, lumière, prise
100x100x20cm (393/8×393/8×77/8in.)

Joris VAN DE MOORTEL
PANDORA, 2010-2013
Wood, plexi-glass, various objects such as
a tom tom drum and a bucket

Joris VAN DE MOORTEL
DE OERS IN BERLIJN AND VARIOUS COLLECTABLE
OBJECTS OF WHICH SOME CASTED IN BRONZE, 2013
Aluminum, duratrans, wood, plexi-glas, light,
various objects 200x100x6cm (783/4×393/8×23/8in.)