Opening: 19.09.2024, 18:00
20.09.2024 – 16.11.2024
Curators : Pauline Salinas, Grégory Thirion
in co-production with Botanique
Bar: Le Viaduc, 43 rue du Viaduc, Ixelles
Marc Buchy’s Hoshi Go Club is founded on this counterfactual question. Pursuing his interrogations
on our knowledge-based society, the artist has chosen to take over a Brussels bar, Le Viaduc (Rue du
Viaduc 43, Ixelles), for two months to present his new project.
Exhibition programme :
- Thursday 19.09: Vernissage 18:00
- Thursday 26.09: Lecture night
- Thursday 07.11: Night of experimental music
- Saturday 16.11: Finissage – Go tournament
- Free GO lessons every Wednesday at 7pm and by appointment
In keeping with his protean, conceptual approach, Marc Buchy has invented a go club. Its specificity
lies in the fact that the artist has made Marcel Duchamp its leading figure, an avid go player if ever
there was one… as supported by the archive images displayed in the space! The club’s identity, which
extends from an illuminated sign to coasters and a specially created cocktail (among other things),
combines references to the Asian strategic game with those of the progenitor of contemporary art.
Whilst some games will be available to play for free, visitors will also have the opportunity to become
members of the famous Hoshi Go Club and will receive a membership card. A teacher will be on site to
teach the game every Wednesday evening, by appointment only. Other special activities featured will
embark the project on a series of literary and musical interludes.
The exhibition will culminate in a one-day tournament( Saturday 16.11), during which beginners and skilled players will have a chance to play together.
This ambitious project stems from a partnership between two Brussels-based art institutions – Le
Botanique and Komplot – and a partnership with the Fédération Belge de Go and Éditions Extensibles
(Fr). Here, Marc Buchy takes an unorthodox and unexpected detour into history and narrativity, deploying
the field of speculation to investigate the conceptual underpinnings of contemporary art. Encouraging
the creation of links between individuals, collective intelligence, the long-term and the unpredictable,
the Hoshi Go Club invites everyone to a journey of exploration and immersion to a world where life and
art, reality and fiction, the playful and the serious, all combined to build bridges between different fields.
With the support of Botanique, Fédération Wallonie – Bruxelles, COCOF, Cultuurdienst Anderlecht