Brussels

On view: February 1 - April 30, 2026 | Lisa Blas "Dawn >> Spaces of Healing << Dusk" | UZ Brussel, Jette, Belgium

Lisa Blas Dawn >> Spaces of Healing << Dusk
February 1 - April 30, 2026

Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Brussels Health Campus, Laarbeeklaan 101, 1090 Jette, Belgium
Curator: Luk Lambrecht

ON VIEW: Ground floor, open 24 hours, seven days a week.

PRESS RELEASE

LISA BLAS
Pause (Play), Horizon
2023
Acrylic, ink and interference paint on canvas
2 x 4 meters x 4 centimeters

“Call it a chromatic choreography thought and performed far beyond the pacific wall: emerging from the Chamorro villages, it’s layered in between the West Coast’s explosion of light and the East Coast where Lisa Blas has dwelled for so long. This chromatic choreography lives on in northern Europe, again between other chromatic spaces, the Giverny green and the Flemish grey. In this sense, since art can’t do more than formulate requests, ideals and desires, every canvas is a periphery that desires to temporarily be a centre, to capture the gaze and define an interior … until it passes to the next. These are dialectical canvasses: they mediate between the peripheries of the world, the periphery of vision and a centre that is nothing more than a transitory working of attention, somewhere between the free play of imagination and memory. Where have I seen this before and where do I want to see it again, for how long and where am I going from here?

Lisa Blas’s Peripheries invites you to grasp the sense of place, history and identity as a series of visual hemispheres that delineate the transitions of life in terms of colourful planes.”

Vlad Ionescu

LISA BLAS
Le balcon, v. 3 (after Jean G.)
2025
Acrylic, ink and interference paint on linen
50 x 50 x 2 centimeters

Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Brussels Health Campus, Laarbeeklaan 101, 1090 Jette, Belgium

Opening: June 14, 2025 | Lisa Blas "Afterchrome(s)" | Rue du Chapeau 10 | Brussels

OPENING: June 14, 2025 in Brussels: Lisa Blas “Afterchrome(s)” | Rue_du_Chapeau 10, Brussels, Belgium.

ON VIEW: Through Sunday, June 29, 2025.
HOURS: 3:00 - 8:00 pm, Saturday and Sunday, or by appointment.

Eclips(E)llipse, Shadow writer(s) v. 9 | Acrylic, ink and interference paint on canvas, 50.8 x 40.6 cm, 2023

Opening: April 23, 2023 | Lisa Blas "Pause (Play), Horizon" | 76,4 * Brussels

76,4 is pleased to announce

PAUSE (PLAY), HORIZON

2020-2023

by 

LISA BLAS

from 23/04 - 28/05/2023

OPENING 

Sunday 23 April, 16:00-19:00 

Lisa Blas, Bruxelles, April 2023

2020___suspended time___2023

Rue de Bosnie appears on Google maps at an angle. Walking north from 76,4 in Brussels, the street intersects with Rue André Hennebicq at the roundabout. Here, one finds the New Hollywood café. Point your imaginary compass due west, and Hollywood, California, will eventually appear in the mind’s eye – where the sun, horizontality of the landscape and light’s reflectivity are in constant oscillation. 

PAUSE (PLAY), HORIZON is the quadrant of two horizons, geographical and biographical — and two periods of time, April 2020 and April 2023. As if folding the page of a book you were halfway through, and finding it again three years later, the narrative is re-remembered. Meanwhile, the interstices of daily life played out. 

At 76,4, I exhibit a painting spanning 2 x 4 meters. The viewer encounters a tilted curvilinear form with an oculus at the center. Similar to the aperture of a camera, the oculus is the space linking interior and exterior, the spectator and the object in view. In March 2020, the oculus shape emerged for me while painting at dawn — the view through my apartment windows, weather conditions, the western sky meets the Hudson River, forming a horizon line with the New Jersey shoreline. Horizontal divisions of space eventually gave way to curvilinear forms with a lacuna radiating at the center. These daily viewpoints accrue in time and space, and in memory — color appears and disappears through an infinity zone. I define them as “afterchromes”.

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76,4

24, rue de Bosnie

1060 Saint-Gilles, Brussels 

Permanently visible from the street.

Hosted by Michel François, Ekaterina Kaplunova, Juan Pablo Plazas and Richard Venlet.

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