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Annet Gelink Gallery proudly presents Art Blasé, Erik Van Lieshout’s fourth solo exhibition at the gallery. Tackling the Coronavirus crisis and the current political and economic climate, Art Blasé – an anagram of that icon of the art world, Art Basel– forms Van Lieshout’s account of the ‘new normal’.

Art Blasé forms the overspill of a project Van Lieshout had been working on prior to the crisis hitting, a film about luxury, the art market and the position of the artist. To shoot footage for the film, Van Lieshout embarked on a cruise to Norway in the summer of 2019 aboard the Nieuw …