Motinternational Brussels is delighted to announce the first solo exhibition of Amikam Toren in Belgium.

The gallery exhibits key works from the artist’s practice, including the seminal Neither a Teapot Nor a Painting. Deliberately echoing René Magritte’s famous play on the paradoxes of imagery, “This Is Not a Pipe” (1929), the artist produced a painting of the titular teapot using its ground fragments as pigment. Displaying both the destroyed object and the painting side by side, the work is the first instance of the artist’s ‘tautological’ paintings, and represents a pivotal moment in his practice. The exhibition focuses on how Toren continues to work with materials from destroyed ready-made objects which are resurrected as artworks, with a selection of paintings from his Reproductions series, and an example of the Stack sculptures.

A significant figure of British conceptual painting, Toren has been the subject of major solo exhibitions at The Serpentine Gallery, 1976, The Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1979, Chisenhale Gallery and Arnolfini, Bristol, 1991. Internationally, his work has been represented at the Paris Biennale, 1967, Venice Biennale, 1982, and Guangzhou Triennial, 2012, with recent exhibitions including the John Moores Painting Prize, 2012, Jerwood Drawing Prize, London, 2011, Neuberger Museum of Art, New York, 2009 and Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 2008.