We have the honour to host the first solo exhibition at our gallery of internationally renown artist Ricardo Brey (1955, CU), marking the start of a longterm collaboration between the artist and Galerie Tatjana Pieters as his Belgian representative. ‘Gasoline Around the Moon’ concerns the first major exposure of his work in Belgium since his monumental project ‘Universe’ at the Museum of Contemporary Art S.M.A.K. Ghent in 2006. ‘Universe’ was a large scale installation of 1004 drawings unfolded within 99 glass vitrines, making the lecture of the drawings transparent. The next chapter in Brey’s work does the opposite. The exhibition presents an installation of black boxes that when opened reveal a highly personal and multidisciplinary universe, inviting the viewer to engage and discover.
 
Brey has been committing himself to the development of large projects since 2002. After ‘Universe’ (2002- 2003), he continued with the extended project ‘Annex’ (2003-2009), followed by ‘Every Life Is a Fire’ in 2009. Here the artist began an amazing journey creating multidisciplinary works inside unfoldable archival boxes of the same size. Offering the beholder a look into the miniature, Brey meticulously transforms the boxes into spaces of wonder. Each with their individual title, they reflect an autonomous world. The five boxes on show are the last ones of the project, but the first ever to be exhibited in public.