Paul Casaer
Subtitle: all we can get
By: texts by Koen Leemans, Valerie Verhack and Wim Waelput
Contributors: De Garage (Art gallery : Mechelen, Belgium)
Publisher: Stockmans Art Books
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Duffel]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9789464363043
Copyright date: 2021
Subjects: Exhibitions
Other titles: All we can get
Description: All we can get, the title of Paul Casaer?s exhibition at De Garage, can be read in different ways. Inspired by all-you-can-eat restaurants, it denounces our human gluttony and desire for more. In today?s society, greed and unbridled consumerism guide our behaviour as individuals and as a species. Social media, advertising, trivial worries and boredom determine daily life. In this postmodern world-as-a-funfair, we hardly know who we are any more. In search of meaning, we seem to be collectively stuck in our role of individualistic, self-centred consumers.00Our needs have been met, and yet a piercing sense of hollowness remains. All we can get refers to the meaninglessness of our existence and the painful lack of content, truthfulness and fundamental values. We wonder desperately: Is this it? Is this all we can get?00Excerpt from text by Koen Leemans. Exhibition: De Garage, Mechelen, Belgium (25 .09. - 21.11.2021).
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at De Garage, Museum Hof van Busleyden, September 25-November 21, 2021.

Texts in English and Dutch.