Jacques Sonck - Untitled, Antwerp, 1984 - Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Fifty One Too.
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JACQUES SONCK
14/05/2026 - 11/07/2026
Gallery Fifty One Too
Hofstraat 2
2000 Antwerpen
www.gallery51.com
These two exhibitions bring together singular yet resonant perspectives. Each artist, in their own way, has made the real and the human condition the core of their practice. Jacques Sonck and Vivian Maier share a deep attentiveness to individuals, their silent presence, their gestures, and what subtly emerges beyond appearances. Born in 1949 in Belgium, Jacques Sonck developed his photographic language from the 1970s onward, traveling extensively across his country. Working primarily with a small-format camera, he approaches strangers in the street and invites them into a direct, often frontal encounter. His portraits, marked by a striking clarity and absence of artifice, isolate the subject from context, giving full presence to faces, bodies, and expressions. One may think of August Sander, Diane Arbus, or Richard Avedon. But where others classified, provoked, or stylised, Sonck observes with patience and respect without judgment.
14/05/2026 - 11/07/2026
Gallery Fifty One Too
Hofstraat 2
2000 Antwerpen
www.gallery51.com
These two exhibitions bring together singular yet resonant perspectives. Each artist, in their own way, has made the real and the human condition the core of their practice. Jacques Sonck and Vivian Maier share a deep attentiveness to individuals, their silent presence, their gestures, and what subtly emerges beyond appearances. Born in 1949 in Belgium, Jacques Sonck developed his photographic language from the 1970s onward, traveling extensively across his country. Working primarily with a small-format camera, he approaches strangers in the street and invites them into a direct, often frontal encounter. His portraits, marked by a striking clarity and absence of artifice, isolate the subject from context, giving full presence to faces, bodies, and expressions. One may think of August Sander, Diane Arbus, or Richard Avedon. But where others classified, provoked, or stylised, Sonck observes with patience and respect without judgment.