This gallery, active between 1966 and 1976, hosted exhibitions by the most innovative and experimental artists of the time. It became a space for discussion and cultural promotion around which gravitated artists active between the Sixties and Seventies. Art historian Anny De Decker, and Düsseldorf Academy artist alumnus Bernd Lohaus, founded and directed the gallery jointly. They invited, among others, Carl Andre, Joseph Beuys, Marcel Broodthaers, Christo, Daniel Buren, Panamarenko, Lawrence Weiner and David Lamelas himself. The latter was “scouted” by Broodthaers, De Decker and Lohaus during a visit to the 1968 Venice Biennale, where the artwork Office of Information about the Vietnam War at Three Levels: The Visual Image, Text and Audio was on show inside the Argentinian pavilion. A friendship was soon born between Broodthaers and Lamelas, based on mutual exchanges and stimuli, together with regular and continuous encounters, rhythmed by the activities of the WIDE WHITE SPACE, to which both devoted their efforts.

To celebrate the biographical relation, the affinity between the research of the two artists and therefore, their common participation in an extraordinary chapter of European art history, the curator’s speech will be followed by the projection of Broodthaers’ film Une Seconde d'Eternité (D'après une idée de Charles Baudelaire), 1970.

The film was shot on 16mm film and it consists of one second repeating in a potentially infinite loop. An iconic work by the Belgian artist that dialogues with Lamelas' show for the duration of this one-time event, activating the space and the time of the exhibition in a special, ephemeral and poetically instantaneous manner.