Mon De Rijck · Mon De Rijck, Carl's father
Rue Gaucheret: Art Pool and the Grand A
At 80 rue Gaucheret in Schaerbeek, the studio became a cooperative: Art Pool, its exhibitions - "Extension Nord", "Rupture de digue", two Truc-Troc editions - and the "Grand A" monument project on the canal.
80 rue Gaucheret, Schaerbeek: studio and exhibition space
At the end of the 1980s or the beginning of the 1990s, Mon De Rijck opened a large space at 80 rue Gaucheret, 1030 Schaerbeek. The studio served him both as a workplace and as an exhibition space, where he showed his own works and received visitors.
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1991 - "Truc-Troc": Art Pool brings the art of barter back into fashion
On 13 December 1991, Le Soir published an article by Martine Duprez on Art Pool's "Truc-Troc": an artwork exchange fair where money and cheques are banned. Artists exhibit their works on the ground floor at 80 rue Gaucheret; upstairs, members of the public deposit objects and offers of services in exchange - a stay in the Drôme, a trip to Italy, gold coins, a Chinese rug, a weekly bouquet of flowers for a year.
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1992 - Art Pool in the North Quarter: "Extension Nord"
On 12 March 1992, Le Soir published an article by Martine Duprez about the "Extension Nord" exhibition, organised on the initiative of Mon De Rijck in the display windows of WTC 1, in Brussels' North Quarter, at the corner of Boulevard du Jardin Botanique and Boulevard Émile Jacqmain.
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1992 - "Rupture de digue": Art Pool's aquatic exhibition
On 6 June 1992, Le Soir published an article by Martine Duprez on "Rupture de digue" ("Dam Burst"), an aquatic exhibition at Art Pool, rue Gaucheret in Brussels: a room lined with silver paper, plunged into darkness and covered with about twenty centimetres of water, where the public walks along a jetty while spotlights illuminate the works at water level.
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1992 - "Truc-Troc": second edition, with an "Artists' Studios Fund"
On 18 December 1992, Le Soir devoted a new article by Martine Duprez to the second edition of Art-Pool's "Truc-Troc", the artwork exchange fair where money and cheques are banned. "Barter is not based on the financial value of the work but on falling in love with it," explains Françoise Laurent, a member of Art-Pool, while Mon De Rijck, one of the founders, urges the public "to put their imagination to work".
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