MOT International is delighted to announce Dan Rees' first solo exhibition with the gallery. Rees' show of new works inaugurates MOT International's second gallery in Brussels, a newly renovated building on Avenue Louise.

Throughout his practice Rees engages with familiar tropes and genres—monochromes, abstracts, ready-mades—quietly unhinging their forms as an ongoing strategy for production. His works disrupt existing art historical dialogues, while pointing to how ideas and narratives are repeated across time. Central to the exhibition is a selection of new pieces from Rees' ongoing Artex Painting series, in which distinctively rich colour fields of oil paint are combed into shell-like patterns. Hung variously on the walls and floors of the gallery spaces, blank advertising billboards suggest themselves as pre-fabricated minimalist sculptures, while a new video work, outsourced by the artist to a New York based ad agency, revisits the contemporary relevance of the 1986 ‘Wales Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign’.

Solo exhibitions include Stimulate Surprise at Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin (2015); Kelp at MOSTYN, Wales and at The National Museum of Wales, Cardiff (2013); Gravel Master at The Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas (2013); Philanthropy at Jonathan Viner, London (2011); French Cricket at Tanya Leighton, Berlin (2010); They Don't Make Them Like This Anymore at T293, Naples (2009) and Alan Brooks and Dan Reesat MOT International, London (2008).