Exhibition
CategoryMarina Abramović – 512 hours
After her much acclaimed and publicised The artist is present (2010) at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the godmother of performance art, Serbian-born Marina Abramović (1946), came back with a new work, a performance emphasizing the importance of ‘nothing’. Already ..
Eenzaam object verloren in groen geweld
‘Te midden van een grasveldje bij de vijver in het Amstelpark en het daarnaast gelegen café-restaurant staat het kunstwerk Thunder, Rumbling (2014) van de Belgische kunstenaar Freek Wambacq er een beetje verloren bij. Hoewel niet erg klein van formaat wordt het overschadu..
Small and beautifully grim work reigns supreme at Borremans retrospective
One thing is clear, Michaël Borremans (1963) masters the techniques of classical painting to perfection and seeks with his work rapprochement with the tradition of drawing and painting. He establishes a dialogue with the remains that have been handed down to us from the 1..
Rossella Biscotti
For six months Italian artist Rossella Biscotti (1978) led a workshop in which participants shared and recorded their dreams. The participants were not any participants, they were the inhabitants of the women’s prison on the island of Giudecca in Venice. This workshop res..
Walsen in oneindigheid
‘Als een walsend danspaar beweegt en zweeft een subtiel en minuscule lijn over een klein gedeelte van de grote witte muur van Dapiran Art Project Space in Utrecht. Deze animatie, line dancer (2011), is een eindeloze loop van achter elkaar gezette tekeningen waarin doorhal..
The play of displaying
Angling through the different rooms are shelves mounted on metal studs that are usually used in the construction of walls. On these shelves are dozens of salt and pepper shakers in every shape possible, cats, houses, fishes, cakes, vikings, or cooks. These objects were le..
TEFAF
A rare porcelain plate from the Yuan period (1271-1368), an Art Nouveau oak chair of furniture designer Carlo Bugatti, the painting Le Moulin de la Galette (1887) of Vincent van Gogh, or Francis Bacon’s Study from a human body (1986). This and many more could be all be ad..
The ‘verticality’ of vertical cinema
What is vertical cinema? I’ve been asking myself that question when attending the four-day event Vertical Cinema at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, which took place from 20 until 23 February 2014.
Since the very beginning cinema has explored the changing conditions of..