Bunker archeology
2014, 100 years after the beginning of the First World War. It may sound as ancient history, but the centenary of the Great War has brought memories and stories back of the battles, the deaths of brave soldiers and the demolitions. In the context of this significant event..
Les statues meurent aussi
‘When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture’. It is with this statement that the for its time critical film Les statues meurent aussi (1953) by Alain Resnais (1922-2014) and Chris Marker (1921-2012) beg..
Disformed worlds
After a two-week summer break due to my move to Ostend, Little artnecdotes returned again with a new Little artnecdotes post. This week the disformed globes of Thomas Hirschhorn, in possession of the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
Strange and impressive at the same time. Seve..
No more dates for Kawara
The Japanese-American artist On Kawara (1933-2014) is no more. The conceptual artist, famous for his ‘date paintings’, passed away at the age of 81 in 2014.
Born in Kariya, Japan, Kawara drew and painted distressing surrealistic images until 1956. From 1965 on he settled..
herman de vries at Venice Biennale 2015
Dutch artist herman de vries (1931) represented the Netherlands at the 2015 edition of the Venice Biennale. His presentation of ‘to be all ways to be’, that de vries developed with curators Colin Huizing and Cees de Boer, was chosen by the jury over four other entries. ‘T..
Rebellious James
With my move to Ostend for the art triennial of Beaufort in 2015, Little artnecdotes dedicated a few of her Little artnecdotes contributions to Ostend, the North Sea and Belgium. As introduction one of the most important artists of Ostend, and perhaps even of Belgium, the..
Manifesta 10
End of June 2014 the much discussed tenth edition of Manifesta, the European biennial of contemporary art, began in St. Petersburg. It maintained itself for the 120 days until its closure on 31 October. 2014 marked the twentieth anninversary of the biennial which was init..
Never a dull moment with Roman
An artificial created queue, a replica of the Venice Biennale’s park landscape, visitors’ heights on white museum walls. Slovakian artist Roman Ondák (1966) analyzes in his work several facets of daily life in it’s ordinary aspects and details. He looks at the most common..