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Pierre Ardouvin

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Pierre Ardouvin, ‘Les Quatre Saisons’ (2010)

Pierre Ardouvin is participating in WHAT’S THE POINT OF GIVING YOU ANY MORE ARTWORKS?

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Frederik van Simaey

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Frederik van Simaey, excerpts from ‘Together we are one’.

Van Simaey’s work is on view from Friday 20hrs on until the 18th of April, during the exhibition ‘WHAT’S THE POINT OF GIVING YOU ANY MORE ARTWORKS?’

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Olivier Maarschalk

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Olivier Maarschalk, ‘Memories from the future’

During a lonely stay in Finland, Maarschalk asked his mother, girlfriend and roommate to pick a date and time in the future, on which they expected him and themselves to still be alive. For each person he made a drawing that shows the exact curve in which the sun enters his studio on that specific time. The drawings were sent to each participant by post.

Olivier Maarschalk is participating in WHAT’S THE POINT OF GIVING YOU ANY MORE ARTISTS? which opens coming Friday at eight.

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Jack Falanga

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Jack Falanga, Untitled (Fireworks) (Ongoing)

Jack Falanga will participate in ‘WHAT’S THE POINT OF GIVING YOU ANY MORE ARTWORKS?‘ !


Stefaan Dheedene

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Stefaan Dheedene, ‘A.U.B. RAAK NIET AAN WAT U NIET BEGRIJPT’
(’PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH WHAT YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND’) (2005)

Stefaan Dheedene is one of the ten artists taking part in the exhibition ‘WHAT’S THE POINT OF GIVING YOU ANY MORE ARTWORKS?’, curated by Pietmondriaan.com, taking place at Stichting KOP.

‘WHAT’S THE POINT OF GIVING YOU ANY MORE ARTWORKS?’ opens Friday the 12th of March, 20.ooh @ stichting KOP, Breda.

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‘Beard – Model K. Leo II’ (2005)
(Cardboard beards to take away)


Johan Holleman

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Johan Holleman, ‘Pillar’ (2003?)

Installation in the hallway of the Breda art school.


Chris Finnegan

Chris Finnegan, Untitled (2006)

Finnegan is an artist living and working in Dublin, Ireland.


Tris Vonna-Michell

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Tris Vonna-Michell, ‘The trades of others’. Performance still (2008)

Vonna-Michell’s performances and installations function as chapters within a non-linear story, combining personal myth with historical traces.

Interview here

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No love in an elevator

Watch the top right surveillance screen.

This is sped-up footage of mr. Nicholas White trapped in an elevator in the McGraw-Hill Building for 41 hours, after having a cigarette for lunch outside.

The story and some more facts about elevators, as featured in the New Yorker, here.


Matt Calderwood

Matt Calderwood, Double Ladder (Cross) (2009)

Matt Calderwood, ‘Double ladder (Cross)’, 2009

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Gelitin

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Gelitin, still from ‘Tierfick’  (1998)


‘Dog call’ by Halstead

Barbra (Halstead) makes phone calls trying to locate a specific breed of a putty-colored dog, but can only describe it by its bark. (1993)


Mandla Reuter, ‘Coppice’

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Mandla Reuter, ‘Coppice’ (2002)

An intervention that caused people to have to find a different way into the room.


Mike Nelson, ‘To the memory of H.P. Lovecraft’

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Mike Nelson, ‘To the memory of H.P. Lovecraft’ (1999)

Guardian article on the work.

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Interview after the jump:

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Ujin Lee

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Ujin Lee, from the ongoing series ‘Dust’ (2009)


Ivan Puig

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Ivan Puig, ‘Mandala’ (2006)

Just one more work after ‘le jump’.

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Driessens & Verstappen

During the etching process five keys are submerged in an etching solution. From time to time one of the objects is removed from the solution, until finally a small unrecognisable shape was left over.

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During the galvanisation process, metal atoms from a copper sulphate solution are deposited onto the objects by means of electrolysis. Just like during the etching process, four keys have been subject to the chemical process for an increasing period of time.

Driessens & Verstappen, ‘Morphoteque #13′ (2003)


Ferdinand Cheval’s ideal castle

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Ferdinand ‘Postman’ Cheval’s ‘ideal castle’.

Cheval began the building in April 1879. He claimed that he had tripped on a stone and was inspired by its shape. He returned to the same spot the next day and started collecting stones.

For the next 33 years, during his daily mail route, Cheval carried stones from his delivery rounds and at home used them to build his Palais idéal, the Ideal Palace. First he carried the stones in his pockets, then a basket and eventually a wheelbarrow. He often worked at night, by the light of an oil lamp.

Cheval spent the first two decades building the outer walls. The Palace is a mix of different styles with inspirations from the Bible to Hindu mythology. Cheval bound the stones together with lime, mortar and cement.

More after the jump.

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Antoine Stemerding

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Antoine Stemerding, ‘Wat wil je doen?’  (2006)

An installation/intervention at Stichting KOP, Breda.

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Opening Willem Claassen @ Galerie Gallery

Last Friday @ Galerie Gallery was the opening of Willem Claassen’s show! Here are some very bad pictures of the evening, better pictures will follow on the website of Galerie Gallery!

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Willem & Work.

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Egill Sæbjörnsson

Egill Sæbjörnsson, ‘Ping pong dance’ (2006)


Willem Claassen @ Galerie Gallery

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Tomorrow, Friday the 18th, Galerie Gallery will be showing a brand spanking new work by Willem Claassen. Come and see it!


Michel de Broin

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Michel de Broin, ‘Nuit Blanche’ (2009)

The largest mirror ball ever made was suspended from a construction crane 50 meters above the ground to render the starry sky to the citizens of Paris for one night in the Jardin du Luxembourg during the Nuit Blanche event.

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IMMA, Dublin, pt. 2

Also there;

‘Between Metaphor and Object: Art of the 90s from the IMMA Collection‘,

which had a few nice works. Below:

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Dublin, December 2009

Got back from the Irish capital yesterday, here’s some pictures to give you an impression of the town/trip.

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The water divides the city-centre into part 1 and part 2.

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Dussen

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Old news from 2007;

In Dussen (Brabant, NL) a man drove around in a cornfield for hours on end under the influence of cocaine. The result was the piece above.

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The Space Chair Project (Commercial)

Commercial for Toshiba, by Grey London Agency

I like it.


Momoyo Torimitsu

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Momoyo Torimitsu, ‘Miyata Jiro’ (1997)

The Japanese (but New York resident) artist Momoyo Torimitsu built a robot that resembles a businessman. It can crawl the streets of whichever city he places it. Video:

Now, the Japanese have put quite some more time and effort into building weird animatronics/robotics. Click on Read More to see a few more examples.

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Sigurdur Gudmundsson

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‘Event’ (1975) by Sigurdur Gudmundsson.

Some of Sigurdur Gudmundsson’s early works.

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Gianni Motti

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Gianni Motti, ‘Finishing’ (2000)

The day of the opening coincided with the marathon of Bienne. Gianni Motti moved the finishing line, adding an extra three meters to the distance of the race.