‘The chocolate bar’ (2003) by Bethan Huws
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Reynold Reynolds
‘Six easy pieces’ (2010), part of the ‘Secrets’ trilogy by Reynold Reynolds
Reynold Reynolds will be part of our upcoming screening programme Sorry for not standing still, at Kunstvlaai, Amsterdam! Opening Friday November 23.
Also, in the context of Sorry for not standing still, Reynold will be giving a talk on some of his older and more recent work on Sunday November 25th. See the Facebook event page
Ján Mancuška
Ján Mancuška, ‘800 Ways to Describe a Chair’ (2004)
Multiple gunshots are taken at a chair sitting against a wall. After the wall has been marked, the chair is removed, leaving its silhouette behind.
Olaf Nicolai
Olaf Nicolai, ‘The Blondes’ (2003)
The photographs were taken during the month that Olaf Nicolai ran a beauty parlor in the center of Tilburg in the Netherlands. He offered to bleach visitors’ hair free of charge, in exchange for the permission to use images of them in his work.
Jason Dodge
Jason Dodge, ‘In order of altitude’ (2008)
Five people with different professions were asked to cut a pocket from their trousers: PILOT, WINDOW WASHER, ACROBAT, BALLET DANCER, JUDGE.
Ceal Floyer
Ceal Floyer, ‘Works on Paper’ (2009)
Pieces of paper that customers use for testing pens at stationary shops, collected by Floyer over the years.
Yorgos Sapountzis
Yorgos Sapountzis, ‘Fast Cast’ and ‘Die Welt in Teilen (Office)’ (2011)
Yorgos Sapountzis takes the recognized dimensions of paving stones found in the city of Berlin and uses them to create a measuring device (a grid of of aluminium poles and fabric) to measure all floor areas of the gallery. These grids (colour coded for each room) are then collapsed and hung from the walls.
Jens Haaning
Jens Haaning, ‘Turkish Mercedes’ (1996)
A Mercedes Benz with Turkish license plates and loudspeakers on the roof, broadcasting jokes in Turkish in Kreutzberg, Berlin, an area dominated by Turkish immigrants.
