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Helmut Smits

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Helmut Smits, ‘The real thing’ (2014)

A distilling installation that turns Coca-Cola back into clean drinking water.


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Risograph by Helmut Smits.


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Helmut Smits, ‘1847 meter, the distance from my house to my studio’ (2010)

extension lead 10 m
extension cord red 25 m
extension cord yellow 20 m
extension cord green 12 m
extension cord white 3 m
extension cord IKEA KOPPLA 5 m
installation wire black 100 m
rope brown 100 m
rope white 20 m
rope off white 20 m
rope IKEA blue10 m
rope black/blue/white 20 m
sisal rope 45 m
polypropylene rope yellow 45 m
polypropylene rope blue 45 m
polypropylene rope brown 45 m
flexible tube 5 m
nail band 10 m
tape measure 3 m
tape measure 30 m
iron wire 1,5mm green 25 m
iron wire 50 m
iron wire green Gamma 50 m
iron wire green Skandia 50 m
clothesline 20 m
tensioning strap orange 5 m
tensioning strap blue 4 m
stretching foil 150 m
coaxial cable 5 m
yarn 65 m
sandpaper roll kwb 5 m
sandpaper roll 5 m
electrical wire black 5 m
electrical wire white 5 m
electrical wire brown 5 m
electrical wire with switch 2 m
elastic band 10 m
thread 100 m
masons line 40 m
phone cord 2 m
iron cord 3 m
melamine edge 2,5 m
nylon thread 25 m
bandage 4 m
plaster tape 5 m
duct tape 50 m
insulating tape black 4,5 m
insulating tape brown 4,5 m
insulating tape yellow/green 4,5 m
insulating tape blue 4,5 m
insulating tape green 25 m
masking tape Elma 25 m
masking tape Tesa 50 m
12mm masking tape 50 m
masking tape purple 25 m
double sided foam tape 1,5 m
double sided carpet tape 5 m
sealing tape 5 m
aluminum tape 5 m
packing tape Scotch 66 m
packing tape Tesa 66 m
packing tape fragile 66 m
packing tape transparant Scotch 66 m
packing tape transparant Zeeman 25 m
adhesive tape 33 m
adhesive tape crystal 33 m
teflon tape 12 m


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Helmut Smits, ‘Flash Art in Artnews format’ (2013)


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Helmut Smits, ‘Always Coca-Cola’ (2014)

This plant is only watered with Coca-Cola.


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Helmut Smits, ‘no title (grand piano)’ (2006)


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‘Unseen works’ (2008) by Helmut Smits

CBK de Krabbedans has a collection of 4500 artworks for rent or sale. Smits asked them to put together a selection of artworks that had been in their collection for quite some time but had never been rented or sold. He then exhibited this selection.


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‘Greenscreen’ (2009) by Helmut Smits.

A football summary were the grass is used as a greenscreen for commercial messages.


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Helmut Smits, ‘Boom voor billboard (tree in front of billboard)’ (2006)