Installation view, KABK, The Hague, NL
Overview B
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Overview C
Timeframe 04 min. 26
From the project ‘False Positives’ (2015) by Esther Hovers
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Esther Hovers
Gummbah & Chantal Rens
‘When life has no use, it should find a use’. Sweater from the series ‘Nobody Forever’ by Gummbah & Chantal Rens.
Barbara Bloom
Barbara Bloom, ‘Ghost of Vanitas Still Life’ (1994)
BB had a deep affinity for Dutch “Golden Age” painting, a result perhaps of her many years in Amsterdam, but more pertinently of a shared love of the material world. These were painters fascinated by framing: not only in the form of coy devices like the pulled-back drape at the edge of the canvas, but in the literal depiction of framed pictures within their pictures. (We know the artists whose paintings Vermeer owned because he showed them so often in his own paintings.) In David Bailly’s picture, things and pictures are arrayed across the surface of his canvas. Whatever his allegorical intentions, Bailly’s concern with the observable world, in all its idiosyncratic particulars, has trumped conventional narrative. BB’s peekaboo mounting only exacerbates Bailly’s pre-occupation with distracting surfaces and the limpid connections of thoughts and things.
Lily van der Stokker
‘Olga is ‘n krengetje’ (Olga is a little bitch) (2005)
‘Peter is ‘n lieverdje’ (Peter is a little sweetheart) (2005) by Lily van der Stokker.
Jan Huijben
“I was a bartender for one night in my life when the restaurant where I worked as a dishwasher needed some extra hands for christmas night.
I had to divide my attention between the two recently divorced men attending my bar. one was over from the UK to visit his children, the other had just been kicked out by his wife. they both wanted to share their story so I only had half an ear for each of them.
For the event ‘Barwars’ manifestion at Extrapool, Nijmegen, I built a bar in a closet and made it really small, so that I could focus my entire attention on the needs of one customer at a time.”
‘One-man bar’ (2005) by Jan Huijben.
Jan Dibbets
Jan Dibbets, ‘Museum Sokkel met vier hoeken van 90°’ (‘Museum plinth with four corners at an angle of 90°’ (1969)
Dibbets dug out the four corners of the Stedelijk Museum to expose the building’s ‘plinth’.
Remco Torenbosch
Remco Torenbosch, ‘EU’ (2011-2014)
An investigation into the history and production of the blue flag of the European Union designed by Arsène Heitz and Paul Lèvy in 1955. The presentation shows a collection of textile fabrics made in the European blue color code by the still existing weaving mills in the European Union. Although the color code for the EU flags is mandated, because of the differing production processes in each country and at each mill, it can still vary, resulting in a wide diversity of blue tints, as seen in this collection.
