HUNTING IN THE DARK

gerlach en koop – :

This publication follows the exhibition : with the collection of the Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht in 2016, at the invitation of curator Paula van den Bosch. This publication also follows the catalogue cubics by architects and designers Slothouber and Graatsma from 1970, such that it served as support for the artworks in print, just like their cubic system of blocks supported the artworks in the exhibition. All exhibited artworks are included in this publication, works by Francis Alÿs, Dan Asher, Joseph Beuys, Marcel Broodthaers, Pieter Brueghel, Ben d’Armagnac, Bethan Huws, Oscar Jespers, Marijn van Kreij, Agnes Martin, Willem de Rooij, Lily van der Stokker, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Franz West and many others, plus several anonymous objects of different provenances and different times. The publication contains a long interview with the artists by a ghosted ghostwriter, in Dutch and English. Design: Charles Mazé and Coline Sunier in collaboration with gerlach en koop and Roger Willems.

Source: gerlach en koop – :

08/13/2019By wtrhs Uncategorized

Argwaan op 2341 meter; Internationale kunst in de Zwitserse Alpen – NRC

Kunst op locatie is ook in Zwitserland niet onbekend. Galeriehouder Marc Hostettler kocht in 1986 een hotel bij de Furkapas en liet kunstenaars als Lawrence Weiner en Günther Förg het gebouw en de omgeving onder handen nemen. Is het in de bergen anders dan in Nederland waar de locatiekunst vaak betuttelend is? “Het lijkt niet bij de opzet van Furkart te passen om als een spoorzoeker op zoek te gaan naar de kunstwerken. Ze moeten toevallig worden genoten.”

Hotel Furkablick, Furkapasshöhe Ch. 6491, Realp. Tel. 00-41-44-67297. Open in juli, augustus en september. Kamer met ontbijt: eerste nacht 80 (op het zuiden) of 60 frank (op het noorden), tweede nacht 40 frank. Ansichtkaarten: 10 frank per mapje van 10. Treinstation Andermatt, daarna verder met de postauto.

Source: Argwaan op 2341 meter; Internationale kunst in de Zwitserse Alpen – NRC

06/26/2019By wtrhs Uncategorized

A work of art as an experimental exhibit. Broodthaers and the Eagle – Angles – Université de Poitiers

“… Not everything that is contemporary is experimental. “Experimental” does not just refer to something new — experimental art rather comes from certain experimental methods. In his work Musée d’Art Moderne, Département des Aigles (1968-72) the Belgian artist and poet Marcel Broodthaers investigates a particular form of experimental art. Broodthaers’ fictional museum project provides a good basis for a study of the concept, as the artist has himself repeatedly referred to the experimental quality of his art. Indeed, our starting assumption in this essay is that this work by Broodthaers illustrates in a paradigmatic way central elements of experimentation in contemporary art of the 1960s and 70s. For example, on 16 May 1972 Broodthaers opened a section of a museum entitled The Eagle from the Oligocene to the Present in the Städtischer Kunsthalle in Düsseldorf, signing it with the following words: “Marcel Broodthaers shows an experimental exhibition of his Musée d’Art Moderne, Département des Aigles, Section des Figures”. The first part of this essay examines the experiment in which a museum with altogether twelve sections is declared to be a work of art. The second part then explicates the experiment in which an exhibition is declared to be a work of art. Finally, the third part examines the role of the viewer within Broodthaers’ artistic experiment.