twelveletterwords
A post about the exhibition HET WOORD. Kees Koomen, visual artist and organizer of art events, writes about the shows he’s visited. ‘A bundle of broken mirrors’ it says on his blog. He was also present at the artis talk in Pictura, Dordrecht last Saturday April 20.
Link to Kees Koomen’s blog
From the Pictura Instagram post: Monica Aerden (moderator) in conversation with Gracia Khouw and visitors
Article by Evertine van Alphen for the Pictura Magazine about the exhibition. On show till May 5.
Go to TWAALF (TWELVE) series page
>> change of programme
April 20 (Saturday)
> 3 PM - concert T. Smit’s work
>> 4 PM - walk - through with Monica Aerden >> I will be present !
March 30 - May 5 2019
Tanja Smit, Niels Post, Gracia Khouw
TWELVE / TWAALF
The number twelve carries religious symbolism, generally representing perfection, entirety, or cosmic order in traditions since antiquity.
For the exhibition 'Het woord' I’ve collected approximately 900 Dutch twelve-letter words. From this list I’ll select twelve twelve-letter words that I’ll elaborate into twelve images. These will be shown as large format posters, fine art prints and a leporello.
For this project I’m collaborating with Landa van Vliet who’s sense of language is extensive, and for me related to the area of South of Holland specifically. I’ve asked her to write a text about the number 12 and twelve letter words. We discussed about the words, and also about the words that did’t make the selection. Words like ‘keelgeluiden’ (throat sounds) or ‘verhandeling’ (treatise or essay). Her text ‘Levenswandel tot mijn twaalfde’ (‘Walk of life until I was twelve’) has an overwhelming quality, a bit like all the twelve letter words in the list. I’m very proud of the result. Brought together in the zig zag fold prose and images add different approach to thinking about the Dutch language and it’s connection to images.
Preview images
Read Press release Pictura NL/EN
Schotschrift, leporello, with prose Landa van Vliet (NL),
103,6 x 21 cm (folded A5 = 14,8 x 21 cm), digital print, limited edition
limited edition 144 + 12 / € 24,00 + shipping mail to reserve a copy
001 /from the series TWAALF (TWELVE), 2019 / dimensions variable
> Click on the images and invite (NL)
LINK to Pictura
Photos of Pictura, Dordrecht and Robotlab, installation near Het Hof van Nederland museum
The Synod of Dordrecht was an international Synod held in Dordrecht in 1618–1619, by the Dutch Reformed Church, to settle a divisive controversy initiated by the rise of Arminianism. The synod also initiated an official Dutch Bible translation (the Statenvertaling, i.e. Translation of the States or, The Dutch Authorized Version) from the original languages that would be completed in 1637. Translators were appointed, and the States-General were asked to fund the project. It had a lasting impact on the standard Dutch language, which was just then beginning to gain wider acceptance and developing a literary tradition. It would remain the standard translation in Protestant churches for more than three centuries and still is used in some sister churches of the Netherlands Reformed Congregations and similar, smaller denominations.
(Wikipedia)
Happy with the new print! The rhisograph, 29 x 42 cm TWAALF/TMSLHD will be presented tonight at WestWednesdays 19.30 hrs. Thank you Stencilzolder/Sander Janszweert!
Location: Tetterode Building, Bilderdijkstraat 165-B, Amsterdam
This special edition is only available via West Wednesdays and costs only € 6; all proceeds go to next WW programs.
Contact come@westwednesdays.com
TOMELOOSHEID is a Dutch twelve letterword meaning being unrestrained or unbridledness. The word relates to the theme of this West Wednesday edition ‘Uitbundig’ (= exuberant). I set out to look for a word beginning with the letter T, and like in the name ‘Tetterode’, which is the name of the building, both words have 4 syllables.
It may be a starting point for a new series with Dutch twelve letter words.
