Participated in this project and wrote my first haiku.
breathing, not counting
while hearing breaking news
in a quiet place
After two weeks of gathering haiku from around the globe, LA-based sound artist Alan Nakagawa coheres the diverse experiences of our shared reality in this sound collage. Listen now on OCMA's SoundCloud.
The last part (I)
Link to part I on SoundCloud
Above images: probes/proef on location, design (detail), a copy of ‘Amsterdam in cijfers' 2019 - the last yearbook in print.
Who is the person behind the numbers?
Of course there is never an unambiguous personality profile. After all, two perspectives are possible: the view that someone has of themselves and / or their environment, and the view that someone's environment has of them. A person's self-image can differ considerably from the image that a person's environment has of him. This even applies to qualities that you acquired at birth, seem invariable and determine your place in the family network: you were born as a man or woman, you are someone's child or niece, nephew, grandchild or perhaps someone's stepmother or father, and so on. But that does not mean that everyone sees each of those qualities as part of their identity. For example, you can be born as a man or woman, but you do not want to be held accountable for your gender. Read more
Delivery is scheduled in April 2020.
More on project page
Wie is de mens achter de getallen?
Van een eenduidig persoonlijkheidsprofiel is natuurlijk nooit sprake. Twee perspectieven zijn immers mogelijk: de kijk die iemand op zichzelf en/of zijn omgeving heeft, en de kijk die iemands omgeving op hém heeft. Iemands zelfbeeld kan aanzienlijk verschillen van het beeld dat iemands omgeving van hem heeft. Dat geldt zelfs voor eigenschappen die je bij je geboorte hebt gekregen, onveranderlijk lijken en je plaats binnen het familienetwerk bepalen: je bent als man of vrouw geboren, je bent iemands kind of nicht, neef, kleinkind of misschien iemands stiefmoeder of –vader, enzovoort. Maar dat wil nog niet zeggen dat iedereen elk van die hoedanigheden als een onderdeel van zijn identiteit ziet. Zo kun je als man of vrouw geboren zijn, maar niet op je geslacht aangesproken willen worden. Lees meer
‘Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?’
‘That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,’ said the Cat.
‘I don’t much care where -‘ said Alice.
‘Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,’ said the Cat.
‘- so long as I get somewhere,’ Alice added as an explanation.
‘Oh, you’re sure to do that,’ said the Cat, ‘if you only walk long enough.’
Alice’s Question
For this cabinet I’ve used this quote from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll (1886) the Dutch translation. The installation makes a connection with the exhibition "Camino del Deseo" that can be seen in the Great Hall; compiler is Irene van de Mheen. The Kleine Zaal De Vishal can be seen 24/7 from the square.
Many thanks to curator CP Leinenbach.
De vraag (van Alice)
De citaat uit Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland van Lewis Caroll (1886) heb ik als beeld gebruikt voor dit kabinet. De installatie maakt een verbinding met de tentoonstelling ‘Camino del Deseo’ dat in de Grote Zaal te zien is; samensteller is Irene van de Mheen. De Kleine Zaal is 24/7 uur te zien vanaf het plein.
Met dank aan curator CP Leinenbach.
Opening Friday January 10, 17 hrs
On view from January 10 - February 9 2020
De Vishal, Grote Markt 20, Haarlem
Page Alice’s Question
Alice’s Question (work in progress) / vinyl foil on glass and on back panel / 225 x 175 cm / 2020 / Kleine Zaal, De Vishal Haarlem
DNA IKEA is a follow-up to the Billy Combinations exhibition in Hoofddorp and Berlin (2010, 2018).
Ikea once started to make affordable and accessible for everyone from the ideal design furniture. That "democratic" design is simple, but sophisticated in design and now recognizable as part of countless interiors. You could say that such furniture forms the backdrop to today's life. Equality is a wonderful ideal, but uniformity is intolerable. I’ll be showing ‘IKEA is a Four Letter word’ (2018).
This project is based on a concept by Guda Koster and Frans van Tartwijk. Thank you!
De Cacaofabriek is the cultural centre of Helmond. On view till January 19, 2020. De Cacaofabriek
Open daily 13.00 - 17.00 hrs
Text /About this work, EN/NL
Invite, click on the image
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2019 / 7–9:30 PM
8 PM LIVE AUCTION OF SELECTED WORK CONDUCTED BY SARAH KRUEGER OF PHILLIPS
NANCY HOFFMAN GALLERY
520 W 27th STREET, NEW YORK
MISS - white - green print, from the FIVE FOUR, MORE LESS series / digital print on archival paper 315 gsm / 24 x 30 “ (61 x 76 cm) / AP, 1 of 2 ( edition of 5 ) / signed on the back / click on image for enlargment
Link to ARTSY
Stay tuned for the online auction on ARTSY
> October 1–October 16, 2019
The Fall Benefit has become an ever more successful event each year to generate support for ISCP.
I donated a MISS - white - green print, from the Five Four, More Less series for this auction on Artsy.
During my residency at ISCP in 2017, I worked on the series which was based on a selection of words in English consisting of four letters. I referenced Robert Indiana’s artwork LOVE, in which the four letters comprising the word are stacked in units of two to form a square. Approaching letters as abstract motifs and signs, that is to say the meaning of the word is secondary - while the interplay between the shapes and the background, between positive and negative space, is crucial. The images are composed of broader colored planes as well as lines of different thickness.
> View more images of the series Link to FFML page
Update: view works on new page ‘Commissioned work’
This summer I worked on a number of commissioned paintings in my studio. This painting is a nine-letter word and now hangs in an apartment in Jakarta. In addition, I am now busy finishing a series of three paintings 'SISTERS', which will be sent to Toronto soon.
In het atelier heb ik van de zomer aan een aantal schilderijen in opdracht gewerkt. Dit schilderij is een negenletter woord en hangt nu in een apartement in Jakarta. Daarnaast ben ik nu met de afwerking bezig voor een serie van drie schilderijen 'SISTERS', dat binnenkort naar Toronto wordt verstuurd.
A NINE LETTER WORD / 40 x 40 cm / acrylic on canvas / 2019 / private collection
SISTERS, detail of a work in progress / 50 x 50 cm (3x) / acrylic on linen / 2019 / private collection in Canada
02-02-16 / permanent marker on paper / 21 x 29 cm each / 250 gs paper
Series of drawings with parallel and intersecting lines.
Noumenon page
Exhibitions Coming up
November 2019 > Billy Combinations (working title) in De Cacaofabriek, Helmond (NL)
April 2020 > Contemporary Contemplations #6 in Galerie Ursula Walter, Dresden (DE)
* from Novum Organum by Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
Repetition brings rhythm, structure, efficiency, beauty and is sometimes soothing and contemplative. The traveling exhibition Contemporary Contemplations is now located in ACEC Apeldoorn. Happy to be in the show which is now presenting it’s fifth edition. Curated by Gerda Kruimer and Rene Eicke. The show will open on Saturday May 11, 16.00.
Finissage: June 23, 14.00 -16.00
LINK ACEC, Apeldoorn / May 11 - June 23 / Open: Wednesday - Sunday, 12.00 - 17.30 hrs
I’m showing studies of the Closed Circuit series there. LINK to Circuit-page
Participants: Linda Arts / Cees Andriessen / Isabelle Borges (D) / Bram Braam / Piet Dieleman / Marieke van Diemen / René Eicke / Carina Ellemers / Ditty Ketting / Gracia Khouw / Peter K. Koch (D) / Gerda Kruimer / Annekatrin Lemke (D) / Bas Lobik / Zaida Oenema / DAG (D) / Marleen van Wijngaarden / Patricia Westerhoz (D) / Yumiko Yoneda (JP)
Wall installation with Closed Circuit series at CC#5 in ACEC, Apeldoorn. At the back wall painting by Bas Lobik.
Photo, from left to right:
CC3 (yellow-black) / 2012 / 29 x 29 x 0,4 cm / acrylic on mdf
CC2 (red-black-white) / 2012 / 2019 / 29 x 30 x 0,4 cm / acrylic on mdf
CC2 - s (red-black-white) / 2012 / 2019 / 26 x 26 x 0,4 cm / acrylic on mdf
CC4 (black-white-red) / 2012 / 30 x 30 x 0,4 cm / acrylic on mdf
The Closed Circuit series are made up of identical letters that are grouped in such a way that they form a closed unit. You no longer distinguish what form and negative form is; and riveted to each other that it can no longer be visually separated. Searching for the boundary between language, meaning and image it’s a study of what makes a logo. These works were created in 2012/2013 and lasercut from 4 mm MDF plate. The following year I made the work larger on 4 mm dibond. Link to CC-page
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)
JANUARY 20 - MARCH 29 / 3 - 6 PM /PHK 18, Rotterdam
The exhibition CC#4 is centered around artists focusing on repetition, rhythm, and gestures with an emphasis on the moment and feeling of duration. For this occasion I made a wall painting for the ‘canteen’ wall.
Curators CC #4 Gerda Kruimer, René Eicke and Marleen van Wijngaarden (PHK18).
A limited edition is available.
VIER is a Dutch four letter word meaning in English the number four; ‘vieren’ also means to celebrate. The image is from the FIVE FOUR, MORE LESS series which I worked on when I stayed in ISCP NY during my residency in 2017.
New Images of the show with great photography by Kristel Ballaer
Link
IAMNOT A TOURIST is a silk scarf designed by me. Mirjam Hagoort of Barentsz Urban Fabric came up with the City Scarf concept with city maps and has invited other artists to design a scarf. I’m the first to do so.
The design originated in my personal experiences during walks through the city. While slaloming through the stream of tourists I’m often addressed in English, as if I’m part of the tourist mass. These experiences have an alienating effect on me. Even though I have Chinese-Indonesian background, I feel myself being an Amsterdammer through and through. I’m not a tourist in my own town.
I want tourists to be more aware of their destination and to delve into its culture, as true cosmopolitans. I’d like visitors to involve themselves in the environment and not behave indifferently to it.
Warm up with the IAMNOT A TOURIST scarf, so that the city's ups and downs don’t leave you cold!
Available online store Barentsz Urban Fabric ++ Dreamboat Store, Czar Peterstraat 145, Amsterdam ++ MINK at The Cool Collective, Magna Plaza, Amsterdam ++ Stedelijk, Amsterdam Buchhandlung Walther König ++ Museumshop Den Haag
IAMNOT, 70 x 170 cm, silk scarf, limited edition (2018)
IAMNOT is a new silk scarf which is the result of a collaboration between myself and Barentsz Urban Fabric. The words in red, orange and blue form a light hearted rebellious remark that will be familiar to those who know my work.
The IAMNOT is a limited edition scarf and will be launched on Saturday November 3rd: 3 pm - 5 pm
at Dreamboat Studio & Store, Czaar Peterstraat 145, Amsterdam.
Save the date and pre-order your scarf now!
IAMNOT limited edition / scarf, 100% crepe de chine, 70x170cm, €89
Thrilled to be invited for this exhibition curated by Luc Hoekx and Arjan Janssen!
Welcome to the opening of CONSTRUCTOR with works by 18 international constructivist artists. Hope to see you there!
November 17, 3 PM, Galery Noord - Zuid, Art Academy of Arendonk
Address: Wampenberg 26, 2370 Arendonk (BE)
LINK TO LOCATION
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.
