Alexander Lichtveld Lood & Potlood Oct 23 - Nov 27 2010
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SUMMERTIME! 5 -27 May 2010
Our best kept secrets.
Sidi El Karchi, Mirror 2007, pencil/oil on paper His work can be seen until June 27 at the Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht.
Wednesday May 26 - Sunday May 30 During the Fair the gallery will be closed
BAS MEERMAN; drawings/paintings Steendrukkerij Amsterdam Stand 072
After careful consideration Bas Meerman made the decision his Drawn Diary will be sold as separate drawings.
For years, from 1996 to date, Bas Meerman draws his fantasies, memories, images from art history and his desire for erotica and aesthetics on A-4 sized paper. These intimate drawings, which he makes on an almost daily basis and in first instance just for himself, are kept together as the Drawn Diary.
As a whole, the Drawn Diary was exhibited in the Groninger Museum in 2001. On the occasion of this exhibition, Bas Meerman said: "I don’t consider my Diary as a work of art, it’s more like thinking out loud”. The drawings are for Meerman’s own pleasure, not to provoke or confront, but when others enjoy viewing them, it is a huge compliment.
During Art Amsterdam 2010 Steendrukkerij Amsterdam will exhibit 80 days out of the Drawn Diary.
Keeping a diary gives regularity and rhythm in Meerman’s life and more important, it is a major source of inspiration for his paintings. Unlike the diary drawings, in which the desire for erotica, religion and art, drawn in pencil, watercolor and collage, is reflected roughly and directly, his paintings are calm and controlled. They are powerful, aesthetic images that point to a dream world liberated of the burden of an ordinary life.
Bas Meerman’s recent decision to show and offer the Drawn Diary as separate drawings is courageous. Steendrukkerij Amsterdam is proud to present this intimate solo presentation of Bas Meerman White Laundry (Summer), 2009 oil on canvas 130 x 165 cm ________________________________________
International Prints April 9 - May 22
Exclusive prints by American artist Richard Serra, Robert Mangold and Claes Oldenburg as well as the French artist Morellet, Anton Henning from Germany and many more.... ---------------------------------------------------
Premiere ‘Slow sense’ Joris Geurts & Joschua Hohenbrink, camera and editing
Saturday March 20, 2010, 4 to 6 p.m.
Slow Sense (12:32’), a film by Joris Geurts, camera and editing by Joschua Hohenbrink, concerns an ancient ritual, translated to film. It is based on a contemporary score ‘Slow Sense”, composed for 26 bullroarers by Joris Geurts.
A bullroarer is one of the oldest ritual musical instruments known to mankind and represents the voices of ancestors. A deep, inimitable growling and threatening sound is produced by oscillating a fish-shaped piece of wood attached to the end of a piece of rope. It was used in ritual gatherings from North America to Oceania and Australia to contact ancestors or to communicate and sound the alarm over large distances.
The film depicts man trying to contact others, the past, the future, the elements and nature. Dreamlike, almost surreal images follow each other in a slow musical cadence. By the expansive and relatively slow pace of the image, time becomes a subjective experience. The film states a case for the rediscovery of time and space. The threatening soundtrack gives the film extra depth and dimension. Slow Sense, a movie
based on what maybe can be seen as ‘the first music’.
A mythical tale in a timeless world.
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Sidi El Karchi The Nomad 6 februari - 19 March 2010
In his first solo exhibition in Amsterdam Sidi El Karchi shows new work he made in Maastricht and during his stay as an artist in residence at ISCP Brooklyn in New York.
LMAK-projects New York invited El Karchi two years ago for a show. As a result of this experience he decided to return in 2009 to live and work in New York.
“Kan een portret meer zijn dan alleen een representatie van de geportretteerde?”
“Is it possible for a portrait to be more than just a representation of the portrayed?”
The outset of each artwork starts with a photo of a friend, family member or of the artist. The photos made by El Karchi are moments of unawareness and reveal the unveiled of the portrayed, which becomes the inspiration and challenge for his paintings. Working with one or more drawings El Karchi searches for the perfect balanced composition. Then he will start to paint during a profound and accurate process.
Layer on layer, oil on acrylic, balancing colour, light and space, El Karchi seeks an universal portrait.
Opening night Saturday Februari 6th, 17 - 19 hrs
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Sidi El Karchi / Bas de Wit Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht, until June 27
Nomad 2009, oil/acrylic/enamel on canvas Sleep 2009, oil/acrylic/enamel on canvas Trance Dance 2009, oil/acrylic/enamel on canvas
NEW TAPESTRY. KesselsKramer reinvents old masterpiece on an epic scale.
28th January 2010 - 2nd February 2010 Opening Hours: 1300h -1730h During this exhibition the gallery will be open sunday 31-01, monday 01-02 and tuesday 02-02.
www.newtapestry.org
More than 50 artists, designers and producers from three continents have worked on KesselsKramer’s latest art project. New Tapestry is an updated version of a very old and famous Medieval piece: the Bayeux Tapestry.
New Tapestry was created by Christian Bunyan, designed and art directed by Jennifer Skupin. Head of production is Keefe Cordeiro ------------------------------------------------------------
Amitai Ben David Recent works , Geneva 2007 - Valencia 2009
Opening night November 28th 17 - 19 hrs. The exhibition will be inaugurated by the Berlin-based Burlesque artist, the amazing 'Hamuchtar' with hard-core Electro-Cabaret medley (18:15)
28 November - 24 December 2009 6 Januari - 23 Januari 2010
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Temporary Gallery Space New York:
Going Dutch
Steendrukkerij Amsterdam gallery would like to welcome you to the exhibition of DUTCH MASTERS; Carel Visser during a special event:
5 Dutch Days, 5 Boroughs, Dutch Arts & Culture, Past & Present
The exhibition can be visited from 19 November thru 12 December.
Gallery location; 547 West 27th street, 3rd floor NY
Opening hours; Tues. – Sat. 11 – 18 hrs
Dutch Masters
Carel Visser
Asked which artist he admired most, Carel Visser didn’t hesitate and said Constantin Brancusi. In fact Visser once met Brancusi in Paris. Nerves on the side of the young Visser prevented a relevant conversation with the elder Brancusi but the encounter was noteworthy.
Now, at the venerable age of 81 Carel Visser himself can look back at a distinguished career as a constructivist artist.
The son of the owner of a construction firm and after studying architecture at the Technical University of Delft he settled in Amsterdam in 1952 and started to make sculptures constructed out of simple metal elements, either a symmetrical structure as found in nature or one based on systematic logical divisions. A well known sculpture is ‘pairing birds’ in the collection of the State Bank of the Netherlands, an abstracted translation of a wondrous observation in nature.
Later Visser started using found materials such as rope, tires, ostrich eggs, sand, leather, but also rusted pieces of metal and car windows to make his sculptures.
In addition to his work as a sculptor, Carel Visser is an accomplished woodblock print maker for which he was accorded a major art prize in 1992. It was printmaking that initially brought him to Steendrukkerij Amsterdam. Lately Visser is making more wall-sculptures, collages made of cardboard, photographs and graphite. Joy remains an evident factor in his work.
On an international level he has been visiting professor at Washington University (St. Louis) in 1962. At the 1968 Venice Biennial he has been rewarded with the David E. Bright award. His works can be found in the biggest art collections around the world, including Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Kröller-Müller Museum, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Tate Modern in London and MoMa, New York. Many private collectors such as I.M.Pei have been collecting his work since 1960 as prominently shown on the cover of Vogue’s fashions in living.
Carel Visser and his wife, Greet now reside in France.
---------------------------- 31-10-09 t/m 21-11-09 Artists of the Gallery Steendrukkerij Amsterdam nodigt u graag uit voor de tentoonstelling
Leen Alting Armando Anuli Croon Sam Drukker Joris Geurts Klaas Gubbels Michiel Hogenboom Sidi El Karchi Viveka Marksjo Han Schuil Roy Villevoye
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05-09-09 t/m 17-10-09 Theo Eissens NATURAL AND CONSTRUCTED BRIDGE
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