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It’s You
What You Find
21 augustus 2016
‘You find yourself here in this world with feelings and thoughts. It’s difficult to accept what you find you do. But if you can it seems to help.’
– Martin Creed
Martin Creed: What You Find – 2016
The Back Door
Martin Creed
Art Athína 2015- The Fair
7 juni 2015
The last day of the fair, lines in front of the Taekwondo hall all day and an unending stream of visitors visiting our booth. Our work has been received well, lots of flags of Maarten have been taken along and reactions were great! We have to thank Artemis Potamianou and her Platforms crew for a great week and EX-MÊKH hopes to be back next time. In this post you will find some interesting art from the main floor to finish the report on Art Athena 2015.
There is some very accomplished painting to be found in Greece, I like these canvases by Kostis Georgiou.
Martin Creed has been very active in Greece during his residency. The portraits of wll known Greeks make me think of Dutch painter Emo Verkerk @ Kappatos Gallery
Marina Abramovic wants you to put your head against the Quartz @ Kappatos Gallery
Pericles Goulakos, work on paper @ Ekfrasi Yianna Grammatopoulou
Dimitris Tataris
A collection of Photographs @ Mulier Mulier Gallery
Guy van Bossche @ Mulier Mulier Gallery
Maria Ikonomopoulou @ Mulier Mulier Gallery
Maria Ikonomopoulou @ Mulier Mulier Gallery
Tadashi Kawamata @ Mulier Mulier Gallery
Art & Language @ Mulier Mulier Gallery
Klitsa Antonionou @ The Collection Gallery
Klitsa Antonionou @ The Collection Gallery
Lieke Snellen @ Joey Ramone
Lieke Snellen @ Joey Ramone
Tudor Matu @ Joey Ramone
Wietse Eeken @ Joey Ramone
Gerwin Luijendijk @ Joey Ramone
Jan van der Ploeg and Adrian Esparza @ Taubert Contemprorary
Nana Sachini @ A. Antonopoulou. art
Alexis Psychoulis @ A. Antonopoulou. art
Naomi Middelman @ UFO-Fabrik
At 18.00 h. the winner of the THMHF- Award at The Tupajumi Foundation will be announced. Internet votes are beïng counted
and the votes from the fair have to be checked once more!
One last vote is added
And the winner is: Alicia Eggert with “Now”
And this, of course, calls for drinks
A last walk along the beach at night and we’re off to Holland again
Art Athina 2015-VII
6 juni 2015
This is an oversight of the to my taste most interesting initiatives at the Platforms Project of Art Athína:
8eleven from Toronto Canada with collective work by Laurie kang, Nadia Bellerique, Rosa Aiello and Lili Huston/Herterich
Lamprini Markou on virtue and attitude at Lustspiel from Greece
Mirka Minnula @ Rajatila Gallery from Finland
Mirka Minnula @ Rajatila Gallery from Finland
Martin Creed @ Kappatos Athens Art Residency
Martin Creed @ Kappatos Athens Art Residency
Martin Creed @ Kappatos Athens Art Residency
Le vide dans le vide ou la disillusion
Then, lots of activities at B’Printmaking Studio A.S.F.A. – TCA
With a very engaging project
Resulting in occupancy of the total surroundings of the booth with beautiful works
With 3D sketches of Istanbul
Near this we find a paradoxical booth of Provo Principles from Greece, clearly engaged in the present situation
With a heap of débris from the artists studios
and art in small match boxes
which work out nicely
Atrans from Berlin shows Marian Wijnvoord again with romantic landscapes
The artist has created. work in new techniques, oilpaint on photopaper
and she is clearly satisfied with the result. We are happy that Atrans will coöperate with EX-MÊKH in Berlin in september. Here you see Marian Wijnvoord and Isolde Nagel, the initiator of Atrans in front of their booth.
Another detail from the EX-MÊKH booth with a drawing of Ellen Rodenberg and a selfportrait of Kees Koomen
The crowd at EX-MÊKH’s booth with Maarten Schepers explaining
A view at Grauzone from Austria
And the Dada Academy from Austria
Which shows also the right couch for underneath your painting
I liked the booth of the Wiener Art Foundation from Wien (I guess) where painterly action was applied
and nice sculptures were to be found
IS-Projects from Leiden (the Netherlands) was one of my favourites
With an exhibit of abstract art curated by John Tallman
an esthetic oasis in this context.
With the work of initiators Guido Winkler and Iemke van Dijk next to eachother
Lo and Behold is a very interesting initiative witrh actions in public space
with a great number of artists participating, amongst whom a favourite of last year: Maria Lianou
and others whom I don’t know
Incart from Mallorca made a very lively impression
From Rotterdam came our friends of the Tupajumi Foundation with the TFHMF-award
This dynamic work was selected from the USA and came in just before the opening of the fair due to delay at customs.
I personally voted for this piece by Maarten Bel
The Tupajumi members took the votes from visitors
Dienstgebäude had a nice booth too with a.o. the work of initiator Andreas Marti (bottom)
Dutch artist Bob Gramsma
and Ingo Giezendammer with psychedelic wallpaper.
VHS-Blues by Julian Boily @ AMV from Canada
VHS-Blues by Julian Boily @ AMV from Canada
The French Extra Muros from Nantes (FR)
With an inventive 5 € lampshade
En Flo from Greece had an impressive socially engaged installation: Micro History
With jobless women sowing printed cloth together and handing it out to the public
empty solidarity….
@ Skouze “Errare ergo sum” the wine was bitter-sweet
and the floor contemporary in traditional technique
Campus Novel showed a very interesting project about the ever-changing sign of a restaurant in Athens
Kunstenaarsinintiatief Elders from Den Haag (N) was present with strong work by Liesbeth van Woerden, like this sound piece
And Architectural studies by Liesbeth Bos
This piece by Liesbeth van Woerden was particularly popular, you took some time for it by stamping a ticket
A Greek fan from last year came by to see our new installation
And documentation was dutifully taken care of by Maarten Schepers
Balls
21 mei 2015
Nest nodigde het kunstenaarsinitiatief The Mews uit London uit om een tentoonstelling te maken in de serie One Nest Stand. Carlos Noronha Feio en Mikael Larsson van The Mews kwamen naar Den Haag met werk van een aantal kunstenaars die zij kenden en waarmee ze gewerkt hebben in hun eigen ruimte. Daar hebben niet de minsten hun werk laten zien en bij voorbaat was al duidelijk dat ook werk van Martin Creed in Den Haag getoond zou worden. Daarnaast lieten zij weten dat Haagse kunstenaars welkom waren hun werk dat relevant is voor het thema van de tentoonstelling, met de suggestieve titel Balls, te komen brengen om deel uit te laten maken van de tentoonstelling. De ronkende perstekst deed ook al verwachten dat er dus heel wat ging gebeuren. De eerste indruk bij binnenkomst viel niet helemaal mee, mijn verwachting in een soort kermis-achtige ballenbak te belanden werd in ieder geval niet bewaarheid, het getoonde werk was artsy, esthetisch en de ruimte oogde uitgesproken tam. Als je echter rustig het werk ging bekijken bleek er toch wel wat te genieten. De plaatselijke kunstscene liet het afweten kunst qua, afgezien van wat oplettende lezers. Kennelijk was de open call niet helemaal goed overgekomen. De “gastruimte” sloot daardoor wel mooi aan bij de rest van de tentoonstelling zodat het geheel redelijk homogeen werd en de Hagenaars zelfs goed gemengd hadden kunnen worden met het Engelse deel van de tentoonstelling . De heren van The Mews waren twee dagen in Den Haag en waarschijnlijk had met wat meer voorbereiding en tijd meer bereikt kunnen worden. Hun initiatief om plaatselijke kunstenaars uit te nodigen was echter gedurfd (dat kan goed uit de hand lopen). Het geheel zorgde er in ieder geval voor dat ik weer een aangename avond had in Nest.
Overzicht centrale ruimte
met overal ballen dus.
Martin Creed toonde proppen
Schilderijen waren er ook – Alex lawler: Constructivist Painting
Deze installatie van Giorgio Sadotti waarin L’éclisse van Antonioni op haar eigen vynil-soundtrack werd geprojecteerd vond ik erg goed
Martin Creed: A Crumpled Ball of Paper in Every Room of a House, indeed!
Ballengymnastiek van Yelena Popova
Bruno Pacheco: Leftovers
Dan de plaatselijke kunstscene met o.a. een Malieveldwerkje van uw correspondent onder de naam “Management”
Een (naar het mij leek) feministisch werkje waar ik geen naam bij zag
Op de grond: Karianne Bueno – from: Doug’s Cabin
En op de muur – Karianne Bueno – from: Doug’s Cabin
Ik dacht – Eden Latham: Untitled
Aart Verheul: Malieveld
Terug bij de Engelsen: de naam van deze vond ik niet, maar het stond er wel mooi
Yelena Popova: Untitled (Many Moons)
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