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Ellen de Bruijne PROJECTS: gerlach en koop EdB/Dolores - Cococompositions - Ana Rold�n - 16 Oct 2010 to 20 Nov 2010 Current Exhibition |
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gerlach en koop Niet niet precies. Not not precise. Pas pas pr�cis. From the immensity of phenomena taking place around me, I draw one thing. I notice, for example, a cigarette butt on the floor (the rest of the objects on the floor slip into non-being). If I can justify why I noticed the butt in particular ('I am looking for an ashtray to drop my cigarette ash'), everything is all right. If I noticed the cigarette accidentally, without any intention, and I never return to this observation, everything is still as it should be. If, however, having noticed this phenomenon without significance, you return to it for a second time ... woe! Why did you notice it again if it is without significance? Ah, so it means something to you after all, if you returned. ... Oh yes, by dint of the fact that you concentrated unjustifiably on this phenomenon one second longer, this thing already begins to stand out, becomes remarkable ... -No, no (you deny), this is an ordinary cigarette! -Ordinary? Why are you denying it if it is ordinary?* gerlach en koop is a collective of two persons who gave up the habit of starting their proper names with a capital letter. They are known for minimal gestures -very minimal sometimes, that appear effortless, and elegant. For their first solo show at Ellen de Bruijne Projects they decided to leave their familiar surroundings in The Hague and live and work in Brussels for a while. They made long wandering walks from the outskirts to the center of the city. Brussels is not easy to understand and certainly not in three months time. They saw a boy walking down the Boulevard Anspachlaan, juggling with an orange in one hand and carefully turning round a curiously bent plastic straw with the fingers of his other hand, as if to structure his unstructured and confusing impressions of the city, like a clock, like a timekeeper. And they identified with this boy. There was a sweet mechanical voice that guided their travels in the metro: -Correspon�dance ... Aansluiting ... French and Dutch. They repeated after her: -Correspondance, aansluiting, correspondance aansluiting, until it became one word, and added, one to the other, murmuring under their breath: -Aansluiting, afsluiting. -Opsluiting. Insluiting. -Eh, ontsluiting. -Uitsluiting, buitensluiting. -Ritssluiting? -Kortsluiting.** It is not the connection to some deep truth hidden underneath the surface that an object will appear as meaningful, no, it's the way it is organized, repeated or shifted in relation to other things on the surface. * From the one hundred and sixty-three words, written down by Witold Gombrowicz in his diary in 1963, nine were changed and five were added by gerlach en koop in 2010, which is a bureaucratic way of saying: an ashtray was removed. ** Connection, disconnection. Confinement. Enclosure. Eh, opening up. Exception, exclusion. Zipper? Short-Circuit. Ellen de Bruijne PROJECTS Rozengracht 207 A, 1016 LZ Amsterdam Opening: Saturday 16 October 17.00-19.00 Exhibition: 16 October-20 November 2010 Opening hours: Tuesday-Friday 11.00-18.00; Saturday 13.00-18.00 First Sunday of the month 14.00-17.00 Ellen de Bruijne Projects will also show work by gerlach en koop at the FIAC Paris, France 21-24 October EdB/Dolores Cococompositions - Ana Rold�n 'We have seen how all primitive arts are based on seven primitive motifs. Thoroughly studying the seven motifs, we find that they are seven types derived from an archetype: the ideal archetype spiral, which develops in all dimensions. The seven motifs are the more characteristic aspects or types of the ideal archetype spiral in a conventional flat representation considering only one plane of their development. That is why lines never cross in this system nor interfere with each other; because that could only occur in the case of two planes in which lines could go one behind the other.' Adolfo Best Maugard, Manual of Drawing: Tradition, Renaissance and Evolution of Mexican Art 1923, page 151 The central piece in Ana Rold�n's show at Dolores is a sculpture derived from the Butaca chair designed by Mexican architect Luis Barrag�n in 1945. The sculpture is accompanied by an unlimited series of gold-plated coconuts and drawings made after Maugard's manual from 1923. Arranged in sentence-like structures the objects speak of relations between the local and the universal, the object itself and the stories which the objects create. Ana Rold�n (Mexico 1977) currently lives and works in Zurich. She graduated from the Hochschule der K�nsten Bern in 2003. Recent solo exhibitions include "Words to be Looked at, Objects to be Read" at Kunsthalle Arbon, "Observations on Modernity and Form" at KUNST Zurich and "As the Myth of the Hole" at annex14 in Bern. Opening of the show at EdB/Dolores: Sat. 16th October 17 - 19 hrs Exhibition period: 16/10 - 20/11 Curator for Dolores Karin Hasselberg Rozengracht 207 A, 1016 LZ Amsterdam Openingtimes: Tu - Fri: 11 - 18 hrs, Sat: 13 - 18 hrs 1st Sunday of the month: 14 - 17 hrs |
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