Buitendijk en Vogelzang
Tanya Vogelzang creates her work on the computer after she constructed the scaled props for her work accurately and photographed them. Through addition and deduction she creates her images. The order which she presents touches the images of Buitendijk, in the sense that we deal with empty scenes. The almost casual absence of man is felt only after some time.
Another striking aspect is that they are both very precise. This refers not so much the precision in the detailing of the work, but precision in the awareness of what an artist does. Precision is a necessary quality for artists in general and for good art in particular. This exhibition is hopefully a good expression of that.
With the exhibition a publication with an essay by artist and writer Dick Tuinder will be released.
The opening of this exhibition will take place on Sunday, February 6 from 13:00.
Marielle Buitendijk, 2010
Tanya Vogelzang, I wold not be in a folis paradyce, 2010
Lotte Geeven
Upon arrival in a strange city, the city for Geeven functions as a backdrop. But as time passes by, Geeven becomes part of the city. Geeven makes endless walks in major cities where she navigates through the streets as a researcher, with no clear purpose but with all the senses wide open. The mystical meeting that takes place is one of melancholy, wonder and fiction.
"In my spatial work I build the props that I present as the front layers of my scenes. I try to use minimal visual means to translate my notes. "
Shape, material, intensity and size of these should reflect the nature of an encounter with a place elsewhere. She will demarcate an abstract, mental domain wherein the viewer is located, just as surprised or overwhelmed as Lotte Geeven herself.
Website Lotte Geeven
The opening of this exhibition is on Friday, April 8 at 17.00 hours.
Lotte Geeven, Nighttime, 2010
Henri Jacobs
At the time of writing, the journal series consist of 489 drawings. Jacobs started working on these series since 2003 and the end is currently not foreseen. When thinking of journal drawings, one should not think of a newspaper or news, but more of a diary. A visual diary of "the actuality of my vision, " as Jacobs says.
The subject-matter of these drawings show the full scope of the artistry of Jacobs. It can be shown geometrically, abstract or figurative. Sometimes they are philosophical in nature, sometimes they are funny. A broad selection from the journal will be on display at Heden.
The complete journal can also be viewed on the website of Henry Jacobs.
Henri Jacobs, 516, 20 janauri 2011, sketch for a decorative frame enclosing the void
Henri Jacobs, 517, 16 februari 2011, portrait of god as perceived by moses
Henri Jacobs, 518, 31 maart 2011, no world beyond our world
Michiel van der Zanden
The illustrated area is part of the old part of what is now the North Brabant Museum 's Hertogenbosch, the former Government Palace (1767-1770). The interior shows characteristics of the late Baroque style. Using photographs, Van der Zanden, reconstructs space with the help of the 3D computer program Blender. In the digital setting he pulls the space apart. This results in the artificial nature of a virtual space and highlighs the tension within the bigger picture. At the Heden booth at Art Amsterdam, some elements from the painting, such as the floor and the fireplace, are made physical again. The original space comes back to life! Within this Michiel van der Zanden presents his paintings as were it a museum of his work. With this the circle is completed.
Michiel van der Zanden imports the world of digital media in painting, and vice versa, using computer games and 3D computer graphics. The artist has long been fascinated by games and their distinctive visual language. A game is essentially a 3D (photo-) collage. Van der Zanden adapts his way of painting on the chosen subjects. Sometimes very precisely to exaggerate 'kitsch' and sometimes almost in an expressionistic way.
Heden can be found at booth (no. 058) with the work of Michiel van der Zanden on display at Art Amsterdam from 11 to 15 May at the RAI.
Michiel van der Zanden, Background, 2010
Michiel van der Zanden, Recreation number 1, 2010
Michiel van der Zanden, Computer rock, 2010
Michiel can der Zanden, Bush, 2010
Hedens The Hague Summer
This summer at Heden it's all about change. Four artists will make a regularly changing exhibition with their work and that of others. Heden invites you for the opening and start of the first stage on Friday, June 24 at 17.00.
Theun Govers and Ton van Kints will launch the exhibition. They will be the focal point of the first part. Thereafter, Andrea Freckmann and Moran Fisher will take the lion's share of the space and fill it with their work.
During the last part of this "tour", the four artists will complement their work with fresh talent from The Royal Academy of Arts and with work from the Heden collection. With all these elements they'll create a warm and a full final presentation.
There are several ways to organize an exhibition. You can rely on similarities in the work of artists, but also equally of contrasts. You can play with the content of an individual work, based on work surrounding it. The four artists in this exhibition are rising to this challenge and continuously will try to define what every new choice means.
Stages
Opening 1st stage
Friday, June 24 at 17:00
Theun Govers and Ton Kints
Opening 2nd Stage
Friday, July 8 at 17:00
Andrea Freckmann and Moran Fisher
Opening Stage 3
Friday, August 12 at 17:00
All artists plus additional
Theun Govers, Zonder titel, 2010
Andrea Freckmann, Zonder titel (liebe Dodo) tweeluik, 2011
Ton van Kints, Vensterscherm, 2009
Moran Fisher
Slow Sculptures
Thomas Bakker works mainly with the grit of video. The clutter as it were. Think of him as a DJ who processes noise to compositions. Hardcore: the material is almost instantly the work.
Eelco Brand on the other hand, if you can say so, operates as the most subtle composer, who polishes his pieces until they shine. Made of zeros and ones, basically from scratch, he makes like Prospero, "Such stuff as dreams are made off". This in the broadest sense.
During the Museum Night this exhibition will be opened. For the third consecutive season Heden opens with a double exhibition.
Eelco Brand, Nmovi, 2011, digital animation, endless
Thomas Bakker, tijdelijke installatie met visuele noise gemaakt voor BKCC Tilburg, 2009
Eelco Brand, P.movi, 2010, digital animation, endless P_movie, 2010
David Pedraza
Opening, Friday October 21 at 5 pm.
David Pedraza graduated from the Royal Academy in The Hague in 2010 and his work was immediately recognized. Heden acquired some of his paintings and asked Pedraza to work for three months in Yogyakarta (Indonesia) at the Cemeti Art House. The result of this residency will be exhibited for the coming months at Heden.
In his work Pedraza deals intensively with his Catholic upbringing, family and the hedonistic lifestyle of his generation. He works primarily with graphite and oil paint, creating an atmosphere in which the characters and their surroundings are timeless and seem to have lost their authority. The paintings focus on the relationship between both institutions, religion and society and question this relationship.
The idea of Christ and the cross as symbols, are also commonly found in work by Pedraza and have obviously a long art historical tradition. This symbolism is explored again by Pedraza.
Through literary sources and interviews, Pedraza investigated how Catholic faith is experienced in Indonesia.
David Pedraza aan het werk in Yogyakarta
Inrichten tentoonstelling Cemeti Art House Yogyakarta
Deel van het drieluik van David Pedraza
Any Day Now
Puck Verkade, Any Day Now (fragment), 2011
Map of down below
As a space, it explores the fragility and the silence of creativity by re-visiting two mythological characters that went into shadow worlds, alone, without glory and on the verge of non-being...: Eurydice and Sita . What these women encountered in that other world and how they responded we will never know. According to the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, Eurydice had folded inside herself and had lost all human desire.
As a counter image of this world, Map of the Down Below is a setting of opposites and shadows. It is a smaller ‘city', inhabited by many, akin to these mythological characters. It is a space about people with our lives, living at the margins of our contemporary societies...
Traces of this map will be shown at various locations in the city over the course of next two months. It evolved as an opera- installation, and now a physical setting, an on-going installation, developing through viewing and interactions at various locations in the city of The Hague.
(Kosmopolis Den Haag, a cultural organisation that promotes intercultural dialogue in the city, has invited Rakhi Peswani from India, to work and respond to the cultural fabric of The Hague for three months.
Map of Down Below has emerged as a physical setting through a sustained dialogue between Rakhi Peswani and Miranda Lakerveld (Les Autres Musiktheatrre). The performative aspect of the work evolved with collaborations at various levels, with director Miranda Lakerveld, Les Autres Muziektheater, Bharata Natyam dancer Evita Issa, choreograher Aartie Jagmohan, of Madhoerie Dance Company, Soprano Camille Hesketh and Lute player Guzman Ramone)
See also Kosmopolis Den Haag and Haagse India Maand.
Rakhi Peswani en Miranda Lakerveld, Map of down below (fragment), 2011
Rakhi Peswani en Miranda Lakerveld, Map of down below (fragment), 2011
Rakhi Peswani en Miranda Lakerveld, Map of down below (fragment), 2011
Rakhi Peswani en Miranda Lakerveld, Map of down below (fragment), 2011
Roman Wolgin
As part of this exhibition, a publication will appear with drawings of Wolgin and an essay by Hans den Hartog Jager.
Roman Wolgin, Zonder titel
Roman Wolgin, Zonder titel
Roman Wolgin, Zonder titel