Foam_3h: Linus Bill
dal 25/3/2010 al 1/6/2010
Segnalato da
25/3/2010
Foam_3h: Linus Bill
Foam Photography Museum, Amsterdam
The Greatest Hits Vol. 1. Through his lens colour and form are not static. Subjects are changed in scale or form and transformed into new images. Especially for Foam, the artist creates an exhibition that covers all the walls of the museum. He presents all his photos and sculptures in a scale model of the museum.
Linus Bill (Switzerland, 1982), takes photographs and assembles them into a new world that is similar to ours but where regular rules do not apply. He photographs everything, all the time: people he knows, people he doesn't know, interiors, exteriors, living things, objects, snapshots, posed scenes; anything. Through his lens colour and form are not static. Subjects are changed in scale or form and transformed into new images. Especially for Foam, Bill creates an exhibition that covers all the walls of the museum. That is, he presents all his photos and sculptures in a scale model of the museum and exhibits it in Foam-3H, the exhibition space for young talent.
This model 'The Greatest Hits Vol. 1' is presented in Foam to a scale of 1:10. In this dummy all artworks are produced within scale containing sculptures and a series of about twenty photographs. The sculptures are clay models and are presented as three-dimensional abstract paintings. His photo's all have a mysterious character and an often-indefinable origin in common. New and often abstract works are complemented with older works, which gives the viewer a renewed insight into his current works.
Linus Bill studied photography at the Zürich University of the Arts. Between 2004 and 2010 he took part in several group- and solo exhibitions in Berlin, Zurich, Hamburg, Stockholm, Vienna and New York. In 2009 he won the Grand Prix Du Jury of the Festival International de Photographie Hyères. Bill also created several publications,e.g. Polizei Geschlossen Sorry, Rollo Press, Zürich 2008 and Tu M'as Volé Mon Vélo, Rollo Press, Zürich 2008.
Linus Bill – The Greatest Hits Vol. 1 has been made possible thanks to the SBK Amsterdam, de Van Bijlevelt Stichting, Rijnja Repro and the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia.
Image: 2009 © Linus Bill
For information and visual material please contact Merel Kappelhoff (communications), e-mail merel@foam.nl or phone +31 (0)20 5516500.
Foam is sponsored by the BankGiroLoterij, the VandenEnde Foundation and De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek.
Foam_Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam
Keizersgracht 609, 1017 DS Amsterdam The Netherlands
Opening Hours: Daily from 10am to 6pm, thu/fri 10am to 9pm Closed: Jan 1st, April 30th (Queensday)
Admission: adults: euro 8,00 students/65+: euro 5,50 city card/ cjp: euro 4,00