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9/2/2012

5 exhibitions

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

ABSALON

from February 11 2012 until May 13 2012

Next spring Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is staging a one-man show of works by the French-Israeli artist Absalon (1964 - 1993).

The exhibition will transfer from the KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, the first institution to stage a major retrospective of Absalon’s work since 1994. Absalon died young, his enigmatic autonomy makes a profound impression. As in the KW in Berlin, the exhibition will display Absalon’s enigmatic works – living units painted neutral white and made entirely of wood. These ‘Cellules’ are, as it were, living pods for just one person, in which everything can be found for day-to-day, ritual activities down to the smallest detail, including window slits to keep unwanted guests at a distance.

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Kindred Collections - Prints and drawings from the collections of Jan and Wietse van den Noort

from February 11 2012 until May 20 2012

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen presents two outstanding collections this spring. The closely related collections of Jan and Wietse van den Noort offer an extensive survey of the arts of printmaking and drawing. A wide selection of works on paper from these ‘kindred collections’ are now shown together for the first time.

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Mister Delta - A gallery owner and collector in the museum

from February 11 2012 until May 20 2012

In January 2012, the Rotterdam Delta gallery will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen celebrates this anniversary with an exhibition and a publication, examining the role and significance of this outstanding gallery.

This winter, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is presenting an exhibition in honour of the fiftieth anniversary of the Rotterdam gallery Delta. Hans Sonnenberg, founder and owner of the gallery and in addition an ardent collector, donated sixteen ‘promised gifts’ to the museum in 2000. This important donation, which included paintings by Constant, objects by Piero Manzoni, work by English popart artists and two painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat, forms the heart of the exhibition. Acquisitions that the museum made in the past fifty years from Delta are also included in the exhibition, together with several paintings from Sonnenberg’s private collection. The opening of the exhibition coincides with the Art Rotterdam art fair, in which Sonnenberg actively participates for many years.

The Dutch-language publication will be available in the museum shop from 11 February and can be ordered online from the webshop.

The exhibition ‘Mister Delta, a gallery owner and collector in the museum’ has been made possible thanks to the support of Ploum Lodder Princen Advocaten en Notarissen and Stichting Harten Fonds.

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Intervention #20 Evelyne Janssen - POPHOUSE!

from February 11 2012 until August 12 2012

From February a playful, associative and apparently disordered miniature universe will descend upon the heart of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Evelyne Janssen (1965) will be installing a selection of objects and drawings in the four spaces known as the cloverleaf. She has fused the English term ‘dollhouse’ and its Dutch equivalent ‘poppenhuis’ to create POPHOUSE!
From family altar to living room

Evelyne Janssen uses her objects to create a series of new worlds. The broom cupboard has been transformed into a kind of family altar, with a sound recording and photograph of her father Pierre Janssen (1926-2007). He is known to many as the presenter of the arts programme ‘Kunstgrepen’ in the early days of Dutch television. She calls this the ‘exhalation space’, a name that her father gave to the canteen in the Gemeentemuseum Arnhem, of which he was director. Visitors can take a break in this room. The room ‘The Real Life of Design’ contains sofas from here parents’ collection. From these sofas you can view the films - ‘Streep’s Evening Hours’ (1999-2007) and ‘Ziep the Film’ (2007-2012), projected on the walls. Another room, ‘Being in the Beanery’ (after Kienholz), is festooned with small works that appear light-hearted but which are mementos of departed loved ones.
Collections of worlds

Evelyne Janssen lives and works in Rotterdam. Since her youth she has collected toys and other objects, which she uses to depict reality in miniature. Janssen sees her artistic practice as, ‘…a spectacle for young and old and an autobiographical record of my life and times.’

Intervention #20 Evelyne Janssen – POPHOUSE! is presented under the auspices of the City Collection. Since 1987 Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen has collected and presented art and design by Rotterdam-based makers. The City Collection now contains thousands of objects from 1945 to the present day.

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Maarten van Heemskerck - Ancient Rome Relives

from February 11 2012 until June 3 2012

This spring, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen will be exhibiting prints, paintings and drawings by Maarten van Heemskerck (1498-1574), in two rooms. Sketches made by Van Heemskerck during his visit to Rome are used to provide insight into the sources of inspiration of the artist from Haarlem. Central to the exhibition is the oil painting ‘Self portrait with Colosseum’, painted by Van Heemskerck in 1553, which has been specially loaned for this exhibition from the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.

In 1532 Maarten van Heemskerck (1498-1574) left Haarlem for Rome, where he became inspired by the relics of classical antiquity. Antique sculptures and ruins proved rewarding subjects for his drawings, which he would continue to use as a source years after his return. In the background of his ‘Self-Portrait’ he painted the Colosseum, for many artists the iconic symbol of ancient Rome. Supporting this famous work, which has been brought from Cambridge especially for this exhibition, a selection of prints and paintings show how antiquity continued to figure in the artist’s oeuvre. The exhibition also examines the influence of contemporaries such as Michelangelo.

Self-portrait with Colosseum
In the painting ‘Self-Portrait with Colosseum’ (1553) Maarten van Heemskerck has portrayed himself twice: as a 55-year-old successful and wealthy artist in front of a painting in which he is shown as a young artist sketching the ruins of the Colosseum. Van Heemskerck drew the Colosseum time and again during his stay in Rome. The extent of his admiration for the ancient amphitheatre became apparent at the end of his life, when he added it as the eighth subject in a series of prints of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

Classical quotes
The exhibition includes several sketches that Van Heemskerck made during his stay in Rome, from the collection of the Rijksmuseum and from a private collection. His sketchbooks contain studies of classical architecture, ruins and ancient sculptures. Upon his return to Haarlem he used these studies for paintings and prints with fantasy landscapes. The classical ruins and sculptures for the background for mythological, allegorical or biblical scenes, such as ‘The Judgement of Paris’ (c.1545-1550) and ‘The Gods of Olympus’ (1556). The influence of classical sculpture is clearly recognisable in Van Heemskerck’s compositions and in the postures of his figures. He used a study he had made in Rome of the ‘Belvedere Torso’ for his Christ figure in the print ‘Christ Being Crowned with Thorns’ (1548). A plaster cast of this classical sculpture is included in the exhibition.

Brochure
The exhibition is accompanied by an information brochure. Using Van Heemskerck’s sketches, it takes the visitor on a visual tour of ancient Rome. The text is in Dutch and English.

The curator explains
In connection with the exhibition, the museum is organising an afternoon on 15 February in which the curator talks about Maarten van Heemskerck and his sources of inspiration.

The exhibition ‘Maarten van Heemskerck - Ancient Rome Relives’ has been made possible largely thanks to a private donation.

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Press contect: Sandra van Dongen +31 10 44.19.561 or +31 10 44.19.428 pressoffice@boijmans.nl

Image: Absalon

Grand opening night at the museum - 5 new exhibitions and several activities
10 February 8pm - 11pm

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Museumpark 18-20 - Rotterdam
Opening hours
Tuesdays to Sundays, 11 am to 5 pm.
Closed on Mondays (except Easter Monday and Whitmonday), and 30 April (Queensday)
Entrance fees
€ 12,50: Full rate
€ 10,00: CJP holders
€ 10,00: Groups (minimum 15 people with advance booking)
€ 6,25: Students
Free entrance on Wednesdays and for persons up to 18 years of age

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