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4/4/2012

Secret Gardens

Tent, Rotterdam

curated by Willie Stehouwer

Romantic, meditative, seductive and sometimes even threatening: nature plays the leading role in the group exhibition Secret Gardens. Fifteen artists present new works in which nature signifies a longing for mystery, introspection and the sublime.

The artists in the exhibition mainly depict nature as an environment, which the visitor becomes part of by walking through it, such as the installations by Daniele Pario Perra, Yvette Poorter, Edward Clydesdale Thomson and Giuseppe Licari. The central space in TENT is dominated by a spectacular ceiling installation by artist Giuseppe Licari. A system of tree roots protrudes into the space and transforms it into a dreamlike underworld. Photographers Schilte & Portielje and Janine Schrijver transport us to a garden of earthly delights and romantic city parks. Nature in the city is the focus of the work by magazine collective Club Donny. Maurice Meewisse seeks the confrontation between unspoilt and manipulated nature. The cycle of growth and decay – and particularly the poetry thereof – is the leitmotif in the nightshade paintings by Olphaert den Otter, and in the works by Anne van Eck, Wouter Venema, Marleen van Wijngaarden and Wim van Egmond. In his installation, Diederik Klomberg formulates a layered commentary on the contemporary secret garden. More than just a place of beauty, it has become a place for illegal activity, for civil disobedience; or is it indeed a spot that provides space for the imagination?

Say it with flowers on Thursday 5 April
On Thursday 5 April the exhibition De Geheime Tuin opens in CBK as part of the CBK Rotterdam’s 30th anniversary. Flower girls accompany the visitors from CBK to TENT, where Secret Gardens opens at 20.00 hrs with performances by Olphaert den Otter, who sings a renaissance piece with his Retorisch Kwartet, and by Daniele Pario Perra. Music by DJ Mietze B and an afterparty in WORM with DJ Machinegewehr and Gees Voorhees.

Events around the relationship between art and nature
The exhibition is accompanied by an extensive programme of events. Art historian Hans den Hartog Jager talks about nature and the longing for the sublime (10 May), there is a visit to Trompenburg Gardens and Arboretum (20 May), a documentary on the exhibition by Marieke Van der Lippe is premièred (31 May) and the new edition of the nature magazine Club Donny will be launched on 5 April.

List of events and side-programme
Thursday 5 April 2012, 17.30h / 20.00h: Jubilee opening De Geheime Tuin / Secret Gardens
Sunday 22 April, 14.00 – 16.00h: CBK Rotterdam - Binnenweg in Bloom - hollyhock performance
Wednesday 2 May, 17.00 - 19.00h: CBK Rotterdam - CBK 30 years old - evening picnic
Thursday 10 May, 20.00h - Key to the Garden - Hans den Hartog Jager on the sublime
Sunday 20 May, 11.00 - 15.00h - A Walk in the Park - excursion
Thursday 31 May, 20.00h - The Willow Wind - screening and spaghetti harvest
Sunday 3 June, 14.00h: CBK Rotterdam - Flower Power Hortus Publicus - finissage education

Education
Hortus Publicus (CBK Rotterdam and TENT) - Giuseppe Licari
Artist Giuseppe Licari works with schoolchildren on micro-gardens.
Garden of Secrets - KABK Den Haag
Academy project in which fifty KABK students participate. With the cooperation of Club Donny.

Secret Gardens wishes to thank: Mondriaan Fund, Stichting Stokroos, ‘s Zomers

Image: Edward Clydesdale Thomson, In a Green Shade

For more information please contact Josephine van Kranendonk, communication and marketing TENT via com.tent@cbk.rotterdam.nl or +31 (0)10 413 54 98.

Opening: Thursday 5 April 2012, 20.00h

Tent
Witte de Withstraat 50 Rotterdam
Opening hours: thue - sun, 11 - 18.00 hrs
Admission free

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