Willem De Rooij
dal 2/2/2015 al 28/3/2015
Segnalato da
2/2/2015
Willem De Rooij
Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt
'double double'. The exhibition presents the installation Intolerance, produced for the Nationalgalerie in Berlin. A central feature of this installation was a group of 11 feathered ceremonial objects from 18th-century Hawai'i.
Three nearly identical blankets are placed in three nearly identical vitrines in three nearly identical exhibition rooms. One of the blankets comes from the Weltkulturen Museum’s ethnographic collection. It was part of a donation in 1834 and was given to the museum in 1904.
It is made from tightly woven duck and goose feathers. This rare Californian blanket is a serial object. Its design and technique are repeated in all of the fifteen feathered Californian blankets known to be in existence today. Two further blankets in the Green Room exhibition are copies commissioned by De Rooij (*1969, NL). They are made of camelhair and, in turn, echo the feathered blanket as well as each other. The ethnographic object is spatially sandwiched between its two replicas.
Willem de Rooij is Professor of Fine Arts at the Städelschule in Frankfurt. De Rooij represented the Netherlands at the Venice Biennial in 2005. Major solo exhibitions include Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (2010), Kunstverein München (2012) and The Jewish Museum, New York (2014).
Image: Blanket, Miwok, Wappo, Patwin, Nisenan or Konkow, California, 19th century, feathers (duck and goose), Indian hemp strings, trade beads. Gift from Baron Wilhelm von Rossillon, 1834. Collection Weltkulturen Museum. Photo: Wolfgang Günzel.
Press contact:
Christine Sturm, christine.sturm@stadt-frankfurt.de
Opening: 3 February, 7pm
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