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24/5/2006

Mark Hosking

Vriza, Amsterdam

Disclosures VI: Disconnected

Disclosures, a series of exhibitions, started in spring 2004 in one of the corner-apartments of the 'colossal’ housing block designed by architects Kollhoff and Rapp, on the KNSM-island in Amsterdam. This so called superblock was one of the first experiments of differentiated building in 1993; an idea that has been used in many new buildings since. The 304 apartments of the block are all different in layout and size and thus offer living-space to a divers group of inhabitants; the design ranging to fit low-income and high-income tenants as well. This differentiation can however not be predicted from the monolith, closed-off front and the empty monumental hallways.

For the sequel Disclosures, artists are invited to create an individual site-specific presentation based on their personal view of the particular setting; the point of departure ranging from the diversity of inhabitants or from the wide open urban-horizon; to the extensive windowless left-over spaces of the housingblock. Each presentation will be accompanied with a bilingual newsletter written by different authors.

Some time ago apartment 604 on an eastern island in Amsterdam was the pride of its inhabitants. It had monumental space and gave a panoramic view on a new world. The place was a roaring platform where visitors gathered and contemplated. Nowadays it is a deserted attic; a space without facilities. Sculptor Mark Hosking has moved into this disconnected abode. With the scarce possessions present in the space, he has made a total-installation, in which the objects, freed of their earlier function, play a new role. The garments and textiles are used to purify the surrounding waters, while light bulbs illuminate the space with fire. Even remaining clothes hangers and telephone cables are put to use in this new, improvised 'teknhnologia’.

In late-capitalism objects are condemned to a singular functionality. The relation of mankind to its surroundings seems reduced to passive acceptance. We forget, accustomed as we are to our role as consumer, that human nature has a gift for adaptation, resourcefulness, and redefining ones relationships to things. Hosking seems to have released himself from oblivion and retraced the steps to coping with objects as sources and possibilities. To Hosking sculpting seems a strategy to disengage himself from the prevailing resignation.

Could the sculptor overcome such a disconnection, and succeed in safeguarding primary needs? Or is he prepared to resign his membership to society and consider an existence in uncompromising singularity? The viewer is invited to partake in Hosking's fallback autarkism, which allows one to step outside of things within an interior space.

The British sculptor Mark Hosking (1971, Plymouth) studied at Rijksakademie from 1997 to 1999. Group exhibitions have included 'The Square Show’, Bloomberg SPACE London, 2003, 'Gymnasion’, Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz and 'City Racing - A partial account’, I.C.A., London 2001. Solo exhibitions include Lisson Gallery, London - 2004, Engholm, Engelhorn Galerie, Vienna 2004 and Jerwood Gallery, London, 2001.

Opening: Ascension Day 2006 (May 25) 17.00 - 20.00 hrs

VRIZA, KNSMlaan 604, 1019 LP Amsterdam
Reach: bus 42 from CS or ring road A10, exit S114 Zeeburg
tram 10 from the centre
Openinghours: Friday and Saturday 14.00 hrs - 18.00 hrs
and by appointment

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