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21/2/2008

Two exhibitions

De Appel (old location), Amsterdam

"To Burn Oneself with Oneself: the Romantic Damage Show"
February 23 - April 6 2008

Curator: Mark Kremer (NL) in collaboration with Ann Demeester (BE)

Participating artists: Harmen Brethouwer (NL), Günther Förg (DE), Rodney Graham (CA), Joan Jonas (US), Michael Landy (GB), Renzo Martens (NL/BE), Jewyo Rhii (KR), Christoph Schlingensief (DE), Annika Ström (SE/GB) and Richard T. Walker (GB/US)

Romanticism is back with a vengeance. A few years ago it seemed to be a notion unearthed from a dim past and revamped in order to lend some substantial emphasis to a disoriented contemporary art practice. Romantic themes exert an almost universal attraction, which is why they resurface at regular intervals. But what’s really going on?

Is the current interest in Romanticism - an epoch in which thinkers, poets and artists took their own subjective feelings as the basis for their work - an expression of a paradigm shift in art? Is this the art world’s way of bidding farewell to the 1990s, which were dominated by ‘relational aesthetics’ and the cultivation of collective experiences and social actions within the realm of art? Has ‘the urgency of a new scenario for the visible world’ (Pierre Huyghe) become obsolete? Are artists nowadays developing their scenarios again according to an individual/personal viewpoint? “To Burn Oneself with Oneself: the Romantic Damage Show” is all about these questions. It is an exhibition set up as an investigation into, and a plea for, the Romantic stance of the artist.

Guest curator Mark Kremer (NL), together with Ann Demeester (NL/BE), has selected ten artists who regard their oeuvres as their lifework. The concept of lifework refers to the complex and ambiguous relation between the life of the artist and his/her work, and the way in which this relationship develops through time. The artist who lives ‘a life in art’ must face the possible fatality of that choice. Subjectivity as imperative has a reverse side: art and life can fuse and burn each other.

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And in The Shadowcabinet:
"Master Humphrey's Clock": preparations
(February 22 - April 6 and April 18 - June 8)

In the present instant, the host or author, in opening his new establishment, provided no
bill of fare*. Sensible of the difficulties of such an undertaking in its infancy, he
preferred that it should make its own way, silently and gradually, or make no way at all.
Charles Dickens

The Shadow Cabinet is this time curated by de Appel's Curatorial Programme year 07/08. "Master Humphrey's Clock" is an ongoing project of de Appel’s Curatorial Programme 07/08, beginning in the Shadow Cabinet on the 22nd of February 2008. This year the participants are: Yulia Aksenova, Jesse Birch, Sarah Farrar, Inti Guerrero, Virginija Januskeviciute and Marko Stamenkovic.
* Bill of fare: a list of items or events in a presentation; a programme.

Image: Gunter Forg

Opening: Friday 22 February from 6 pm. onwards in de Appel

De Appel
Nieuwe Spiegelstraat - Amsterdam

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