A Arte do Povo
dal 14/12/2001 al 10/2/2002
Segnalato da
Anneke de Boer
Aloysius Donia
Florian Gottke
Hein Hage
Mathilde ter Heijne
Philippine Hoegen
Rob Johannesma
Jeroen Jongeleen
Laurent Malherbe
Aernout Mik
Jeroen Offerman
Vanessa Jane Phaff
Jan Rothuizen
Julika Rudelius
Gerco de Ruijter
Frank van der Salm
Peter Stel
Nasrin Tabatabai
Erik Wesselo
Edwin Zwakman
14/12/2001
A Arte do Povo
Witte de With, Rotterdam
The People's Art. The artists show all new works, many of them especially made for this exhibition. The title of the exhibition The People's Art refers to the Dutch democratic tradition whose legendary openness and tolerance are the product of an intense social organization, spreading over every aspect of government, interest groups and human relations. This organization even extends to the Dutch landscape, which is almost entirely manmade, deftly designed and maintained by innumerable committees and rules.
The People's Art
With: Anneke de Boer; Aloysius Donia;
Florian Göttke; Hein Hage; Mathilde ter Heijne;
Philippine Hoegen; Rob
Johannesma; Jeroen Jongeleen; Laurent
Malherbe;
Aernout Mik; Jeroen Offerman; Vanessa
Jane Phaff; Jan
Rothuizen; Julika Rudelius; Gerco de
Ruijter; Frank van
der Salm; Peter Stel; Nasrin Tabatabai;
Erik Wesselo;
Edwin Zwakman.
In his final exhibition as director of
Witte de With,
Bartomeu Marà shares his perspective on
Dutch
contemporary art.
Porto 2001, Cultural
Capital, invited
Marà to make an earlier version of this
exhibition for the
former power plant Do Freixo in Porto in
the Spring of this
year. The exhibition received excellent
reviews.
In Witte de With, the artists show all new works, many of them especially made for this exhibition.
The title of the exhibition The People's Art refers to the Dutch democratic tradition whose legendary openness and tolerance are the product of an
intense social
organization, spreading over every
aspect of government,
interest groups and human relations.
This organization
even extends to the Dutch landscape,
which is almost
entirely manmade, deftly designed and
maintained by
innumerable committees and rules.
Dutch
art, rather than
openly resisting this organizational
impulse, functions as
its mild, ironic corollary.
Closing the
gap between art and
artifice, it replicates the human made
landscape in
miniature, targets artificial human
interaction and creates
an altogether alien nether-land, an
alternative order, in
which it is possible "to present the
unfathomable and
think the unthinkable."
(Hans Ibelings)
A bilingual catalogue (English /
Portuguese)
accompanies the exhibition.
Image: Vanessa Jane Phaff, "Lucretia (with knife and cable release)" 1998 You are so far away, 2000
For more information: Valentijn Byvanck
valentijn@wdw.nl
Opening Saturday December 15, 2001
opening hours
Tuesday through Sunday: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
closed on Mondays and during installation periods
Witte de With, center for contemporary art
Witte de Withstraat 50
3012 BR Rotterdam The Netherlands
phone 31 (0)10 411 01 44 fax 31 (0)10 411 79 24