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9/4/2009

Katinka Bock / Dave Meijer

De Vleeshal, Middelburg

Katinka Bock. The Sound of Distance

This spring, De Vleeshal will be staging the first solo exhibition of German artist Katinka Bock (Frankfurt, 1976) in the Netherlands. Entitled The Sound of Distance, Bock’s presentation focuses on the dialogue between landscape and memory, between space and the marks of history. Bock has previously exhibited at venues such as the Tate Modern, in London; and the Centre d’Art Contemporain la Synagogue de Delme, in France.

Bock reconceptualizes the environment of De Vleeshal through installation works and sculptures that create a relationship between the space’s interior and exterior landscapes. As so often in her work, this joining of inside and outside explicitly includes the weather. Rain, wind and sun are allowed a direct influence on De Vleeshal’s interior. Consequently, the art works exhibited here will be shaped by time, changing over the duration of the exhibition.

Space and landscape are recurring features in Katinka Bock’s work. In De Vleeshal, this fascination with environments is related to the longstanding Dutch tradition of landscape painting. Using simple, natural materials – employed in such a way that their fragile, precarious changeability is revealed – Bock creates physical, historical and social interconnections between elements of De Vleeshal’s environment. Die Diagonal (2009), for example, explores the space of the hall through measurement of its components. April Table (2009) reflects the passage of time. A final example is the ceramic installation The Ground of the Sea (2009), which analyses how elements of a space may display the traces of time.

On the occasion of the opening of The Sound of Distance, on 10 April 2009, the band Infinite Mind will give a live performance of their project Studio Visit (concept: Katinka Bock, text: Thomas Boutoux, music: Infinite Mind) in the basement of De Vleeshal.

Katinka Bock is born in 1976 in Frankfurt/Main (Germany).She lives and works in Paris. Bock is represented by. Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris.
Solo exhibitions (selection): Synagogue de Delme, Delme, France (2008); Volumes en extension, Centre d’art Passerelle, Brest, France (2007); Bäume wachsen, Ströme fliessen, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris, France (2007); Im Ungegewissen, Galerie Où, Marseille, France, (2006). Group exhibitions (selection): La Notte, La Kunsthalle, Mulhouse, France, (2009); Colossal – Art Fact Fiction, Osnabruck, Germany (2009); Here we dance, Tate Modern, Londen, United Kingdom (2008); Urbaines ellipses, Galerie municipale Fernand Léger, Ivry-sur-Seine, France (2008); Introduction de la femme à la bûche, La Vitrine, Paris, France (2008); A Town (not a city), Kunsthalle Saint-Gall, Switzerland (2008); Biennale Art Grandeur Nature, La Galerie, centre d’art Noisy-le-Sec, France (2008); Katinka Bock, Robert Filliou, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris, France (2008); Wheeeel, Le printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France (2007).

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Dave Meijer. De einder. En dan de hoek om.

While De Vleeshal features Katinka Bock’s exploration of its particular landscape, De Kabinetten van De Vleeshal presents Dutch painter Dave Meijer’s (Souburg, 1955) pictorial idiom for the latter environment. The exhibition De einder. En dan de hoek om. (The Horizon. And then around the Corner.) comprises two series of paintings that form points of reference to what Meijer conceives of as the symbolic landscape of De Kabinetten van De Vleeshal’s exhibition space.

The horizon features prominently in Meijer’s paintings. In this, his work echoes Dutch landscape painting tradition, in which the horizon is often lowered to emphasize the cloud formations, the light and the flatness typical of the Low Countries. As in most of his work, the projects presented in De Kabinetten van De Vleeshal – Ergens onder een dak onder de blauwe lucht (Somewhere under a roof under the blue sky (2009) and Hetzelfde nog een keer maar dan anders (The same again, but now different (2009) – are painted as series. Both consist of a multitude of small, complexly layered, abstract works. Hung in constellation, however, the series each form a whole.

Meijer presents his series in combination with their packing cases. These represent his studio that, to him, in being “small and confined” is “large and transparent” (Dave Meijer, cited by Janneke Wesseling in AMC Magazine, 2006).

Opening Friday April 10, 4- 6 p.m

De Vleeshal, Markt
P.O. Box 201, NL-4330 AE Middelburg
Opening hours: Tuesday – Sunday, Easter and Whit Monday, 1 – 5 p.m.
Free admission

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