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1/3/2010

Vanden Eynde and Sudhues

Museum Het Domein, Sittard

The Higher Institute of Fine Arts (HISK) is one of Belgium's most distinguished institutes for the arts. It is an international platform for young international artists whose development is closely followed by curators, critics and gallerists with a keen interest in emerging talent. The HISK Guestroom will focus on a different pair of artists every two weeks. Domein curator Roel Arkesteijn selected six pairs of artists who studied at the HISK. The work of a current ‘candidate laureate’ is combined with that of an artist who has since gone on to develop his or her artistic practice. The fourth pair of artists are Maarten Vanden Eynde en Max Sudhues.

Maarten Vanden Eynde (Belgium, 1977)

Maarten Vanden Eynde is a Belgian artist who has devoted his life to exploring the mysteries of our future past and to investigating the concept of Genetology, a self-invented ‘Science of First Things’, created in opposition to the dominant science of last things or eschatology. Genetology’s main area of research is our fascination with Time and its consequences: how will we look back to the Past in the Future? What will be left over from the Present? (www.genetology.net).

His work Oil Well was produced during the third Enough Room for Space (ERforS) project in Tbilisi, Georgia where the most severe protests since the Rose revolution were taking place. In 2003 the new Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili called back his fellow country men, who fled Georgia in the past decades, to come and help rebuild the once prosperous and wealthy country into a modern western democracy. ERforS decided to respond to this call as well and check out how a new democracy was being introduced or rather implanted and what the side-effects are of such an enormous political and sociological shift. I planted ten oil eruptions on several locations through the city. In front of the parliament it caused a surprising commotion as the protesting crowd appropriated the work as a 'black rose', symbolizing the failure of the Rose revolution.
In 2008 an indoor version was created, called Oil-Peak, referring to the moment in time when the demand for oil became bigger than the available amount.

Max Sudhues (Germany, 1977)

Balancing and measurement of spaces and human environments, inner and outer worlds, allegories of nature and architecture, rapidly moving from poetic to threatening as well as the vague, hardly to describe area between dream and nightmare are the focus in the works of Max Sudhues. By using and alienating ordinary items of everyday life and presenting it through all kinds of projecting light, Max Sudhues creates imaginary worlds in the tradition of "Collage", whose origins are visible but not always clear anymore.
The video loop I love you but you destroy me (2009) consists of multi-mirrored takes of defective and leaking water tubes, found on a construction site in Gent. Here they become absurd (natural and human) landscapes: silo-like buildings with water constantly splashing and flushing in- and out.

Image: Maarten Vanden Eynde, Oil P'

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