Two exhibitions
dal 10/3/2011 al 7/5/2011
Segnalato da
10/3/2011
Two exhibitions
De Appel Boys' School, Amsterdam
Visual artist Marc Oosting presents the sequence 'MCMLXXV', several advertisements by the artist in the Dutch art magazine Metropolis M with certain characteristic abstract signs. Exceptional women become absurd characters who use their bodies as production machines in the colourful films by the New York-based artist Mika Rottenberg.
Marc Oosting “MCMLXXV”
11 March – 10 April
In 2010 the visual artist Marc Oosting (1975, Biddinghuizen) placed several advertisements in the Dutch art magazine Metropolis M. In an almost imperceptible manner he left certain characteristic abstract signs on each of these pages. The sequence of these signs entitled “MCMLXXV”, spread over a period of time and space in the magazine, is now presented as a whole for the first time in the new bookshop of the Appel Boys’ school.
Marc Oosting lives and works in Amsterdam. He studied sculpture at the Academy of Visual Arts Constantijn Huygens in Kampen, NL. His work has been on show a.o. at De Service Garage, Amsterdam (2009), Galerie Royal, Munich (2009) and tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam (2010). He was was nominated for the Prix de Rome and winner of the KPN Art Prix in 2009. Currently Oosting is a resident at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam.
For more information please see www.marcoosting.nl
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Mika Rottenberg
Dough cheese squeeze and tropical breeze. Video works 2003-2010
12 March - 8 May 2011
Exceptional women, such as the powerful Heather Foster, the sizeable Queen Raqui (‘Her body Utterly Amazing, Her agility astounding’), and the super-tall erotic model ‘Bunny Glamazone’, become absurd characters who use their bodies as production machines in the colourful films by the New York-based artist Mika Rottenberg. This spring the films of Rottenberg (born in Buenos Aires in 1976, but now living in New York) receive their Dutch première in de Appel.
Linking together often bizarre scenes, Rottenberg presents enigmatic working processes in which physical “waste materials” – such as blood, sweat and tears, or hair and nails – create new products, sometimes mixed up with salad or make-up. Rottenberg is said to make “seriously political art that is preposterously funny”. In fact with her almost surrealist films she comments on existing ideas about a woman’s right to self-determination, the idealisation of the stereotype of the body and the position of workers in a globalised capitalist economy. The starting point in this is often the miraculous nature of reality. The artist has said: “I see a lot of magic in so many mundane moments”. Rottenberg presents her films in complex installations she has built, which consist partly of her film decors and which she will re-create specially for her exhibition in de Appel.
Mika Rottenberg was born in Buenos Aires in 1976, and holds a BFA from the School of Visual Arts (2000) and an MFA from Columbia University (2004). Solo exhibitions include San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; La Maison Rouge, Paris; KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin; and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York. Her work has been exhibited in the 2008 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art; the Tate Modern, London; Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao and New York); The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Uncertain States of America: American Art in the Third Millenium (multiple venues, 2005-2006). Her most recent work, "Squeeze," premiered in the USA at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in summer 2010 and in New York at Mary Boone Gallery in conjunction with Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery in fall 2010. She lives and works in New York.
The first major publication on Rottenberg’s work, published by Gregory R. Miller & Co., in partnership with De Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam and Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery in New York, provides the most comprehensive analysis of Rottenberg’s oeuvre to date, with previously unpublished archival material and new visual sequences designed in collaboration with Project Projects, New York. Co-edited by Ann Demeester and Edna van Duyn, it will include key texts from different perspectives by poet Efrat Mishori (Tel Aviv), Linda Williams (University of California Berkeley); Hsuan L. Hsu, (University of
California, Davis) as well as new interviews between the artist and her hired performers.
Image: Mika Rottenberg, Video still from "Cheese" (2008)
Opening Friday 11 March, 18 – 21 h
de Appel Boys' School
Eerste Jacob van Campenstraat 59
Opening Hours: Tue-Sun from 11-6pm
(Closed on 30 April, 25 December and during construction of exhibitions)
Entrance prices:
Normal Entrance price: EU 7.00
CJP: EU 3.50
Museum card: free
Press: free
ICOM: free
<12 years: free
12-18 years: EU 3.50
students: EU 4.50
65+: EU 4.50
Unfortunately de Appel is not accessible for wheelchairs