25/1/2012
Han Hoogerbrugge
Tent, Rotterdam
In La Grande Fete des Voyeurs, TENT is transformed into the artist's private universe. Slideshows, drawings, video monitors and projections show work from the past fifteen years, from the pioneering stage in which Hoogerbrugge made animations with simple computer programs, to the refined computer technology.
In February and March 2012, TENT presents an extensive solo exhibition by the Rotterdam
artist Han Hoogerbrugge.
La Grande Fête des Voyeurs is the first retrospective of his work. For
nearly fifteen years, Hoogerbrugge has been drawing his alter ego, a loner in a black suit who
observes the world around him with (black) humour. Hoogerbrugge publishes a daily comic on
his website Pro Stress. In 2011 his animation Quatrosopus was shown in the Danish pavilion at
the Venice Biennale and the animation game FLX was recently acquired by the Stedelijk
Museum Amsterdam.
Hoogerbrugge has developed into a prominent example of a contemporary cross-media artistic
practice, in which the borders between the real and virtual, between dream and nightmare,
between high and low art, do not exist. Hoogerbrugge’s drawings and animations are frequently
shown at festivals, pop concerts, in newspapers and magazines, but also in museums, exhibition
spaces and galleries.
In La Grande Fête des Voyeurs, TENT is transformed into the artist’s private universe.
Slideshows, drawings, video monitors and projections show work from the past fifteen years,
from the pioneering stage in which Hoogerbrugge made animations with simple computer
programs, to the refined computer technology that moves the public to play the Hoogerbrugge
games. Hoogerbrugge is currently working on a monumental new video installation in which the
various characters from his comics are placed in a visual argument with one another. The video
installation will be premièred at the opening.
Opening: Thursday 26.01.2012, 20.00h
Tent
Witte de Withstraat 50 - Rotterdam
opening hours: thue - sun, 11 - 18.00 hrs
Free admission