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30/5/2014

Two exhibitions

De Pont Museum, Tilburg

How To
A project for The One Minutes by Hans Aarsman
31 May - 24 August 2014

The One Minutes is an international platform for very short video works. Since 1999 more than 10,000 one-minute films have been produced by makers from 120 countries. The contributions mainly come from (former) students of the Sandberg Instituut, the Master program of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. A significant part of the platform's activities involves the production of a monthly video offering, The One Minutes Series, to which museums and other cultural institutions can subscribe. In the Netherlands there are twenty subscribers, among them De Pont. Partly in connection with the fifteenth anniversary of The One Minutes, writer and 'photo-detective' Hans Aarsman (1951) has been asked to organize a special project, which has been given the theme and title How To. Aarsman has a column in the newspaper de Volkskrant, in which he provides a meticulous analysis of news photographs and frequently does something similar to this for the television program De Wereld Draait Door. At the moment he is touring the country with his theatrical program De Aarsman Projectie, een college in het kijken (The Aarsman Projection, a lecture on looking).

How To, the exhibition conceived by Hans Aarsman, deals with convenient tips. It is a compilation of short films that teach us something within one minute. What do you do, for instance, if you have to tie your shoes and have only one hand free? Another film shows a variety of ways to separate an egg yolk from the white: not all of them are very practical. One of the films was made by Aarsman himself. He had an uncle Loek, one of those characters found in every family, who told unforgettable stories. Aarsman's uncle taught him how to wash his hands in a jiffy when they're covered in black grease: first rub them with olive oil, then with soap and only after that, rinse them under the faucet. By way of The One Minutes, Aarsman had a message sent to artists, asking them whether they would be interested in making short films with such convenient tips as the subject matter. Nearly sixty were submitted to him, from all parts of the world. Half of these are now on view in De Pont's project space.

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Summer Presentation
the collection - recent acquisitions
31 May - 31 August 2014

In the presentation of De Pont's collection this summer, special consideration is being given to recent acquisitions, many of which will be shown for the first time. Among the newcomers to the collection is Fiona Banner (Merseyside, UK 1966). Banner’s practice encompasses sculpture, drawing, installation, bookmaking and performance. She has often returned to language. For the last few years Banner has been creating neon pieces dealing with the alphabet and punctuation in a pictorial way. Using neon tubes has led the artist to think about glass, its possibilities and limits. The work of hers acquired by De Pont, titled Work I (2013), is the form of a scaffold on wheels, carried out in glass on a one-to-one scale. When describing this work she states, “I spend a lot of time up scaffold towers during the making of large wall drawings, so the experience of being high up on a scaffold is intimately associated with process, the tension between the idea of the work and the completion of the work; between something not existing and existing, it’s a kind of fantasy space, it is a precarious moment. When the scaffold is gone I always miss it”. Work 1 echoes the lean yet unintentional aesthetics of this structure, which combines maximum strength, with maximum temporality. Similarly the reality of art itself is often temporary - it is put up, installed, then stored or erased. Some of the other recent acquisitions and old acquaintances on show this summer: watercolors by Callum Innes, drawings by David Claerbout, ceramic sculptures by Guido Geelen, Tacita Dean's film Gellért, Rita McBride's Curves and -last but not least- as of 21 June Straßenbild, a monumental work made up of eighteen paintings, by Georg Baselitz. This work, by one of the world's leading artists, is on loan from the Kunstmuseum Bonn for the period of a year.

De Pont Museum
Wilhelminapark 1 - 5041 EA Tilburg
Opening hours
Tuesday through Sunday 11 am - 5 pm
Every third Thursday of the month also open from 5-8 pm, with free admission (not in July and August). Closed on Monday, except on Boxing Day, Easter Monday and Whit Monday. Closed on December 25, January 1 and King's Day (April 27th).
Admission
Adults € 10,00
Groups of at least 15 people € 6,00
Students with student ID € 5,00
Museum Card no charge
Under 18 no charge
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