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13/6/2014

Three exhibitions

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Paul Noble
NOBSON

‘A heavenly hell, a hellish heaven, and lots of strangely shaped people having sex in public’, is how the British newspaper The Guardian describes Paul Noble’s imaginary world. In the summer of 2014 Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen brings together the entire Nobson Nobseen series for the first time, giving visitors a chance to explore the full madness of one of Britain’s most admired draftsmen.

Measuring up to 40m2, the highly refined pencil drawings of Paul Noble (1963, GB) give free rein to the imagination. Next summer visitors to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen will have the first opportunity to see the entire body of works that make up Noble’s invented metropolis ‘Nobson Newtown’. The series of drawings and sculptures is spread across museums and private collections throughout the world. Since 2004 Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen has acquired two works from the series. The remaining works will be lent specially for the occasion. The major summer exhibition ‘Paul Noble - NOBSON’ will be shown in the museum’s Bodon Galleries, which have previously hosted successful exhibitions of work by Carsten Höller, Marijke van Warmerdam and, most recently, Jan van Eyck.

Nobson
Nobson is a strange world, inspired by the grey skies of Whitley Bay, the seaside resort in the north of England where Paul Noble grew up. He has worked for more than seventeen years on this fantasy world of ruins, rocks and hidden divine figures. Nobson Newtown is a city of extremes, of cartoon-like events and insanity, born in the mind of this 50-year-old boy.

Exhibition in Rotterdam
The exhibition will be installed by the artist himself, who already has an idea of how to fit together the pieces of the puzzle. Some of Noble’s drawings reach the ceiling and offer a 45-degree perspective. The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication with essays by authors including Paul Kempers. ‘Paul Noble - NOBSON’ is made possible with the generous support of the Ammodo Foundation.

Turner Prize
Noble’s work has been shown at Tate, London (1999), the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (2003) and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (2005). In 2012 Noble was nominated for the prestigious Turner Prize. He lives and works in London.

Drawings collection
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen has one of the richest collections of old master drawings in Europe, with masterpieces by Italian, German, Dutch and French artists. The museum’s collection of contemporary drawings has a strong focus on surreal imagery.

Also on view
In the summer of 2014 Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen will host an exhibition of contemporary Chinese art and a new artist will take over the Willem Van der Vorm Gallery as part of the series ‘Sensory Spaces’.

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Focus Beijing
De Heus-Zomer Collection

This summer Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is showing a selection of contemporary Chinese art from the collection of Henk and Victoria de Heus-Zomer. Acquaint yourself with two generations of Chinese artists in the galleries around the Bodon Gallery. The exhibition provides a broad survey of developments in contemporary art in Beijing. The works are being publicly exhibited for the first time.

The exhibition ‘Focus Beijing’ features the work of two generations of prominent artists from Beijing. The first generation grew up in the 1950s and 1960s. They include Zhang Dali (Harbin, 1963), Zhang Xiaogang (Kunming, 1958), Hai Bo (Changchun, 1962) and Ai Weiwei (Beijing, 1957). Their work shows a strong sense of political engagement, referring to China’s traumatic history and the social and cultural revolutions of recent decades. The second generation grew up in the 1970s and 1980s: the period of China’s Open Door Policy. Artists such as Qiu Xiaofei (Hoerbin, 1977), Wang Guangle (Fujian, 1976) and Liang Yuanwei (Xi’an, 1977) were born in a period in which Chinese society became more oriented towards the West, a period of massive economic growth and new markets. Individuality and intuition are key to their artistic practice. They are informed better about international art developments than their Western counterparts are about current developments in Chinese art. The exhibition highlights the different standpoints of each artist, presenting a broad view of contemporary art developments in Beijing, with Shanghai, as the capital of Chinese Art.
Star status

The names Zhang Dali, Wang Guangle and Hai Bo might sound unfamiliar to the Western public, but these artists have star status in Beijing’s cultural circuit. Several of these artists have been invited to make works specially for the exhibition. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen gives you the opportunity to discover their (new) work.
Henk and Victoria de Heus-Zomer

Henk and Victoria de Heus-Zomer, who made their fortune in the cattle-food industry, began collecting art in 1989. They moved to a new home and started buying art “to fill the empty walls”. They acquired works by artists such as Zhang Xiaogang and Ai Weiwei long before the international art world took notice of them. After twenty-five years, the De Heus-Zomer Collection has grown into one of the largest contemporary art collections in the Netherlands, with art from all over the world.
Series of exhibitions

For many years these works of art were hidden from public view at the De Heus-Zomer estate. Now the public can acquaint itself with this exclusive collection: last year the couple showed part of their collection of Dutch art at the Singer Museum in Laren and a selection of art on the theme of nature at Museum Belvédère in Heerenveen. ‘Focus Beijing: De Heus-Zomer Collection’ at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is the grande finale of this series of exhibitions.
Personal collection

The collection is based on the couple’s personal taste. Over the past few decades they have collected works by great names such as Marlene Dumas, Karel Appel and Ai Weiwei. The couple travels to China once or twice a year for business. During these trips they visit artists in their studios and search for new acquisitions for their collection.

On ARTtube you can watch a video about the restoration of a monumental artwork by Anselm Kiefer, which the museum has received on long-term loan from the De Heus-Zomer couple.

Contemporary art takes centre stage
This summer contemporary art takes centre stage at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. In addition to ‘Focus Beijing: De Heus-Zomer Collection’ visitors can see Paul Noble’s giant drawings of his surreal universe Nobson Newtown, and artist Liu Wei has made a special installation for the fourth edition of ‘Sensory Spaces’.

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Sensory Spaces 4
Liu Wei
until 28 September 2014

Sensory Spaces is a series of commissioned solo projects presented in the Willem van der Vorm Gallery, located in the freely accessible exhibition space in the museum’s entrance hall. Artists are invited to respond to the architectural qualities of the space, emphasizing notions of transformation and surprise.

The work of Liu Wei (1972) deals with China’s rapid modernisation and urban growth. His subject is the power structures and dynamism of urban society. He literally uses the physical materials from which the city is built, placing (en)large(d) elements in the exhibition space, which are both building blocks and sculptures. They refer to construction and decay, possibilities and utopias. Their scale and materiality also enter into a dialogue with Richard Serra's ‘Waxing Arcs’ and the museum’s concrete architecture.

The series is made possible by AMMODO.

Image: Paul Noble, Ye Olde Ruin, 2003-2004. Collection: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Purchase with support from the Mondriaan Fund and the Van Beuningen/Peterich Fund. Photo: Bob Goedewaagen.

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Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Museumpark 18-20 - 3015 CX Rotterdam
Tuesdays to Sundays, 11 am to 5 pm.
Closed on Mondays (except Easter Monday and Whitmonday), 1 January, 27 April (Kingsday; in 2014 on 26 April) and 25 December. The museum closes at 4 pm on Saint Nicholas' night December 5th, Christmas Eve December 24th and New Year's Eve December 31st.
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€ 10,00: CJP holders
€ 10,00: Groups (minimum 15 people with advance booking)
€ 6,25: Students

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