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10/10/2014

Four exhibitions

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Sensory Spaces 5
Siobhan Hápaska

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 fifth site-specific installation is made by Siobhán Hapaska. Siobhán Hapaska (Belfast, 1963) makes installations that speak to all the senses. She uses organic and synthetic materials and works on the border between abstraction and representation. She is fascinated by our desire for movement, speed and progress and the flip side of this: alienation, solitude and arrested emotional development. She invites visitors to feel her works rather than understand them. For Sensory Spaces 5, Hapaska has made a poetic installation with olive trees, a symbol of prosperity and hope.

The Sensory Spaces series:
Sensory Spaces 4 – Liu Wei
Sensory Spaces 3 – Elad Lassry
Sensory Spaces 2 – Sabine Hornig
Sensory Spaces 1 – Oscar Tuazon

Upcoming:
Sensory Spaces 6 – Sara VanDerBeek, 7 February–31 May 2015

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The Future of Fashion is Now
until January 18 2015

Do we actually want a new wardrobe every six months or can fashion last longer? Does the fit of a dress have to satisfy the prevailing ideal of beauty or might it be different? What is fashion’s role in the advance of wearable technology like Google Glass? These are the fundamental questions that concern the latest generation of fashion designers. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is showing the fashion of the future, with work by designers including Viktor&Rolf, Christophe Coppens (Belgium), Hussein Chalayan (Cyprus) and Rejina Pyo (Korea).

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Melanie Smith
until January 11 2015

In 2012 Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen acquired the video Xilitla (2011) by Melanie Smith (1965, Poole, UK), a British artist based in Mexico City. This work was featured in her solo presentation in the Mexican pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2011. This autumn Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen presents an exhibition of Smith’s work from 1994 to the present. The exhibition was shown earlier at the MK Gallery in Milton Keynes and includes the video work Xilitla, her most recent film Fordlandia, vitrines with hundreds of objects, wall paintings, photographs and collages. This is Smith’s first solo exhibition in the Netherlands.

Melanie Smith was born in Poole, a city nearby London. She has lived and worked in Mexico City since 1989. Recurring themes in her work include migration, travel, adventure, getting lost, utopian ambitions, dislocation, abstraction and the idea that the grass is greener on the other side. A good example is the work Xilitla. In this film Smith explores the Mexican rain forest and stumbles upon mysterious ruins overgrown with vegetation. The fantastic structures and follies were built by Edward James, the eccentric collector of Salvador Dalí, Paul Delvaux and René Magritte. Her recent work Fordlandia takes place in the Brazilian Amazon, where Henry Ford attempted to establish a rubber plantation in the 1920s. This video was recently acquired by the museum. The exhibition is a partnership with the MK Gallery in Milton Keynes.

Important exhibitions
Melanie Smith trained a painter and makes photographs, installations, films and videos. Important solo exhibitions include Bulto, Museo de Arte de Lima, (2011); Xilitla, El Eco Experimental Museum, Mexico City, (2010); Parres Trilogy, Pérez Art Museum, Miami (2008); Six Steps, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, VS (2004) and Spiral City and Other Vicarious Pleasures, Mexico City and USA (2006). She has published three artist’s books: Spiral City and Other Vicarious Pleasures (2006), Parres (2008) and Red Square Impossible Pink (2011). For more information visit: www.melaniesmith.net

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Studio Wieki Somers - Out of the Ordinary
until January 11 2015

This autumn, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is celebrating the tenth anniversary of Studio WiekiSomers (Dylan van den Berg & Wieki Somers) with the exhibition ‘Out of the ordinary’. A selection of around thirty objects features work from this period, with the emphasis on the newest series. Designs that have not previously been seen in the Netherlands will now be on show in the museum. The presentation demonstrates the specific view Studio Wieki Somers has on reality. The expertly produced objects are striking thanks to a combination of beauty, technical ingenuity and associative visual language. ‘Out of the ordinary’ invites the spectator to look at his own daily reality through different eyes.

Since 2008, the ‘Merry-Go-Round Coat Rack’ by Studio Wieki Somers, has been one of the eye-catching features of the entrance area to the museum. This autumn, a retrospective exhibition will focus more attention on the work of these designers. Studio Wieki Somers turns everyday objects into exceptional items. Fantasy and reality meet in their designs that are striking thanks to special material details and technical ingenuity. With its work Studio Wieki Somers shows how out of the ordinary ordinary can be.
Out of the ordinary

A work on show from the museum’s own design collection is ‘High Tea Pot’ (2006), a tea pot in the shape of a skull with a piece of fur as tea cosy. This object references, among other things, the vanitas themes found in the 17th century hunting still lifes. A genre that is also well represented in the museum collection. There are also objects from the series ‘Frozen in Time’ (2010) on show, which are inspired by the extreme weather conditions of 1987, when the Dutch landscape was frozen in a storm of sleet and time seemed to stand still. A recent project of Studio Wieki Somers is ‘Chimney Pots’ (2014), a series of unusually designed chimneys for a construction project in Hoofddorp inspired by late medieval English Tudor architecture. Also included in the exhibition are lamps from the ‘Mitate’ series (2013), for which inspiration was found in Japan. The lamps are impressive thanks to the material used and the amalgamation of tradition and craftsmanship with modern techniques. Material tests are hung around these objects, thus dividing the room spatially.
Anniversary publication

A richly illustrated publication will be published simultaneously with the exhibition, in which the design philosophy of Studio Wieki Somers takes a central position. The publication is designed by Mevis & Van Deurzen, and the contributors include national and international design critics Pierre Doze, Anniina Koivu and Louise Schouwenberg and curator Annemartine van Kesteren. Photographer Elspeth Diederix was awarded the assignment of visualising the research themes of Studio Wieki Somers. The book is published by JRP Ringier and is available in the museum.

Image: Melanie Smith. Photo: Nieuwe Beelden Makers

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Museumpark 18-20 NL-3015 CX Rotterdam The Netherlands
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