Tue Greenfort
dal 23/6/2006 al 5/8/2006
Segnalato da
23/6/2006
Tue Greenfort
Witte de With, Rotterdam
Adopting a cross-disciplinary, quasi-scientific approach, Greenfort examines ecosystems and recycling. He situates his practice on the blurry boundary between ‘nature’ and ‘culture’ and investigates the ways in which the natural world manifests itself in today’s highly urbanized cities.
Exhibition and events
Witte de With presents the first major solo exhibition of Tue Greenfort’s work. Adopting a cross-disciplinary, quasi-scientific approach, Greenfort examines ecosystems and recycling. He situates his practice on the blurry boundary between ‘nature’ and ‘culture’ and investigates the ways in which the natural world manifests itself in today’s highly urbanized cities.
Using seemingly simple objects and interventions, Greenfort reveals the structures shaping our environment. He frequently includes animals in his work - a string pathway for ants (Social Organism, 2001), or a camera triggered by sausages left for foxes (Daimlerstrasse 38, 2001) - displaying their ability to act as a metaphor for human society. Recent projects have explored the commercialization of supposedly public natural resources. One example is his BONAQUA Condensation Cube (2005), after a work by Hans Haacke, in which Greenfort employs bottled water sold by the Coca Cola company in place of the more neutral tap water used in Haacke’s original. This work reveals the way in which he combines ecological concerns with notions of conceptual art history.
Greenfort has spent a month in Rotterdam creating new works inspired by the city and its ecosystems. His research includes searching for foreign plants unwittingly imported into the industrial harbor and discussions with local energy companies about switching Witte de With to ‘green’ energy.
Greenfort (b. 1973, Denmark) lives and works in Berlin. His work is currently presented in the group show Don Quijote at Witte de With (open also until 6 August).
This exhibition is curated by Florian Waldvogel and Zoe Gray and is accompanied by a book co-published by WdW Publishers and Lukas & Sternberg.
Unravelin Rotterdam
Event
Unraveling Rotterdam is a series of informal discussions with leading figures from the Rotterdam art world. A week of daily talk-shows hosted by members of Witte de With’s staff, Unraveling Rotterdam will explore ideas about the city’s contemporary art scene.
The Rotterdam cultural field is a fluctuating mosaic of artists, institutions and cultural players. With Unraveling Rotterdam, Witte de With seeks to create several moments that stimulate exchange and discussion between these different cultural actors, with the aim of thinking outside of institutional frameworks to cast a shared eye on current tendencies in the arts. Topics under discussion include: the (im)possibilities of private and public funding; new audiences; city policy on art and culture; new strategies for art education; and more.
Looking simultaneously inwards and outwards, Unraveling Rotterdam also explores the role of Witte de With within the city and its surroundings. What does it mean for a supposedly ‘intellectual’ art center, for example, to be located in a so-called ‘working-class’ city?
Unraveling Rotterdam takes place between Tuesday 27 June and Saturday 1 July, from 6.30 p.m. to 8 p.m. (with the exception of Saturday 1 July when talks start at 2 p.m.).
Please consult http://www.wdw.nl for the complete and up-to-date program and full list of speakers. No reservation is required and entry is free.
Also at Witte De With this summer
Don Quijote
Exhibition
Until 6 Aug
22 artists whose works embody idealism and irrationality in the face of reality.
Going quixotic!
Event
5 Aug, 10 p.m.
An open-ended summer night concoction of films featuring Kenneth Anger, marking the end of Don Quijote.
Witte de With
Witte de Withstraat 50 - Rotterdam
Opening hours: Tues - Sun, 11 am - 6 pm