Dialogue: Nan Hoover
dal 23/8/2001 al 29/8/2001
Segnalato da
23/8/2001
Dialogue: Nan Hoover
Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam
Video installations, photos, drawings and sculptures.
In the exhibition Dialogue, the Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo/Time Based Arts demonstrates the diversity of Nan Hoover's oeuvre. Nan Hoover (b. 1931) has always been searching for the best form for expressing her ideas. Therefore she is willing to change media, and has not shied away from endless technical experimentation.
In my movements I am trying to provoke a kind of dream state. An example
would be when you are walking through the moors or when you are alone in
a room you are in a kind of Internal landscape, this feeling is what my
work is about. Nan Hoover, 1983
In the exhibition DIALOGUE, works by Nan Hoover, the Netherlands Media
Art Institute, Montevideo/Time Based Arts demonstrates the diversity of
Nan Hoover's oeuvre. Nan Hoover (b. 1931) has always been searching for
the best form for expressing her ideas. Therefore she is willing to
change media, and has not shied away from endless technical
experimentation. Nearly fifty years of art practice has not diminished
her ambition; on the contrary, right down to this day she refuses to let
anything stand in the way of her continuing to work on her large and
varied oeuvre.
The accent in the exhibition lies on her video installations. Like many
of her contemporaries she has approached the medium of video from all
angles. For her, the most important aspect was always that the
properties of the medium assured that you could not ignore it; she
herself refers to "the illuminosity of the box which you can't escape."
In addition to the video projections and work on monitor, a new
interactive installation black and white... (2001) for which camera
registration is the point of departure, is being shown. The other
installations are being seen in The Netherlands for the first time in
this form. In the midst of her video work a number of her photo works,
drawings and sculptures will also be exhibited.
Since her earliest years Nan Hoover always knew that she wanted to
become an artist. After her studies at the Cocoran Gallery School of
Art, Washington D.C., she devoted herself to drawing and painting; she
worked with large areas, thick lines and minimal use of colour. In 1969
Hoover left for Amsterdam, where she has continued to live and work to
the present day. In 1973 she moved over to film and video because, as
she later explained, painting was too subjective. Through the 1970s and
'80s she made a name for herself with her video work and performances.
In 1988 she was named as professor at the Düsseldorf Academy of Arts,
leading the video and performance department. Today her attention has
returned to drawing and painting, an act of resistance, as it were, to
placing herself in a discipline. Her experience in film, video and
photography is unmistakably present in these works. Through their
suggested movement and light effects, some drawings remind one of stills
from video. Light and shadow remain the most important components in her
visual compositions.
www.nan-hoover.com
opening August 24, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
August 28 >50% beeld
In dialogue with Nan Hoover
lecture and presentation with Nan Hoover
Entrance Fl. 7,50 (students Fl. 5,00)
Doors open at 8:00 p.m., begins 8:30 p.m.
More information/visual materials:
Marieke Istha (Communications)
tel. +31 (0)20 623 7101
fax +31 (0)20 624 4423
Gallery open from 1:00 to 6:00 p.m.
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Montevideo/Time Based Arts
Keizersgracht 264 NL 1016 EV Amsterdam The Netherlands
T +31 (0)20 6237101
F +31(0)20 6244423
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