Linda Van Boven
dal 11/9/2008 al 10/10/2008
Segnalato da
11/9/2008
Linda Van Boven
Florence Lynch Gallery, New York
Eventually the dreams will alter: on show a new body of work comprised of photographs and light-boxes. These images the artist associates with memories from her youth and important events from her life. The theme that unites these works is hope, the future, and fear.
lorence Lynch Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new works by Linda Van
Boven. The exhibition is on view from September 12 to October 11, 2008. An opening
reception will be held at the gallery on Friday, September 12, from 6:00 to 8:00
p.m.
For her third one-person exhibition with the gallery, Linda Van Boven presents a new
body of work comprised of photographs and light-boxes. These images she associates
with memories from her youth and important events from her life. The theme that
unites these works is hope, the future, and fear.
Denise Carvalho describes one of the new works as follow: Light box #19 features
another series of three images: an electric wire dangling from a bright but fuzzy
light, an out-of-focus image of a child in a bathtub, and a small rectangle of light
reflected on the wall of a corner of a room. The simplicity and apparent
disconnection between these images in which light is the only common denominator
suggests the frailty of memory and fragmented emotions. Associations with the
meaning of light as language help us to decode the elements of the work, in which
light is equated with the birth of a child, and the bath water with the mother's
womb. In another frame, the wire is an obvious pun, as it materializes and
distributes energy. The birth of a child can be all of that: energy expenditure, a
lively home, and a peaceful contemplation centered in the affairs of the home.
While a paragraph from Taubman's essay aptly states "Linda Van Boven's new series of
light box installations and photographs "Eventually the Dreams will Alter"
reinforces her consistent use of images familiar to viewers. Children, house, beds
and sleeping are images that lead us deep into personal memories because we
recognize them as private places -- the bedroom, the symbol of sleeping in the
daytime -- perhaps the woman is depressed? Dimly lit streets, mothers with their
children in a city street, a forest, an urban landscape in the daytime -- all of
these images represent incidental qualities that are filed away like forgotten memos
amidst and between the necessary files of everyday chores. Images are lifted out of
the banality of daily life identifying personal symbolic narratives that emanate
from Van Boven's broken, juxtaposed images allowing them to resonate with deep
psychological poetry."
Linda Van Boven was born in Arnhem, The Netherlands; she lives and works in
Amsterdam. She studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and at the
Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan. She has participated in group
exhibitions in Europe and the U.S. and has worked on several public projects in The
Netherlands, Russia, and Italy. Since 1995 to date, she has won over twelve public
commissions, with the Hudson Corporation, Gemeente Amsterdam, H.H. vormgeving, KPGM
International, Randstad Uitzendburo in Haarlem, and Randstad Uitzendburo, Amsterdam,
among others. Her work is in the Martin Z. Margulies Collection, The Deutsche Bank,
Conde Naste, among many other public and private collections.
The exhibition is generously sponsored by the Mondriaan Foundation and the Consulate
General of the Netherlands.
Catalogue available with essays by Denise Carvalho and Lara Taubman
Opening reception: Friday, September 12, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Florence Lynch Gallery
531-539 West 25th Street - New York
Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 11:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Free admission