Two exhibitions
dal 16/1/2009 al 16/2/2009
Segnalato da
16/1/2009
Two exhibitions
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Victor Man to make an intervention within The Collection Two, the museums anniversary exhibition. The romenian artist' installation (Intervention 8) is a balanced combination of his own works and paintings from the museum's collection. On the basis of analogies and similarities with his own works he has selected works such as the Christus Salvator Mundi by Dirk Bouts, a painting by Titian in which a nymph is menaced by a faun, and a landscape by Joachim Patinir showing the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
In The Collection Two, the museum presents its own collection anew. Two otherwise distinct disciplines will be shown together: drawings and paintings. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen’s collection of world-famous prints and drawings and its collection of paintings and sculptures combine to form one of the finest collections of Western art in Europe spanning the Middle Ages to the present day. These will be hung side by side in the rooms on the upper floor of the Van der Steur building. The extensive (pre)industrial and contemporary (Dutch) design collection is exhibited on the ground floor.
Intervention #8 Victor Man
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen has invited the young Romanian artist Victor Man (Cluj, 1974) to make an intervention within The Collection Two, the museum’s anniversary exhibition. Victor Man is a master of omission without loss of meaning. In combination with works from the museum’s permanent collection his works suggest unexpected meanings.
Victor Man’s installation is a balanced combination of his own works and paintings from the museum’s collection. On the basis of analogies and similarities with his own works he has selected works such as the Christus Salvator Mundi by Dirk Bouts, a painting by Titian in which a nymph is menaced by a faun, and a landscape by Joachim Patinir showing the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Victor Man’s oeuvre comprises small paintings in shades of black and grey, ‘found’ photographs transferred to various materials, and installations. All his works have one thing in common: they are characterised by the suggestion of an unresolved narrative. The individual works and components of his installations function as fragments from a story or an event. Artcritic Natalie Haddad, Frieze Magazine, has said that Man’s work hover ‘on the walls like the relics of secret societies, dislocated and adrift…’.
The museum is giving contemporary art a prominent place in its new displays in the form of three artist’s presentations that reflect upon the collection and the building. These visual statements are intensified through alternation with works from the permanent collection, establishing a dialogue that heightens the senses and encourages contemplation. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen has an active programme of exhibiting and responding to leading international artists.
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