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25/9/2009

Two exhibitions

Museum Het Domein, Sittard

Anne-Marie Schneider
Jambes Longues

This autumn, Museum Het Domein in Sittard is proud to present a comprehensive exhibition of work by artist, sculptor and filmmaker Anne-Marie Schneider (Chauny, France, 1962). Jambes Longues is Schneider’s first museum solo outside of her homeland.

Schneider first gained international repute primarily for her endearing, pared-down drawings that have the immediacy of strip cartoons. Schneider’s work is at once tragic and absurd, lending it a profound psychological impact. Her intimate, articulate drawings read like diary entries. In Schneider’s work, the personal and the political go hand in hand. The drawings comment on everyday experiences, literature, political events and media images. Her rapid sketches testify to a fascination with commonplace situations. With a gentle mockery, she challenges conventions and expectations, and by doing so creates space for the imagination and for the a-typical individual. A selection of her drawings was presented in Documenta X in Kassel (1993), followed by solo presentations in 2003 and 2008 at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.

The exhibition in Museum Het Domein focuses on exemplary bodies of work of the last few years, with an emphasis on drawings, sculptures and installations. Jambes Longues begins with Schneider’s powerful Documenta drawing series (1997), possibly her most overtly political work to date. Another group of drawings and sculptures explores the theme of the egg. Not simply fragile, but single and multiple, the egg is a recurrent theme in the artist’s oeuvre, symbolising life, society, creativity, fertility and sexuality. An overview of Schneider’s simple films in which drawn animations are interwoven with pulsing images from her Super-8 camera completes the exhibition.

In the course of the exhibition, Het Domein will present a new publication on the work of Anne-Marie Schneider.

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Anouk Kruithof
Becoming Blue

In conjunction with Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, Het Domein presents Becoming Blue, a photo project the young photographer Anouk Kruithof (Dordrecht, 1981) worked on between 2006 and 2008. It is presented together with an installation of around 4000 books, and a video projection. For the photos, Anouk Kruithof invited people, many of whom she did not know, to wear something blue, sit before a blue backdrop, and respond to whatever the photo session had in store. During the photo shoot, Kruithof moved about the studio making repeated minor physical interventions to influence the person being portrayed, capturing their unusual psychological ‘states of being’. The photographs are a visual report of these rather disturbing encounters. The three photographic still lifes of blue claustrophobic spaces with which the portraits are combined, reveal a neurotic in-between world.

The exhibition Becoming Blue is accompanied by a catalogue of the same name, price € 20.

Image: Anouk Kruithof, Untitled #38, 2008, c-print, 80x64 cm

Press contact:
Karin Adams, T +31 (0)46 4513460 F +31 (0)46 4529111 karin.adams@hetdomein.nl

Museum Het Domein
Kapittelstraat 6 NL-6131 ER Sittard
Opening hours
from Tuesday through Sunday from 11 am till 5 pm.
Extra opening days: Whit Monday, the day after Christmas day and the last day of the year

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