ratxe Jaio & Klaas van Gorkum
Kim Bouvy
Left Hand Rotation

An exhibition curated by Alba Colomo

Only 15.05.2012 during De Derde Dinsdag

Research by walking works as the beginning of an open work-in-progress project that will be expanded during the curator’s residency at Het Wilde Weten. Focusing on the role of artists in the gentrification processes in the city of Rotterdam, the exhibition puts together a series of research material Alba is using for her project with three works by Iratxe Jaio & Klaas van Gorkum, Kim Bouvy and Left Hand Rotation.

After finishing her Humanities studies at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and King’s College London, Alba Colomo achieved a MA in curating Latin American Art from the University of Essex. Her research focuses on the possibilities of visual art practices to liberate and destabilise the assumptions embedded within our everyday lives.

Her most recent work is the publication Art Control Society, which compiles the work of three artists around the topic of social control.

More information:

albacolomo.tumblr.com
artecontrolsociedad.tumblr.com

The curatorial residency of Alba Colombo was made possible by Sala Rekalde/ BizkaiKOA, Bilbao (ES) and is realized in cooperation with TENT.

Kunst en Complex
Keileweg 26, Rotterdam
Screening & Exhibition: 20:00
www.kunstencomplex.nl

STOP & GO 3-D Stop-Motion Animation Festival + Exhibition

The Stop & Go program was developed in 2008 and showcases animations that use stop-motion techniques to explore visual language, tell stories and make social commentaries.

Stop & Go 3-D features a new series of stop-motion animations by 27 contemporary visual artists and filmmakers from around the world.  The program dramatically plays with our visual senses through the artist’s use of stobing effects, afterimages, anaglyphic experiments, optical elements and three-dimensional spoofs. The animations in this program were chosen from a world-wide open call for submissions and by invitation. Five of the animations in the program require the audience to wear red/cyan-colored glasses to fully engage with the work.

In Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Berlin and Zagreb Stop & Go 3-D will screen alongside Doppler Stop an exhibition of optically and perceptually challenging artworks. Pairing the screening alongside an exhibition is designed to illuminate a deeper connection between the artists’ primary practices of painting, drawing and sculpture and the processes used in their animations.

The Stop & Go 3-D screening program is curated by Sarah Klein, an artist, educator, and curator whose own practice includes animation, and the Doppler Stop exhibition is curated by Mel Prest, an artist and educator.

Stop & Go 3-D includes work by Abbey Luck & Sean Donnelly (Brooklyn, New York, US), Albert Roskam (Leiden, NL), Bendik Kaltenborn (Oslo, NO) & Kalle Johansson (Stockholm, SE), Brian McClave (London, UK), Claudia Molitor (London, UK) & Gavin Peacock (Brighton, UK), David Daniels (Portland, OR. US), Erik van Huisstede (Paris, FR), Gilbert Hsiao (New York, NY, US), Iemke van Dijk (Leiden, NL), Jeanne Stern (Austin, TX, US), Jennifer Schmidt (Brooklyn, NY, US), Jodie Mack (Lebanon, NH, US), Joey Fauerso (San Antonio, TX, US), Johan Rijpma (Utrecht, NL), Kate Nartker (San Francisco, CA, US), Laen Sanches (Amsterdam, NL), Mark de Weijer (den Haag, NL), Mel Prest & Andrew Kleindolph (San Francisco, CA, US), Molly Schwartz (Brooklyn, NY, US), Santiago Caicedo de Roux (Cali, CO), Sarah Klein & David Kwan (San Francisco, CA, US),  Tal Rosner (London, UK),

Doppler Stop exhibition artists are Albert Roskam (Leiden, NL), Brent Hallard (San Francisco, CA, US), Debra Ramsay (New York, NY, US), Gay Outlaw (San Francisco, CA, US), Gilbert Hsiao (New York, NY, US), Gracia Khouw (Amsterdam, NL), Guido Winkler (Leiden, NL), Henriëtte van t’Hoog (Amsterdam, NL), Iemke van Dijk (Leiden, NL), José Heerkens (Zeeland, NL), Karen Schifano (New York, NY, US), Kevin Finklea (Philadelphia, PA, US), Mel Prest (San Francisco, CA, US), Nancy White (Redwood City, CA, US), Patricia Zarate (New York, NY, US), Richard Bottwin (New York, NY, US), Ruth van Veenen, (Amsterdam, NL), Sarah Klein (San Francisco, CA, US), Steve Baris (Philadelphia, PA, US)

For more information visit:

Screening: www.stopandgoshow.com

Exhibition: www.dopplerstop.blogspot.com/2012/03/doppler-stop.html

Open studio presentation CK12 Artist in Residence
Charloisse Kerksingel 12b, Rotterdam

Sat 5 May 2 PM – 8 PM open studio
6 PM  talk and thanks of Yoshiyuki Koinuma
7 MP talk of Daniela de Paulis about her work

Sun 6 May 2 – 6 PM open studio

We warmly invite you to visit the studio’s of the artists Yoshiyuki Koinuma and Daniela de Paulis.

Yoshiyuki Koinuma moved from Japan to Netherlands in 2009 to study at the Rijksakademie Amsterdam. He stayed in CK12 from 1 May 2011. Koinuma will show his paintings and likes to share his experience of the last year and thank everybody who supported him during his residency.

Daniela de Paulis residency started in November 2012. During her residency she studied at Leiden University, she finished her video work ‘Thursday, July 9′ and continued her collaboration with the radio amateurs based at Dwingeloo radio telescope, bouncing many images off  the Moon.

We have currently some great guests around!

Check out residents page to find out who is here.
just a glimpse:

Nicolas Carrier (FR)

it’s the ghost
video HD, 6:15 min loop, 2012

Flora Moscovici

Rainbow’s end

Frederic Sanchez (ES) is current Artist in Residence of Duende. He will stay till the end of June.

http://www.l-eclair.fr (L’Eclair is an initiative of Frédéric Sanchez & Emma Perrochon)

Jesse Walton (USA) is currently Artist in Residence in foundation B.a.d.

Morning Snow Will Give Way to Rain, 2011

Digital image of David Hockney’s, A Bigger Splash, 1967
http://jessewalton.com/

V2_’s Summer Sessions are brief themed residencies that allow promising young artists to collaborate with V2_Lab developers. We are looking for art project proposals, don’t miss this opportunity!

-    Develop your project in six weeks
-    Technical support by the Lab team
-    Local and international presentations

Submission deadline: April 15 2012, notification of acceptance before May 10th.

http://www.v2.nl/lab/blog/summer-sessions-2012-call-for-proposals

A TEAL ON CHAPEL STREET – MATHIJS VAN GEEST
31 March – 6 April
at W/Z TEMPORARY PROJECT SPACE, KAPELSTRAAT 32 ROTTERDAM

OPENING FRIDAY 30 MARCH at 7 PM

Looking at things takes time. Nevertheless, from recognizing a well known to us object till the moment of giving it a proper name, it may not necessary be a long way to walk. On the other hand seeing things truly – after they appear before our very own eyes – include more seconds we can now think of…
Mathijs van Geest (1985) is just finalising his residency at Rotterdam’s artist initiative – Foundation B.A.D. However, he does not want to speak about his presentation as being something that closes a certain period in his artistic practice, instead he rather to think of this moment as being an opening up or even designating towards new directions.
In his daily practice Van Geest appropriates found images and objects, which he later confuses with each other within the spatial manifestations. But certainly there is more behind this readymade approach. Van Geest speaks from the position of a local wanderer who is happy with each new discovery, whether it is a place that happens to be just around the corner, or it is an ordinary commodity of which (as he says), the price does not matter since what counts at the end, is its initial purpose – the realisation towards certain logic.
After all “A Teal on Chapel Street” challenges the viewer to look carefully or even read between the lines.

“A Teal on Chapel Street” the exhibition of newly produced work by Mathijs van Geest at the W/Z Temporary Project Space in Rotterdam, opens on Friday 30th at 7pm and runs until 6th of April.
You are invited to join us for the opening.
In case if you cannot come please make your appointment via weronikazielinska@hotmail.com, we will be happy to open our door for you.

Tip!

Sils will present The Self-Moving Number with Artists: Grégory Cuquel, Luisa Kasalicky, Bjørn Melhus, Ornaghi & Prestinari

1 -15 April, Duende Studios, Tamboerstraat 9, 3034PT Rotterdam

Opening: Sat 31 March – 7 PM

Opening Times: Fri, Sat, Sun 1-5 PM or by appointment

Artist Talk: Fri 30 March – 7 PM  @ Magic Bar, Pompstraat 44C, Charlois, Rotterdam
Magic Bar will host a talk in which Grégory Cuquel and Ornaghi & Prestinari will give an introduction to their work. Doors open at 19:00, talk begins 19:20. Food will be served after the talk.

Sils Project Space is proud to announce its forthcoming exhibition, The Self-Moving Number. This exhibition brings together four artists whose work deals with notions of time, space and materiality. Aesthetics from different time periods, as well as questioning the stuff the moon’s made of and gifs steeped in gestalt are presented here as a survey that looks at the object. How do we associate with it? What is its role in the wider cultural field? How does an object’s composition dictate how we view it?

Luisa Kasalicky (AUS) takes constructivism and adds baroque as a bed fellow, a coupling that is a celebration of technical achievement as well as a juxtaposition that creates its own timeline; rather like what you would expect if the industrial revolution was instigated by the people of the dark-ages. In building this alternative history Kasalicky’s work sits in the gap between installation, painting and sculpture. Spaces are demarcated with linear structures, walls are re-clad with new surfaces and objects inhabit the gallery as furniture with undefined purpose. With a deep understanding of space, form, and surface Kasalicky ‘draws’ with commonly found materials and invests them with opulence. This is heraldic modernism.

Gregory Cuquel’s (FR) work is the sculptural equivalent of the graffiti found in toilet stalls (affiliation testing, sometimes funny but always urgent). His work is an insight into what it means to belong socially as well as what it means to assemble objects. Like a fanboy, Cuquel uses persistent imagery and symbols that surround Heavy Metal and Hardcore dance culture, often repeating them over and over as if mimicking the beats from which they came. In the early days of the Internet the .gif file format was the vehicle for a whole lot of, now annoying, spinning images of pretty much everything (mice, guitars, bananas…). For this exhibition Cuquel takes this dead horse and spanks some life into it.

The scientific and the poetic mix in the work of Ornaghi & Prestinari (IT). The result is work that questions what things are and the link between fact and fiction. Reminiscent of the unfurled pod that a Mars rover emerges from after landing, Cielo Di Pietra (Sky of Stone) is a reconstruction of the moon’s surface using information gleaned from the analysis of moon rocks. However, this “Lunar Regolith” is not made using expensive scientific apparatus. The work revolves around the premise that the moon was blasted off the earth in the early meteorite bombardment. In essence the earth and the moon are one and the same. This claim is the heart of the work.

The practice of Bjørn Melhus (DE) is a look at the relation between the moving image and the viewer. How are images and sounds from TV and movies appropriated by the spectator? Melhus is a filmmaker that relies heavily on sampling the speech of, often dead, singers, film and TV stars. He rearranges these samples to create the dialogue for the characters in his films. These characters, which are all played by himself, in turn, often mimic other well known screen stars; tap dancing Smurfs sing with the voice of Marilyn Monroe. Constructing these dislocated narratives makes Melhus a puppeteer of moving image iconography. Filmed in saturated 16mm, Auto Center Drive features Jimmy the chosen hero who embarks on an odyssey through California. He drifts through the landscape, encountering figures who give soundbite advice but no help.

This exhibition is made possible through the proceeds from our 2011 Silent Benefit Auction and the supported of:

We would like to thank Duende for hosting The Self-Moving Number during our nomadic program.

Project space in Duende Studios
4 month period: May until August 2012
a 60 m² Ground floor studio with a 4.5 m high ceiling and internet connection. 250 euro per month incl.BTW

We also offer, for an additional low price, the possibility of combining the project space with renting a bedroom in the building.

If you are interested please send us a c.v, documentation of your work and a proposal on how you would like to use the space for this specific period in pdf format to the email address below.

Deadline:
01 April 2012

For more detailed information and prices please contact:
activities@duendestudios.nl

www.duendestudios.nl

Duende is an independent self-organized artist-cooperative providing forty-two studios for independent artists practicing on a professional basis.

Duende is located in a former institute for professional technical education at the Tamboerstraat in Rotterdam .