A review of Christien Meindertsma's solo show at the Textielmuseum in Tilburg.
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Making time is hard these days
Finally got myself organised and got out of the house in time to see some exhibitions. Guy Tillim’s ‘Second Nature’ at Huis Marseille was an odd experience – his photos of São Paolo and Polynesian islands looked as if they could have been taken pretty much anywhere, which I’m not really sure was intentional. I loved Bertien van Manen’s ‘Let’s sit down before we go’ at FOAM, all intimate, off-the-cuff snapshots of friends in the former USSR, images of people eating or drinking or lounging round the house or running around in the snow. The New York Times show, also …
Date: 07/03/2012 Time: approx. 13:20 Location: Rosa Overbeekbrug, corner of Bloemgracht and Bloemdwarrstraat Weather: Moderate rain, low visibility
Description of Incident: A young adult male on a black scooter, travelling westwards along Bloemgracht, collided with a middle-aged woman (50-60yrs) on a bicycle as she attempted to cross Bloemgracht heading north. The woman was accompanied by a young child (2-3yrs) who was strapped in a child seat at the rear of the bicycle. All appeared to avoid serious injury, although the child was in a clear state of distress. There appeared to be some minor damage to both vehicles. Onlookers quickly …
Window Shopping with Anna Malagrida
The ghost that haunts is always one's own: Sven Augustijnen's "Spectres"
Yesterday I headed over to De Appel to see Sven Augustijnen’s solo exhibition, “Spectres”. By coincidence I happened to arrive just in time for a screening of a film made by the artist, also called “Spectres”. The exhibition contained many other items, including photographs, posters, books, display cases full of archive materials, and what looked like banana plants in big pots. However, I’m going to concentrate here on the film, mainly because my head was too full of what I’d just seen to pay attention to anything else.
Voyage Through A Room – From Rotterdam to New York and Back
If I were a moth, bookshops would be my lightbulbs. While noseying round Joot, just off Herengracht in Amsterdam, I came across what looked like an interesting collection of articles on Dutch contemporary artists, something I had been wanting to read more about for a while. Even better, the price had been reduced. Clearly the planets had aligned in such a way that I had to buy this book.
“There is an imaginary that if you move near the road life will be better.”
In between a couple of shows in Utrecht last weekend, I dropped by the BAK gallery and came across a little gem of a contemporary road movie by Patty Chang and David Kelley. Their three-channel video installation, entitled Route 3, tells the story of the construction of one of the first highways in Laos and the changes it is bringing to communities along its path. As the narrative unfolds across its roughly half-hour duration we hear about an opening ceremony conducted by an ambiguous president…
