In this category:

Or see the index

All categories

  1. AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
  2. AUDIO, CINEMA, RADIO & TV
  3. DANCE & PERFORMANCE
  4. DICTIONARY OF IDEAS
  5. EXHIBITION – art, art history, photos, paintings, drawings, sculpture, ready-mades, video, performing arts, collages, gallery, etc.
  6. FICTION & NON-FICTION – books, booklovers, lit. history, biography, essays, translations, short stories, columns, literature: celtic, beat, travesty, war, dada & de stijl, drugs, dead poets
  7. FLEURSDUMAL POETRY LIBRARY – classic, modern, experimental & visual & sound poetry, poetry in translation, city poets, poetry archive, pre-raphaelites, editor's choice, etc.
  8. LITERARY NEWS & EVENTS – art & literature news, in memoriam, festivals, city-poets, writers in Residence
  9. MONTAIGNE
  10. MUSEUM OF LOST CONCEPTS – invisible poetry, conceptual writing, spurensicherung
  11. MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY – department of ravens & crows, birds of prey, riding a zebra, spring, summer, autumn, winter
  12. MUSEUM OF PUBLIC PROTEST
  13. MUSIC
  14. NATIVE AMERICAN LIBRARY
  15. PRESS & PUBLISHING
  16. REPRESSION OF WRITERS, JOURNALISTS & ARTISTS
  17. STORY ARCHIVE – olv van de veestraat, reading room, tales for fellow citizens
  18. STREET POETRY
  19. THEATRE
  20. TOMBEAU DE LA JEUNESSE – early death: writers, poets & artists who died young
  21. ULTIMATE LIBRARY – danse macabre, ex libris, grimm & co, fairy tales, art of reading, tales of mystery & imagination, sherlock holmes theatre, erotic poetry, ideal women
  22. WAR & PEACE
  23. WESTERN FICTION & NON-FICTION
  24. ·




  1. Subscribe to new material: RSS

EXHIBITION – art, art history, photos, paintings, drawings, sculpture, ready-mades, video, performing arts, collages, gallery, etc.

«« Previous page · Galerie des Morts IV · In Search of Art: London 2008 · Historia Belgica: Belgian Landscapes 1 · Gregor Schneider: End · Harrie Janssens Photos: Uitvinders & Zeehelden I · Nachrichten aus Berlin: Checkpoint Charlie · Museum of Lost Concepts: Disclosure 11-15 · Galerie des Morts III · Damien Hirst: For the love of God · Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven: Heartland – Kunst & Muziek · Werbung in Berlin 2 · Monica Richter poetry: Birdlife

»» there is more...

Galerie des Morts IV

GALERIE DES MORTS IV
Bunhill Fields Cemetery London
Photos Anton K.

© kemp=mag poetry magazine
magazine for art & literature

More in: Galerie des Morts


In Search of Art: London 2008

IN SEARCH OF ART: LONDON

fleursdumal.nl magazine

© Photos Anton K.

More in: FDM in London


Historia Belgica: Belgian Landscapes 1

HISTORIA BELGICA

Belgian Landscapes I

Photos Kempis

© kemp=mag magazine for art & literature 

More in: Historia Belgica


Gregor Schneider: End

art z

Gregor Schneider: END

The second phase of construction at

Museum Abteiberg in Mönchengladbach

Gregor Schneider’s concept for the second phase of construction at Museum Abteiberg takes the form of an over-dimensioned walk-in sculpture to be implemented as a temporary building.
Schneider’s concept envisages the museum as a black hole leading into an unknown space. The visitor enters it through a black opening. Total blackness removes all sense of place and engenders an experience of complete isolation, compelling visitors to feel their way along the walls of a corridor into total darkness, before eventually discovering a new entrance to the museum. The exhibition rooms located beyond the entrance are also entirely dark, their architecture vanishing into a black and obscure nothingness. Sensitised in this manner, visitors then enter Gregor Schneider’s innovative presentation of the museum’s collection, which includes original rooms from Haus u r.

 

Gregor Schneider has designed a new entrance for the Abteiberg Museum that is as monumental as it is mysterious. The huge walk-in sculpture will be erected on the lawn in front of the museum where the second part of the museum building, designed by Hans Hollein, will eventually be built. The front of the black edifice faces the vision axis of Mönchengladbach’s main shopping street. It will have a 14 x 14 meter square entrance, black both in- and outside and visible from afar, which will lead into a 70-meter long, totally dark corridor. It will extend diagonally in the shape of a tapering funnel, ending in a small, 1 x 1 meter hole that breaks through the closed museum wall and eventually reaches one of the ‘clover-leaf’ rooms in the museum interior.

The dimensions of this project both as urban architecture and a critical statement are one of its key features. This work was made possible by generous funding from the state of North-Rhine Westphalia (NRW) and the NRW Art Foundation as well as companies and private sponsors. The result is a major landmark that draws attention to what was previously a rather inconspicuous inner-city museum and endows its currently hidden entrances with new prominence. The enormous entrance tunnel, located in front of the museum on land due to become available for development, catches the eye from several perspectives including the central axis of Hindenburgstraße and the driveway from Abteistraße, virtually drawing the viewer’s gaze into itself.

 Gregor Schneider and Museum Abteiberg are connected by both the locale and the concept, since Haus u r and the museum are both rooted in this city. Moreover, the ideas behind and history of Museum Abteiberg are closely associated with contemporary discourse on architectonic space. Not only Hans Hollein’s pioneering architecture, but also objects in the museum’s collection by his contemporary Gordon-Matta Clark, which were among its early acquisitions, testify to the museum’s special place in the discourse on the meaning of architecture.

It has therefore been one of the museum’s main wishes to acquire for the museum’s collection the central “Kaffee Zimmer” (Coffee Room) from Haus u r for its collection to join the “Abstellkammer” (Storeroom), which it purchased some time ago. It was equally important that the artist himself should design the installation for Museum Abteiberg. Here, Gregor Schneider further explores themes that have always been important to the museum: how to retrieve, present and communicate complex works of contemporary art that pose new challenges for museums (see also the artist’s extensive preliminary remarks: “Von der Zeit, da das immobile Haus mobil wurde” (About the time when the immobile house became mobile), interview in the June 2007 issue of Kunstforum International).

Starting from the museum’s acquisition of “Kaffeezimmer”, made possible by generous funding from the Kulturstiftung der Länder (KSL), the state of North-Rhine Westphalia and the Foundation for Culture and Science of Stadtsparkasse Mönchengladbach, Gregor Schneider designed a set of six rooms, which extend from the tunnel END inside the museum. The installation is staged in the completely darkened museum space, in which a number of rooms can be combined without having to refer to the surrounding architecture. The result is a stage-like presence, emphasising Gregor Schneider’s recent preoccupation with theatre and the importance of his film work. Alongside the illuminated original rooms, projections from Haus u r are presented together with unpublished film work that presents former villages in the nearby lignite mining fields as well as the house on Odenkirchener Straße in Rheydt (not far from Haus u r) where Joseph Goebbels was born. A further feature is the presentation of the geographical and historical origins of Schneider’s artistic discourse: the house in Rheydt and its regional vicinity, abandoned houses awaiting demolition and the landscapes of the Rhineland opencast mining industry, all traces of suppressed recent history. All these media will be used to create the “Smithsonesque” situation of a “non-site” in the museum (freely adapted from Robert Smithson’s dialectical thesis), which will be considerably enhanced by the special END entrance.

  Website Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach

fleursdumal.nl magazine

More in: Architecture, Exhibition Archive, Galerie Deutschland, Gregor Schneider, Sculpture


Harrie Janssens Photos: Uitvinders & Zeehelden I

Harrie Janssens & Jef van Kempen

Het gevoel dat je hier thuishoort

Een geschiedenis van de Trouwlaan,

Zeehelden- en Uitvindersbuurt in Tilburg

Livius Boekhandel Tilburg 2006

ISBN 90-807430-2-X

 kemp=mag poetry magazine – magazine for art & literature

More in: Harrie Janssens Photos, OLV van de Veestraat


Nachrichten aus Berlin: Checkpoint Charlie

 Nachrichten aus Berlin

 Unser Korrespondent Anton K. berichtet

Checkpoint Charlie

fleursdumal.nl magazine for art & literature

More in: Nachrichten aus Berlin


Museum of Lost Concepts: Disclosure 11-15

Museum of Lost Concepts

Disclosure 11-15

(1968-2008)

jef van kempen © kemp=mag poetry magazine

 

 

More in: *Concrete + Visual Poetry K-O, Conceptual writing, FLUXUS LEGACY, Kempen, Jef van, Visual & Concrete Poetry


Galerie des Morts III

Galerie des Morts – partie III

Les morts de Bruges

P h o t o s   K e m p i s  M a g

Novembere 2, 2008

La Fête des Morts

© kemp=mag poetry magazine

More in: Galerie des Morts, Spurensicherung


Damien Hirst: For the love of God

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

1 november – 15 december 2008

D A M I E N   H I R S T

F O R   T H E   L O V E   O F   G O D

Diamanten schedel Damien Hirst zes weken te zien in het Rijksmuseum

Het Rijksmuseum presenteert van 1 november tot en met 15 december 2008 de wereldberoemde met diamanten ingelegde schedel For the Love of God van de Britse kunstenaar Damien Hirst. Hiermee is het Rijksmuseum er in geslaagd de wereldprimeur van de internationale tournee van het kunstwerk naar Amsterdam te halen. Daarnaast is Hirst gevraagd een persoonlijke keuze te maken uit de 17de-eeuwse collectie van het Rijksmuseum. For the Love of God gaat open voor het publiek op 1 november tijdens de Amsterdamse Museumnacht en is slechts zes weken te zien in het Rijksmuseum.

Damien Hirst:”Als kunstenaar wil ik toch dingen maken waar mensen voor kunnen staan, waar zij zich toe kunnen verhouden, die ze moeten beleven. Dan moet je ze ook zo goed mogelijk laten zien.” (interview Damien Hirst in OOG, magazine voor kunst en geschiedenis van het Rijksmuseum nr 4 – 2008)

For the Love of God is een platina afgietsel van een mensenschedel, bezet met 8.601 loepzuivere diamanten. Op het voorhoofd zit een grote, natuurlijk roze, peervormige diamant, de Skull Star Diamond genaamd. In het afgietsel zijn de tanden van de originele schedel gezet. Het werd internationaal enthousiast ontvangen en genereerde een grote hoeveelheid publiciteit toen het werk in 2007 in de White Cube Gallery in Londen voor het eerst werd getoond. De Nederlandse kunsthistoricus Rudi Fuchs omschrijft het werk als “een bovenwereldse schedel, bijna hemels”. Hij brengt het werk van Hirst tevens in verband met memento mori en vanitas (vergankelijkheid), motieven die in de Gouden Eeuw populair waren. For the Love of God en de persoonlijke keuze van Hirst uit de collectie van het Rijksmuseum, laat zien hoe de angst voor de dood door de eeuwen heen in schoonheid wordt gevat. For the Love of God wordt daarom getoond in de Philipsvleugel, temidden van de Meesterwerken uit de Gouden Eeuw.

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

fleursdumal.nl magazine

More in: Exhibition Archive


Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven: Heartland – Kunst & Muziek

VAN ABBEMUSEUM EINDHOVEN

H E A R T L A N D

October 4, 2008 – January 25, 2009


Van 4 oktober 2008 tot en met 25 januari 2009

vindt het interdisciplinaire project Heartland

plaats in Eindhoven. Heartland is een project over

de hedendaagse kunst en muziek die voortkomt

uit het geografische hart van de Verenigde

Staten: het zogenoemde Heartland. Heartland

bestaat uit een grote groepstentoonstelling in het

Van Abbemuseum en een muziekprogramma in

het Muziekcentrum Frits Philips en omvat

daarnaast lezingen, debatten, een foto-expositie,

een magazine en publicaties. Het project

Heartland biedt een introductie op een relatief

onbekend deel van een zeer bekend land,

gedurende een periode waarin een groot deel

van de wereld zijn aandacht richt op de

Verenigde staten en de cruciale

presidentsverkiezingen.


Kunstenaars die deelnemen aan de tentoonstelling:

Juan William Chàvez, Cody Critcheloe, Peter Friedl,

Scott Hocking, Carol Jackson, Matthew Day Jackson,

Seth Johnson, Kerry James Marshall, Greely Myatt, Dan

Peterman, Marjetica Potrč, Ernesto Pujol, Michael

Rakowitz, Wilhelm Sasnal, Artur Silva, Deb Sokolow,

Alec Soth, Aaron Spangler, Design 99, Detroit Tree of

Heaven Woodshop, Theaster Gates en de Black Monks

of Mississippi, SIMPARCH, The New Kinomatagraphic

Union, Jaimie Warren & Whoop Dee Doo Kansas City,

alsmede ‘artists in residence’ Jeremiah Day en Julika

Rudelius.


In samenwerking met MU, Eindhoven, zal

kunstenaarsgroep Miss Rockaway Armada een

tentoonstelling en performance presenteren op 7, 8

en 9 november 2008 in Eindhoven.


Aan het muziekprogramma nemen deel (o.a.):

Boo Boo Davis Mississippi Blues band, Clare & The

Reasons, Stacey Earle & Mark Stuart, Tim Easton &

Leeroy Stagger, Jeffrey Foucault, Peter Guralnick, LOW

& special guests, Ad van Meurs, Frank de Munnik, David

Olney & Tommy Womack, Woven Hand, Muzsikás &

Zapp String Quartet en Ben Weaver.

 

fleursdumal.nl magazine

More in: FDM Art Gallery


Werbung in Berlin 2

 

N a c h r i c h t e n   a u s   B e r l i n

Unser Korrespondent Anton K. berichtet:

Werbung in Berlin  2

fleursdumal.nl magazine

More in: Nachrichten aus Berlin


Monica Richter poetry: Birdlife

Monica Richter poetry:
Birdlife
from ‘Roots 1968’

© kemp=mag poetry magazine

More in: Monica Richter, Richter, Monica


Older Entries »« Newer Entries

Thank you for reading Fleurs du Mal - magazine for art & literature