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Het grootste overzicht ooit in Nederland van de legendarische kunstenaar Marina Abramović!
Ruim 60 belangrijke werken tonen de ontwikkeling van het indrukwekkende oeuvre van de pionier van de performancekunst in de afgelopen vijftig jaar: van haar vroege werk, dat ze maakte in het voormalige Joegoslavië en in Amsterdam, tot de baanbrekende performances met haar partner Ulay en het solowerk waarmee ze nog steeds actief is.
Te zien zijn foto’s, video’s, sculpturen en live heruitvoeringen van vier iconische performances die voor het eerst worden uitgevoerd in Nederland: Art Must Be Beautiful, Artist Must Be Beautiful (1975), Imponderabilia (werk met Ulay) (1977), Luminosity (1997) en The House with the Ocean View (2002). Als bezoeker kun je zelf ook deelnemen aan twee werken: Work Relation (werk met Ulay) (1978) en Counting the Rice van de Abramović Methode.
There are so many different forms of art, performance is one of the most difficult, the most immaterial, and the most real.
— Marina Abramović
Marina Abramović is sinds de jaren 70 een prominente figuur in de performance- en body art en wordt beschouwd als een van de belangrijkste grondleggers van deze kunstvorm.
Ze bracht de performancekunst van het experimentele begin naar de mainstream. Ze gebruikt haar eigen lichaam en test de grenzen van haar fysieke en mentale uithoudingsvermogen.
Samen met haar geliefde Ulay, die ze in 1975 in Amsterdam ontmoet, wordt ze wereldwijd beroemd met langdurende performances waarin zij hun grenzen tot het uiterste op de proef stellen.
In haar latere solowerk richt zij zich meer op het verkennen van spiritualiteit en het creëren van een wisselwerking, waarin het publiek actief onderdeel wordt van haar werk en een gedeelde energie.
Marina Abramović
Tentoonstelling — 16 mrt t/m 14 jul 2024
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
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Poem
African Dream
(meeting Alf Khumalo:
“call me Alf” he said with a wink)
take of in Cape Town at dawn
the horizon is an oyster
the mountain table
is ready for breakfast
next to me an elderly man
sits with his camera
adjusting different lenses
– he looks happy
I open my lab top
to type a few words trying
to catch the peacefulness
of this early morning flight
above Kimberley we fly
through various cumuli
he lifts his camera – I ask
“What are you doing sir?”
he explains the softness & asks
“What are you doing lady?”
I put what you see
through your lens in words
like the mushrooms on our plates
he looks surprised asks when & where
he can buy my first collection
there is none so far & he has left me
leaving his work in my heart
c.w.
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mens met witte pet
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ijsbloemen
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friends
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boven nietzsche
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the bearable lightness of being
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funhouse
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The Palace-Burner
A picture in a newspaper
She has been burning palaces. “To see
The sparks look pretty in the wind?” Well, yes—
And something more. But women brave as she
Leave much for cowards, such as I, to guess.
But this is old, so old that everything
Is ashes here—the woman and the rest.
Two years are—oh! so long. Now you may bring
Some newer pictures. You like this one best?
You wish that you had lived in Paris then?
You would have loved to burn a palace, too?
But they had guns in France, and Christian men
Shot wicked little Communists like you.
You would have burned the palace?—Just because
You did not live in it yourself! Oh! why
Have I not taught you to respect the laws?
You would have burned the palace—would not I?
Would I? Go to your play. Would I, indeed?
I? Does the boy not know my soul to be
Languid and worldly, with a dainty need
For light and music? Yet he questions me.
Can he have seen my soul more near than I?
Ah! in the dusk and distance sweet she seems,
With lips to kiss away a baby’s cry,
Hands fit for flowers, and eyes for tears and dreams.
Can he have seen my soul? And could she wear
Such utter life upon a dying face:
Such unappealing, beautiful despair:
Such garments— soon to be a shroud—with grace?
Has she a charm so calm that it could breathe
In damp, low places till some frightened hour;
Then start, like a fair, subtle snake, and wreathe
A stinging poison with shadowy power?
Would I burn palaces? The child has seen
In this fierce creature of the Commune here,
So bright with bitterness and so serene,
A being finer than my soul, I fear.
Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt
1836–1919
The Palace-Burner
A picture in a newspaper
Poem
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De kloosters van de Heilige Driehoek in het Noord-Brabantse Oosterhout vormen voor de derde keer het bijzondere toneel voor een hedendaagse kunst biënnale van internationale allure.
De h3h biënnale voert door de kloosters en langs parkachtige tuinen, weidse landerijen en oude dreven waar je werken tegenkomt van 27 kunstenaars.
De meeste daarvan zijn speciaal voor de biënnale gemaakt. De manifestatie is nog te bezoeken tot en met 16 juli.
De curatoren zijn Hendrik Driessen en Rebecca Nelemans. Zij tonen kunstenaars uit binnen- en buitenland met nieuwe en bestaande werken, geïnspireerd door de unieke locatie en de rijke historische en spirituele tradities.
Het zijn Ghada Amer, Maarten Baas, David Bade, Marwan Bassiouni, David Claerbout, Delphine Courtillot, Anne Geene, Lisette de Greeuw, Loek Grootjans, Elise ’t Hart, Frank Havermans, Laura Henno, Ann Veronica Janssens, Folkert de Jong, Alicja Kwade, Rudy Luijters, Rick van Meel, Romee van Oers, Paulien Oltheten, Kathrin Schlegel, Fiona Tan, Fran Van Coppenolle, Ine Vermee, Wessel Verrijt en Dré Wapenaar. Daarnaast is er ook werk geselecteerd van de overleden kunstenaars Piet den Blanken en JCJ Vanderheyden.
Deze editie van de h3h biënnale draagt het thema Geloof. De curatoren hechten veel waarde aan de verbinding die een kunstenaar met zijn of haar werk weet aan te gaan met een specifieke locatie binnen het kloostergebied en het thema.
De symbiose die ontstaat tussen het werk en de plek was leidend bij de keuze voor de kunstenaars.
De kunstwerken die getoond zullen worden variëren van schilderijen, sculpturen, (geluids)installaties, fotografie en video, tot monumentale ingrepen in het landschap.
De vorige biënnale met het thema Hoop was te bezoeken van 10 juli t/m 15 augustus 2021. De komende editie (in 2023) heeft Geloof als thema, terwijl dat voor de eerste kunstmanifestatie in 2017 Liefde was.
Entree en parking h3h biënnale 2023, Monnikendreef, Oosterhout.
Dagelijks open, behalve op dinsdag, van 10.00 tot 17.00 uur.
Nog te zien t/m 16 juli 2023
Meer informatie op website: https://www.h3hbiennale.nl/biennale/
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Holland Festival’s associate artist ANOHNI presents a mixed media exhibit: SHE WHO SAW BEAUTIFUL THINGS.
The installation includes a series of portraits honoring ANOHNI’s former collaborator Dr. Julia Yasuda, taken by Julia’s late wife Erika Yasuda in Tokyo in the early 1980s, and exhibited here for the first time.
Erika Yasuda’s portrets: Within the collection of the Huis Willet-Holthuysen in the centre of Amsterdam, ANOHNI layers photos, silkscreened fabrics, sculpture, video, sound and paintings from her own artistic practices within a selection of Erika Yasuda’s extraordinary portraits. The works reflect an insular and delicately composed vision of enlightened femininity and luxuriant androgyny, persevering in memory despite historical and ongoing existential threats.
ANOHNI: ‘I like the concept of ‘animism’ – that everything is alive, in an ongoing a process of transformation -and that all materiality is imbued with a certain presence, even a sense of memory that we might not entirely understand. I work with veils as a way to suggest different layers of presense. Sometimes I imagine a cacophony of moments within a timeline in a certain space, as if they were all able to express their vitality simultaneously.’
About ANOHNI: Born in England, ANOHNI lives and works in America as a musician, visual artist and theater director. In 1995 she founded her performance group The Johnsons, with which she performed with symphony orchestras in opera houses around the world, including Sydney Opera House, the Royal Opera House in London, Teatro Real in Madrid and Carnegie Hall in New York.
ANOHNI has presented exhibitions of her visual work at the Nikolaj Kunsthal, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, The Hammer Museum, The Kitchen and Sikkema Jenkins Gallery in New York. She co-facilitated the art project FUTURE FEMINISM presented at The Hole, New York in 2014 and was part of ANOHNI’s artistic residency in Aarhus, European Capital of Culture in 2017.
The Willet-Holthuysen House: The imposing Willet-Holthuysen House is situated in the center of Amsterdam. The house on the Herengracht contains many period rooms. Its beautiful salons are in the style of Louis XIV, and the garden is symmetrically designed as a French formal garden.
Address: Herengracht 605, 1017 CE Amsterdam.
Open daily from 10 a.m. 5 p.m.
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june 4 until october 29 – 2023
Willet-Holthuysen House – Amsterdam
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A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Awardwinning author of Just Kids and M Train, featuring more than 365 images and reflections that chart Smiths singular aestheticinspired by her wildly popular Instagram.
In 2018, without any plan or agenda for what might happen next, Patti Smith posted her first Instagram photo: her hand with the simple message Hello Everybody! Known for shooting with her beloved Land Camera 250, Smith started posting images from her phone including portraits of her kids, her radiator, her boots, and her Abyssinian cat, Cairo.
Followers felt an immediate affinity with these miniature windows into Smiths world, photographs of her daily coffee, the books shes reading, the graves of beloved heroes William Blake, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath, Simone Weil, Albert Camus. Over time, a coherent story of a life devoted to art took shape, and more than a million followers responded to Smiths unique aesthetic in images that chart her passions, devotions, obsessions, and whims.
Original to this book are vintage photographs: anniversary pearls, a mothers keychain, and a husbands Mosrite guitar. Here, too, are photos from Smiths archives of life on and off the road, train stations, obscure cafés, a notebook always nearby. In wide-ranging yet intimate daily notations, Smith shares dispatches from her travels around the world.
With over 365 photographs taking you through a single year, A Book of Days is a new way to experience the expansive mind of the visionary poet, writer, and performer. Hopeful, elegiac, playfuland complete with an introduction by Smith that explores her documentary processA Book of Days is a timeless offering for deeply uncertain times, an inspirational map of an artists life.
Patti Smith is a writer, performer, and visual artist. She gained recognition in the 1970s for her revolutionary merging of poetry and rock. She has released twelve albums, including Horses, which has been hailed as one of the top one hundred debut albums of all time by Rolling Stone.
Smith had her first exhibit of drawings at the Gotham Book Mart in 1973 and has been represented by the Robert Miller Gallery since 1978. Her books include Just Kids, winner of the National Book Award in 2010, Wītt, Babel, Woolgathering, The Coral Sea, and Auguries of Innocence.
A Book of Days Hardcover
by Patti Smith
Language: English
Publication date: 11/15/2022
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10: 0593448545
ISBN-13: 978-0593448540
Pages: 400
Hardcover
$22.99
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