The Marker Project, Part III

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More marker drawings. These two belong together.

Museum Trip: Stedelijk Museum (SM's) Den Bosch

Today I went to the Stedelijk Museum (aka SM's) in Den Bosch, with my mum. It was a nice little museum, even though it was cold inside and there was some noise coming from the tubes (heating perhaps?). Anyway, the musuem concentrates mostly on ceramics and jewellery. I went for the exhibition about jewellery by artists, without actually knowing anything about the museum, but in the end I preferred some of the other current temporary exhibitons much over the jewellery one.

Unfortunately we weren't allowed to take pictures, so I can't show you much, but I did get my hands on some flyers and stuff, so I'll try to find some pictures on the internet. So, hereby I admit these (in this peticular blogentry) are not my own photographs, they are all copyright to their respective owners.

I'll tell something very short about every temporary exhitbition.

*Uitgelicht - Peter Voulkos
Lots of ceramics, Voulkos is well known for breaking the so-called habit. He creates ceramic sculptures that exist of piled up elements. The way of how it was made is clearly visible in the endresult, and the sculptures aren't just the result of creation, but also of deformation.

Unfortunately I couldn't find pictures of the artworks I had seen at the museum (or just couldn't be sure they were the same artworks). There was a documentary about the artist, and I sat down to watch it for a while. Unfortunately the sound quality was zero and there were no subtitles, so I couldn't make much of it.



*Collectiepresentatie (collection presentation) - California Dreamin'
More ceramics. Various pieces by various artists:



- Robert Arneson
- David Gilhooly
- Ron Nagle
- Ken Price

- Adrian Saxe

*Wynolt Visser - Kamerinstallatie (chamber installation)
The first of four younr artists who will build a presentation in the SM's. The title of the group exhibition is 'The Nomadic Condition'.
Visser works a lot with textile, prints and 3D. It's a nice combination. I like the use of the face and how material meets shape.

*ONE - Andrei Roiter
Roiter takes a lot of pictures and uses these as point of departure for his paintings. Most of his photographs are of architecture, but these buildings undergo a metamorphoses in his paintings. Elements of the buildings are put in new context against a new background.


Bubble
2007
Acryl and oil paint on canvas


National Dust
2009
Oil paint on canvas


Melting
2009
Oil paint on canvas

In my opinion, though, these aren't the best of his paintings...

*Catherine Yass - The China Series
Yass is always looking for a specific place, where actual situations and a dream of the future are combined.





*Private Passion - de unieke collectie kunstenaarssieraden van het SM's (the unique collection of artist's jewellery of the SM's)

For this exhibition we went into another room. It was dark, and we were given little electrical torches. We had to light our own way through the exhibition. If we had been the only ones in the room this would have been nice, but since there were other people as well, I got blinded several times because people were uncareful with the lights.

Anyway, this is what the exhibtion looks like, only darker:


I saw some very nice jewellery, some even by Alexander Calder, whose work I adore. I was really happy about this. Unfortunately I could only find one picture of what I have seen.


I also saw these:

(Unfortunately I do not know by whom this work of art is)


by Oppenheim


Love ring by Robert Indiana

It was also funny to recognise names like Man Ray and Picasso, I don't think I realised he made some jewellery as well.



In the end, it was nice to have been at the Stedelijk Museum Den Bosch, but I don't know if, had I known what it would be like, I would have visited anyway. I can tell you this, the website is absolutely useless. There barely is any information on it, and the English version of the website is even worse. It doesn't work very well, either. I would have liked to see more information on exhibitions than just a few sentences, and some information about the artists. Some pictures of the artworks displayed would have been nice too, especially since most artists featured in the exhibitions aren't that well known at all.
I wish I could have taken pictures... (without flash of course)

Edit: and damn the tag limit! I can't even squeeze in every artist :(

Edit:
By the way, see what my mum and I both got because we filled out a questionnaire about the museum!

Movie: Avatar 3D

Today I went to the movie Avatar (3D) for the second time.
Reviews are quite hard for me to do, so I'm not going to even try to make this blogentry longer than a few paragraphs. Anyway, this really is one of my favourite movies. I will definately buy the special edition(?) DVD when it comes out. I'm not a big fan of digital animations, because it  usually looks very unreal, unlife-like. But here, well, I barely remembered it was digitally animated at all. Of course, the technique used (motion capture and computer generated image) which makes the images much more believable and lifelike, but still.
Of course, it's not perfect, I mean we all understand these creatures aren't real (how I wish they were) and of course you can kinda see it. I wonder how the images would look like if this technique was used to make human characters. How perfect would they look? (Of course it would be silly to make actors do stuff and then generate the images by computer, but you know what I mean)


Oh well, it's just a bloody amazing movie. Go see it!

The Marker Project, Part II

*Note: This message is antedated. It was originally posted on the 2nd of February, 2010.

More marker drawings!

Photography: "Window/Flowers/Nose"

*Note: This message is antedated. It was originally posted on the 2nd of February, 2010.

I just liked these.

The Marker Project, Part I

*Note: This message is antedated. It was originally posted on the 2nd of February, 2010.

Shopping in Den Haag, after visiting the Gemeente Museum, I realised I felt like drawing and with the long train journey ahead, I bought a pack of cheap markers and a pack of big envelopes to draw on (I couldn't find any drawing paper, and envelopes sounded interesting to draw on as well).

These are my doodles;



I decided I really liked drawing with these cheap markers, so I'm going to continue this. These drawings will be posted under the title "The Marker Project".

Museum Trip: GemeenteMuseum Den Haag

At Tuesday I went to the Gemeentemuseum in Den Haag (NL) with my boyfriend. Because he's not that much into art we had planned on visiting the temporary exhibition first, then check on the time, then possibly visit the permanent collection of the museum and then go into the city Den Haag and shop for a while, making it a nice day out.
Unfortunately the day started with our train being delayed which meant we were at the museum much later. Also, it was a bit crowded which slowed us down a lot, too. In the end we decided not to check out the permanent collection. Too bad. But, better next time!

Het Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag:
I had been wanting to visit the temporary exhibition about Cézanne, Picasso and Mondriaan for a while now, but hadn't had the time or means to actually go. With the end of the exhibition getting closer (the 24th of January) my boyfriend and I decided to go. I was really happy about this.

I made a lot of pictures of the paintings and other artworks displayed, and also bought the catalogue and a bunch of postcards (for my collection).

Here are the works of art that really caught my eye:
More coming soon!

Jewellery: Red & White Strawberry Set

A while ago I discovered a really cute bracelet, it consisted of 8 red and 8 white round facetted plastic beads, arranged alternating, and two of the cutest plastic strawberry beads you've ever seen. I wanted it. I needed it. So I bought it. :P

Next day, I wore the bracelet. Unfortunately, it was way too tight to be comfortable, so I took the next chance to buy one, to buy one. Then I just combined the two bracelets into one. It now consists of 8 red beads, 8 white beads and 4 strawberry beads.

Of course, I just had to have a necklace like it, too. So I bought another 5 (Five! I must be crazy...) of the little bracelets and took them apart. They're lying prettily in order (5 beads/strawberry/5beads/strawberry etc).


I did have some doubts, though. Why? Because I've also got some of the cutest red plastic hearts, and I didn't know if I should put those into the necklace as well...


In the end I decided against it and now the beads are ready to be stringed. ^^

Museum Trip: De Pont & Audax Textielmuseum - Part II

Het Audax Textielmuseum, textilemuseum:
I wanted to go to the Audax Textielmuseum because we were in de neighbourhood anyway (it being only a short walk from De Pont) and there was this little exhibition about Minä Perhonen, a Japanese Fashionlabel.
We weren't allowed to take pictures, so unfortunately I can't really show you much about this exhibtion. I did lend a few pictures from the world wide web, though.
I regret not having bought the catalogue... But then again, since I recently quit my studies because of medical reasons (Yes, it’s true, I did.), I'm not really in the position of buying lots of stuff.

Anyway, to continue with my 'review' of this lovely day-trip...

Even though it was small, I really loved it. Minä Perhonen is a fashionlabel by designer Akira Minagawa, that stands for clothes that are timeless, delicate, playfull and full of little details. Old and new techniques of making fabric, prints and clothes in general are combined in a wayward manner. Also, they are of the opinion clothes should be able to last more than just one season (as usually is the case in regular fashion), and their designs are of such quality (and detail) that they last.

A little fact about Minä Perhonen: The name is Finnish for I, Butterfly and refers to Akira Minagawa's passion for Scandinavian culture and the symbol of the butterfly in the wild.

The exhibition itself consisted of a room with various dresses on plastic models. On the walls lots of squares hung, showing a great lot of fabric samples. in another room there was a low display window (think of a long, low table) displaying drawings and samples of (and for) fabric/print designs. In another room there was a table with some books, flyers, postcards on it (not to be touched) and two videos were being projected on the walls. One showing the label's studio and the other showing a fashion show featuring Minä Perhonen's designs.

In the show one particular outfit caught my eye. I adored it so much. It consisted of a white shirt, a black top over it (it was cut very high, so it only covered the breasts, or stopped above that... the memory is already fading! :(), with black sleeves that started puffy and then continued tightly until the wrists. The model was also wearing a lovely bright yellow skirt. I just can't seem to find a picture of it :(

Some other things I saw at the exhibition:
This coat was on display, I thought it absolutely gorgeous. I was sold the minute I took my eyes from a fabric sample (the white version of the lower parts of this black coat), and looked at this.


Notice the print on the fabric used in this dress, it are sketched horses and little blue dots! A part of the exhibiton was dedicated to fabric/print design, and that's where I saw the print the first time. Only when I saw the dress I realised they actually use the lovely quality of sketches in their actual dresses!


Pretty deep blue coat with lovely white circles. It's maybe not a big deal, but I love the button holes being carefully placed right in the middle of the circles.


During the fashion show projected on the wall of one of the rooms, as mentioned earlier, I also saw this dress, the sleeves are very elegant, the print very playful. Note the edge of the skirt? It's interesting to see that not everything is neatly sown etc, which might also be considered boring, but kept 'rough', 'unfinished', to add to that playful look and make the dress a little less formal, more cheerful.


Also, I saw this lovely fabric design, featuring white seagulls in a bright blue sky. Isn't it just wonderful? I absolutely adore Minä Perhonen for (literally) using lovely sketches like these for prints....


I saw the paper design for the print used in this dress. It's like a mozaik of tiny pieces of paper.


While searching the internet for pictures of Minä Perhonen's designs, I came across this bag. Isn't it just fabulous? Every girl should have a handbag in the shape of a bird.


Or a rabbit one.


And, last but not least. All hail sharpies.


These pictures are all copyright of Minä Perhonen.

Museum Trip: De Pont & Audax Textielmuseum - Part I

Today I went to two museums, De Pont (museum of contemporary art), and the Audax Textielmuseum (textile museum), both in Tilburg, the Netherlands. My mum went with me and my dad visited a friend of his while we were at the museum. Afterwards we went for a drink, went shopping and had dinner too. I only got home a while ago. The actual plan was to visit the Hermitage Amsterdam, for an exhibition about the Russian Court, but because of the weather (and some bad reviews and long lines at the entrance) we decided against going and "just went somewhere else". I was actually going to drag my boyfriend along to Tilburg tomorrow. Now we're going to the movies (Avatar in 3D!). :)
Anyway, I had visited both museums once before, at the start of September this year, but because of two temporary exhibitons (and just for the sake of visiting museums more regularely) I wanted to visit both, again.

De Pont, museum for Contemporary Art:
I wanted to go to De Pont again because of an exhibition about Bill Viola. He is well known for his video art. Because we were at the museum anyway, we first had a look at the permanent collection.
I'll soon add some photographs and information about the art that caught my eye (beware, I love most art and even more when I get to know some more information about it).

Some of the pictures are taken from an angle, to avoid a distracting reflection.

Jeff Wall
1993
Diagonal Composition
Cibachrome transparency in aluminium display case


Thierry De Cordier
1993
H.H.
Oil and enamel on canvas


Kees De Goede
1997-1998
Pulse 'Stilte'
Charcoal, crayon on paper


Naoya Hatakeyama
2001
Slow Glass
Photoseries
C-print on aluminium


Bernard Frize
2002
Idoine
Acrylic paint, resin on canvas


Wolfgang Laib
1992
Wachsraum
Beeswax, wooden construction

Even though I tend to be a little claustrophobic, this space didn't scare me as much as I thought it might have. And do I ever love the smell of beeswax...


Raoul De Keizer
1980
Één van zeven voor Jeanne, nr. 1
Oil on Canvas


Anton Henning
2008
Interior no. 392
Oil on canvas


Anton Henning
2001
Interior no. 93
Oil on canvas


Anton Henning
2003
Interior no. 193
Oil on canvas


Anton Henning
1998
Interior no. 15
Oil on canvas


Katharine Grosse
2006
Untitled
Acrylic paint on canvas


Marlene Dumas
1985
The Last Supper
Oil on canvas


Naoya Hatakeyama
2002-2004
River Series/Shadow
Light jet print on plastic


Robert Zandvliet
1995
Untitled
Egg tempera on linen


Marc Mulders
1995
Everzwijn II
Oil paint on linen


Bill Viola
The Reflecting Pool
Videostill


The Lovers
2005
Videostill