Concreet nu, Zoetermeer
de kunst van geometrische vormentaal
Spazio Offices
Buitenom 243–268
2711 KB Zoetermeer (Centrum)
The Netherlands
April 12 – May 11, 2014
Hours: Sat–Sun 1–5 pm; also open on April 21 (Easter Monday)
Admission free
Opening reception: Saturday, April 12, 4 pm; opening by Diana Wind, Director of Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, and Hans Haring, Alderman of Zoetermeer
Wedge II, 2013, 69x38x28 cm
Curator: Hannie van der Made
Hydrography II, Haarlem (I)
Hydrography II
De Vishal
Grote Markt 20
2011 RD Haarlem
The Netherlands
April 27 – June 9, 2013
Opening reception: April 28, 2013, 4:00 pm, by Sipke Huismans
Hours: Tue–Sat 11 am – 5 pm, Sun 1–5 pm
Participating artists:
Guest curators:
De tentoonstelling Hydrography II brengt zeventien kunstenaars bijeen die in hun werk gebruikmaken van waterverf. Zij passen het materiaal op onconventionele wijze toe. De essentiële eigenschappen van waterverf, zoals de grote kleur- en lichtkracht en de transparantie, zijn autonoom aanwezig in de werken, die qua uitgangspunt en werkwijze onderling heel verschillend zijn. De kunstenaars hanteren allen een abstracte vormentaal.
FutureShock OneTwo, Berlin (I)
Contour VI, 2011, 23x23x12 cm
Internationale Neue Konkrete +
galerie dr. julius | ap
Leberstraße 60
10829 Berlin
Germany
January 27 – March 17, 2012
Hours: Thu–Sat 3–7 pm and by appointment
Opening reception: Thursday, January 26, 2012, 7 pm
Participating artists: John Aslanidis (AU), Wolfgang Berndt (DE), Hartmut Böhm (DE), Monika Brandmeier (DE), Matthew Deleget (US), Edgar Diehl (DE), Stephan Ehrenhofer (AT), Daniel Göttin (CH), Michael Graeve (AU), Marco Grassi (IT), Anette Haas (DE), José Heerkens (NL),
Curated by Matthias Seidel
For the first exhibition in 2012 dr. julius | ap will present FutureShock OneTwo, a group show featuring a selection of international artists from three continents. Participants each display a work of theirs that they feel looks ahead towards the future.
The title reflects the current uncertainty in all areas of life: it seems to be increasingly clear that things will not evolve as predictably and smoothly as they have in the past. However, this is also a great opportunity for innovation. The exhibition wants to ask what role the International New Concrete and neighboring fields of art might play in this new era.
An important goal of this exhibition is to have the artists join a general discussion on the future of non-objective art, such as its potential to influence one’s perspective on life, especially in comparison with narrative forms of art. Moreover, it is to explore the relation of art and value: in times of a fundamental crisis in the monetary system, can money really be the adequate equivalent in which to trade art? Is the work of the artist actually not more than money can ever be? Could art be an alternative system of values, mentally and materially?