White Dots
Installation for De Keukenhof / SKOR
Stichting Kunst en Openbare Ruimte
In 2003, we were asked by SKOR (a Dutch institute for art in public spaces), and curator Rob van de Ven, to participate in 'Gnome Sweet Gnome', a group exhibition that was to take place at De Keukenhof, a large flower park situated in the Dutch city of Lisse. The theme of the exhibition revolved around 'gnomes', and contributing artists included Wim T. Schippers and Sigurdur Gudmundsson.
At first, we were a little uncertain about the theme, 'gnomes'. It seemed lik...
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SMCS / Entrance
Stedelijk Museum CS
Entrance
Note: this entry is part of a larger group of texts about the SMCS assignment. To read the full story about this project, start at SMCS / Introduction, and click through all the successive pages from there.
On another note – we wrote the texts below quite a while ago. We just reread them, and noticed some of them seem a bit outdated, and might need to be rewritten. Some of the used images need some reworking as well. We'll do this in the near future.
Shown below is the external corridor that you go throug...
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Pastoe / Installation
Now ⁄ 90 Years Pastoe
Nu ⁄ 90 Jaar Pastoe
Pastoe is a Dutch furniture company based in Utrecht. To celebrate their 90th anniversary, the company held a large retrospective at the Centraal Museum (also based in Utrecht). The curators of the exhibition (Guus Beumer and Gert Staal) asked a selection of artists and designers to revisit/reinterpret the idea of modernism, in the form of a series of installations. The selected artists/designers included, among others, Will Holder (Goodwill), Alexander van Slobbe (of SO and Orson &...
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DTC / Peanuts
DTC / Peanuts
De Theatercompagnie
Peanuts was a piece played by De Theatercompagnie between January 16 and February 17, 2007, at Het Compagnietheater in Amsterdam. Written by Fausto Paravidino and directed by Marcus Azzini, Peanuts was a play carrying a very explicit political message. The play used the traditional format of the classic Peanuts comic to tell a story about the historical confrontation between anti-globalist protesters and the riot police during the G8 summit in Genoa, 2001.
(Some time after we designed the posters for it,...
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