Monday, 24 March 2014

Text by Ilja Kleinjans about my work


Het poule-gesprek waarbij vier leerlingen elkanders werk trachten zo goed mogelijk te begrijpen en bekritiseren en/of complementeren.



Ik, Ilja Kleinjans schreef een tekst over het gesprek en werk van Jed.

Jed is presenting, displaying his work on a mysteriously, seemingly random but interesting way.
By walking through his working space you might accidentaly notice a work.
Things laying on the floor, or hidden behind some wooden sticks, might or might not be found.
His work often goes on materials matters export, transit. (for instance styrofoam) He sometimes litterary getting into detail with his subject by zooming in on it.
The ‘eye-catch’ art piece was a paper bowl with a photo of his working space, the bowl trying to reflect like a mirror really got everybody’s attention.
He is presenting it on the floor as it has fallen from the sky, the bowl fold out.
He has got some extreme contrasts in his work: from the hightech research elaborating into something trashy or very momentary and sensitive.
A possible way of working for him might be to adjust a streetscene, and then continu too the next; the constant move and travel of things.


My report of Jan Van de Bosch:
The talk gave an insight into the main considerations and tendencies towards working methods of Jan’s Practice. Works are intended to be contradictory in their immediate subject matter, (or lack of subject matter). Their functionality is reduced to zero and the objects are made redundant. Jan described the equivalence to decorations in his work, considering them to have static and eye catching qualities. Function is lost in favour of visual presentation, and the sculptures and installations are consciously kitsch. The working and installation process becomes circumstantial, embracing disruptions such as the low quality availability of a mobile phone camera, and the intervention of shop window display posters. These works embody a gestural stance in which they claim to have nothing more than their original material value.


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Saturday, 1 March 2014

Drie intense dagen gevuld met kunst! (Three days filled with intense art!)

26-28th February 2014
KÖLN, DÜSSELDORF, MÖNCHENGLADBACH EN INSEL HOMBROICH

Another field trip!
We stayed in Cologne for two nights at a youth hostel and went on a three day long museum binge. Here is a list of where we went and a selection of artworks that I came across in each place:

Day 1
1. Kolner Dom (Cologne Cathederal)

2. Museum Ludwig, Köln
http://www.museum-ludwig.de/en/exhibitions/archive/2013/not-yet-titled.html

Konrad Klaphek (paintings of typewriters)

Allen Ruppersberg These Fragments… 1968-2003

Ull Hohn Untitled (review) 1990-1994

Gerhard Richter 'Five Doors' 1967


3. Mason Williams 'Bus' Galerie Buchholz, Köln


4. Kolumba, show cover hide. Shrine, Köln
http://www.kolumba.de/?language=eng&cat_select=1&category=1&artikle=529&target=_parent

Thomas Rentmeister (Ohne titel) 1988

Bruno Jakob 'The Visitors'


5. Buchhandlung Walther Konig (Best book shop in Germany?)

Zizek, S, (2014). Event: Philosophy in Transit. Penguin Books Ltd.



Day 2
6. K21 Ständehaus, Düsseldorf
http://www.nrw-museum.de/en/#/en/more/museums/detailview/details/musea////kunstsammlung-nrw-k21-staendehaus.html

Reinhard Mucha, Das Deutschlandgerät. XLIV Biennale di Venezia,
Venedig, Deutscher Pavillion, 1990/2002, The Germany Device

Nam June Paik 'TV Garden'

Thomas Hirschhorn 'Intensif-Station' 2010

Tomas Saraceno 'In Orbit' 2013

7. K20, Düsseldorf
Gerhard Richter, Die Kunst im Plural 

8. Kunstverein, Düsseldorf
http://www.kunstverein-duesseldorf.de/en/exhibitions/current.html

Rosa Sijben 'Things You Know'


Day 3
9. Museum Insel Hombroich, Neuss


Works on paper: drawings, aquarelles and etchings by Constantin Brancusi, Cezanne, Eduardo Chillida, Giacometti, Gotthard Graubner, Gustav Klimt...


10. Langen Foundation, Neuss

J. Parker Valentine, Topo

11. Museum Abteiberg, 'In Order to Join', Mönchengladbach

Sol Lewitt, Modular Piece (1928)

Thomas Hirschhorn 'Intensif-Station' (Detail)  2010