4​ ​tot​ ​10​ ​november – Museumnacht​ Manifestatie ​in​ ​Arti​ ​et​ ​Amicitiae,​ ​Amsterdam​ ​

HET​ ​MYSTERIE​ ​VAN​ ​DE​ ​WAARHEID

Interdisciplinaire​ ​Manifestatie​ ​op​ ​het​ ​snijvlak​ ​van​ ​beeldende​ ​kunst,​ ​filosofie​ ​en​ ​social​ ​media.

Het Mysterie van de Waarheid is een empirisch museum dat tijdens Museumnacht in Arti van start gaat. Een wereld van filterbubbels, feitelijkheden, post-truth, mythes en alternatieve feiten, waar kunstenaars als wetenschappers optreden, satire als smeermiddel fungeert, en leugens hoogtij vieren.

Voor deze Museumnacht Manifestatie is gekozen voor een topic dat nog nooit zo betrekkelijk werd gevonden als in deze tijd: De Waarheid. Manipulatie ligt op de loer en de grens tussen feiten en fictie vervaagt.

Hierbij wordt het publiek uitgenodigd en ondergedompeld in een parcour van kunstwerken: interactieve-, video- en geur-installaties, laboratoria en performances, door het hele gebouw van Arti et Amicitiae. Het parcour bestaat uit 3 onderdelen: 1. De waarheid, een reactie op de realiteit, 2. Feit wordt fictie, fictie feit, 3. Mythe en (vormen)taal.

Deelnemende kunstenaars: Josefin Arnell, Jasper de Beijer, Thought Collider, Max Dovey, Victor Engbers, Agi Haines, Floris Kaayk, Gert Jan Kocken, Mirko Lazovic, Jeroen van Loon, Allard Medema, Jochen Mühlenbrink, MOHA, Marijn Ottenhof, Jakob Proyer, Ronald Snijders, Rutger de Vries, Leanne Wijnsma. Concept en samenstelling: Arjen Lancel en Merel Noorlander.

Opening: Thursday 12 October 2017, 06.00 PM

Jacques & Miny Defauwes

In the early eighties, the orthopaedic shoemaker Jacques Defauwes and his wife Miny Defauwes-Bovens were introduced by the Limburg painter Lei Molin (1927-1990) to Jaap Mooy (1916-1987), an artist from Bergen. They soon built up a close friendship with Mooy. The couple were attracted to Mooy’s ability to put moral and spiritual matters into words, as well as to his social conscience and political engagement.

Their years of intense contact with the flamboyant all-rounder Mooy appear to have been formative for the Defauwes couple, who expanded their collection over the years with some remarkably contentious works by contemporary artists from the Netherlands and abroad.

Jacques Defauwes was also the initiator of and long-standing driving force behind the Parkstad Limburg Prize for young talent, and he and his wife regularly give commissions to artists.

About the exhibition
The exhibition The Jacques & Miny Defauwes Collection revolves around the friendship and protracted exchange of letters between the couple and Jaap Mooy. A selection of works by Jaap Mooy and by contemporary artists from the Defauwes collection forms the basis for a refreshing view of these distinctive collectors.

The exhibition includes sculptures by Piet Killaars, Andrei Roiter, Simon Schubert and Mehdi-Georges Lahlou, installations by Les Deux Garçons, Jeroen van Bergen, Jos Berkers, Tracey Snelling and Kristian Kozul, photography by Katharina Sieverding and works on paper by Hadassah Emmerich, Jasper de Beijer, Georg Herold, Alexander Gorlizki and Lei Molin.

The exhibition was prompted by the publication of the monograph North West – South East. Jaap Mooy, The artist and his collector, which Jacques and Miny Defauwes have published themselves. The monograph includes texts by Catharien Romijn, art curator of the DSM Art Collection and guest curator of this exhibition, Cees de Boer, independent curator and publicist, and Hans den Hartog Jager, writer and art critic. Guy Molin made the film about the Defauwes couple that will be shown at the exhibition.

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Jasper de Beijer has been invited by the Instituto Buena Bista to participate in a residency at the beautiful island of Curaçao from the 1st of May until the 1st of September. More on this project soon..