Flatland Gallery at the PAN Amsterdam

The Admiral’s Headache – Koets | 2019 | 110 x 110 cm | edition of 7 | c-print

With: Alice Browne, Erwin Olaf, Guy Yanai, Jasper de Beijer, Kim Boske, Stelios Karamanolis

About ‘The Admiral’s Headache’:

During his 4 month residency at the Instituto Buena Bista in Curaçao Jasper de Beijer collected information about the Dutch past in this former colony of the Netherlands.  The artist was intrigued by the modular character of the buildings, ships, tools and weapons, which were in a way all part of the method of using human beings as a commodity. The administrative papers prove the instrumental character of the Dutch activities, breaking down all commodities into bits of profit or cost.

De Beijer imagined this whole system as an alien invasion on the island, using the method of compartmentalized boats and houses as prefab and modular units. He took this idea as a vantage point to imagine the ships bringing these units, unloading them like container ships and start colonizing the land to prepare it for the slaves who provided the running engine for the system.

In this world the colonialists become hidden players, only present behind their facades and their empty uniform costumes in the museums in Curacao. He recreated his version of the island, in 3D in paper  – and made a desolated place in his studio, riddled with living units, storage units, prefab harbors, boats and machines that are waiting to be involuntary powered by humans, the ancestors of the current inhabitants.

DATES & OPENING HOURS
24 Nov-01 Dec 2019
24 – 27 november 12 – 9 pm
28 – 1 december 12 – 6   pm

Amsterdam RAI, Hall 8, Europaplein, 1078 GZ Amsterdam
Route & accessibility

EYE Film presents

Virtual Dioramas

13 – 24 November 2019

Screenshot from ‘ The Exhibition’

In the group exhibition Virtual Dioramas six Dutch artists signal how to redefine the traditional line between old and new media. The three-dimensional scenes combining virtual tableaux vivants, handmade miniatures and design, are featured in the Room at the Top and Eye’s Project Space.

Jasper de Beijer – The Exhibition. De Beijer used 3D scans of objects found in several colonial and ethnographic museums. The virtual exhibition of tableaux vivants that are continuously developed and dismantled as the visitor is moving around in the exhibition space, reflects our changing perception of the other.

Daniël Ernst – Die Fernweh Oper (winner Golden Calf 2019). Three scenes about opera star Asteria who sings a haunting elegy especially for you. Since 2013, Ernst is creating VR experiences that he describes as ‘diorama’s’. With his diorama’s he is now internationally recognized as a pioneer in his field. Premiere of the third scene of the Fernweh Oper (winner Golden Calf award Nederlands Film Festival 2019).

Celine Daemen – Opera of the Falling. A virtual reality opera and a series of handmade miniatures about loneliness and a sadness that can suddenly overwhelm us; inspired by interviews with people with psychiatrical vulnerabilities.

Eva Gonggrijp – On Entre. Gonggrijp’s grandmother built her a doll’s house, an almost perfect replica of her own home. A large part of her grandmother’s concealed colonial past, the things she lost and the things she dreamt about are reflected in the doll’s house.

Lotje van Lieshout – Superfund. Lotje van Lieshout makes oil paintings of landscapes, in this case an imaginary polluted nature area in the US and combines this with virtual reality.

Paula Strunden – Micro-utopia: The Imaginary Potential of Home. Micro-utopia is based on Utopian interiors, historical paintings and contemporary design, created in reaction to the current housing crisis in London.

About The Exhibition (Press release)

The Exhibition is a museum in virtual reality where a museum show is continuously built up and broken down while the visitor is walking around in it. The route that the visitor chooses dictates the course and content of the exhibition.

Since the birth of the museum in the 19^th century dioramas are being used to show the visitor a slice of reality. These slices of pseudo reality confront the visitor with a point in time and place – frozen in a confined box, while the subjectiveness depends on era and perpective.

In The Exhibition the visitor dictates the course of the show itself by choosing a route and looking in certain directions. This makes the exhibition different for every viewer, being constructed and deconstructed accordingly.

During his stay at the Wiels residency the artist has been studying and collecting information at different ethnographic museums, to investigate how these tableaux vivants are a reflection on the zeitgeist in which they were constructed. He used the collected numerous 3D scans of objects he found there to create exhibited objects that have become actors in a narrative that tells us more about our changing perception than it does about the content of the dioramas.

Please note! Online ticket sales are not possible on 13, 14 and 15 November. On those days, tickets can only be bought at Eye’s box office.

Plan your visit

Asya Geisberg is proud to present the work of Jasper de Beijer, Rebecca Morgan and Trish Tillman at Booth #B31 on the Untitled Art Fair San Francisco

Untitled, Art is an international, curated art fair founded in 2012 that focuses on curatorial balance and integrity across all disciplines of contemporary art. Untitled, Art innovates the standard fair model by selecting a curatorial team to identify and curate a selection of galleries, artist-run exhibition spaces, and non-profit institutions and organizations, in dialogue with an architecturally designed venue. The next edition of Untitled, San Francisco will take place January 18 – 20, 2019.

12-26-2004 (from ‘Mr. Knight’s World Band Receiver’) | 2014 | 180 x 116 cm | edition of 7 | c-print

General Information:
January 17, 2019 Press and VIP Preview 3pm – 9pm
Open to the public: Friday, January 18, 12 – 8pm Saturday, January 19, 12 – 6pm Sunday, January 20, 12 – 6pm
Admission: General Admission: $35
Discounted Admission (Seniors and Students): $25
Groups of 15 or more: $25 per person Children under 12: FREE

https://untitledartfairs.com/san-francisco

De tentoonstelling The End of War opent op 11 november 1918. Die dag, 100 jaar geleden, werd een wapenstilstand afgeroepen voor de Eerste Wereldoorlog. Een vredesverklaring is nooit getekend. 21 jaar later wel een oorlogsverklaring, het begin van de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Die oorlog zou het einde zijn van alle oorlogen. Die End of War is er jammer genoeg nooit gekomen.

In deze tentoonstelling schetsen kunstenaars beelden van oorlogen, conflicten en wapengeweld. Soms van grote schoonheid, soms confronterend, soms alleen om ons aan te zetten er over na te denken.

Raquel Maulwurf
Ruri Matsumoto
Albrecht Genin
Jürgen Brodwolf
Aaron van Erp
Adriaan Rees
Jasper de Beijer
Ottmar Hörl
Theo Eissens
Kcho
Manfred Schneider
Simon Schrikker
José María Sicilia
Ingrid Simons
Ad Gerritsen
Roger Wardin
Richard Bouwman

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