A Fantastical Escape to The Flood, The Fire and other F-words...
A Fantastical Escape to The Flood, The Fire and other F-words... strips thousands of photographs of their significance. This installation crumples and layers photos and sounds from the three artists' archives, creating a forest floor of imagery and sound where things de/re/compose.
A collaborative installation with Donna Akrey (CA), Annika Grill (FR) and Yvette Poorter (NL). Photos, staples, soundscape (2012).
A collaborative installation with Donna Akrey (CA), Annika Grill (FR) and Yvette Poorter (NL). Photos, staples, soundscape (2012).
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"The beautifully titled A Fantastical Escape to The Flood, The Fire and other F-words ... consisted of simple pictures of gardens and grass and other nature that were stapled together to form wondrous shapes. He who crawled through a narrow door saw two dogs, also composed of the backside of photos. A sound track coming from below the installation put it in a suitable bath of natural sounds. So arose a picture of nature that was a collage of our own ideas and images about nature, and ultimately questioned whether 'nature' is not a cultural construction that says more about us than nature."
From "REVIEW: Secret Gardens: between skulls and serenity, and what happens next" by Peter Vianen
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The excerpt above is a translation of a Dutch text. The entire Dutch text can be found at:
http://www.gonzocircus.com/secret-gardens-tussen-schedels-en-sereniteit-en-wat-er-daarna-gebeurde/
Also check out a review on a television feature by ArtMen: http://www.uitzendinggemist.nl/afleveringen/1292405
ArtMen is a TV show featuring visual artists David Bade and Jasper Krabbé who explore a link between the work of modern artists and famous genres in the history of art. This episode of the AVRO TV series looks at landscape in contemporary situations including the work by artists: James Turrell, 2012 Architects, Mothership, Giuseppe Penone as well as a take on A Fantastical Escape to The Flood, The Fire and other F-words ...
(program in Dutch)
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This installation was part of the exhibition 'Secret Gardens' curated by Willie Stehouwer.
TENT Centre for Fine Arts, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. http://www.tentrotterdam.nl/
From "REVIEW: Secret Gardens: between skulls and serenity, and what happens next" by Peter Vianen
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The excerpt above is a translation of a Dutch text. The entire Dutch text can be found at:
http://www.gonzocircus.com/secret-gardens-tussen-schedels-en-sereniteit-en-wat-er-daarna-gebeurde/
Also check out a review on a television feature by ArtMen: http://www.uitzendinggemist.nl/afleveringen/1292405
ArtMen is a TV show featuring visual artists David Bade and Jasper Krabbé who explore a link between the work of modern artists and famous genres in the history of art. This episode of the AVRO TV series looks at landscape in contemporary situations including the work by artists: James Turrell, 2012 Architects, Mothership, Giuseppe Penone as well as a take on A Fantastical Escape to The Flood, The Fire and other F-words ...
(program in Dutch)
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This installation was part of the exhibition 'Secret Gardens' curated by Willie Stehouwer.
TENT Centre for Fine Arts, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. http://www.tentrotterdam.nl/
