COLLECTION

TWO SKIES

Lukas Marxt
For this piece, Marxt filmed the horizon from a drilling platform in the Gulf of Bothnia (Sweden) at two different times of day: dawn and dusk. In the editing, the artist flipped the images of the extremely dark, mysterious rippling water horizontally in order to stick them oppositely to each other...

DER FLEXIBLE UNTERNEHMER

Alexander Kluge
As indicated in the subtitle Tiehrmehlfabrikant Dr. Fred Eicke weiss Auswege, this work centres on the animal food producer Fred Eicke (a part played by Peter Berling). The title refers to The Corrosion of Character (translated into German as Der Flexible Mensch), a book from 1998 by the American sociologist Richard Sennett...

COMBUSTIONS

Claude Cattelain
In his work Claude Cattelain tries to grasp the essence in the volatile. His short and personal flashes of astonishment and fragility offer a striking image of a passage from one place to another or a shift in frames of mind...

MORE FROM THE JUDSON YEARS (EARLY 60S) INSTRUMENTAL-VOCAL WORKS VOL. 2

Philip Corner
Excerpts from the liner notes of Volume Two, written by Philip Corner: ’Everything Max Has’ (1964), Max Neuhaus solo, recorded at the ONCE Festival, 1965. ’A performance of Max’s taking down all of his stuff; tons of equipment filling entire stages’. ’Big Trombone’ (1963), Jim Fulkerson improvisation over tape collage...

DOCUMENTA 4

Jef Cornelis
When Professor Arnold Bode thought up Documenta 1 in 1955, his first job was putting West-Germany, arisen from the ashes, back on the international map. When Documenta 4 takes place in 1968 the international art world is entangled in an authority crisis as well, as Roger Raveel indicates: ”worn threadbare”...

Extensions, Hans Op de Beeck, 2009. Courtesy Galleria Continua, San Gimignano – Beijing – Le Moulin; Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna; Xavier Hufkens, Brussels; Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York; Galerie Ron Mandos, Rotterdam – Amsterdam

EXTENSIONS

Hans Op de Beeck
In terms of content, the animated film ‘Extensions’ deals with cultural and subcultural rituals, science and technology as extensions of the human body, and as the physical manifestation of an unfailing belief in progress, which is both redemptive and ethically problematic. The artist defines the extension of the body in very broad terms...

Deux Corps Amoureux, 2004, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

DEUX CORPS AMOUREUX

Angel Vergara
Two bodies are standing against a wall, hidden behind a white canvas. While they are embracing and kissing each other, they are drawing with charcoal on the wall. A white canvas often turns up in Vergara’s work, but instead of one, it now hides two bodies...

Poison Petals, Peter Finnemore, 2005. Courtesy the Artist

POISON PETALS

Peter Finnemore
Two young girls in camouflage battle dress try to break all the glass panels of a greenhouse....

Baile, 2007, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

BAILE

Angel Vergara
With a pencil, Vergara traces movements during an outdoors gala, on a plaza in Castelló....

FENÊTRE DE VUE

Mira Sanders
Fenêtre de vue is a graphical exploration of how a drawing after experiencing two residencies, lines itself step by step out. The exploration considers the window as a possible perspective to capture an imaging and thinking of a drawer that is re-imagining the route she made in the two residencies....