March 5th, 2011
I went to an opening of my friend, Marijn, his exhibition at Paul Andriesse gallery in Amsterdam.
It was exciting show, I recommend to drop off the place if you are around. This week is the last chance to see them.
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The gallery had moved last year to a big space in Westerstraat. Now the gallery has two big spaces separated a front space and a back space. In between there is a bridging space like a corridor.
At the front space, you can see Marijn's artworks, drawings and videos.
In mostly his works you can find their source on the surface and from the titles. I really enjoyed to see where he found his work's source and his variety of reaction, which with plenty of noises.
In the back space, you can see a group show which is organized by Marijn. In the group show, you will see works by well-known artist and by young artist together. I think...each works has combination of opposite role, otherwise very different role together on an artwork, achieved by variety of ideas.
Marijn combined those works in a same space. And it looks good.
As for me, it was enjoyable to see such a variety of ideas and achievement, actually I enjoyed like, "WOW! I have never seen like this artworks! cool!".
By the way, this work above, the welcome work of the show and you can see on the invitation as well, entitled "the passenger".
It reminds me and Daishin about an Andy Warhol's artwork but the source was Iggy Pop's "The Passenger".
I said "Andy Warhol's work" but me and Daishin reminded different works each other.
Daishin's was, the works which shows a car accident, and mine was an electric chair one.
Anyway both we made a wrong assumption.
And this work below, was on a table as free-for-all. Marijn says, He couldn't find any spaces for this work, then decided to pass out for visitors like fliers.
This sentence and its graphic. awesome. It reminds me a work from the back space, Sol Lewitt Wall Drawing 124: Horizontal not straight, Nah, maybe this also a wrong assumption anyway.
I like his sense of graphic, not only awesome but also dried humor. On the other hand, I could see a sort of short distance eye and its universe at the same time.
I know it sounds wired to say 'Universe'. Only twice I have used 'universe' when I saw artworks.
One with Grayson Perry's works, and the other one with Jackson Pollock's.
Simply, I could see equal abilities of confrontations, between drawn part and not-drawn part, painted part and unpainted part, original and copies, sounds and silence, big and small, still and moving, ideas and its duplication.
And those elements all shuffled once, and trying to make combination each other. not with random way, with looks suit way, with his way.
(Last updated at 5th of August 2011.)
