Nieuws
Ochtendgloren
Studio detail
Detail ‘Human Paintings’ (In progress)
Bezocht
Kolumba Art Museum, Keulen
Museum Ludwig, Keulen
Bezocht
Saatschi Londen
Tate Britain Londen
Tate Modern Londen
Studio kijktijd
Rick Vercauteren (Directeur Museum Van Bommel Van Dam Venlo)
Studio 20-6-2014 kijktijd
Judith Van Meeuwen (curator Kunsthal Kade Amersfoort)
‘The human paintings’ (werktitel)
In progress
The human paintings (werktitel)
Landgoed Anningahof
Beelden 2014
17 mei-26 oktober 2014
‘Trying To Understand’ zal ook dit hele seizoen in Zwolle te zien zijn.
NL:
Het beeld Trying to Understand kent een ontstaansgeschiedenis die enkele jaren in beslag genomen heeft. Uiteindelijk is het gestold in de hier tentoongestelde vorm. Deze tijd was nodig om het beeld te ontwikkelen en te laten groeien in het aantal betekenislagen, ambiguïteit en interpretatiemogelijkheden, zo ook de processen waarvoor het aandacht vraagt: zintuigelijke waarneming, verfijning, gewaarwording, openstelling, reflectie, analyse en contemplatie. Deze processen zouden ver verwijderd moeten zijn van tijdsdruk en gebaat moeten zijn bij onhedendaagse traagheid en bezinking. Trying to Understand nodigt dan ook uit om er in stilte met je denken omheen te cirkelen.
EN:
It took several years (2007-2013) to get to get this sculpture to look the way it does now. These years were necessary to develop the sculpture and its possible meanings. Sensory perception, refinement, perception, reflection, analysis and contemplation: these should all be far away from the pressure of time and benefit from non-contemporary laziness and thoughtfulness. Trying to Understand invites you to take a moment and reflect in silence.
DE:
Die Entstehungsgeschichte dieser Plastik hat mehrere Jahre in Anspruch genommen. Am Ende ist es in der hier ausgestellten Form verfestigt. Diese Zeit war erforderlich, um das Werk zu entwickeln und in Bedeutungsschichten Ambiguität und Interpretationsmöglichkeiten wachsen zu lassen. Auch die Prozesse der Wahrnehmung spielen eine Rolle: Sinneswahrnehmung, Raffinesse, Gefühl, Öffnung, Reflexion, Analyse und Betrachtung.
Deelnemende kunstenaars (wisselende tentoonstellingen niet meegenomen):
Hellen Abma, Eylem Aladogan, Armando, Alphons ter Avest, Hans van Bentem, Ari Berkulin, Etienne van Berlo, Kees Bierman, Sjoerd Buisman, Tom Claassen, Caroline Coolen, Karin van Dam, Bart van Dijck, Wia van Dijk, Nicolas Dings, Guido Geelen, Hubertus von der Goltz, Gerard Groenewoud & Tilly Buij, Klaas Gubbels, Jeroen Henneman, Ewerdt Hilgemann, Gerard Höweler, Esther Jiskoot, Hans Klein Hofmeijer, Jeffry Koopman, Axel & Helena van der Kraan, Bastienne Kramer, Herman Lamers, Marianne Lammersen, Herman Makkink, Olaf Mooij, Linda Nieuwstad, Herbert Nouwens, Michel van Overbeeke, Nico Parlevliet, Chris Peterson, Stefan Pietryga, Adriaan Rees, Paul de Reus, Cornelius Rogge, Peter Rogiers, Simcha Roodenburg, Marc de Roover, Wouter van Schaik, Theo Schepens, Paul Segers, Tanja Smeets, Carolein Smit, Luk van Soom, Erik van Spronsen, Elisabeth Stienstra, Joost van den Toorn, Mirjam Veldhuis, Levi van Veluw, Peer Veneman, Adri Verhoeven, Henk Visch, Rob Voerman, Sjef Voets, André Volten, Auke de Vries, Ronald A. Westerhuis, Famke van Wijk, Bas de Wit, Lucy Wood, Jan van IJzendoorn, Marinke van Zandwijk, Zeinstra & Van Gelderen Architecten en Sylvie Zijlmans & Hewald Jongenelis.
The human paintings (werktitel) in progress
In dialoog met ‘VISIO SMARAGDINA’ (Vision d’emeraude)
Koninklijke Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Brussel
205 x 180 cm, Olieverf en chineese lak op doek
Thierry de Cordier, 2009
Foto Ans Jacobs
studio 22-02-2012
studio 09-02-2014
In progress
studio 03-02-2014
Uitgave ‘OCHTENDLICHT’
Eerder al in De Pont, Tilburg, en Museum Van Bommel Van Dam, Venlo, te verkrijgen maar nu dus ook in het Noordbrabants Museum, ‘s-Hertogenbosch. En uiteraard ook bij Motta kunstboeken, Eindhoven.
januari, 2014
Russel Library, Middeltown
Works of The Mwanga Collection, United States
Including five works of Hans Klein Hofmeijer
Russel Library, Middeltown, Connecticut, United States
Middletown Library Exhibits Collection Of Jazz Impresario
January 11, 2014|By ERIK HESSELBERG, Special to The Courant, The Hartford Courant
MIDDLETOWN — “Ever see those cats?” Kunle Mwanga says, pointing to a poster of greats from the free-flowing era of 1960s jazz.
In the group portrait are saxophonists John Coltrane and Archie Shepp and trumpeter Miles Davis, all three seminal artists of the period. Mwanga knew them all.
“Miles was a pretty hip cat,” Mwanga says. “I could tell you a few stories about him.”
At 71, Mwanga walks unsteadily with a cane. This unassuming, scholarly-looking man was once at the center of the avant-garde jazz movement, when iconoclasts like Coltrane and Ornette Coleman — whom Miles Davis declared was “all screwed up inside” but nevertheless a “jiving baby” — were pushing musical boundaries.
A former record producer and manager, Mwanga worked with such musical talent as the Art Ensemble of Chicago; saxophonist Anthony Braxton, whom he met in Paris; and drummer Ed Blackwell, a pioneer of the free-drumming style. His work took him all over Europe and North America, journeys that allowed him to indulge in his other great passion — collecting art.
“I love art,” Mwanga said. “Just about everywhere I went, I picked up something.”
Many of pieces were displayed in a gallery he ran in Greenwich Village in the 1970s called Liberty House. The shop, on Bleeker Steet in the West Village, became a gathering place for musicians, painters and writers, including James Baldwin and Toni Morrison.
When Mwanga moved to Middletown in 1990 to join his friends Blackwell and Braxton, both of whom accepted teaching posts at Wesleyan University, his vast collection had to be put in storage.
Then he met Susan Honer, who coordinates exhibits at Middletown’s Russell Library, near where he lives.
Over the years, Horner prodded Mwanga into displaying a piece or two at the library. Some months ago, she talked him into mounting a major show, displaying 30 pieces on the library’s two floors. The exhibit opened Jan. 2 and runs until the end of February.
The show features a wide range of artwork, including black and white photographs of noted jazz musicians, contempoary paintings, and prints and crafts from Africa and South America.
Of special significance are a large, carved, ceremonial mask from Papua New Guinea and an elaborately carved bas relief showing tribesmen paddling a canoe amid exotic flora and fauna. There is also a striking batik wall hanging from Nigeria.
Contrasting with these ceremonial objects are contemporary works, such as a series of non-representational paintings by Dutch artist Hans Klein Hofmeijer.
Especially prized by Mwanga are the dozen or so original black and white photographs of famous African American jazz musicians like John Coltrane, Archie Shepp, Randy Weston, Anthony Braxton and Ed Blackwell. The images were captured by British-born photographer and jazz writer Val Wilmer, whom Mwanga met during his Greenwhich Village years.
Honer, who has been admiring Mwanga’s collection for years, said she is excited that the public can now enjoy the fruits of his passion.
“It’s not often that you can view works of this caliber at the library,” she said.
Russell Library is at 123 Broad St, Middletown. For more information call 860-347-2528 or go to russelllibrary.org/
U kunt ‘Ochtendlicht’ nu ook aanschaffen bij De Pont, Tilburg
‘Piëta’
(Zonder medewerking van mijn ogen)
Nr 836, 2009, 40 x 35 cm, foto: Peter Cox
tekst: Studio van Dusseldorp
“Hans Klein Hofmeijer laat zich leiden door zijn tekenende hand. Tastend en zoekend registreert hij als een seismograaf de onbekende en onontgonnen tijd. Na een langdurig rijpingsproces verschijnen in zijn tekeningen vormen die de wereld raken in haar kwetsbare naaktheid.”
Atelier 08-10-2013
Emy Breedveld en Hans Van Hoek
Werkverblijf, zonder ruis!
Wederom woon en werk ik aan de rand van het land
