dinsdag 27 november 2012

Chris Dercon - Guided Tour #7 Locus Solus Domesticus


Chris Dercon, Director of Tate Modern London, 
will do a guided tour in the LOCUS SOLUS DOMESTICUS exhibition on Sunday December 2 2012 at 15h30

The nature of the exhibition space and the vulnerability of the works only allow for a limited number of visitors. 
So if you like to join the guided tour, please subscribe by sending an e-mail to: henri-jacobs@skynet.be. First come, first served.

A.VE.NU.DE.JET.TE - INSTITUT DE CARTON vzw

Avenue de Jette 41 / Jetselaan 41, 1081 Koekelberg, Brussels
 (10 minutes walk from Metro Simonis)

Britta Huttenlocher, Sans Titre, 1989, collage
 

guided tours by Jana Euler and Robin Vanbesien

Jana Euler turning the polyhedron from Xavier De Clippeleir



















Last Saturday, November 24, Jana Euler awoke the exhibition to life, like every guide is doing over new in a surprising and personal way. She reflected on the surfaces of the works which can be so very closed, hermetically closed - and as a guide you try to open it and give it some sort of life. The tour - guide influences the audience she is guiding in looking, talking and interpreting the works, in the same time the guide is also very influenced by the tour itself. The installation and following up of the works.
Robin Vanbesien made his personal choice, and guided us by starting upstairs on the second floor and "unwinding" the exhibition by descending the stairs. The six discs of Christoph Fink are rich in making associations, Emiliano Battista compared them with the shield of Achilles. Robin Vanbesien started his tour with the discs and told the beautiful story of Angelus Novus, a drawing from Paul Klee which was in possession of Walter Benjamin. 
Robin freely improvised by different works, about consumption, wealth, luxury and eccentricity. Georges Bataille thought about economics in his particular way, Robin mentioned it during his unwinding tour.
Both tours again were very interesting, the Institut De Carton could not foresee that such simple receipt as guided tours, copied from the book Locus Solus and its protagonist Martial Canterel, delivered so many different views and generated so many interpretations and stories.
Thanks a lot Jana and Robin.

Robin Vanbesien, Michel Gouéry's "Style"

woensdag 21 november 2012

Guided Tours # 6 - Saturday November 24


Guided Tours LOCUS SOLUS DOMESTICUS exhibition, Saturday November 24 2012

16h00 guided tour by Jana Euler (1982 - Friedberg (Germany), artist, lives and works in Brussels)

17h30 guided tour by Robin Vanbesien (1979 - Oostende (Belgium), artist, lives and works in Brussels)

You are welcome to be guided through this exhibition on geometric volumes in 2- and 3D.



A.VE.NU.DE.JET.TE - INSTITUT DE CARTON vzw

Avenue de Jette 41 / Jetselaan 41, 1081 Koekelberg, Brussels
 (10 minutes walk from Metro Simonis)

Koenraad Dedobbeleer, space calls for action, 2008, granite

maandag 12 november 2012

Guided tours by Paul and Peter

Guided Tour by Paul van der Eerden

a Boli sculpture used by the Bamana tribe

Suchan Kinoshita, Isofollie





















































Last Saturday, November 10 the guides for the tours both come from the Netherlands. Paul van der Eerden, he is the vice-president of our initiative INSTITUT DE CARTON, made a beautiful comparison between the Isofollies of Suchan Kinoshita and a ritual Boli object from the Bamana tribe in Mali. 
The exhibition is going on now for 8 weeks and therefore prepared guides are making associative relations with the works in the LOCUS SOLUS DOMESTICUS exhibition. The exhibition is very rich, it is possible to discover some strong themes in it, like the circles, spheres, discs, dots and spots in several works. Or the theme of the simple geometrically volume in quite a lot of the sculptures based on the rectangle and circle
Peter Nijenhuis was the second guide, and he posed a question when he began his tour. Is Hans Esmeijer right when he argues that complexity in contemporary art is a big problem and therefore art is superfluous and is loosing its audience. Peter Nijenhuis showed us that complexity isn't a problem at all while he totally got lost in the complexity of the LOCUS SOLUS DOMESTICUS exhibition. The submarine sculpture from Michel Gouéry reminded him of the Cargo Cult in Papua New Guinea. "Cargo cult activity in the Pacific region increased significantly during and immediately after World War II, when the residents of these regions observed the Japanese and American combatants bringing in large amounts of material. When the war ended, the military bases closed and the flow of goods and materials ceased. In an attempt to attract further deliveries of goods, followers of the cults engaged in ritualistic practices such as building crude imitation landing strips, aircraft and radio equipment, and mimicking the behaviour that they had observed of the military personnel operating them." (Wikipedia). And the simple sculpture of a cube by Joëlle Tuerlinckx, illuminated by three spotlights, remembered him to the novel "Morel's Invention" of Adolfo Bioy Casares.
It is so very nice that artists with a work in the exhibition are there when the guided tour is going on. So last Saturday Theo Cowley and Koenraad Dedobbeleer told about their works, no better way to get first hand information and to talk about objects, materials, ideas, making and creating.
Thanks a lot to the guides Peter and Paul, and thanks to the artists Theo and Koenraad for their contribution.
Next Guided Tour on Saturday November 24. It isn't sure yet who is going to guide, but if we know it will be announced here on this blog.

Guided Tour by Peter Nijenhuis

Peter Nijenhuis and sculpture of Michel Gouéry

Guided Tour by Peter Nijenhuis

zondag 4 november 2012

LocSolDom - Guided Tours Saturday November 10

Guided Tours LOCUS SOLUS DOMESTICUS exhibition, Saturday November 10 2012

16h00 guided tour by Paul van der Eerden (1954, lives and works in Rotterdam (NL)), artist and co-founder of A.VE.NU.DE.JET.TE – INSTITUT DE CARTON vzw.

18h00 guided tour by Peter Nijenhuis (1957, lives and works in Arnhem (NL)), historian, with a special interest in contemporary art and the history of ideas. He works as a journalist and curator. On his blog you can read more about art, design and art education: http://peternijenhuis.blogspot.com

You are welcome to be guided through this uncommon exhibition on circles, grids & space.



A.VE.NU.DE.JET.TE - INSTITUT DE CARTON vzw
 Avenue de Jette 41 / Jetselaan 41, 1081 Koekelberg, Brussels
 (10 minutes walk from Metro Simonis)

Jan Swartenbroekx marble & Raymond Barion's projector