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The Aeaea House (2014) is tragically beautiful reference and symbol of how large interns histories find materialization in people’s everyday lives.
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Distorted Dialogue Series (2017) Traces are found in archives as material signs left by human activity. This work reflects more on our human capacity to understand and the role material reality plays in that proces of understanding. The traces with which the artists play highlight a fundamental aspect of human awareness: selection.
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FREELAND (2022) History is made in the present and there is no such thing as a neutral witness. It is a space of confrontation. It is choreography. The spectators dance around something, to go around in circles. The economy of desire that emerges, deconstructs the idea of progress and determinism.
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Zwischenlandschaften 2 (2017) HD video, 20 minutes. The video presents a heady collage of urban imagery, poetic dialogue and spectral soundscape, which encapsulates the essence of the project.
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Untitled #10 (equal rights), minimal intervention 2017, archival pigment print on cotton rag paper, 72 x 48 cm.
Conference
Book Launch GREYZONES >Mapping the Artistic Practice of Nabuurs&VanDoorn
4 Nov 2023
Regular hours
- Sat, 04 Nov
- 12:30 – 19:00
Free admission
Address
- Bilderdijklaan 10
- Eindhoven
North Brabant - 5611
- Netherlands
GREYZONES Will be presented during an extensive afternoon in which the authors will discuss with the artists. The new publication GREYZONES maps out the artistic journey by Nabuurs&VanDoorn.
About
Artist duo Nabuurs & VanDoorn have been working on a series of artworks since 2014 under the name Zwischenlandschaften. In a new publication Greyzones they map out their artistic journey. The Van Abbemuseum has supported this series in various ways in recent years. For example, the essay video Zwischenlandschaften 3 (2018), the 3-channel video installation Zwischenlandschaften 3 Game Piece 3 (2020) are included in the collection and Zwischenlandschaften 2_Freeland (2014-2022) can be seen in the exhibition Delinking & Relinking.
The publication will be presented on November 4 during an extensive afternoon in which the authors will discuss with the artists. Participants in the conversation are Jeanette Bisschops (curator, art critic and writer), Oscar van den Boogaard (curator and writer), Marie de Brugerolle (writer and curator), Andrea Wiarda (writer, editor and curator) and Steven ten Thije (Head of Collections Van Abbemuseum).
The day consists of a special screening of Zwischenlandschaften 3, a tour of the installation Zwischenlandschaften 2_Freeland and conversations between a number of authors of the new publication about this series. The publication can be purchased in the shop of the Van Abbemuseum for €35.
“The future of the past is our contemporary concern.” - Nabuurs&VanDoorn
Programme
12:30 PM - Walk in at Karel 1 Museumcafé
1:00 PM - Introduction by Steven ten Thije in the Auditorium
1:10 PM - Screening Zwischenlandschaften 3 in the Auditorium
1:30 PM - Tour Zwischenlandschaften 2_Freeland in the museum
2:00 PM - Discussion Jeanette Bisschops, Oscar van den Boogaard, Marie de Brugerolle, Steven ten Thije en Andrea Wiarda
4:00 PM - Singspiel
6:00 to 7:00 PM - Drinks
More about Zwischenlandschaften
The Zwischenlandschaften series is an important next step in the oeuvre of Nabuurs&VanDoorn. Their work, which is based on in-depth (archival) research, explores the complex, rich and critical exchange between modernity, art and history. This covers very diverse subjects such as a Swiss mountain pass, an old woodworking factory in Eindhoven, a villa in Brussels, a road in Detroit, labour paradises in Milan and a ghost forest in Fontainebleau. The works reflect on special and sometimes uncomfortable histories that they turn inside out. They translate their research into physical works of art and performances, which often take place outdoors.
The term Zwischenlandschaften refers to the ideas of sociologist Lucius Burckhardt (1925 – 2003). He stated: “It is up to painters and poets to make the landscape visible.” He said this to point out the fact that in modern times, when everything is accelerating, we see less and less of what is there, because we are in a hurry. only recognize what we already knew. Just as we can no longer recognize details in the landscape from a moving train. Nabuurs&VanDoorn want to highlight or isolate what goes unnoticed. They also approach history itself as a landscape. They analyze archive documents, conduct field research that they record on maps and carry out interventions in landscapes, natural or urban. By making combinations or isolating things, they appear as new and it becomes possible to wonder again about their possible meaning.
Partners
Cultuur Eindhoven, Kunstloc Brabant, Provincie Noord-Brabant en Kunstverein Milano.
