Press release Prospect Park V
If someone keeps it up that long, there must be something good in it
14.06 – 27.09.09
After two editions of work by young, promising artists, followed by two large-scale projects by artists in 'mid-career', the Bonnefantenmuseum is taking a look at the other side of 'great expectations' and arrived artistry in Prospect Park V. The exhibition zooms in on the work of older artists.
Older, unknown and promising artists
The phase of being young and promising is crucial in every career – and artists are no exception. Though it is possible for an artist to start later in life, he or she is then too old for incentive subsidies and prizes. The art world, with museums at the forefront, pushes these artists aside. Unknown, unloved.
Under the title If someone keeps it up that long, there must be something good in it, the exhibition focuses on five artists from the Netherlands and Belgium who have dauntlessly gone their own way in their work and life, and thus succeeded in building up a crystallised and intriguing oeuvre. All of them except one are still active professionally: Dre Devens (1946 Heerlen – Maastricht), Capitaine Lonchamps (1953 Spa, B), Marrigje de Maar (1944 The Hague – Groningen), Rod Summers (1943 Dorset GB – Maastricht) and Toon Tersas (1924 Weert -1995 Dessel, B).
Perseverance
The fact that perseverance generates quality in the work of these five artists (as the suggested by the title, at least) is an opinion that is extremely debatable. And yet, if someone keeps going, it would seem to indicate that surely there must be something good in it?
On display are: moving interior travel photos from places like Russia, China, and Japan by Marrigje de Maar, painted and closely-written panels and canvases, and works on paper in book form by calligraphy master Toon Tersas, painted photographs, duvets, various objects, films and sound works inspired by 'inclinationism' by pataphycisist Capitaine Lonchamps, stylish in situ minimalist work by Dre Devens and radical sound work by audio pioneer and collector Rod Summers.
Catalogue
To mark the exhibition, the catalogue If someone keeps it up that long, there must be something good in it will be published, including texts by Paula van den Bosch (foreword), Annemie van Laethem and Erik Croux about Toon Tersas, Capitaine Lonchamps: by Jean Michel Botquin, Reclaiming the senses by David W. Courtney about Dre Devens, At Home, Abroad by Ashley C. Givens about Marrigje de Maar, and texts by Jesse Glass, T.J. Winter and Guus Smeets about Rod Summers.
Beeldmateriaal
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Foto psychoschq |
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Rod Summers |
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Marrigje de Maar, Kyoto – The widow, 2006 © Marrigje de Maar. |
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Capitaine Lonchamps, Neige, 2001 © Capitaine Lonchamps. |
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Dre Devens, memory of the incomprehensible 03 - A, 2003 © Etienne C.L. van Sloun. |
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Nobelpreis, 1968 |
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Foto Peter Cox |
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Foto Peter Cox |
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Foto Peter Cox |
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Foto Peter Cox |
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Foto Peter Cox |
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Foto Peter Cox |
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Foto Peter Cox |
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Foto Peter Cox |
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Foto Peter Cox |
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Foto Peter Cox |