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| Aruban Street Art by Efrem Angelo |
November 14, 2011
AIS SALON/ participant Efrem Angelo is adding more color to Aruba - UNOCA building, Oranjestad
AIS/ SALON at the VCO building with Scheltens Abbenes, Elvis Lopez and Pauline van Dongen
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| 'Vitrine', placed in the vitrines of the VCO building in Aruba |
The specialty of photographer Maurice Scheltens (1972) and visual artist Liesbeth Abbenes (1970) is to meticulously arrange objects - chairs, glassware, shirts, perfume bottles - into configurations that have a strong two-dimensional or graphic character. Scheltens & Abbenes reduce their objects to clean geometric lines, showing an understanding that the settings will ultimately only exist as a two-dimensional image. Essential to their work is the process in the studio where they construct their settings. A laborious process, in which Scheltens & Abbenes continuously move things around, painstakingly join pieces together and adjust little details. During this series of steps they take numerous shots and study them together intensively in order to arrive at the right composition.
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| Pauline van Dongen in bright daylight |
Pauline van Dongen
Pauline van Dongen's fascination for the relation between human and their surroundings is something that keeps feeding her inspiration. By working with sculptural shapes, forms like capsules floating around the body, she examines the space between the garment and the body and tries to emphasize that void in her designs. In 2008 Pauline graduated with a BA in Fashion Design from the renowned Artez, Academy of the Arts in Arnhem, the Netherlands.
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| Elvis Lopez at the VCO building |
On a daily basis the tall, imposing figure of Elvis Lopez hurries through the maze of studios, exhibition halls and offices of Aruba's Ateliers ‘89, a quiet mecca for the arts housed in a rambling old turn-of-the-century school in the suburbs of downtown Oranjestad. Ateliers ‘89 cooperates with a number of Dutch art academies, helping young artists to transfer to an art school in the Netherlands.
November 11, 2011
youasme measyou presents virtual installation via Layar App at the ruin of the Arends House
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A unique location for youasme measyou for AIS SALON/: the ruin of the Arends House at the Wilhelminastraat in Oranjestad, Aruba. Via Layar App you can see the digital word-cloud the label measyou youasme created for AIS SALON/. Via the Layar App you can even see the word cloud hanging in the sky above the Arends House from out of your hotel room. |
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AIS SALON/ at the Protestant Church Aruba presents: Osaira Muyale, David West, Marcha Hüskes, Claudia Ruiz, Jess Wolff, Pricilla Lacle, Mode Made Man, and a tribute installation to Arubas Percy Irausquin by Ciro Abath
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| overview (photo: Marij Rynja) |
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| Pricilla Lacle (photo: Marij Rynja) |
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| Tribute to Percy Irausquin by Ciro Abath (photo: Marij Rynja) |
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| Accessories and jewelry by Claudia Ruiz-Vasquez (photo: Marij Rynja) |
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| (photo: Marij Rynja) |
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| overview (photo: Marij Rynja) |
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| Marcha Hüskes (photo: Marij Rynja) |
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| Mode Made Man (on wall) and David West (photo: Marij Rynja) |
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| Mode Made Man (photo: Marij Rynja) |
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| Jess Wolff (photo: Marij Rynja) |
November 10, 2011
AIS SALON/ presents: Telka van Dodewaard and Viktor & Rolf - National Archaeological Museum Aruba
Telka van Dodewaard: 'If you still don't get it, you never will'
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| Telka van Dodewaard (2011) in an former water basement. photo: Marij Rynja |
Between ceramic artifacts, shell and stone tools and pre-historic ornaments displayed for all those who would like to know about Aruba's first cultures, stands Viktor & Rolf and Telka van Dodewaard.
One could call Telka’s work strongly narrative. Constantly she displays an unwritten story but without giving the view room for his own interpretation. Returning themes in her work are the vulnerability of a human being and the inherent decay through time and of life, what we also see in the installation she created for AIS SALON/. With a wink to fashion Telka van Dodewaard is showing the installation 'If you still don't get it, you never will', made for the old water well in the Archaeological Museum. Her installation is about beauty and it’s glorification. She explained that obscuring the ugliness and the ugliness itself go hand in hand. The materials she used for this installation are mostly textile and ceramics, what reflects Telka’s background as a sculptor.
Telka van Dodewaard (b. 1977, Maastricht, the Netherlands) lives and works in Aruba and Amsterdam. She graduated from the art academy Maastricht in 1999. She started a masters degree at the Rietveld Academie, the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam, graduating in 2002.
The archeaological museum of Aruba was once a luxurous urban villa, where a European lady lived who missed the cold winters of her homeland. She created a winter room, where she sat in her winter coat, dreaming away while she gazed at the winter portrets of white mountains, moose, lakes, and other images. This former winter room was the perfect location to present the white fur coat of Viktor & Rolf of the Flower Bomb collection 2008.
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| photo: Marij Rynja |
posted by Marij Elisabeth Rynja - official blogger for SALON/
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