June 8, 2012
SALON/maastricht: Reuten & Reuten Gallery with Gem Kingdom, Esther de Groot, Mattijs van Bergen and the Season Dress of Anouk Vogel & Mattijs van Bergen
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| entrance of the R&R gallery |
Right behind the towers of
the St Servaas and the St Jan Servaasklooster is the Reuten & Reuten Gallery
Amsterdam Maastricht, a formal ‘Kanunniken’ house dated from 1760, that is both
a gallery and residence. Here we can admire the work of Gem Kingdom, Esther de
Groot, Sanne Vogel and Mattijs van Bergen. Their work is carefully placed
between the current Reuten exposition containing contemporary art objects that
compliment the SALON/maastricht presentation.
SALON/Maastricht presents the Season Change Dress from fashion designer Mattijs van Bergen and landscape
architect Sanne Vogel, originally created for the exhibition program ‘Fashion &
Architecture’ at ARCAM in 2010.The dress is made of folded bicycle tyres, each
creating a little water cup to hold a flower. The dress is like an
enormous vase and its final shape depends on the flower arrangement.
In the dining room Mattijs
van Bergen shows three outifts from the ‘Starburst’ collection f/w 2013
containing long pleaded skirts of dark blue and dark green chiffon with golden
yarn.
In the hall are shown three
porcelain Happy Baby statues from Gem Kingdom by Johanna Titselaar
and Bernard Jongstra. Gem Kingdom is a jewelry line that combines unique
materials with a rich, original style: gemstones, sterling silver, wood and
polyester unified in designs that breath individuality.
During SALON/Maastricht
Esther de Groot, who calls herself a storyteller instead of an artist or
sculptor, is showing several objects. She creates unique imperfections
by creating disproportions within an object. Irrespective of the material use
or application, she often works from a desire to communicate a specific story
or a certain atmosphere. On this location we can see her bronze ‘figurines’, next
to a religious wooden sculpture of Maria and child. The combination of the
contemporary sculptures of De Groot and this antique figure of Reuten
& Reuten Gallery creates a certain interaction that fits her way of working.
Visit the Reuten
& Reuten Gallery and engage with the
atmosphere of Salon/Maastricht.
Video Art on SALON/maastricht: Min Oh, Martin Butler, Koen Hauser, Lernert & Sander, and Studio GKMK
Martin Butler
Butler is trained in theatre performance in England and the Netherlands, his ability is to create total theatrical experiences with as much visual attention to detail as to the whole.
In the shopping window of Kiki Niesten you can see a video work of Butler called '1x1', a short filmic portrait made in Milan this year and filmed by Gautier Pellegrin.
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| 1x1 - Martin Butler (2012) |
Min Oh
Min Oh
(b. Seoul, North-Korea) is a story teller. She makes stories about tension
between two contradictory qualities — sweet but disturbing, naive but violent,
rational but personal, unreasonable but somehow reasonable. They constantly
conflict, but never leave each other. Instead, they keep a weird balance
between them. They live together almost everywhere, and every time. Since 2006,
she has exhibited her work in New York, Los Angeles, London, Beijing, Ningbo,
12 cities in Russia, Seoul including in 'DesignMade' by Korea Design Foundation
in 2009, 'Bauhaus Commuters' by Silke Opitz in 2009, 'Play on Screen' by
Moviehouse in 2009, 'Free Store' by Anna Stein & Athena Robles in 2009,
"Ningbo International Design Biennial" in 2008, “1st Contemporary
& Modern Art Juried Exhibition for Aspiring Korean-American Artists” in
2007, “The Sinew of Galaxy - Not Only for Lvxiao” in 2007 among
others. Currently she stays in Amsterdam hunting a lot of fun. The video of Min Oh is showed in the basement of De Timmerfabriek, next to the work of Liesbet Bussche.
Koen Hauser
Lernert & Sander
Lernert & Sander are two dutch artists and friends who decided that working alone was getting boring and started collaborating on art related projects. Since their first video Chocolate Bunny they've been working on commercials, leaders, art movies, documentaries and installations. Their aim is to make simple and communicative works, that takes little note of the existing border between contemporary art and commercial projects. Their highly esthetic, humorous and dedicated works are often challenging the media and its viewer, in a simple but very effective way. Their work was selected for international festivals in New York, Rio de Janeiro and Oberhausen.
At Scope13 they present a charming and well crafted video they made with the famous italian tailors of Brioni, in order of the Handmade issue of Wallpaper* magazine this August. They came up with the idea that a hand would be the ultimate customer to prove the skills and craftmanship of a brand as Brioni.
Both
Lernert and Sander are contributors for Butt Magazine - also part of SALON/maastricht - and are currently
living and working in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Studio Guus Kusters & Maarten Kolk
Studio Maarten Kolk & Guus Kusters is based in Klokgebouw, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Together they do practical design projects, as well as autonomous work. Living with nature, history, colour and environment are the foundation of their work. They don’t design specifically for the industry or the consumer, but try to materialize or tell about the things they would like to have around or that fascinates them.
The installation Studio GK & MK shows during SALON/maastricht calls Waddenzee - Eb (Low tide) and is located in the basement of Marres. In search of the character of the Wadden Sea, Maarten and Guus started to project the natural behavior of the sea on the production process of porcelain. “The tidal behavior of the sea is comparable to the production of ceramics; it’s a flow of clay and water repeating its process every 12 hours. What we liked about it that it seems that it all happens in the single ebb and flood movement; after every high tide the landscape seems new again.“Waddenzee” is a limited edition series of porcelain plates and cups inspired by the sea that lies in the north of the Netherlands, Germany and west of Denmark. The sea forms a shallow body of water with tidal flats and wetlands. The porcelain series portrays this unique nature area as well as it imitates its behavior. It consists of four porselain plates and a video.
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