Showing posts with label Marres. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marres. Show all posts

June 10, 2012

SALON/Maastricht: MARRES !!! LAST DAY!!!




Fabian von Spreckelsen:
Gazing and dreaming into an Indian summer full of colorful leaves  
coated garden. Our eye catches a point of new beginning and for remembrance. A Phoenix nest: Phoenix Nest - Where our memories are laid to rest, Where our new thoughts are evoked, Tranquilizing, Evaporating, Energizing, Transforming our transience.
Every Phoenix nest is unique and is handcrafted with exclusive Corten Steel, molded with fire into a one of a kind masterpiece. A portable fireplace as a neat outdoor fireplace resembling natures Fire Mountains.
FRANK BRUGGEMANS: 
‘a personal experience of nature in the urban environment’

PAINTED: 
Led by Dutch designers Saskia van Drimmelen and Margreet Sweerts, Painted Series is a collective that blurs the lines between fashion and performance, and expands the idea of what a garment can be.
 

GABRIEL GUEVARA:
The result of an investigation that began with questioning the relevance and meaning of luxury and the luxury-industry in our modern consumption-driven society, Silent Shout consists of a family of characters that aspire to redefine our understanding of what luxury should be all about.

Based on the role that the dandy assumes in society and the way he thinks about his essence, these personalities represent a vision that is sensitive towards the concept of ‘instrumental materialism’ (the pursuit and owning of objects for individual and social meaningful reasons), the role that accessories and jewellery play in their interaction with humans, and the potential of emptiness relative to creation, refinement and meaningfulness.

The focus lies ultimately on characters depicting differing manifestations of this vision, while in transition between the experimental and the classic state, the latter being the one in which there is absolute harmony between the different components and which would represent the fulfillment of luxury as creature: a creator.
 

KASPER HAMACHER:
Kaspar Hamacher uses fire to create objects. Fittingly named ‘ausgebrannt’ which means ‘burned out’ in german. Tree trunks have been cut into segments varying in length.
The bark is stripped from the exterior and fire is then used to hollow out parts of the trunk to create legs. Kaspar moved back to the forest where he now runs his atelier. This sculpture brought him back to his roots.
 

DESIREE HAMMEN:

Embroidery artist Desiree Hammen (1976) graduated at ArtEZ Institute of the Arts in Arnhem and trained at the famous Ecole Lesage in Paris, France. In her work she combines haute couture techniques with DIY skills, exploring the beauty of imperfection. For her punk and intuitive style she can be called the enfant terrible of haute embroidery couture techniques for taking traditional crafts to another level.
Please, read our earlier post on Desiree Hammens pink world installation following this link.



June 8, 2012

Video Art on SALON/maastricht: Min Oh, Martin Butler, Koen Hauser, Lernert & Sander, and Studio GKMK


Martin Butler

Martin Butler is a director and concept developer of performance and live events, specialising in the meeting point of art-performance-installation-media and fashion. 
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.  
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

Koen Hauser (Leiden, 1972) is a multidisciplinary Dutch artist
. In his surrealistic universe he creates people and animals who looks abnormal, abstract and mysterious; their faces or bodies are deconstructed or alienated but photographed and digital manipulated in a very aesthetic and delicate context. Beauty, death, childhood, past and science are key elements in the work of Hauser.  His work can be admired at Marres, above the stairs to the basement.





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 MarresIn 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. 

May 28, 2012

This June: SALON/Maastricht

From June 2 till June 10 SALON/ will visit Maastricht. SALON/Maastricht is a special project in collaboration with Marres-Centre for Contemporary Culture, Fashionclash, NAiM/Bureau Europa and SALON/.

SALON/ is about connecting the current SALON/ network of participants with new artists and crafts. During SALON/Maastricht the work of fifty artists and designers will be presented on several locations; it's a fashioncultural parcours that represent how a new generation of designers colaborate and move beyond the paradigmas centre and perifery, crafts and concept, fashion and art, editorial and independence. 

We hope to see you down under in the Netherlands this June.  

/// Tickets:
The passe-partout a E 5,- gives you permission to all SALON/Maastricht locations. Ticket sale and vouchers via VVV tourist office, www.salon1.org and the locations of SALON/maastricht. 
Or go to: http://www.traveldna.net/ibe-uat/tdnadistributor.dll/default 

/// Opening and events:
2 june Opening SALON/Maastricht, start at Maastricht Centraal Station, 11 – 17 uur
2, 8 & 9 june, ‘Dandelion’, a performance by Ellen Truijen, Marres, 14:00 uur
2 june Take Five Drinks, music by Don Londi, Take Five Bar, 21:00 uur
3 june SECRET by Painted, Marres, on invitation only, 12 – 15 uur
3 june Finissage ‘Lost for Faith/Retained for Beauty’, with Hans den Hartog Jager, Marc Mulders & Lex ter Braak, Marres, 15:00 uur
7 june, Open Atelier Drinks, Studio 33, 19:00 uur
8 – 10 june, FASHIONCLASH Maastricht, SAMdecorfabriek
8 – 10 june, FASHIONCLASH Market #2, Centre Ceramique
8 & 9 june, VIP-tour by SALON/ initiators Gijs Stork and Manon Schaap- only on reservation via floor@burofloor.nl, starting point: Maastricht Centraal Station, 11:00 uur

/// Participants:
Boy Bastiaens, Felix Baumsteiger, Mattijs van Bergen, Ingo Binder, Frank Bruggeman, Liesbet Busshe, Martin Butler, Pauline van Dongen, Marius Op ’t Eynde, FANTASTIC MAN & the gentlewoman, John Franzen, Conny Groenewegen, Brian Geradts, Esther de Groot, Norbert Grunschel, Gabriel Guevara, Desiree Hammen, Mona Hadinejad, Kaspar Hamacher, Koen Hauser, Petra Herzog, Ernst van der Hoeven, Marcha Huskes, Sidi el Karchi, Gem Kingdom, Maryam Kordebacheh, Maarten Kolk & Guus Kusters, Bas Kosters, LAND, Fabian Landewee, Lernert & Sander, Jonas Loellmann, Valentin Loellmann, Linda Maissan, Zorah Murad, Noman, Maurer United, Min Oh, Edwin Oudshoorn, Painted, Antoine Peters, Branko Popovic, Nika Rams, Vivian Sassen, Christoph Seyferth, Fabian von Spreckelsen, Ellen Truijen, Anouk Vogel, Femke de Vries, Vroonland, Marga Weimans, Hyun Yue, youasme measyou. 

/// Locations:
Maastricht Centraal Station, Hotel Beaumont, Kiki Niesten, Traders Pop, Wild West Active Space, Muchachas Designer Boutique, Scope13, Von Eusersdorff, De Bijenkorf, VVV Maastricht, Vrijthof, Reuten & Reuten Galerie, Marres, Sphinxpark, Timmerfabriek, Studio33, FASHIONCLASH 

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