Various Others
Ana Navas and Maddy Arkesteyn
7.09.2024 – 26.10.2024
Sperling gallery
Regerplatz 9
81541 München
The duo exhibition shows works by artists Maddy Arkesteyn (1966–2012) and Ana Navas (1984). The two artists are not only linked biographically by the fact that they both completed the two-year studio and tutoring program at De Ateliers in Amsterdam, even though 23 years have passed between them and they have never met in person. In their artistic practices Navas and Arkesteyn share a strong examination of form and abstract bodies – in the play of contours and in the tension between form and formlessness. Both demonstrate an interest in the transformation of forms and in the negation of meaning as a potential space for transformation.
Sperling gallery, Regerplatz 9, 81541 München
Madonna met putti
2004 Madonna met putti 240 x 170 cm and 120 x 80 (2x)
Lees meer over de Madonna – Tentoongesteld tijdens Tussen verlangen en controleverlies in Institut de Carton in Brussel 2020 – 2021
2004 Fotowerk – Schetsen voor putti – Met werk van Guido Reni 1611 – kindermoord te Bethlehem
2004 Fotowerk – Schetsen voor putti – Met werk van Francesco Albion 1630 – Sacra Familia
2004 Fotowerk – Schetsen voor putti – Met werk van Della Francesca 1269 – Maagd met kind
Solo tentoonstelling in Institut de Carton – Brussel
Tussen verlangen en controleverlies
Curated by Willem Oorebeek, Henri Jacobs, Suchan Kinoshita and Maarten Greve
De tentoonstelling eindigde op 20 februari 2021
Fragmenten uit guided tour #2 van Maarten en Tato Greve (10 oktober 2020)
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Intro
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Na sluitingstijd zijn de dingen anders
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Gezichten op het behang
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Ik knoop dus ik besta
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Madonna
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Choreografieën
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Chocomelzeep en bier in augurkenpotten
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Omgekeerde koepels, zuilen die botten worden, perspectivische ruimtes en motieven
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Het kunstenaarsatelier
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Een stoel, een afgehakt been en blokken gekliefd hout
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Citaat
Curated by Willem Oorebeek, Henri Jacobs, Suchan Kinoshita and Maarten Greve
The guided tours of Dirk Snauwaert – Director of Wiels, and Noor Mertens – Director of Kunstverein Langenhagen, in the exhibition of Maddy Arkesteyn, planned on Saturday October 31st, have been cancelled due to Covid 19.
Guided tours by friends, curators and people close to Maddy to talk about her and her work.
Guided tour #1: Elly Strik
Le Petit Cercle Bruxellois – Institut de Carton – Brussels 2019
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> Dresses made by laundry dryer baskets – 2010 Xiamen China
Mind Fabric – Institut de Carton – Brussels 2016
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Choreography in the swimming pool
Collection Boijmans Van Beuningen
Private collection
Bozar Brussel – De Ateliers 1994
“What interests me are transition points where different interests are facing each other. Such as gas stations or peripheral areas in which countryside, city, relaxation and industry come together. Where meaning is released, transferred or reformed”
Collection Boijmans Van Beuningen: more images
Stedelijk Museum – Amsterdam 1996
Collection Stedelijk Museum: more images (incl: corridor ignoring the exhibition space)
Landscape models – Exedra 1998
1998 Studio at Rue de tanneurs, Brussels (Maddy and daughter Tato) > more about the Exedra Exhibition
Albert Heijn – Rotterdam 1999
Maddy Arkesteyn manipulated many products by mixing shape and brand recognition of well-known products.
The Albert Heijn intercom transmitted also a sound tape whispering a grocery list containing all products sold in the supermarket. The list was spoken by Maddy herself.
Residency at Xiamen – China 2010
> More works during Xiamen residency
Newspaper snippet caught in a bucket 1998
10 liter transparent polyester poured into a bucket containing a floating snippet of a newspaper. After it has been solidified, the polyester has been taken out and presented.
“People asking me if the snippet represents a special day or occasion. No, certainly not, it’s about a meaningless subject at a meaningless moment, but fixed for ever”
Polyester bags 2005
A promise of happiness 2008
Maddy Arkesteyn took to the streets of Molenbeek for this series of photographs. The things are beyond order or control and so are momentarily liberated. They are landscapes which have been formed and changed by the wind. The objects are abandoned to their fate and need to be cleared away as quickly as possible. But it is this brief moment of being left over and left behind that gives them the chance to escape. In the space of that uncontrollable moment, the sense of freedom is tangible.
Swimming pool 1993
