Duende

BRAK cordially invites you to the BRAK3 events:

Frédéric Sanchez
With the participation of Hugo Pernet & Hugo Schüwer-Boss
A mural especially produced for the BRAK platform
Opening Friday 29/04 at 7pm

ADA | About Games and Being Serious
Public reading program running 4/04–1/05
(see website for details)

About BRAK
BRAK is a new Rotterdam exhibition platform organizing four presentations annually within Duende. BRAK’s programmatical­ approach focuses on giving space for the expression of individual artistic practices while building up an overview of current methodologies specifically focusing on the development of autonomous art.
Read more at http://duendestudios.nl/brak

The third BRAK presentation Contextualism’s deals with the context of the business and production of art as the subject of artistic research.

Frédéric Sanchez
Painting, mimicry, and bartering
Frédéric Sanchez conceives the practice of painting as something that resembles the Potlatch rituals. The object and the place are both in for the exchange, and at the same time they initiate a change. For a certain time Frédéric Sanchez’ paintings on stretchers deal with snares and camouflage (for the artist mimicry is a sort of strategy to adapt oneself to any situation, a guarantee of vitality and survival). His paintings take the form of wrapped packages with the adhesives accurately reproduced, so that they appear as an abstract pattern on a monochrome.
He then continues the series of monochromes in a brownish wrapping paper-like colour and a format reminding us of the boxes in which On Kawara placed his “date paintings”. Painting as a receptacle for painting; painting in turn becoming a mimetic object. Soon the studio will be filled up with volumes, piled up, leant against the wall, they are nothing but canvases that we confound with boxes waiting to be transported, ready for the move.

The artist is like a nomad, his work being constantly in transition. Painting has no place, it appears to be ‘the’ place. Painting is the place of these mixings; a place to meet, a place where one is wondering about ascendancies and references, a place to confront, to exchange between generations, cultures, and artists. But for Frédéric Sanchez it’s also a platform to invite and welcome others. So one work comes from the other, and the flux of inventions is constantly powered and reactivated by exchanges.

(Written by Hubert Besacier, Translated by Ursula Hurson)

ADA
About Games and Being Serious
As part of ADA’s investigation into collaborative and participatory practices, ADA initiates a short-term reading group for the duration of it’s work period at BRAK3 in Duende, in the month of April. During six-sessions, texts reflecting on artistic production, modes of communication, political positioning and the meaning produced, will be jointly and actively explored in a friendly and relaxed environment. This short-term exercise is intended to enable practical exploration of the collective endeavor to encounter each other through a collaborative working practice. The subject matter of the reading group acts as an introduction to ADA’s current inquiry, which it will continue reflecting on in the coming year through its public program.

Session 5 Thursday 21/04 | 7.30-10.30pm

Maybe it would be better if we worked in groups of three? Part 1 & 2 of The Discursive, by Liam Gillick
Session 6 Monday 25 April | 7.30-10.30pm


Tolerance as an Ideological Category, by Slavoj Žižek

Please note: read the text before attending the reading session. There will not be a full reading of the text during the session but a discussion on sections of the texts brought up by anyone who is taking part in the reading group. Texts can be downloaded from http://adarotterdam.nl

Made possible with the generous support of Gemeente Rotterdam, dienst Kunst en Cultuur.

Sans titre, 2010 (on the wall), Acrylic on canvas Composition of 23 canvases, dimensions variable

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