Duende

BRAK is proud to present BRAK 2.7 ‘0868’, a duo exhibition with the artists gerlach en koop and Martijn in ’t Veld, opening on Thursday May 19, 2011 7pm at Duende Studios, Rotterdam

Opening Thursday 19/05 at 7pm
Exhibition 20/05-22/05 1-6pm
and until 05/06 on appointment +31(0)624542086
BRAK TALK 05/06 at 2.30pm (participants to be announced)

gerlach en koop is a collective of two artists from The Netherlands who gave up the habit of writing their proper name with capital letters eleven years ago, in order to be able to disappear as individual artists into one collective­ artist. In the beginning of the collaboration their work was shown mostly in The Netherlands but that has tilted in Belgium­ in recent years, and turned towards the abroad. gerlach en koop live and work in The Hague and are represented­ by Ellen de Bruijne Projects from Amsterdam.
The works of gerlach en koop are characterized by elegance and mystery. Their interventions, executed upon existing and familiar objects and sometimes upon or in the space itself, are nevertheless easy to follow. A lot of attention is directed towards the potential of the objects to transmit meaning, by revealing, for instance in their titles and descriptions, too much information, or rather too little. By focusing, with concentration and certain tenacity, on the ordinary and the obvious and not on the exceptional, they show how incomprehensible and unparalleled our daily surroundings can be, like the repetitive breathing against the same wall each time by someone else.

Martijn in ‘t Veld is interested in what a piece of gum under his shoe can tell him about the world, he wonders what is a vanitas painting, which talks about the transience of life, doing on a flea market or why a record looks like a black hole and runs in circles. Observations like these are the starting point for a playful journey into the literary and philosophical qualities of the everyday. A nomadic practice, in which small objects of daily use become protagonists in an often metaphysically orientated philosophy of time and space, which is both humorous and serious in character. Martijn in ’t Veld (1979) lives and works in Rotterdam. He received a BA from the Willem De Kooning Academie Rotterdam 2007 and is currently studying at the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. Recent exhibition include: ‘the And’, ZINGERpresents, Amsterdam; ‘KFPC’, White Columns, New York, United States; “If you do know that “here is one hand”… CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania. Martijn in’t Veld is presented by Tulips & Roses, Brussels, Belgium.

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.

The second exhibition series, New Minimalism, focuses on possibilities and proposals for the continuation of Minimalism, one of the most important mainstreams within the tradition of modern art.

Read more at http://duendestudios.nl/brak

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

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