→ Curated by P/////AKT platform for contemporary art Amsterdam → On view at Komplot / 90 Chaussée de Forest/Vorste steenweg / 1060 Brussels
Does Reinier Vrancken claim that the crow is the world’s smallest bird? In An owl is an owl, and a swan is a swan, but a crow is only partially crow and partially the sound a rooster makes it doesn’t seem that it has much to do with scale. It has all to do with two overlapping things that share the same name. Vrancken claims that through this overlapping a division occurs by which the crow is separated into two incompatible halves; the animal that strangely enough belongs to the songbirds group and the sound a rooster makes. The works in this exhibition all relate in their own way to how things simultaneously overlap and divide. The way they overlap is regularly rooted in language. Vrancken presents these ambiguous works in a rather subtle way. In An owl is an owl, and a swan is a swan, but a crow is only partially crow and partially the sound a rooster makesReinier Vrancken shows us one thing represented by an image and not a title, a tissue allegedly used by David Bowie accompanied by an apologetic statement, and an artist book telling us that Lawrence Weiner is actually our alphabet’s sixth letter.
→ Curated by Komplot, a curatorial collective/office for curators in Brussels. → On view at P/////AKT / Zeeburgerpad 53 / 1019 AB Amsterdam
Gaillard & Claude created the book ‘Oompah, Tom-tom, Tootle-too & Toot Oompah, Tom-tom, Tootle-too & Toot’ (2017) narrating the story of four members of an orchestra who animatedly chat during a break backstage at the Henry Le Bœuf concert hall in Bozar, Brussels. Through gossip, arguments, and existential crises, they shake the axioms and notions of community, authenticity and happiness. Dialogues by Lili Reynaud-Dewar are illustrated by photographs by Kristien Daem. The sculptures of Gaillard & Claude depicted in the book are part of a larger corpus previously exhibited between 2015 and 2016 in Early Development of Calculus at Etablissement d’en face, A Proper Orchestra is Fun for Everyone! at Les Bains-Douches, A Finite Sum at In extenso and since in several group show. The Book and some members of the orchestra will be present in P/////AKT.
Thomas Nolf and Gauthier Oushoorn collaborated to document the K2 Megalith artifact as part of the attempt to organise an exhibition of peculiar artifacts in the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The work Megalith (2017) is a one to one scale drawing of the artifact, discovered in 2006 in the Ravne tunnel, just a few kilometers away from the Bosnian Pyramid of the [removed];
The book ‘Peculiar Artifacts in Bosnia and Herzegovina – an imaginary exhibition’ by Thomas Nolf is the result of a 4-year project in Bosnia-and-Herzegovina where he came across the existence of pyramids, stone spheres and other peculiar artifacts, discovered by Semir Osmanagich and his team. Aiming to draw an alternative biography that counteracts the post-war disillusion, he photographed, intervened and ultimately tried to pedestal the phenomena as a history to believe [removed];
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