C’EST FINI PRESQUE MARIEKE COPPENS: MINE, SCHUNCK*

Marieke Coppens has produced a presentation which is based on the archives of the anonymous scientist. For years, the scientific researcher carried out studies into natural and unnatural geometric shapes. He recorded his many scientific results on tape and created many visual representations, but at the time of his sudden death in 1998 he had not once committed his findings to paper. None of his results have ever been published. The scientist bequeathed his life’s work to visual art.

Of all the possible beneficiaries, the choice fell on Marieke Coppens because for many years she had lived in a healing cult which had an unnatural geometrical shape as its symbol: the heptagon. The only condition for using the scientist’s archive was that he remain anonymous, to avoid the ignominy of a promising career having been cut short.

His work was so prodigious that Marieke Coppens will be creating a new installation in the presentation area every six weeks.

This presentation, in SCHUNCK*’s +1, marks the conclusion to her period as artist in residence in Heerlen, made possible in part by funding from the Mondriaan Fund.
On show till December 2, 2018.
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