Open Air Sander Breure & Witte van Hulzen Bloemgracht 57 until July 24, 2021
Studio Visit Sander Breure & Witte van Hulzen and friends Gietersstraat 57 until July 24, 2021 BY APPOINTMENT ONLY
Sander Breure & Witte van Hulzen – Open Air (excerpt) installation view
You are cordially invited to come and see ‘Open Air’ by Sander Breure & Witte van Hulzen. They show an impressive sculptural installation based on The Tomb of the Diver (ca. 470 [removed]) in Paestum, Italy. That tomb contains a number of frescos revolving around a symposium scene – people reclining on tables, with wine and musical instruments – and appearing on the tomb’s cover is a depiction of a figure diving into [removed];The diver of Breure and Van Hulzen is heading towards the open air. The artists connected the space of the gallery to that of the street by way of a simple gesture, a gesture with major consequences. The existing boundary between ‘private’ and ‘public’ suddenly drops away, and this puts pressure on the very notion as to what a gallery is. The notorious high threshold has vanished, just as the gallerists have. The gallery turns out to be a dramaturgical construction which is being analyzed by the artists on the basis of the notions ‘presence’ and ‘absence’. As such Open Air follows a tradition of exhibitions which, by way of their physical intervention in the space, raise philosophical questions about art’s relationship to the world. As Charles Causly wrote in his poem Eden Rock: ‘They beckon to me from the other [removed]; I hear them call, ‘See where the stream-path is! Crossing is not as hard as you might think.’
Sander Breure & Witte van Hulzen and Friends, painting Vincent Verhoef
Sander Breure & Witte van Hulzen made a group show with works by friends in their studio. As an annex to their show in the gallery you can make an appointment to visit this show with works by Ana Navas, Christine Moldrickx, Sean Hannan, Iqra Tanveer, Ehsan Ul Haq and Vincent Verhoef in the Gietersstraat 57, Amsterdam until July 24
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