13 Sept 2009 to 26 July 2010
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HVCCA, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art
1701 Main Street
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Peekskill, NY
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Alon Levin, On Eagles and Empire, 2009 Courtesy of the artist and Klemm's Berlin
400 years after Henry Hudson discovering new frontiers in contemporary Dutch art
September 13, 2009 - July 26, 2010
Peekskill, NY, June 23, 2009 An exhibition celebrating the Quadricentennial of the Dutch discovery and settlement of the Hudson River and its environs, the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art (HVCCA), in Peekskill, New York, will showcase contemporary Dutch installation art, opening on September 13, 2009 until July 26, 2010.
Sixteen artists will be shown in a space of 11,000 sf with 24 foot high ceilings. The exhibition will extend to the Hudson River waterfront where several major, site specific works will be shown. The selection involves artists with great promise - most have never exhibited in the US.
The extraordinary works in the exhibition have a Dutch 'soul' which echoes the influence of Dutch architecture, sculpture, furniture and its unique landscape. These are some of the best younger installation artists, who have grown up in The Netherlands and/or who have spent many formative art years there, and are exhibited together in a dynamic and yet coherent format. What will be discovered is a discernable and distinctive link between the works of this extraordinary group of artists.
Much of the work has been created specifically for this exhibition, including work by three artists who came to Peekskill for the HVCCA artist-in-residence program. This program provides artists with the opportunity to create long-term installations, as well as the opportunity to interact through panel discussions & dialogues with the community. To date the program has been limited to artists who have never before exhibited in a US institution.
The artists in the exhibition are: Job Koelewijn, Jennifer Tee, Dylan Graham, Alon Levin, Erik van Lieshout, Marc Bijl, Rob Voerman, Folkert de Jong, Daan Padmos, Maartje Korstanje, Serge Onnen, Lara Schnitger, Karen Sargsyan, Guido van der Werve, Martha Colburn, and Fendry Ekel. (Jennifer Tee, Alon Levin and Karen Sargsyan were part of the artist-in-residency program.)
Job Koelewijn, the oldest of the artists at age 47, is an important artist in Amsterdam for the younger generation. At HVCCA, he will be showing a major new work extending 47 feet. He references landscape and architecture with the remaking of a life size gas station, made entirely of more than 3,000 art books from his library. Serge Onnen, who will be shown at the waterfront, built a multi-headed kaleidoscope into which the viewer places their head. Rob Voerman's work invites you into a cafe inside an upside down car. Erik van Lieshout has created an indoor lounge for viewing of his mesmerizing video complaining about his relationship with his girlfriend.
Educational initiatives such as artist presentations, guest lectures and citywide events, will accompany the opening of Double Dutch so that the exhibition becomes a major teaching resource as well as an important art experience.
HVCCA, founded in 2004, focuses on contextualizing current trends in contemporary art. Its exhibits have been highly regarded with visitors coming from around the globe. HVCCA is also focused on the education of its local and regional community and participation in the betterment of Peekskill, a lower economic multicultural riverfront town with a large presence of artists.
For more information, please contact: Irma Jansen Associate Director irmajansen @hvcca.org 914-273-6618 / 914-788-0100 www.hvcca.org
Coinciding with Double Dutch is the exhibition Towing the Line, Drawing Space: 40 Contemporary Dutch Artists Defining the Moment in Holland from Sept. 19 - Oct. 29, 2009, at White Box's new location on the Lower East Side in New York City.
Towing the Line, Drawing Space is an opportunity to see works by the most innovative contemporary Dutch artists, well known in the Netherlands and throughout Europe but rarely seen in the United States. Big ideas from a small nation push the envelope of traditional notions of drawing, from charcoals and pen and ink to sculpture and animations.
White Box, [email protected], (212) 714-2347, 329 Broome St. New York, NY 10002.
FENDRY EKEL: Art & Architecture: Seeing the World Through Dutch Eyes Opens September 12, 2009 Opening Reception September 13, 2009 HVCCA: Mezannine Space
Fendry Ekel studied at the Rijksakademie and the Gerrit Rietveld Art Academy, both in Amsterdam. His paintings explore the shadow side of human ambition. His monumental, light and layered looking works - acrylic and gouache on paper - are often painted after black and white photographs, depicting architecture or remnants of historic events. By evacuating these images from our collective memory, Ekel critically investigates the use of art, architecture and figuration as propaganda for ideology of any kind and confronts himself with the borderline where ethical and aesthetical values are crossing each other.
Ekel is strongly fascinated by the ability of architectonic creations to yield memory. He is intrigued by the way in which buildings and monuments are used as a confirmation of power to seduce, manipulate and intimidate; leading sometimes to a megalomania that traverses the norms of culture and civilization. The specific moment at which power turns into ignorance is the continuous subject matter in all of Fendry Ekel�s paintings. His work explores and attempts to fathom the motives underlying this perversion.
As a teenager Ekel migrated in the early 90�s from Indonesia to The Netherlands, Europe, a radical move that has given rise to a continuing fascination for investigating and identifying his surroundings. Architecture and the urban landscape is a perfect setting where abstraction and figuration meet each other in reality. It is in this setting that Fendry Ekel preferably locates the subjects of his paintings.
The work of Fendry Ekel has been shown internationally a.o. in eof gallery, Paris; Erasmus Huis Jakarta; Museum Gouda, The Netherlands and Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens in Belgium.
in.flec.tion
a turning away from a position / a manner of expressing oneself
an Exhibit of the Artists' Club February 28 - July 26, 2010
The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art (HVCCA) in Peekskill, NY, will present in.flec.tion- new works by 13 New York area artists, meeting monthly to share open, incisive dialogues in the tradition of the artists' salon.
The exhibit is a watermark for The Artists' Club, a community of emerging painters, sculptors, and video artists who have gathered for the last year and a half beyond the purview of galleries and curators. They share a passion to grow and improve through intensive peer discussions, critiques, and mutual trust.
The idea began at HVCCA, a young museum committed to profiling cutting-edge contemporary art. Discussions focused on the creative process, precedents impacting contemporary works and the need for the artist to produce work regardless of commercial challenges.
The talks were in the best tradition of the 1950s salons established by Robert Motherwell in downtown Manhattan, where Jackson Pollock, De Kooning, Rothko, Newman, Resnick, Guston and others gathered to debate the new Minimalism and Abstract Expressionism.
During an Artists' Club meeting, one artist presents his or her work, without explanation and sits silently as fellow artists analyze and discuss the work; only at the end may the artist under review choose to respond. Intense listening provides a great opportunity grow, through honest commentary, generosity of spirit, and a common desire to be helpful and supportive.
in.flect.ion reflects the artists' evolving dialogue, in which art is seen as a matter of expressing the self as well as absorbing critical comments and the influences of a constantly changing world. It refers to maintaining one's independence, personal vision and artistic integrity while listening, adapting, adopting and evolving.
The members of the The Artists' Club are: Justin Allen, Kadar Brock, Michael Brown, Aaron Johnson, Amy Myers, Mike Nemire, John Newsom, Don Porcella, Jason Repolle, Andrew Sendor, Adam Stennett, Helen Verhoeven and Bryan Zanisnik. A catalog, including essays about each artist's work written by another club member, is forthcoming.
