Exhibition
In April 2006 the exhibition Modern(c)ité II, conceived by the Grand Café, was shown at the art centre Stroom Den Haag by invitation of its director Arno van Roosmalen. The dialogue between the two structures continues today with Radical Autonomy, a project proposed by Arno van Roosmalen as the Grand Café’s first guest curator.
There is a young generation of artists in The Hague that accord a central place to the questions of perception and interpretation. This phenomenon, which can also be seen in several emerging artists on the international scene, mixes a conceptual approach with minimal form to produce work-enigmas. Intimate and condensed, they invite the spectator to take the time to observe and to reflect, to take the risk of expanding her own perception of the world.
At a time when (purely visual) art could easily be absorbed by neighbouring disciplines such as design, fashion, architecture or advertising to economic, political or social ends, the artists brought together in “Radical Autonomy” remind us that “art could be a sanctuary for futility, obscurity, insight, ambivalence, joy and unease1“.
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Note
1 – Maarten Doorman, Gefoeter op moderne kunst is laf [Bashing modern art is cowardish], De Volkskrant, 23.05.2009
Artworks
Ground Floor / Large Room
Quentin
Armand
100% bouteille de bière
2009
Tire, beer bottles
68 x 45 x 51 cm
Ryan
Gander
A Slowing of The Spectator's Eye
2005
Fiberglass wall
Courtesy Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam
Pauline
Oltheten
11 fragments of Japan
2009
Video projection
20 min 28 s
Evariste
Richer
Ellipse / Eclipse
2007
Réflecteur en tissu réversible (or et argent)
Diamètre 3 m
Galerie Schleicher+Lange, Paris
Ton
Schutelaar
Leadership
2009
Bike, dust
Ton
Schutelaar
An Implied Positive Content
2008
Adhesive, vinyl, paper, painting
Joëlle
Tuerlinckx
FILMS D'ETUDE - série vent-soleil/espace
2009
Compilation "Crystal Times"
Courtesy Stella Lohaus Gallery
Ground Floor / Small Room
Paulien
Oltheten
Man and Dog
2002
Video
3 min 50 s
Navid
Nuur
Encounter
2005-2008
Copper, Vicks VapoRub®
120 x 100 cm
Courtesy Galerie Plan B, Berlin
Stairs
Etienne Chambaud
& Benoit Maire
Position Actuelle de l'Idealisme (09.04.2008)
2008
Planispheres and framed pins
94 x 58 x 7 cm
Etienne Chambaud
& Benoit Maire
Position Actuelle de l'Idealisme (15.04.2008)
2008
Planispheres and framed pins
94 x 58 x 7 cm
Etienne Chambaud
& Benoit Maire
Position Actuelle de l'Idealisme (21.04.2008)
2008
Planispheres and framed pins
94 x 58 x 7 cm
gerlach en koop
2008
Unfolded paper clip and tape
97 mm, 10 copies
Navid
Nuur
Untitled
2006-2008
Plastic light box, black painting
Courtesy Galerie Plan B, Berlin
First Floor / Right Room
Walead
Beshty
Six-Sided Picture A
2008
Photographic colour paper
127 x 254 cm
Courtesy Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels
Angeline
Dekker
Internal Construct / Construction Interne
2009
Mixed media
Approximately 500 x 150 cm
Benoit
Maire
Le Réel est l'impasse de la formalisation; la formalisation est le lieu de passe-en-force du réel
2006
Display of objects
Kadist Art Foundation's collection
Simon
Dybbroe Møller
Unfold Your Dreams
2004
Series of framed photograms
Courtesy Galerie Kamm, Berlin
Simon
Dybbroe Møller
Oh Spirit Duplicator, Oh Moving Image (No More Dry Writing),
2008
Film 16 mm, colour, silent
1 min 45 s
Courtesy Galerie Kamm, Berlin
Navid
Nuur
Tentacle Thought nr: 8
2004-2009
Fluorescent tubes, yellow electric wires, mixed media
First Floor / Left Room
gerlach en koop
2009
Polished hinge
Joëlle
Tuerlinckx
Aquarelle blanche
2008-2009
Watercolor series 'pur sang'
Paper
61 x 86 cm
Water, plexiglass, painting wood panel
64 x 89,5 x 4 cm
Courtesy Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp
Simon
Dybbroe Møller
Thick Air
2009
Video
Courtesy Galerie Kamm, Berlin
gerlach en koop
2009
Prints
21 x 29,7 cm
Benoit
Maire
La Toile d'Araignée, Discussion avec Arthur Danto
2006
Subtitled video with sound
Navid
Nuur
"GRAND QUESTIONS"
2007-2009
Red survival blanket and roof coating
Ane
Mette Hol
Untitled (Notes)
2008
Reproduction of a notebook, paper, pencil, colored pencils and wire
1 x 14 x 8 cm
Private collection, Oslo
Ane
Mette Hol
Untitled (Reversed Drawing)
2008
Reproduction of a roll of craft paper 10 meters long
white paper, dry pigment, chalk, pen and white label
70 x 6 cm
private collection, Stuttgart
Biographies
Gerlach en koop
Collectif of artists.
Lives and works in The Hague (Netherlands).
website
Paulien Oltheten
Born in 1982 in Nijmegen (Netherlands).
Lives and works in Amsterdam.
website
Benoît Maire
Born in 1976 in Pessac.
Live ans works in Paris.
website
Navid Nuur
Born in 1976 in Téhéran (Iran).
Lives and Works in The Hague (Netherlands).
website
Evariste Richer
Born in 1969 in Montpellier.
Lives and Works in Paris.
The artist is represented by the Galerie Meessen De Clercq (Brussels).
gallery website
Angeline Dekker
Born in 1967 in The Hague (Netherlands) where she lives and works.
website
Ryan Gander
Born in 1976 in Chester (Royaume-Uni).
Lives and works in London.
The artist is represented by gb Agency (Paris).
gallery website
Simon Dybbroe Moller
Born in 1976 in Arhus (Denmark).
Lives and works in Berlin.
The artist is represented by Laura Bartlett Gallery (London).
gallery website
Joëlle Tuerlinckx
Born in 1958 in Bruxelles
Lives and works in Bruxelles, Belgique
Walead Beshty
Born in 1976 in Londres.
Lives ans works in Los Angeles.
website
Ton Schuttelaar
Born in 1972.
Lives and Works in The Hague (Netherlands).
website
Quentin Armand
Born in 1977.
Lives and works in Grenoble.
website
Etienne Chambaud
Born in 1980.
Lives and works in Paris.
website
Ane Mette Hol
Born in 1979 in BodØ (Norway).
Lives and works in Oslo.
website
