Ria van den Eynde

Ria van den Eynde. Belgium.

Patterns

Oceaan by Christie Van Der Haak
Installation 49 was made with artist Asmir Ademagic.
Maliebeeld, The Hague
A mainly textile show.

Close op of one of the textile patterns.
Many of them make me think of art nouveau drawings.

An Ocean of patterns.

Ceramic plates.


Art critic Phillip Peters (seated).


Between colleagues, gallery owners Maurits van der Laar and Erik Vos.

One of the gouaches.

Folk design and Gijs Frieling

Gijs Frieling Winner 2009 Cobra Art Prize Amstelveen
Vernacular Painting
26.09 - 29.11.2009
The installation 'Vernacular Painting' is being created especially for this exhibition.
Cobra Museum, Amstelveen

Two views of the pavilion.

The celebrating happy artist Gijs Frieling (in purple) and his four children here and there.


Beautiful young art lovers (coming probably many of them from neighbour Amsterdam) ready for the opening.

Matching guest and painting (not Frieling's).

Waiting for the speakers.

Waiting for the speakers to finish their speech.
With chairs only for one fourth of the guests and after one full hour of speeches (and still a new coming) I left the museum. Not before having walked through the installation nearly on my own.

One of the paintings through the structure of the pavilion.

Thanks to the long speeches Aldo Kroese and friend enjoying the exhibition for themselves.

Attractive, thanks to the strange shadows.

Embroidery and decorative wall paintings as if they had always been together.

The much talked about Frieling painting at the collection of the Nederlandsche Bank.

An inside view of the pavilion.

Frieling's Ophelia.

The source of the invitation, "popular" free-hand lettering.

As a good bye: a Donal Judd paper maquette.

"In the exhibition gallery of the Cobra Museum, Gijs Frieling will build an interior space, a long, enclosed room with several entrances. The inner and outer walls will be painted by the artist and his assistants. These paintings are ornamental, of plants, animals, columns and knots that reinforce the architecture while at the same time altering the atmosphere of the space. They form the background for other paintings, drawings and works in needlepoint. Frieling's Vernacular Painting installation will include ten large paintings completed over the last 15 years, as well as a number of small paintings and needlepoint works, including replicas of works by René Daniëls, Philip Guston and Donald Judd". Cobra Museum

Erik Hårdstedt

Erik Hårdstedt. Sweden. Via Bagger.

Garden of Desire at Nest

Photos from the last day of Garden of Desire (Tuin der Lusten) by Rene Jansen:
The Harvest (Het oogstfeest) and Bruno Listopad (Disjointed Arts Foundation/Danslab)
An organic Summer of dance, education, food and music came to an end at Nest in The Hague.

The shiny tomatoes

The young not yet performers

A view of the inner garden from the stage

Mushrooms trough a floor hole

Bruno Listopad (?) as part of his own installation, before the performance

Jeroen Bosch exchanged his blog and photo camera for knife and eatable plants

Green harvest

A not spicy 'cheese' Ernesto Neto lookalike

Inner green playground

Tomoko Kawachi

Tomoko Kawachi. Art Singel 100. Japan - The Netherlands.

TodaysArt festival

Sign the Protest letter after the arrest of Olof van Winden, director of TodaysArt festival.
In Dutch.

Marini & Manzù

Sculpture Club @ Museum Beelden aan Zee in The Hague invited to a lecture about the Italian artists Marino Marini & Giacomo Manzù.
Exhibition: Marino Marini & Giacomo Manzù, women, horse riders and cardinals.
(And their Dutch followers as Arthur Spronken or Theresia van der Pant.)


Giacomo Manzù x2


Marino Marini x2

Directeur Jan Teeuwisse finds Oskar Kokoschka's (Manzú's) neck very interesting

Manzú's women

Sculputure Club members Margot Dussel and Wilma Hartman discussing an sculpture of a dead cardinal by one of the Dutch followers. By the way a rather non Dutch topic.