Kunstforum meets Mexico

Article at  Kunstforum Okt-Nov 2011 by Michael Nungesser, Mexico Trifft Berlin at Gallery Emerson in Berlin.
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Berlin Explores Violence in Mexico

Berlin Explores Violence in Mexico by Yaotzin Botello, Article at Newspaper Reforma Sec. Cultura, Mexico 29 July 2011 on the exhibition at Gallery Emerson Berlin.

Mexiko trifft Berlin, 6. Sommerfest der Internationalen kunst, Art-in-berlin online magazine

6. Sommerfest der Internationalen kunst, Open PR, das offene pr portal.

Artists ex-change and curate

Jonathan den Breejen explaining the non-rules game of the Fitax500 at Nest in The Hague.

The boys

And mostly the girls

One of the (D) collectors frustrated of not being allowed to buy.

  Jeroen Kuster

Marisa Polin meets Niels Post without being able to interpret it, but leading to an ex-change.

The laughing artist trio. Apparently good friends.
Aquil Copier, , Michiel Schepers, Michiel Hogenboom

Nest hard kern hosting.

Never missing a good art evening.

Host and participant Bérénice Staiger(r) with Rozemarijn Westerink.

Nearly in my hands, by Barbara Witteveen

Kees Koomen, Ellemieke Schoenmaker and Barbara Witteveen


More: Kees Koomen, Tupajumi, Trendbeheer

Japan-stalgie in The Hague

'NEKO JITA' !2 artists inpired by Japan.  Saturday 18 June, 7pm: opening 'Neko Jita' works by Seekee Chung, Karin van Dam, Sybille Eimermacher, Robin de Goede, Daan van Golden, Erik-Jan Ligtvoet, Huub van der Loo, Nico Kos, Rens Krikhaar, Stefanie Scholte, Martine Stig, Wassink Lundgren. Curators: Erik-Jan Ligtvoet and Rens Krikhaar.   Quartair, Bilderdijkstraat 141, The Hague from 18 June t/m 9 July th-sat 13:00 uur tot 17:00 hours. Design: Pepijn van den Nieuwendijk

Invitation to My Open Studio

I hope you can come to my open studio, a kind of good bye to things as they are now.

The last works from the serie Guilty and some of the last portraits will be there either hanging or stapled for you to look at them. Also you could see some of the recent mini sculptures.

The garden will be open too.

On that day 44 other art studios in Benoordenhout will be open (maps available).

See you Sunday 5th of June between 11am and 5 pm at Jozef Israelslaan 36b, Benoordenhout in The Hague. www.marisapolin.com

The first painting of the year

Back to the destiny, 2011, Marisa Polin

Sorry that I can only now post something. I have a good excuse, I was painting and to proof it here is a photo of the very first painting of the year: Back to the destiny. It is based on a poem by K. P. Kavafis. It will be exhibited at the group exhibition Ithaca or Poetry Project IV at World Art Delft in The Netherlands. It opens 29 January 2011.

Ithaca

When you start on your journey to Ithaca,
then pray that the road is long,
full of adventure, full of knowledge.
Do not fear the Lestrygonians
and the Cyclopes and the angry Poseidon.
You will never meet such as these on your path,
if your thoughts remain lofty, if a fine
emotion touches your body and your spirit.
You will never meet the Lestrygonians,
the Cyclopes and the fierce Poseidon,
if you do not carry them within your soul,
if your soul does not raise them up before you.
Then pray that the road is long.
That the summer mornings are many,
that you will enter ports seen for the first time
with such pleasure, with such joy!
Stop at Phoenician markets,
and purchase fine merchandise,
mother-of-pearl and corals, amber and ebony,
and pleasurable perfumes of all kinds,
buy as many pleasurable perfumes as you can;
visit hosts of Egyptian cities,
to learn and learn from those who have knowledge.
Always keep Ithaca fixed in your mind.
To arrive there is your ultimate goal.
But do not hurry the voyage at all.
It is better to let it last for long years;
and even to anchor at the isle when you are old,
rich with all that you have gained on the way,
not expecting that Ithaca will offer you riches.
Ithaca has given you the beautiful voyage.
Without her you would never have taken the road.
But she has nothing more to give you.
And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not defrauded you.
With the great wisdom you have gained, with so much experience,
you must surely have understood by then what Ithaca mean.

-K. P. Kavafis (C. P. Cavafy), translation by Rae Dalven

Dutch Treat

The Tupajumi Foundation in collaboration with KNIPSU, a popular Artist-Run-Gallery, which is a part of the Flaggfabrikken are organising a groupshow called Dutch Treat in Bergen, Noorwegen, 2-4 December 2010.

This group exhibition will treat the visitors on a good and up to date reference of what is currently happening within the Dutch contemporary Art Scene. The exhibition will show the local, national and international qualities of the current contemporary Dutch Art.

I will be participating together with (the artists, links and some images are):

Atladóttir and d'Ors

Marc Bijl

Jason Coburn

BC Epker
Felix and Mumford
Stefan Gross
Merijn Hos

Maria Ikonomopoulou
Annabel Jeuring,

Joncquil
Jeroen Jongeleen

Filip Jonker
Annegret Kellner

Jolien Kramer

Ben Kruisdijk
Hidenori Mitsue

Marisa Polin

Dennis Roodbol

Jord Schoppink,

Simon Schrikker
Daphne ter Wee

Rozemarijn Westerink

Joris Woertman
Hanneke Quak

Todos los Santos in pics

EX-MEKH presents: Todos los Santos, a Post-Halloween show at Ruimtevaart in The Hague.

Maarten Schepers and Marisa Polin behind.


Film directions towards the Now Moment, Ellen Rodenberg 2x

Strange Revelations No. 2, Clara Palli Monguilod

Autobiography, Astrid Nobel

MADE IN CHINA, Johan Nieuwenhuize 2x

Re-Construction of a studio wall by Ineke van der Wal and right Henk Hubenet


The Video-diaries (broad perspective), Kees Koomen 2x

Zeta, Blessed (Bendita), The Record (Ficha), The Boss (El Jefe, Diego Fernandez de Cevallos), The Hope of Praxedis (La Esperanza de Praxedis, Marisol Valles Garcia)
Marisa Polin

12 gebogen TL-buizen, Willem Marijs
The opening:


Photos by Marisa Polin and Kees Koomen
To see more photos: Chkoome, Rodenberg, 5 uur.
Videos: Kees (art work), Polyrood (opening).