#depont

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A less than a month ago I had the honer to meet Ragnar Kjartansson at the opening of this first solo exposition in the Nederlands at the modern art museum De Pont in Tilburg.

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Museum DE PONT / Tilburg

Museum DE PONT / Tilburg

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Posted @withregram • @de_pont_museum Jaaa we gaan weer open. Kunnen jullie eindelijk de prachtige video-installatie ‘Liminal’ van Maya Watanabe zien! Reserveer via de website www.depont.nl Foto: @renevanderhulst #mayawatanabe #liminal #depont #yes #5juni #reserveerviadewebsite https://www.instagram.com/p/CPc7E-TF2D8/?utm_medium=tumblr

[qupritsuvwix]

Scared about ‘forever chemicals’ after watching Dark Waters? Here’s what you need to know.

The legacy of decades of contamination still exists—PFOS and PFOA are long-lived in the environment. And companies have recently pivoted to

Teflon.

Birds on remote Pacific islands.

Dead cattle.

Dupont.

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Raynaud has had a long career in Modern Art and until recently he was the perfect artists artist. Known and appreciated by his colleagues, but outside the inner circle of artists hardly known. He has had a fairly successful exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in 1968, which catalogue was designed by Wim Crouwel, but beside that exhibition it lasted over 30 years in the Netherlands before the DE PONT museum decided to have another  Raynaud exhibition in 1999.

( both catalogues available at www.ftn-books.com).

Of course Raynaud has had his exhibitions at galleries and museums, but the appreciation of collectors was not there. However in recent years his works have become more popular among collectors and since 2000 the appreciation of his works and prices start to rise. His works are characterized by the use of primary colors and in many a grid is used and part of the composition . There are several Raynaud publications available at www.ftn-books.com

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  Jean Pierre Raynaud (1939) Raynaud has had a long career in Modern Art and until recently he was the perfect artists artist.

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Last week we were in Tilburg to visit the Textielmuseum with the Bauhaus Textiles with our friends David and Monica from the US. Linda and I preferred to see the modern art at the DE PONT instead and we were treated to one of the best contemporary art exhibitions from the last years. In DE PONT there was a special exhibition by Richard Long, who took full use of all the spaces available. The cabinets were all filled with smaller Long works ( except for the Kapoor cabinets ) and the great hall served as the exhibition space for his stone circles, lines and crosses.

The result….impressive. Here are the pics i took from the space. I gladly share these with you since these pictures do not justice to the real experience.

The ” look and feel” of the space is so impressive, that you must see this yourself and to prepare your visit you can chose one of the nice Richard Long publications www.ftn-books.com has for sale. This is not meant as a spoiler. Just hurry up and go there as long as the Richard Long exhibition is there.

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    Go to the Richard Long exhibition at DE PONT Last week we were in Tilburg to visit the Textielmuseum with the Bauhaus Textiles with our friends David and Monica from the US.

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Bathing in the light of this work by Ann Veronica Janssens @de_pont_museum. A good place to go to brighten up these short winter days. #contemporaryart #depont #tilburg #annveronicajanssens (bij De Pont) https://www.instagram.com/p/Br7kWRaDyWg/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1gymroqrctiz6

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Roni Horn

The visual artist Roni Horn, was born in 1955, she grew up in New York City and its suburbs. She studied at the Rhode Island School of Design before earning an MFA from Yale University in 1978. Her first solo exhibition was in Germany at the Kunstraum München in 1980. She taught at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, for three years after completing her studies at Yale and has since been living and working in New York and Reykjavik. With more than thirty years of career in arts, Roni Horn has produced drawings, photography, sculpture and installations, as well as works involving words and writing. Her conceptual often minimalist works are focused on nature and how humans relate to their surroundings, and inspired by the weather, literature and poetry. She describes her artworks as “site-dependent,” expanding upon the idea of site-specificity.  In this excerpt from a 1994 interviewfrom Phaidon's Roni Horn, the artist eloquently explains how Iceland has come to have such a vital impact on her work: “Iceland could have been anywhere. But as it turns out, Iceland suited my needs. In fact, it seemed to form a perfect complement to my native home, New York. Iceland is the place where I have the clearest view of myself and my relationship to the world. By clearest view, I mean a view that is less constricted by social conventions.” In 1990 Horn began to develop an ongoing series of artist’s books named To Place, which explore her relationship to Iceland. By the end of 2001, she had produced eight volumes, along with additional, unrelated artist’s books. Horn has used some of her photographs in both books and photographic installations. For example, many of the images in You Are the Weather (1994–96)—one hundred close-ups of a young woman’s face, photographed as she bathed in a variety of Icelandic pools in diverse weather conditions—were published in one of the To Place volumes.  This (non)site-specfity becomes clear in the series I chose from de Pont, just by reading the title “Still Water (The River Thames, for Example)” and also her fascination with the close-up photography. She makes the water sculptural by zooming in on it to the point where it becomes abstract shapes. Also her fondness for words shows in the prints, which are all accompanied by numbered text fractions, in a quite poetic manner.