Amsterdam heeft veel te bieden op het gebied van kunst en cultuur. Helaas hangt er nog een vreemde sfeer rond het uitgeven van geld aan een kunstwerk. Geld word in grote hoeveelheden uitgegeven aan uiterlijk vertoon op digitaal-, en kledinggebied. Voor diegene die liefde hebben voor kunst en dagelijks genieten van wat hun wand, plafond of vloer siert zijn er tal van galleries waar je in Amsterdam je hart op kan halen. Amsterdam Art Weekend brengt deze locaties onder de aandacht van 27 November tot en met 30 November. Wij zijn van mening dat je je leven verrijkt met kunst en raden dit Art-festein aan bij iedereen!

Onze route:
Oude Kerk
Tony Oursler
Speciaal voor de Oude Kerk heeft de befaamde Amerikaanse kunstenaar Tony Oursler een aantal ruimtelijke, multimediale projecties van licht en geluid ontwikkeld. Het zijn nieuwe videoperformances, opgenomen in Ourslers New Yorkse studio, die de gewelven, muren en glas-in-lood vensters van de kerk in een ander licht zetten. In de aangrenzende stijlkamers is eerder werk te zien. Het is voor het eerst in 15 jaar dat Tony Oursler in Nederland exposeert.

Torch Gallery
‘Dust’ – Nadav Kander
Dust will be the first solo-exhibition by award winning photographer Nadav Kander in the Netherlands. For this series Kander photographed the desolated landscapes of the Aral Sea and captured fascinating images of the restricted military zones of Priozersk and Kurtchatov, which did not appear on any map until well after the end of the Cold War. Long-distance missiles were tested in Priozersk under great secrecy. Hundreds of atomic bombs were detonated in the so-called Polygon near Kurchatov until the program ended in 1989. The bombs were exploded in a remote but still populated area, and covert studies were made of the effects of the radiation on the unsuspecting inhabitants. Kander writes how the ticking of the Geiger counter on his belt while he photographed reminded him that he should not become too enthralled with the aesthetic and painterly allure of the crumbling ruins.

Ornis A. Gallery
‘Love in Amsterdam’ – Ducan Hannah
The artist Duncan Hannah (Minneapolis, United States, 1952) is presented in the solo exhibition: ‘Love in Amsterdam’. He was educated at Bard College (1971) and moved onwards to New York City. There he met legendary Andy Warhol, who became his mentor, and became part of the notorious The Factory and The Chelsea Hotel.

Ed van der Elsken Archives
‘COLOR & MOTION’ – Robby Müller
“I think he’s like a Dutch interior painter, like Vermeer or De Hooch, who was born in the wrong century.” – Jim Jarmusch on Robby Müller
In Ed van der Elsken Archives, Annet Gelink Gallery proudly presents Color & Motion. Esteemed cinematographer Robby Müller and his wife Andrea were approached to make a selection of works from Ed van der Elsken’s archive to form a show; however, the project quickly evolved into a meeting between Robby Müller’s Polaroids and mostly early work by Van de Elsken. Presenting never before exhibited works by Müller as intriguiging prints of Polaroid and lesser-known photographs by Van der Elsken, Color & Motion explores the many faceted relationship between light, camera and photographer. What does their photographic eye register when they travel round the world, camera to hand, or when they experiment in private settings?

Jeanine Hofland
‘Ab-stretching the canvas’
The exhibition Ab-stretching the canvasrevolves around the potential of the canvas beyond the composition of the painted surface in both a material and conceptual sense. The artists within the exhibition work within the medium of painting, though stretch and question the traditional boundaries of the two dimensional framework by putting a strong emphasis on its material, spatial and/or conceptual context.

Gerhard Hofland
Asche – Jochen Mühlenbrink
Mühlenbrink is well-known for the trompe l’oeil effect he employs in his work. For example by painting the back side of paintings so thoroughly realistic that it is hard to differentiate  reality and artifice. By using this technique he inhabits the boundary between representation and illusion at the same time investigating the relationship between abstraction and figuration, fiction and non-fiction and presence and absence.

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