The Netherlands builds in brick
23 January 2015 - 5 April 2015
Interventions
The exhibition The Netherlands builds in brick modifies the assumed triumph of modernism in the period between the two world wars. Drawing on two collections of photographs from the archive, this third instalment in the series Surprising finds from the collection shows that brick remained a favoured construction material, even for experimentation.
Studio Makkink & Bey invited three artists to realise interventions with which they confront the historical materials from the collecton and the way they are presented in The Netherlands builds in brick.
Leon de Bruijne
Brick factory
Visual artist Leon de Bruijne explores the sense and senselessness of stuff in his kinetic installations, elevating daily routines to hypnotizing rhythms. With a revolving wheel of chutes, his work introduces a construction landscape that visitors encounter in the basement.
Harm Rensink
Sauna site
Spatial designer Harm Rensink develops installations based on wellness and relaxation rituals. As an alternative to 'taking a break', he offers a poetic place of repose that is somewhere between a sand carpet and a warm sand bath. During the opening on the 31st of January, the interaction of the public with the Sauna site was filmed, and the resulting film is on display at this exhibiton.
Govert Flint & Rodrigo Alves Azevedo
Shaped. Dialogue Between Motion and Matter
Designer Govert Flint, together with choreographer Rodrigo Alves Azevedo, with whom he came up with the idea, questions the influence of space on movement, and how an environment is shaped when it is created through dance. In the in-situ experiment around a glass circle in the basement, Govert and a team of designers use pre-fabricated material to respond to the movement of a dancer, to build, to move, to build and so on. The dancer searches for new movements, the designer for new forms.
Shaped: Dialogue Between Motion and Matter, Govert Flint & Rodrigo Alves Azevedo. Het Nieuwe Instituut, 2015
Nomadic Sand Bath, Harm Rensink. Het Nieuwe Instituut, 2015