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Nina Fischer / Maroan el Sani
Spelling Dystopia
30.01 - 25.04 2010
Several places that were once hallmarks, centers of political culture, avant-garde art, and social developments, have become blind spots in contemporary society. Nina Fischer and Maroan el Sani want to bring them back to toda’s consciousness. The film ‘Spelling Dystopia’ focuses on the public perception of the uninhabited island Hashima, an important location for Japanese coal-mining until 1974. It is a man-made artificial island, based on the use of concrete. In the 60s it became the most dense place on earth. With a size of only 160 x 450 m the island was inhabited by over 5000 people. Fisher and El Sani focus on the transfer of collective memories. In ‘Spelling dystopia’ they combine the memories of a former inhabitant of the island with the narration of two high school students who recall fragments of the movie ‘Battle Royale’. Thereby, the island appears almost as their fantasy, an imaginary playground for their games, where various images and layers of reality and fiction already got in a state of mingling.
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Johannes Schwartz. Passion
27.03 - 24.05 2010
Johannes Schwartz presents a new series of photographs, entitled Passion. Over the last year, he has photographed a recently abandoned house. The result is a series of film-like moments in a sober interior that seems unchanged since the 1950s. The furniture and objects are a reflection of the personality of someone who lived in the house for many years.
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Rob Voerman. Human Comfort
30.01 - 30.05 2010
Rob Voerman (born 1966) creates spatial architectural models and assemblages, an architecture of fictitious societies within remote or busy urban structures. Voerman also expresses these ideas in watercolours and prints. His spatial constructions are built up of organic materials, worked in bricolage-like methods. In an extension of the models, the watercolours and prints show spherical impressions of urban and industrial landscapes.
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Piet Ouborg. Soloist
Insight into a Pioneering Oeuvre
12.12.09 - 14.03.10
The Cobra Museum presents highlights of the pioneering work of a forerunner and innovator in Dutch art. In the Netherlands, Piet Ouborg was well ahead of his time. Ouborg’s work gave visual art a radically new identity. This extensive exhibition comprises a selection of Piet Ouborg’s masterpieces, including drawings, gouaches and paintings from all the periods of his career, with special emphasis on his later work.
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