Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum CS

-Tobias Rehberger –
The chicken-and-egg-no-problem wall-painting
22 February until 25 May 2008Stedelijk Museum CS

The chicken-and-egg-no-problem wall-painting is the new

installation that Tobias Rehberger (1966, Esslingen, Germany)

realizes especially for the Stedelijk Museum. The artist

creates this seventy metres long work, using a selection of more

than forty of his sculptures, environments and video

pieces produced over the last fifteen years. In situ,

he will add a light plan and mural paintings
The title of the exhibition, is a reference by Rehberger to his

production method, which involves the creation of new

installations out of previous installations. The artist keeps on

asking himself: Which came first: the chicken or the egg?

And where do art works come from and where do they lead?

The same question can be applied to this exhibition:

is it a retrospective exhibition of sculptural work?

Or do the individual objects simply form the raw material

for an entirely new work: a painting in light and shadow on a

gallery wall? info: http://www.stedelijkmuseum.nl/

Amsterdam It Ain't Necessarily So

Arps&Co presenteerde in de Prinsenkelder, Dikker&Thijs Fenice,

Prinsengracht 444 vanavond een fototentoonstelling van de

Amerikaanse fotografe Elizabeth Kleinveld ,Rogi Wieg draagde

gedichten voor, de opening werdt verricht door Molly Ackerman.

The exhibition, 'It Ain't Necessarily So,' is a synthesis of Rogi Wieg's

poetry and Elizabeth Kleinveld's photography, which together

tell the story of the transformative effect of having to rebuild

anew. An artist's journey through the wake of Hurricane Katrina,

as she searched to find meaning in the seemingly meaninglessness

and move on. On the other side of the destruction, her quest to

breathe color and "joie de vivre" back into her life took root,

and so the series Bloemen was born. 'It Ain't Necessarily So'

means that it could have been different, but it wasn’t, because

the above described mechanism is as old as the world.

It is an endless varying rebirth.

info : http://elizabethkleinveld.com/

Amsterdam Scientology Church

Masked men and women demonstrate in front of the

Amsterdam office of the Scientology Church,

10 February 2008. The demonstration is part of a worldwide

protest organized by a group called Anonymous

against the much disputed organization.

Demonstrators are masked for what they say out of fear

for possible action against them by the church

Amsterdam Streetart

Amsterdam “Allegories & Macabresques”

Van 2 februari t/m 15 maart 2008 organiseert fotogalerie

WM de tentoonstelling “Allegories & Macabresques”

met recente werken van Andrzej Dragan.

(de bovenstaande foto,s zijn gemaakt tijdens de opening)

Allegories & Macabresques comprises a serie of eighteen portraits

(2004-2007) including among others David Lynch holding a hen,

Mads Mikkelsen observing an embryo of a cat, Jan Peszek over

and old watch or Jerzy Urban with a naked woman and a

Cuban cigar.The presented collection is the result of a struggle

by the artist with the message of the Portuguese proverb

"These who see faces do not see hearts".

It represents the sum of three years of work.Although they

are simple portraits, the effect is such that several viewers

had nightmares after watching them.

http://andrzejdragan.com/ http://www.gallerywm.com/