‘On top of the world’
Menno Doornbos (Art Consultant) and I recently decided to part ways. The differences in our ways of doing, thinking and acting were simply too great to arrive at a productive collaboration. Just to be perfectly clear, although I realise that the sceptics out there may have their doubts, we’re still good friends. Without Menno, I would not (yet) have gotten to know Bert Teunissen. In that sense, Menno casts his shadow backwards.
So from now on we’ll be taking the reins. We’ll be contacting those artists we believe would be a good fit for us and, together with them, give the exhibitions our own interpretation. I wrote earlier about the odd but obvious development that, for nearly all exhibitions, we produce the works together with the artists and how unique and inspiring this has been. A new dimension is now being added to that.
The question is the kind of role you want to fulfil for the artist as a gallery. We do not want to be a gallery whose only focus is the sale of art, but instead focus on facilitating the creation of work through our own efforts as well as approaching art and exhibitions in a different way.
The travelling exhibition with Bert Teunissen is therefore more than just your everyday exhibition. You could call it a retrospective, since it provides an overview of both his autonomous and commercial work. Just yesterday, Bert called this combination something that was simply ‘not done’ in the past, but that he actually was quite positive it would be successful. Better still, together with Bert and in these difficult times, we’ve managed to line up two new projects for Bert, the first results of which will be on display in the gallery during the opening.
More works will be added in the course of the exhibition. I think that most galleries profit from artist commissions, but that’s not our goal. Our advantage is that this exhibition of fantastic works (most of which, incidentally, are for sale) has gained tremendously in dynamics and enthusiasm thanks to these new projects and that we have an exhibition on display featuring an artist who is ‘on top of the world’
500 m2:
Domestic Landscapes
Travelogs
G-Star
Ben
Commissioned by:
G-Star
Woonbedrijf
Please click the following link for more information about the exhibition.
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