Guido Geelen/ New sculptures
Guido Geelen was the first to get the ball rolling. His exhibition of butterfly sculptures has taken over the top floor of what was once the mixing building. Where the raw materials for Philips’ ceramics factory were once stored and pumped downwards, ceramic sculptures now stand – sculptures of dissected and perforated human figures supported by brass display cases or by butterflies mounted on pins sticking out from the miniscule holes. It has been some time since the first sculpture was completed and, even before it was finished, a single glimpse in passing the sculpture was enough to be struck as if by a bolt of lightning. Each and every time.
Menno Doornbos/The Prologue
It was not so long ago that I became immensely excited when the first machines were started up in our new workshop, the very reason for its existence. But for Menno Doornbos, his first work of art, a wall mural on one of the walls of the first floor of the mixing building, was probably an even greater triumph. “The Prologue” exhibition has started to take shape, slowly but surely. This exhibition, or rather, everything to be seen on the first floor of the mixing building, gives a sample of the exhibitions to come after the butterfly sculptures and what Menno Doornbos will be doing and undertaking. For Menno, this is familiar territory in a new building and surroundings, but, for us, it is all new, except perhaps for the factory where the machines are now running once again.
Photograph: Thomas Mayer
The exhibition will be open to the public starting 24 January.
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