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The Butchers meat hook project
June 20, 2010
My latest project is finally moving towards completion.
For this piece i have made a alginate mold using my own head as model. I will insert a brain made of glass and pour water into it before it goes into the freezer. When the head is frozen and solid it will hang on a butchers meat hook.
I have not found out where i want to, or can display this piece, so for now i have only added photos from the process of making it. When it is finished, displayed and hopefully melted away i will post another photogallery or even a video of the piece completing itself.
In the meantime have a look at the work in progress! TO THE GALLERY
Wiki:DidYouKnow – A meat hook is a two-sided hook normally used in butcheries to hang up meat or the carcasses of animals such as pigs and cattle on a moving conveyor line. There are many types of hooks, but meat hooks is the only one used in butchering.
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Jung, Frisch und Frei
May 01, 2010
This weekend the exhibition ‘Jung, Frisch und Frei’, will be opened in glass-museum Alter Hof Herding in Coesfeld, Germany. Participants in this show are students and ex-students from the Rietveld Academy glass-department. Feel free to come to the opening on Saterday the first of May, 15.00h, or visit the exhibition another day.
Also that weekend, on Sunday the 2nd of May, another exhibition opens; ‘Reflecting Nature’, in sculpturegarden Land en Beeld in Asperen (close to Leerdam). It looks like the sun will be shining, so whether you come for art or the beautiful green environment, from 15.00h. the ‘door’ is open and you are very welcome!
I hope to see you in Germany, or in the garden in Asperen.
Not only that the current exhibition in the Glass Museum Alter Hof Herding is conducted under this name, it also describes the concept of the renowned glass department of the Amsterdam Gerrit Rietveld Akademie, that enjoys a high reputation at international level and attracts young artists from all over the world.
Glass and the Rietveld Akademie are connected by a special common history: Since Sybren Valkema 1966 founded the glass department in the academy building, teachings and creation of arts have reciprocally influenced and fertilized themselves. Beyond doubt the role of the glass in the art has basically changed over the past 40 years. For a long period of time predominantly artists of the studio glass movement and the Free Design discovered the material, however, it has in the meantime found its way with all its possibilities and facets to the world of the ”Fine Arts“. Besides other materials glass has also become a medium, an artistic concept to transform an idea and to visualize. Glass as a visual medium? Just at this point the teachings start at the Rietveld Akademie: It wants to enable its students to bring their works in line with the complex demands of modern art and design. Therefore, the glass department of the Rietveld Akademie encourages an innovative, experimental and interdisciplinary use of the glass. Each student is facilitated in the process to unfold its special artistic and conceptual potential, to develop its own visual language and to reflect and challenge the work in context with the time in which we live. Glass is a difficult material so that technical skills and know-how must be acquired in order to work with it. The knowledge of material that every artist needs to materialize its concept and to create the artwork is presumed at the Rietveld Akademie.
The Foundation is delighted to present to you the works of 19 students and graduates of the glass department of the Amsterdam Rieiveld Akademie in the new exhibition ”Jung, Frisch und Frei“. The young artists will be accompanied by Caroline Prisse, who has been running the glass department since 2003. The unusual free glass objects, sculptures and mixed-media installations are visualized stories, they bubble over freshness, unbiasedness, inventiveness and unexpected perspectives in the artistic community.
The objects displayed can also be purchased!
