Exhibition "Amersfoort Concrete" at Musiom
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Exhibition "Amersfoort Concrete" at Musiom.
From May 10 through August 18, 2024, the at Musiom will feature the exhibition "Amersfoort Concreet." It is the most comprehensive exhibition presented there to date. In collaboration with artist and guest curator Roland de Jong Orlando, Musiom is showing the work of 23 Dutch artist. The works on display have a great variety with the similarity that they are rooted in concrete art. The result is an exhibition with international allure.
Theo van Doesburg
Concrete art is the term introduced in 1930 with the manifesto "L'Art Concret" by Theo van Doesburg, mainly to avoid confusion with the term "abstract art. In both paintings and sculptures, concrete art stands for art in which no reference to reality is visible.
Two locations
Where Musio...
Exhibition "Amersfoort Concrete" at Musiom.
From May 10 through August 18, 2024, the at Musiom will feature the exhibition "Amersfoort Concreet." It is the most comprehensive exhibition presented there to date. In collaboration with artist and guest curator Roland de Jong Orlando, Musiom is showing the work of 23 Dutch artist. The works on display have a great variety with the similarity that they are rooted in concrete art. The result is an exhibition with international allure.
Theo van Doesburg
Concrete art is the term introduced in 1930 with the manifesto "L'Art Concret" by Theo van Doesburg, mainly to avoid confusion with the term "abstract art. In both paintings and sculptures, concrete art stands for art in which no reference to reality is visible.
Two locations
Where Musiom usually focuses on artists born in or around the 1950s, a selection of artists from the 1930s through the 1980s has now been made. An exhibition featuring 23 artists, divided between two locations: Musiom and Mariënhof, located a stone's throw from each other on the Stadsring in Amersfoort. Both locations feature a sculpture garden and an indoor exhibition.
Big names
All participating artists have already made their mark on a national level. There will also be work by some internationally very well-known artists such as Bob Bonies, Ewerdt Hilgemann and Ronald A. Westerhuis.
Of course, guest curator Roland de Jong Orlando himself is also participating. Since early 2023, work by him has been in Musiom's collection. He has previously curated successful exhibitions at home and abroad around concrete art, such as the international traveling exhibition "Reductive.NL" in 2014-'15, with work by 32 Dutch artists.
Diversity
The exhibiting artists all give a personal interpretation of conrete art, resulting in enormous diversity. From monumental sculptures by Ewerdt Hilgemann to elegant jewelry by Cees Post. And from handmade fabrics by Theo Rooden to mechanically moving objects by Willem van Weeghel.
Honors
During the preparations for this exhibition, two artists from the selection passed away from us: Yahya Youssef and Anneke Klein Kranenbarg. Their work will be shown and celebrated during the exhibition.
List of participating artists:
Bob Bonies, Robbert de Goede, Marco Goldenbeld, Eef de Graaf, Kuno Grommers, Manja Hazenberg, Ewerdt Hilgemann, Roland de Jong Orlando, Anneke Klein Kranenbarg, Dennis Konijnenburg, Richard Lamain, André van Lier, Zaida Oenema, Reinoud Oudshoorn, Cees Post, Rinus Roelofs, Theo Rooden, Henk van Trigt, Helen Vergouwen, Willem van Weeghel, Ronald A. Westerhuis, Yahya Youssef, Rob Zweerman.