Bram De Jonghe 'Grist to the mill'

22 June - 17 August 2014
Saturday 21 June, 17 hrs: opening
Photo album of the opening

Location: Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
Open: Wednesday - Sunday, 12-17 hrs
Photo album installation in progress + exhibition overview

Download Exhibition guide (pdf)
(with an interview with Bram De Jonghe)

Bram De Jonghe is an artist, engineer and inventor all in one. A new talent with an optimistic mentality, encompassing self-organisation, associative thinking, will power and a strong  work ethic. He creates sculptural equivalents of a so-called reductio ad absurdum, reducing an argument or hypothesis to absurdity in order to prove the opposite. One example is his obsessive ambition to build a machine that narrowly fails to blow out a burning candle. The effort this takes makes one wonder about a seemingly futile human act.

Everything he sees, finds and makes is grist to the mill of his ‘absurd' argumentation. In order to create authentic amazement. The way a child looks at things, uninhibited and with an open-minded view, without understanding the interpretations of the adult world, this is how Bram De Jonghe wants his work to be viewed.

Bram De Jonghe positions himself between tradition, craft and concept, between architecture, sculpture and performance, between action and reflection; he cherishes the white cube as a place of refuge, but also disrupts it. Because of his three-dimensional way of thinking and his ability to make jumps in scale Stroom places the exhibition by Bram De Jonghe in line with earlier key exhibitions by the artists Toby Paterson (UK), Navid Nuur (NL), Cyprien Gaillard (F) and Adrien Tirtiaux (B).

LINKS
bramdejonghe.com

Special thanks to:
City of The Hague, Femmy Otten, Billytown, Marc De Jonghe, Hilde Marcelis.

PRESS
de Volkskrant, 6 February 2015 (in Dutch)
Metropolis M, 17 augustus 2014 (in Dutch)
Villa Next Door, 14 August, 2014
Lost Painters, 8 augustus 2014 (in Dutch)
H ART, 17 July 2014 (in Dutch)
Trendbeheer, 12 July 2014 (in Dutch)
Den Haag Centraal, 11 juli 2014 (in Dutch)
Jegens & Tevens, 3 July 2014 (in Dutch)
chmkoome'sblog, 27 juni 2014 (in Dutch)

21 Jun '14 - 17 Aug '14
Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
Entrance: free