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Boost Sincerity Through Nothingness, Blue Snott Tickles Nietzsche, Better Selfish Then Never. With a self-reflexive and infectious sense of humor the various explanations for the company name BSTN, under which Basten Stokhuyzen (1984) creates his work, flash across your screen when you visit his website. This lightness is characteristic for the way in which he shapes his art practice.

His work is currently taking shape around his research into Hedge Funds. He draws surprising parallels between the role and working methods of contemporary artist and the obscure top of the financial world. His love of conceptual structures and rhetorical strategies explore, in unexpected ways and through both material and form research, a new space of forwards, swaps, CDOs and other derivatives. Terms from a world that we do not know so well, let alone understand.

At Stroom, he presents the collected works Vanilla Options. This is also the launch of his research project A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Broker. The nine visual compositions will provide guidance for the story that he will explore during the visits to his studio. For more information on this, see the Stroom School program page.

www.bstn.nl

Basten Stokhuyzen, Vanilla Options (I can only repeat), 2012
photo: © Rob Kollaard, courtesy Stroom Den Haag

Basten Stokhuyzen, Vanilla Options (IS), 2012
photo: © Rob Kollaard, courtesy Stroom Den Haag

Basten Stokhuyzen, Vanilla Options (It has begun to sprout), 2012
photo: © Rob Kollaard, courtesy Stroom Den Haag

Basten Stokhuyzen, Vanilla Options (Think, Fountainhead), 2012
photo: © Rob Kollaard, courtesy Stroom Den Haag

Basten Stokhuyzen, Vanilla Options (Has it begun), 2012
photo: courtesy the artist

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