STROOM TIPS

Personal tips for exhibitions, lectures, films, music et cetera.

Exhibition
Beeld Hal Werk
In a huge empty factory space in the Northern part of Amsterdam some 50 works have been brought together by Sohrab Bayat, Ad de Jong, Manuel Klappe en Wouter Klein Velderman, thus presenting a survey of Dutch sculpture. The gigantic hall is literally packed with works by both established artists and the emerging generation of sculptors.
Location: Gedempt Hamerkanaal 85, Amsterdam Noord
4 September thru 31 October 2010

Exhibition
Ronald Cornelissen - The Horseman's Kitchenette (When Demons Cook)
The Rotterdam-based artist Ronald Cornelissen presents four news sculptures inspired by the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Cornelissen is best known for his drawings that refer to comics, fanzines and architecture. It is less well known that he also makes installations and sculptures that refer to motifs from his drawings and vice versa. These sculptures are made from banal materials such as blockboard, papier-mâché and cardboard.
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam.
Website Ronald Cornelissen
18 September 2010 thu 23 January 2011
Work by Ronald Cornelissen is also on view on the project space of Diana Stigter Gallery in Amsterdam
4 September thru 9 October 2010

Exhibition
Francis Alys: A Story of Deception
Wiels presents a major exhibition of work by the celebrated artist Francis Alÿs (born Belgium 1959). Using diverse poetical and allegorical approaches, Alÿs explores political subjects such as contentious borders and economic crises. The exhibition will present iconic works alongside new pieces which have never been shown before. Working in a variety of mediums including painting, video projection, animation and sculpture, Francis Alÿs is one of the most important artists of his generation.
Wiels, Brussel, België
9 October 2010 thru 30 January 2011

Exhibition
Cosima Von Bonin's Far Niente for Witte de With's Sloth Section, Loop # 01 of the Lazy Susan Series, A Rotating Exhibition 2010 - 2011
At Witte de With this fall, the German artist Cosima von Bonin will present an exhibition featuring new works around the notion of sloth and fatigue. With her typical laconic humor, von Bonin will create a constellation of new and existing works. From oversized stuffed animals to sewn fabrics, from pastiches of minimalist sculptures to recreations of shop display systems, her work blends formalism and Pop, oscillating between seriousness and fun, weighed down with melancholy or fizzing with critical wit.
Witte de With, Rotterdam
9 October 2010 thru 9 January 2011

Film on DVD
The Human Condition
Sweeping (more than 9-hour-long) Japanese anti-war epic 'The Human Condition' (Masaki Kobayashi, 1959-61) has been re-released by the English quality label Criterion as a Special Edition DVD on 4 disks, with a new interview with leading actor Tatsuya Nakadai.

Exhibition
Brion Gysin: Dream Machine
The New Museum in New York presents the first US retrospective of the work of the painter, performer, poet, and writer Brion Gysin (1916-1986). Working simultaneously in a variety of mediums, Gysin was an irrepressible inventor, serial collaborator, and subversive spirit whose considerable innovations continue to influence musicians and writers, as well as visual and new media artists today. The exhibition includes an original 'Dreamachine'. A cardboard replica was also installed in the Stroom Den Haag exhibition 'Test Assembly' (Summer 2010).
New Museum, New York, USA
until October 3, 2010

Literature
'The Poisonwood Bible'
This novel by Barbara Kingsolver was first published in 1998, but hasn't lost any of its sting. It tells the story of the wife and four daughters of a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it is calamitously transformed on African soil. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa. Blood diamants, the insidious role if the CIA, all of it comes back today during the current trial of Charles Taylor and similar events in Liberia.

Christoph Keller
Several years ago Christoph Keller sold his publishing house of art books, the German Revolver. At the moment he is a distiller of quality spirits in the Black Forrest (Germany), close to Bodenmeer (Lake Constance), for which he won many prestigious awards (Staehlemuehle). He also breeds rare animals which are on the brink of extinction, and is the editor of a series of artist books for JRP | Ringier (Christoph Keller Editions).
DOT DOT DOT, May 2007: 'Right to Burn' (A Drink with Christoph Keller) by Stuart Bailey and Sarah Cowner): download a pdf of this article
Kleinbrennerei. Fachinformationen für die Obst- & Getreidebrennerei: download a pdf of this magazine

Publication
Cartographies of Time
What does history look like? How do you draw time? 'Cartographies of Time' by Daniel Rosenberg and Anthony Grafton (Princeton Architectural Press, April 2010) explores the history of the question since the beginning of the print era, tracing the surprising course of invention and critique that produced the now-ubiquitous format of the timeline. Cabinet in Brooklyn, NY hosted a special evening with the writers. To listen to the audio file of this presentation: click here.