gerlach en koop

Date: 16 October 1997 - 19 November 1997

I Grey Salon

How Gerlach and Koop go in search of the recipe for a masterpiece. That they believe they might find it in a book by Georges Perec. Because of the title A Cabinet of Curiosities. Gerlach and Koop accuse each other of naivety. About the faux terrain and the traps. Gerlach notes that it’s not always necessary to carry out a plan. Koop has doubts. The discovery of the collection of unreported sticks. Some walls are worth more than other walls. Now what? Gerlach and Koop try to sell a silkscreen print.

Royal Library

In which Koop claims you can't just put any pen in your mouth. Gerlach and Koop buy a plastic bag for twenty-five cents that you can show up with.

Eastman-Kodak

In which nothing ends up being glued to the wooden floor after all. How the lost painting by Jan van Eyck is once again on display, thanks to a clever move by Gerlach and Koop. The and-so-on principle.

Lake Ontario

That a calf is a quarter of a cow. About the pitch-black water. Gerlach and Koop imagine what it’s like to have a pet. Who wrote about the possessed of Lake Ontario? Georges Perec? Raymond Roussel? Gerlach remembers the golden trapdoor. Koop knows nothing about a golden trapdoor, wasn’t it about nearly four thousand cameras and about eighty-five kilometers of celluloid film? Gerlach and Koop mix everything up. An argument. Meanwhile, they’re getting absolutely nowhere.

Theater

Something always makes more of an impression when it’s blown out of proportion. The curtain needs to go to the cleaners now and then. Sometimes it shrinks. Gerlach and Koop imagine what it’s like not to have a pet. About the dogs of David Teniers. Which painting came first? This space is less suitable for younger viewers, who might object to the idea that the collector is a pervert.

House

How Gerlach and Koop go in search of the recipe for a masterpiece. That they believe they might find it in a book by Georges Perec. Despite the title A Cabinet of Curiosities. Gerlach and Koop do their best. The raised floor or the lowered ceiling. The miscalculation and its consequences for neck and shoulder pain. Collections. Catalogues. Lists. Comparisons. And so on. That Willem van Haecht copied a work by Jan van Eyck in one of his cabinet paintings. Smoking in the neighbor's house.

Racecourse

In which Gerlach and Koop get a tattoo. How hard it is to choose. That one might regret it. A wall can also be a floor. The running race. Koop is hopeless at it.

II White Salon

III Grey Salon Again

In which Gerlach and Koop smoke in the neighbor's house.
In place of a conclusion: Gerlach and Koop walk the dog they don’t have.