#124: Do less, do it better.|#68: Once in a while we need to get out of utopia and get something done.|#10: Don’t be obsessed with numbers.|#25: Never ask the artist to just present their work, ask them to co-create and co-organise the space.|#94: No objections? Just do it.|#21: Live with the exhibition, spend time with it.|#19: Have fun at the exhibition.|#111: Do it together.|#62: Be kind. Full dishwasher: empty it.|#120: The new type of art institute cannot merely be an art museum as it has been until now, but no museum at all. The new type will be more like a power station, a producer of new energy.|#132: Things will always look weird when you’re the first doing it.|#2: Bring something new to the city of Ghent.|#112: Spaces today don’t need to be curated, but occupied.|#59: Always protect the floor when painting (or pouring concrete)|#35: The artist fee should be good.|#74: Last one out turns of the lights.|#23: That’s a very interesting piece, but how would it behave in a pizza joint?|#91: Embrace doubt.|#89: Build-in impurity within the organisation.|#92: We’re a learning organisation.|#98: The success of it will not lie in the result but in the process.|#57: Volunteers must be: cared for / hands on / ready to learn / willing to share / in it to win it / show new or old tricks.|#40: Follow the artist|#44: No name tags at dinner.|#81: Things come alive when there is friction.|#124: Do less, do it better.|#68: Once in a while we need to get out of utopia and get something done.|#10: Don’t be obsessed with numbers.|#25: Never ask the artist to just present their work, ask them to co-create and co-organise the space.|#94: No objections? Just do it.|#21: Live with the exhibition, spend time with it.|#19: Have fun at the exhibition.|#111: Do it together.|#62: Be kind. Full dishwasher: empty it.|#120: The new type of art institute cannot merely be an art museum as it has been until now, but no museum at all. The new type will be more like a power station, a producer of new energy.|#132: Things will always look weird when you’re the first doing it.|#2: Bring something new to the city of Ghent.|#112: Spaces today don’t need to be curated, but occupied.|#59: Always protect the floor when painting (or pouring concrete)|#35: The artist fee should be good.|#74: Last one out turns of the lights.|#23: That’s a very interesting piece, but how would it behave in a pizza joint?|#91: Embrace doubt.|#89: Build-in impurity within the organisation.|#92: We’re a learning organisation.|#98: The success of it will not lie in the result but in the process.|#57: Volunteers must be: cared for / hands on / ready to learn / willing to share / in it to win it / show new or old tricks.|#40: Follow the artist|#44: No name tags at dinner.|#81: Things come alive when there is friction.|
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Opening: 07.02.2020 – 20:00

08.02—22.03.2020

Exhibition

Nikolaas Demoen:
Papers, Books and Bolero

Nikolaas Demoen - 'Papers, Books and Bolero'
Cinema Kunsthal Gent
08/02 - 22/03/2020, sat/sun 11:00-18:00

The film 'Papers, Books and Bolero' is a dialogue between French philosophers, fictionalized in cardboard, and found images in books and miscellaneous documents; it suggests in fact a possible relation between the different images. The film features on the one hand works belonging to the history of art (Tiepolo, Palladio,...) and on the other hand images from glossy magazines (Purple Fashion, Vogue). Both very different sources are linked through sculptural artefacts made from cardboard and clay.
On the rhythm of Maurice Ravel’s Bolero, one by one the papers and books appear, gradually intoxicating the audience’s senses.

Papers, Books and Bolero, 2020, 16 x 9, 7:02 min.
in collaboration with Christophe Albertijn
Music: Maurice Ravel, Bolero, conducted by Lorin Maazel

Nikolaas Demoen is a visual artist and publisher, based in Ghent, Belgium. In his work he explores the relationship between modern culture and the tradition of beauty in the arts, and how the individual human being is constantly crossing these artificial borders.

Nikolaas Demoen:
Papers, Books and Bolero

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