Sigrid Calon graduated in 1993 at the academy of Tilburg. The first few years of her professional career she worked mostly as a designer. Since 2005 she chose to be a visual artist and works steadily on her artwork. Her art exists in the urge to explore, discover and create. Forcing new connections and the [...]
[Art Monday] Local – Sigrid Calon
January 30, 2012
[Art Monday] Go see: What’s up! @ Dordrechts museum
January 23, 2012
(The Island of Dr. Morgeau by Morgan Betz) What’s up! is an exhibition that contains the youngest artpainting in the Netherlands. For this exhibition thirty artists are selected that give a representative overview of today’s contemporary art of painting in the Netherlands. What’s up! originated from the need of a broad audience, they wanted to get [...]
[Art Monday] You should know: Tris Vonna-Michell
January 23, 2012
The artistic practice of Tris Vonna-Michell (b. 1982, Rochford, UK) is an explosive mix of performance, installation, music, literature, slang and rhythm. It adds a new chapter in a long tradition of storytelling. In his performances he takes the audience on a mental and physical journey, in which objects in space get a deeper meaning, [...]
[Art Monday] Go see: The Tosso Variations @ MU Eindhoven
January 16, 2012
For his first solo-exhibition the artist/movie maker/composer Gabriel Shalom, who lives and works in Berlin, presents a videomusicsuite in 5 movements. Videomusic is a term whom Shalom came up with himself for work in where he composes with image and sound. Shalom’s work is half avant-garde electronic music and half hyperkubistic visual esthetic. Influenced by the [...]
[Art Monday] You should know: Matt Stokes
January 16, 2012
The English artist Matt Stokes (1973) makes work in which performance, music ans social engagement come together. His artistic practice is marked by anthropological research and an interest in events of informal movements theat bind people together. His work exists from intensive research and active collaboration with local communities, studying the social and visual language [...]
[Art Monday] Local artist – PAL
January 16, 2012
PAL stands for ‘Phase Alterning Line‘. It is a live ‘audio-video art performance’ by two artists from Tilburg, Albert van Abbe (1982, Eindhoven The Netherlands) and Wim-Jan Smits (1984, Tilburg The Netherlands). In this project Albert and Wim-Jan will research ‘signals‘ (physical and metaphysical signals as we think our universe and everything in it is [...]
[Art Monday] Local artist – Femke Dekkers
January 9, 2012
Femke Dekkers lives in Breda and works on various places. She graduated just last year at Sint Joost in ‘s-Hertogenbosch. In her photographs she tries to capture “impulses of certainty”, she says in her statement. “Somewhere between my longing for gaining control over these moments, and great appreciation for their resistance to my attempts, I [...]
[Art Monday] You should know: Neil Beloufa
January 2, 2012
We came across this video (see below) of twenty-four-year old artist Neil Beloufa a while a go, and immediately loved it! This is where minimalistic, conceptual art, which you normally just find between the white walls of a museum, meets the real world, occupying daily routine (see above). Looking at more of his work, it seems [...]
[Art Monday] Local Artist – Just Quist
January 2, 2012
You might have seen him at the Open Source Expo at Incubate 2011. Just Quist is a painter working and living in Tilburg. The theoretical frame he works in might be eyebrow-rising and difficult to understand for contemporary art-dummies. Nevertheless, his paintings and collages are esthetically beautiful, but never boring. Graphic, well thought out compositions [...]
[Art Monday] 12 Drawings a Day by Denis Chapon
December 12, 2011
Denis Chapon, a 26-year old Frenchman, has been drawing 12 drawings of animation every day for the past three years! On the 23rd of June 2008 he went to the a copy room and he found a lot of paper printed on one side and blank on the other. Denis got the idea of doing [...]
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May 21, 2012
Bristol is musically probably best known for the “Bristol Sound”, which was the name given to a group of artist who broke through into the mainstream with a sound that was given the stamp ‘trip-hop’. Best known are probably Massive Attack, Portishead and Tricky, but there were many others. Even though Portishead’s Geoff Barrow later [...]