Hey sweet readers of mine,
So this Wednesday we went to Rotterdam, The Netherlands. After the hour long trip by train towards that city we gathered with all the classes in the hall.
Funny how all the people cringed when the teacher started to speak through a microphone, it was like we were a huge group of tourists XD and we definitely didnt want to appear to be such. We are a students afterall, no picture crazed japanese or chinese people XD. We did have a hell of a lot of camera's with us though.
And the picture shooting was started immidiatly as we walked down the Westersingel, where sculptures were placed along the water. A cool work in the water bubbled, creating characters in the water which spelled the phrase:
No Matter. Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better.
Would be just me, but I love that phrase. Anyway, continuing our work and filling the memory card of my camera with the start of a photo collection, we made our way to the museum. Boijmans van Beuningen
Not the most interesting place, in my opinion. But the exhibition of Olaf Elliason, called 'Notion Motion' was cool. Interactive art, that's fun right? ^^
The whole goal of this little trip through museum and through an atelier, was to see the work of 'Joep van Lieshout '
I didn't think it anything special when we were in the museum. a bit boring actually. But when we stood in the room where the rest of his work was showed, I got goosebumps all over. Damn, it was indeed interesting, but in a really dark, creepy, maybe even discusting way.
Really, from this point on, don't look further if you can't handle scary stuff, the insides (be that plastics) of humans and animals, and creepy ideas.
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So yeah, all the sculpturs where made from plastics, and not even that naturalistic, so what made it so macabre?
You knew that they represented humans, which was cool as long as you didn't know what the idea behind the strange sculpturs.
I, being the ignorant me that I am, didn't look at the paper they handed out from the start, which contained information about the exhibition.
So when I saw the bunkbeads, one with alcohol on each bedpost, with the description 'multi woman bed' I didn't think much of it.
Next to the beds was a huge installation with numerous bodies on shelves that where all attached to the rest. It looked like some kind of machine for in a farm or something and I couldn't say I knew the meaning of it all. I assumed something less creepy then it turned out to be...
Next part of the room showed magnified parts of the body, furniture, and sculptures of bodies and such. Not that scary, though I didn't feel really happy about the men hanging from trees...
Sure, some thing where a bit strange, to say the least, but ah well... sometimes my mind comes up with creepy stuff as well.
Next room had me shying back a bit though. And that without knowing what it was suppossed to mean. Imagine this: huge meatgrinders, with a pile of bodies next to it. A rack with bodies split, chopped up, hanging like pigs in a arbatoir. Bowls with organs and such.
Anyway, Watching this room with distaste easily distinguishable on my face, I found my way to some board on the wall. It told what this concept was all about. 'Cradle to cradle' in other words, everything can be recycled, including humans. And that's what Joep van Lieshout shows here. The insane ideas a man's brain can come up with.
There was a little paper with information about it all, showing that this was all part of his personal designed world, or rather city. " Slave City". Go look on his site for more details.
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Scraps, that's the store we went to afterwards, a walhalla for the artstudent or anyone that needs strange materials. Really comes in handy! So I bought a little bit, with the projects that had yet to come, one could not have enough materials. Though I wish I was there with a car or something, because I really wanted to take about all with me XD.
That's a wrap for this cultural Wednesday, see you later~,
Francine
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