Artist-in-residency Karin Bos & Erik Wuthrich at Zuiderzeemuseum - Part Two

July 19th: Erik Wuthrich wants to know if his new pond sculpture in progress will float. The best way to find out is by trial and error.

Water is always nearby at the Zuiderzee Museum

Luckely land is also near, in case it goes wrong

The dropping

Yes, it floats

But does it still float with 80 kilos extra wheight on top of it?

Yes it does. Next problem: how to retrieve it from the water? (Without getting wet ourselves.)

Museum Security standing by to rescue us.

Erik arranged a happy crew to do his dirty work

Karin however is still painting by herself.

her works in progress

July 20th: Erik moved to the woodshop of the museum to do some dirty work with a gas mask on, and Karin takes her first pictures of dressed-up children at the outdoor museum.

Super model!

First little sketch.

July 21th: We wake up and greet the chicken in our garden and spot some eggs.

The back side of our house at the museum.

and this is the view from our garden, hello IJsselmeer (IJssel lake)

Another day at the office! Erik is checking his mail. Our house used to be located in the fishing town Monnickendam.

Erik at work in the workshop of the museum using his favorite cake knife for the shaping of his sculpture.

Watercolour in progress

July 22th: Erik is shaping his pond sculpture while Karin is working on watercolours.

working on the second figure

the oil paintings are still wet!

Erik is testing how the water will pour, with the help of the museum security guard

July 23th: Yes, no more walking, we arranged some loan bikes, so today we can go on an inspiration tour and cycle these endless dikes and through the straight lined landscapes searching for inspiration. But first we had a meeting with the museum director with cake and everything, because he celebrated his birthday today. Some other V.I.P.'s interrupted our meeting: our favourite nieces (and muses) knocked at the door, so we gave them a museum tour.

The three graces

In our museum studio we show the art work "Do not feed the artist". Being exposed while working as an artist sometimes feels like being in a zoo. We perform for a live audience.. The "do not feed" refers to the current financial cut-backs in the art world. We want to show that the value of creativity should not be underestimated. Artists should get paid for their labour, unfortunately in reality that is too often not the case. We didn't take the "do not feed" literally, since today we do: we are told that we are not supposed to eat so much at lunch. Wow, the sunflower seeds in the art work "Do not feed the artist" refers to the most famous starving artist in Dutch history; Vincent van Gogh. Well, Vincent, we can tell you, tomorrow we might try how our ears taste.!.

Do not feed the artist.

 July 24th: Super, today the Acrylic One package arrived. Erik finishes the basic shape of his pond sculpture. When it is dry he will start applying the Acrylic One to make the surface strong.

The basic shape of the pond sculpture is ready!

Second little sketch of the visiting girls in the museum who dress up.

July 25th: Another beautiful warm day. Karin wakes up at 5.30 to photograph the early morning light. The curious chicken and goats are already awake, but let's go back to bed.

Early morning view.

More favourite nieces dropped by today. Karin took a great picture of the kids watching the dvd in the museum room from super close by, to see their uncle Erik as a fancy moviestar. Unfortunately the camera is getting old and the jpg is broke..sorry, no image..only an imaginary one.

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Artist-in-residency Karin Bos & Erik Wuthrich at Zuiderzee Museum

After successful Moving Targets projects at Retort Art Space and Punt WG, both in Amsterdam, visual artists Karin Bos & Erik Wuthrich are invited by the Zuiderzee Museum in Enkhuizen to live and work there as artists-in-residence for one month.  

One of the large museum rooms will function as their artists' studio and the visitors are welcome to see the artists at work and interact with them. The museum is open daily from 10.00 to 17.00h. Both artists will live in one of the old fishing houses at the outdoor museum. The theme will be 'water'. 

This special project starts on Tuesday July 17th of 2012 and the last day will be Sunday August 12th of 2012. 

This blog will function as a diary.

Next to this exhibition/workproject Karin Bos & Erik Wuthrich are participating in the current group exhibition The Colour of Water at the museum which runs from April 13th 2012 until October 28th 2012.

Sculpture by Erik Wuthrich at Zuiderzee Museum, part of The Colour of Water exhibition 2012. Erik Wuthrich, untitled, glass and acrylics, 90 x 65 x 60 cm, 2011

Work on paper by Karin Bos at Zuiderzee Museum, part of The Colour of Water exhibition 2012. Karin Bos, Safe Haven, watercolour and charcoal on paper, 80 x 110 cm, 2011

DIARY:
July 10th 2012:  Today Erik went to his studio in Maarsbergen to prepare the basic shape of the pond sculpture he wants to work on at the museum. Karin is in her Amsterdam studio collecting paintings from her stock room connected to the theme water for a studio exhibition at the museum. Also, she is shopping for canvas, paper, etc. to create new works at the museum.

The Amsterdam studio of Karin Bos

July 11th: Karin visits the Maritime Museum with its VOC ship in Amsterdam to get in the mood.

July 12th: Erik makes a mold for casting the polyurethane for his pond sculpture.

Digging in the sand.

Creating a mold.

Expanding polyurethane is very powerfull stuff.

July 14th: It rained so hard in Amsterdam that the ceiling came down!!!! What a way to get in the mood for our Water art project...!!

A reminder of the power of water...

July 17: The first day of the artist-in-residency project! We have two major transports: Karin arrives at the museum around noon with a car full of paintings and materials, and Erik arrives at 3pm with a van with sculptures and tools.

During lunch Tanja Koopen, reporter of the Noord Hollands Dagblad (newspaper) interviews Karin Bos and Femke van Drongelen, the project leader at Zuiderzee Museum.

Erik arrives with the van, we don't need a work out at the gym anymore after this..

Unwrapping the art works

The first curious visitors

... and again: do not feed the artist...

July 18: We slept like babies, discovered where the shower house is, and started fresh and clean in our spacious museum room at 10 pm sharp.

The studio view from Erik's perspective

The painter gets the best light. (Biggest windows.)

While we settled, Anna Spek from ING Art Management filmed us for a DVD.

The studio from Karin's point of view.

Happy painter at work

Leonie from the compagny Acrylic One came to visit the show and told Erik that they will sponsor his new sculpture by providing material. Super!

Yep, that's us

en in het Nederlands

The walls are not suitable for hanging paintings, so we have lots of easels to fill.

The installing of the latest sculpture by Erik Wuthrich, called TIME, is almost ready. The bottom piece has to float above the floor as well.

These two sculptures were made by Erik Wuthrich during the last Moving Targets exhibition/working project at Punt WG in Amsterdam.

Todays newspaper! (Noord Hollands Dagblad, July 18 2012). But who is this guy Lutrek?

Alles Grafisch! exhibition at CBKU

June 8 - July 1 2012

Ondine de Kroon, one of the artists who has participated in our Moving Targets events, is currently curating the amazing exhibition ALLES GRAFISCH! at the CBKU in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

This "ALL GRAPHIC!" show investigates the boundaries of printmaking and shows the diversity of unorthodox use of the graphical techniques, ranging from an alphabet in linoleum cut, installations with etchings and so-called Windowprinting to animation films in lino, artist's books and screenprint on t-shirts.


It clearly shows that printing is not dead, it's re-inventing itself. Unfortunately this show will be the last one at CBKU, because it has to close down due to lack of funds.
However, it also shows that the famous Printing Studios (Grafisch Atelier Utrecht) which are part of CBKU should not close. The best way to make a plea for the survival of art facilities like the GAU is creating and showing good art, and that's what Ondine de Kroon does at CBKU.

Participating artists: Randy Beker, Karin Bos, Arjenne Fakkel, Thijs Ebbe Fokkens, Stefan Hoffmann, Marianne Kaars, Scott Minzy, Gijs van Noort, Jos de L’Orme, Gemma Plum, Jurriaan Rexwinkel, Ewoud van Rijn, Tijs Rooijakkers, SAGE, Tomiyuki Sakuta, Sjeng Schupp en Michiel van Dijk, Lennard Schuurmans, Inez Smit, Studio AIRPORT, Ilse Versluijs, Wilma Vissers, Lennart Wolfert en Sun Xun.

CBKU, Plompetorengracht 4, Utrecht

Windowprintings by Stefan Hoffmann

Right: work by Karin Bos. Left: work by Jos de L'Orme

Overview exhibition Alles Grafisch!

Overview exhibition Alles Grafisch!

Jerichoo & Spygirls by Karin Bos

Overview exhibition Alles Grafisch!

Overview exhibition Alles Grafisch!

Overview exhibition Alles Grafisch!

Overview exhibition Alles Grafisch!

Overview exhibition Alles Grafisch!

In the middle: curator Ondine de Kroon

Overview exhibition Alles Grafisch!

Karin Bos, Jerichoo, linocut and embroidery on silk, woodcut on paper.

Karin Bos, Spygirls 1,2,3, screenprint on silk, framed in embroidery rings.

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HTV de IJsberg 81: Left overs

HTV de IJsberg issue 81 titled "Leftovers"was published in January 2010. Ann Demeester, director of Appel Arts Center was invited by us to be the special guest editor. Theme of this issue was the question what is left after a performance is over. Is perhaps the registration part of the art work, or is it just documentation?

For this issue I made 26 drawings as a registration during the program "The Manifold (after) lives of Performance" organised by De Appel and STUK (Leuven, Belgium) on November 14th 2009 at Frascati theater in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Afterwards the designers of HTV de IJsberg transformed it into a huge poster of A1 size to publish it in the arts paper. All drawings on this poster were made during performances on one day.

Drawings by Karin Bos for HTV 81.

It shows the introduction by Ann Demeester and Eva Wittocx, Keynote Lecture by Sophie Delpeux, Case Study Presentation by Myriam van Imschoot, Case Study Presentation by Marie Cool and Fabio Balducci, Case Study Presentation by Eric Mangion, Case Study Presentation by Scott Delahunta and Bertha Bermudez, Round Table Conversation, and Performance by Serge Delbruyere.

The actual drawings I donated to the Appel archive, so they have become Leftovers as well, also posing the question "is it art or is it documentation?"

Talking of Leftovers: the Appel reopened yesterday, at their new venue, and the HTV de IJsberg editors and board menbers will have a meeting this month to discuss how to make the HTV archives available to the public. It contains 84 issues made during 15 years by an amazing selection of artists and art theorists. It has to become visible and accesible, probably online. We keep you posted, to be continued.

Exhibition and working period NEAR MISS at Punt WG

After a successful project at Retort Art Space Moving Targets is invited by Punt WG to do a “The Other Eye 2.0” in Amsterdam. From April 17 till May 6 2012 sculptor Erik Wuthrich and painter Karin Bos work and exhibit at Punt WG. They named this project NEAR MISS. A ´near miss´ is an unplanned event that did not result in injury, illness or damage – but had the potential to do so. Both artists create new work at Punt WG while the public is welcome to interact. 

invitation flyer

 

Punt WG proves to be a good location for such a project. It is centrally located at the Wilhelmina Gasthuis square and looks over a park where children play. It is possible to keep the doors open and even place the sculptures-in-progress outside, which invites the public to walk in. The Wilhelmina Gasthuis is a former hospital, but nowadays there are over a hundred artists studios which makes it a creative area. During the opening event on April 19 both guest artists interact with some of the residential “WG” artists.

work-in-progress by sculptor Erik Wuthrich at Punt WG

Erik Wuthrich makes organic shaped abstract sculptures by manipulating physical processes such as expansion and solidification while he plays with gravity, movement, rhythm, color and light using materials such as glass and acrylics. At Punt WG he builds up his sculptures by using pur foam, and stones he finds in the park.

April 24 2012

Karin Bos creates paintings and work on paper which show people in filmic scenes. She makes use of suggestion to evoke suspense. By stepping out her daily routine at Punt WG, the location and its people might feature in her next body of work. The tree near the Punt WG studio inspires her to draw and paint over the "Boommeisje"(tree girl) screenprints from 2011. 

Karin Bos - mixed media on paper

On April 28 a successful art event with food, vinyl records, drinks and balloons takes place at the studio.

Nobody wants to leave the art party, only the balloons keep trying to escape.

 

Karin Bos - The Frog - watercolour on paper - created at Punt WG studio

April 30 2012: Queensday in Amsterdam. The exhibition space is closed, but Karin Bos spots interesting people on the streets and takes pictures which function as source material to create new work.

May 1 2012: Work-in-progress Queensday Fairy-Queen by Karin Bos

May 2 2012: Queensday Fairy-Queen by Karin Bos

On Sunday May 6 2012 the project will end. The public is invited to see the results during the finissage party which starts at 4pm. Welcome!

Open: Tuesday to Friday from 2pm till 7 pm and by appointment.
Address: Punt WG, entrance at WG Plein, Amsterdam.
Special closing event: Sunday May 6 2012 from 4pm till 6pm.

http://atelierwg.nl/punt_wg/agenda/near_miss.html

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