Seed Newsvine
Courtesy Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
Jeroen de Rijke/Willem de Rooij
“Bouquet IV”, 2005
first installed at Secession, Vienna 2005
flower Bouquet,
b/w photograph in aluminum frame, 120 x 120 cm
Courtesy Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
Jeroen de Rijke/Willem de Rooij
“Bantar Gebang, Bekasi, West Java, May 2000”
Fong-Leng
Luipaard, 1973
Amsterdams Historisch Museum, Amsterdam
Courtesy Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
Jeroen de Rijke/Willem de Rooij
“Bergama, West Anatolia, ca. 1850”, 2003
C-Print
212 x 184,5 cm
Courtesy Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
Jeroen de Rijke/Willem de Rooij
“I'm Coming Home in Forty Days”
1997, 16mm-colorfilm, optical sound, 15 min.
Courtesy Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
Jeroen de Rijke/Willem de Rooij
“Mandarin Ducks”
2005, 16mm-colorfilm, optical sound, 36 min.
Courtesy Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
Jeroen de Rijke/Willem de Rooij
“Mandarin Ducks”
2005, 16mm-colorfilm, optical sound, 36 min.
JEROEN DE RIJKE / WILLEM DE ROOIJ
April 20 - June 8, 2008
Jeroen de Rijke (1970 – 2006) and Willem de Rooij (1969) have produced a cohesive and coherent group of works from the beginning of their working collaboration in 1994. Their works comprise 35 and 16 mm films, installations, photographs and objects. Here they analyse the conventions connected with representation and the production of images and information. The tension between independent creation and the socio-political environment is vehemently explored.
The exhibition presented at MAMbo is part of a joint project with K21, Düsseldorf. Despite the presentation of a different selection of works, the two shows allow a deeper understanding of the research conducted by de Rijke and de Rooij. The individual works are contextualized by a documentary apparatus, a selection of sources and works by other artists of which they partially reconstruct past shows and also insert them within the exhibition itinerary - the designer Fong-Lend and the photographer Paul Huf, for instance, were selected for the show in Bologna.
Selected Shows: Villa Arson, Nice in 2002; Kunsthalle, Zurich in 2004; Secession Wien and Magazin 4, Bregenzen in 2005. During the same year they also represented Holland at the LVI Venice Biennale.
Jeroen de Rijke / Willem de Rooij is a joint project of K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen and MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna, Bologna. The two exhibitions are independent but connected. They present an exhaustive selection of the works of Jeroen de Rijke and Willem de Rooij as documented in the new catalogue.
Curated by Gianfranco Maraniello and Andrea Viliani
For more information please visit: MAMbo - Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna
-Joanne Molina
