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the Collector:
La Collection Imaginaire
12 march – 18 june 2006
Curator: Renée Steenbergen
Artists: Guillaume Bijl en EventArchitectuur
Together with presentations on the position of the Dandy, Marres aimed her attention from the March 12th onwards to the position of the Collector. Both positions are part of the 2006 program, in which the focus lies on the 19th century. Central in this exhibition was not the art work, but the collector himself, who connects seperate artworks through his interpretative and constructive abilities to comprise an ever developing, coherent story. Guestcurator of these presentations was Renée Steenbergen, whose promotionresearch Something that costs that much, is worth everything (2002), sheds new light on the position of the collector of modern art in Holland
Guillaume Bijl Four American Artists
The collector Vincent Vlasblom generously made available the installation Four American Artists by the Belgian appropriation-artist Guillaume Bijl for La Collection Imaginaire. Four American Artists comprises a complete, ready-made exhibition with work by four fictive artists: Janet Fleisch, William Hall, Sam Roberts and Rick Tavares.
EventArchitectuur
EventArchitecture from Amsterdam was asked to design an installation that could give a spatial interpretation of an imaginary collection. The resulting design became, next to a spatial interpretation, an idealized version of the 'white cube' as the ultimate exhibition space. The installation was accompanied by a free catalogue with fictive works, composed by Renée Steenbergen, from the Encyclopedia of fictive artists.
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