Cruising Along the Ocean–energyfuture

A spon­ta­ne­ous in­vi­tati­on by Wil­lem van Kem­pen to a group of indi­vi­du­al a­rtists he felt re­lat­ed to, gave birth to this ex­hib­iti­on.

The ex­hib­iti­on is ab­out the prob­lematic a­re­a be­tween ma­king and show­ing, fin­ished and unfin­ished, qua­lity and judg­ment. It is not so much ab­out the a­rt of pa­inting, as­sem­bling, co­l­lage, sculp­ture or the pos­si­bil­i­ty of an im­age, it is ab­out the prob­lem of pre­sent­ing the works. The quest for the best pre­sentati­on form, that re­spects the e­pheme­ral cha­racter of the works. We (the group of a­rtists) be­lieve, that this pre­sentati­on, as it is shown in B32 Artspace, de­picts the cur­rent ques­ti­on­ing of the a­rt-ob­ject in the most sub­dued man­ner: an in­ven­to­ry of stud­ies, work rel­ics and resi­dues shown in an a­rchival fash­i­on.

Text: Paul Drissen