Music festival: Saturday, 7th of January, 15.00 h.

On Moritz Ebinger and "The loneliness of the rhinoceros” a long poem or a novel can be written. Give Moritz the word and you're taken into a dizzying series of visual associations that they are unequaled.

Ask him why he started to build a rhinoceros at KiK than his first reaction is "I don’t know why”. Then he begins on the birth of a rhinoceros in the zoo of Amersfoort, after which he effortlessly switches to the threat to the species as found in China thinks that pills and powders made  from the horns, potency and fertility-enhancing would work. Hunters brutally cutting and sawing the horns of the animals and let the rest of the body to rot behind colossal horns for many thousands of dollars to receive, after which he proposes to serve during the opening a rinoceros diner.

 

The week started in KiK Moritz saw a beautiful picture of a rhinoceros transportation in the Volkskrant. Hanging upside down on a long cable, a helicopter brought the endangered animal to a sanctuary where the animal could reproduce carefree vision. Even in natural history museums have horns violently robbed.

The copy in KiK does not need to fear.

 

Aided by Michael van der Schijff, the original South African volunteer from KiK, he builds a life-size rhinoceros. Moritz from a variety of photos and Michael directly from memory. So to speak, he saw them walking around in his backyard.

 

Moritz Ebinger closes his working period on January 7 with a music festival. From 15.00 hours, regional bands, artists musicians and artists bands will color the program. 

Program:

• 2 en 3 december  10.30-17.00 : masterclass for students
• 10 december 17.00 uur
  opening of the exposition of Moritz and exposition of the work made at the masterclass
• 7 januari 20.00 uur
  music festival with regional and artistic bands

 

More info at: moritz-ebinger.kunstinzicht.nl/

Dan Geesin is from the second of September at work at KiK.

“I am not sure if my interest in the silhouette my weakness is or my strength, but I am sure I am not a sculptor. It's rare that I can work in such a beautiful space like KiK. It's interesting for me to return to the spatial work: the focus on close to a scenic view. The vastness of the landscape at KiK and the width of heaven is what primarily attracted me to KiK.”

The work in progress of Dan Geesin can be viewed every Friday and Sunday afternoon. The final presentation of Dan Geesin takes place the 30th of October at 17.30 h. Leo Delfgaauw will tour the public through 'Models and Metaphores'. Afterwards there will be music and the installations will be ritually burned. For more information: www.dangeesin.nl/

KiK also wants to get childern in contact with art and culture. Together with Dan Geesin KiK organises special workshops where they together will make a video.  An example of his video work can be found on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yraRSBR4hrM

Thanks to Gemeente Meppel, VSB fonds, Stichting het Burgerweeshuis Meppel, Colbond BV, fonds BKVB and Staatsbosbeheer for supporting these projects.

Mapping Micros | Tourist Landscapes
This project is part of the European Pépinières program

 

Sara Blaylock, the American guestartist who arrived the 23th of May at KiK, zooms during her working period in on a little ribbon village named Kolderveen. 

'In spite of its 2km size, more than a dozen small businesses jam the forty odd houses that comprise the town of Kolderveen. Private homes harbor the small businesses, making Kolderveen a striking example of both convenience and enterprise in a rural environment which profits from a healthy tourist clientele each summer. Among its offers: an organic farm (Lachaím, no. 16), nursery (Bert Visscher, no. 21) and a chocolate factory (Chocolate & Zo, no. 30a).'

This project is enabled bij TransArtists and Fonds BKVB via the European Pépinières program.

More pictures can be seen under 'blog'

Tourist Landscapes | Dik Bouwhuis

Connected to the artist in residence of Sara Blaylock an exposition of Dik Bouwhuis takes place. Bouwhuis fotographs already twelve years with an analog camera a huge 'ribbon village'.

Since 1999, photographer artist Dik Bouwhuis walks with a large format analog camera along the Mediterranean coast.There evolves gradually, through a series oftoeristenurbanisaties, a linear megalopolis.His work is the recognizable and thus objectifying vision of the walker to a synthesis of their personal perception of the tourist landscape.

1 maart – 13 mei 2011

Een hostess, een portier en een conciërge behoren alle drie bij de logistiek van een gebouw. Als kunstenaar in een gastatelier voel ik mij als deze drie personages betrokken bij de architectuur van de mij toegewezen ruimte. Ik ben diegene die toont, diegene die het bewaakt en diegene die het in orde houdt; ‘Things that I can open, store and show’. In deze hoedanigheden verweef ik met de plek.

Vanuit het gastatelier heeft Karin van Pinxteren gecommuniceerd met andere kunstenaars die in hun werk nadenken over een andere persoon, personage, of een ander letterlijk als zichzelf of als toeschouwer deel uit laten maken van het werk: Anne Dijkstra [NL], Florette Dijkstra [NL], Soledad Pinto [CI], Claire Waffel [DE] en Neil Whiteleaf [UK].