Sensory Spaces 1 - Oscar Tuazon
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen launched a new exhibition format called ‘Sensory Spaces’. American artist Oscar Tuzaon has kicked off this new series. In this open space Tuazon arranged several sculptural constructions. The artist fuses architectural and sculptural idioms, thus dislocating the viewer’s perception of the space: the classical museum experience of ‘looking’ becomes one of ‘experiencing’. Sensory Spaces 1 – Oscar Tuazon is on view until 29 September 2013.
Each year three artists will be invited to develop site-specific work for the new series ‘Sensory Spaces’ in the Willem van der Vorm Gallery. The selected artists have never or rarely shown their work in the Netherlands and each artist has their own work method, use of materials and vision.
The Location
In 2012 Tuazon exhibited the work Totally Wrong in the exhibition ‘Minimal Myth’ at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. One year later Tuazon has his first solo exhibition in the museum. Tuazon: “A couple of years ago I did a very simple work called White Walls - it’s a threshold, a passage through a wall. I was surprised with the result, it made this very mundane act of walking from one room to another into a strangely charged, very conscious experience. It’s just a door, right? But at the same time it’s an artwork that actually allows you to pass through a wall. To me the most interesting objects, or spaces, are like that - simultaneously magical and banal. For the project at Boijmans I want to see how far I can go with this.”
In deze video vertelt Oscar Tuazon over zijn manier van werken. Conservator Moderne en Hedendaagse kunst Francesco Stocchi introduceert de serie Sensory Spaces en de kunstenaar.
Inspiration
In this work Tuazon responds to the architectural qualities of the space, emphasizing notions of transformation and surprise. The visitor will pose questions when they enter the object, contrary to the characteristic of architecture which is all about offering solutions. This means that the objects ask to be touched, even challenged, by their beholders. In his work Tuazon re-examines the principles of minimalism. Minimalism is all about perfection which means that machinery takes a great place in this process. Tuazon, on the other hand, makes everything with his hands. By doing so, he confronts himself with construction problems and searches for unconventional solutions. To achieve certain architectual solutions, Tuazon finds his inspiration in the 'vonu' community. The 'vonu' choose to live a life that emphasizes finding ways to live beyond the ‘sight, sound and mind of those who will not live-and-let-live’. This means they only use products that are given to them from nature and scraps. Function determines form instead of form follows function.
Each exhibition will be accompanied by a bilingual booklet with an essay by the curator. In October the German artist Sabine Hornig (1964) will be the second artist invited to create a work specially for the gallery.
Sensory Spaces Series
Sensory Spaces is a series of commissioned solo projects presented in the Willem van der Vorm Gallery, located in the freely accessible exhibition space in the museum’s entrance hall. Artists are invited to respond to the architectural qualities of the space, emphasizing notions of transformation and surprise.
Sensory Spaces 1 - Oscar Tuazon
American artist Oscar Tuzaon has kicked off this new series. In this open space Tuazon has arranged several sculptural constructions. The artist fuses architectural and...
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Sensory Spaces 2 - Sabine Hornig
Sabine Hornig (Germany, lives in Berlin) is known for making photographs, sculptures and installations that distort or intensify our experience of space and time. At first glance, her work can appear deceptively simple, but...
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Sensory Spaces 3 - Elad Lassry
Elad Lassry focuses on the workings of the photographic image, both on a two-dimensional plane and in three-dimensional space. ‘Pictures,’ says Lassry, ‘are so very like what we see, and so very unlike what we see.’ He strips...
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Sensory Spaces 4 - Liu Wei
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen asked Liu Wei (Beijing, 1972) to make a site-specific for the forth edition of Sensory Spaces. Liu Wei’s work deals with China’s rapid modernization and urban growth. Literally using the materials a city is made of, he takes...
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Sensory Spaces 5 - Siobhán Hapaska
The fifth site-specific installation is made by Siobhán Hapaska. Siobhán Hapaska (Belfast, 1963) makes installations that speak to all the senses. She uses organic and synthetic materials and works on the border between...
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Sensory Spaces 6 - Sara VanDerBeek
For the sixth edition of the series Sensory Spaces Sara VanDerBeek (Baltimore 1976) walked around Rotterdam for several days; she photographed what she saw and built an archive of images. From this experience, she has created a modular installation...
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Sensory Spaces 7 - Aleksandra Domanovic
For the seventh edition Aleksandra Domanovic (Novi Sad, Yugoslavia 1981) has made an installation that examines themes such as reproduction and representation and man and machine. In the Willem van der Vorm Gallery a cluster of semi-transparent foils printed with images that include...
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Sensory Spaces 8 - Mike Nelson
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen invited the British artist Mike Nelson (Loughborough 1967) to produce a work for Sensory Spaces 8. Nelson presented ‘Amnesiac Shrine’, an installation made up of a set of successive artworks that combine to form an...
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Sensory Spaces 9 - Beni Bischof
Beni Bischof is the ultimate mix and matcher: in all his work he combines and adapts existing images, texts and situations. His work can be read as an ironic commentary on the banality of everyday life. And he doesn’t...
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Sensory Spaces 10 - Olaf Nicolai
For the tenth edition of the ongoing series Sensory Spaces, Nicolai presented a site-specific adaptation of the works ‘Probestück 1, 2 and 3’. Following the Greek composer Iannis Xenakis’ (1922-2001) definition of architecture as ‘petrified music’, it investigates...
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Sensory Spaces 11 - Raphael Hefti
Hefti's work is experimental, it untilizes chemical and technical processes with industrial equipment in order to discover new things. His work includes many aspects; nature and industry, abstraction and figuration. Hefti often works with engineers, scientists and even...
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