Marian Breedveld
Marian Breedveld has found in the world of the abstract painting
her own direction. In her paintings the process, the outcome,
the matter and the undefined presentation performance are all
equally important. Her goal is to make the matter from the experience
of boundaries in time and space tangible.
Breedveld plays in her work with the possibility that the viewer
disappears in that spaciousness , but is recalled by the presence
of paint as substance.
Marian Breedveld studied at Ateliers ’63 Haarlem.
She had various exhibitions in The Netherlands and abroad,
amongst them the FRAC Normandie (FR)
the FRAC Auvergne Clermont-Ferrand, (FR)
Musée Matisse le Cateau-Cambrésis (FR)
Centre d’art de l’Yonne, Château de Tanlay (FR)
Sophienholm (DK)
Le Carré Saint-Vincent Orléans (FR)
Maison de la Culture d’Amiens (FR)
Galerie du Cloître, Ecole des beaux-arts de Rennes (FR)
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag (NL)
Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Valence (FR)
Noordbrabants Museum, ‘s Hertogenbosch (NL)
and recently at the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam (NL)
which was accompanied by an elaborate catalogue about her
work.
http://www.marianbreedveld.com/
Jason Coburn
The ongoing theme within the work of Jason Coburn is the possibility
for shared values between creative and cultural categories. These categories
are understood through their production of material, knowledge
and experience. As such his work is often preoccupied with finding a
shortcut to an intermediate value between ‘things’.
The new wall pieces of Jason Coburn navigate a space between the
artisanal and the psychedelic, the luxurious and the illusional. Colorful
scale-tinted paper strips are pasted en masse to present the illusion of
brush strokes within random and geometric forms. “These works came
from a very simple process of considering why he started making art in
the first place i.e. how processes of representation might be understood,
renegotiated and reinvented. Taking into account the ‘intellectual
work of manufacture’ he began to look at ways in which techniques of
depiction, specifically within painting, could lead to inventive or contrary
uses of material”
The resulting process is a kind of “deconstructed fresco wallpapering”,
which employs an innovative technique using statically charged polypropylene
film and lasers to accurately transcribe patterns onto walls. The
outcomes are a tour de force of spellbinding geometry and implied textures,
creating a shifting engagement with material, space and context.
Jason Coburn, born 1969, Manchester, England. Undergraduate in Fine
Art at Middlesex university, London. Postgraduate in Curating at The
Royal College of Art, London. His work takes activities such as writing,
music and visual art to fuel an enquiry into the possibilities for shared
values between cultural practices and creative categories. He has
worked in University education since 1999, and has been a principle
lecturer, and an undergraduate course director in Fine Art. Coburn has
exhibited internationally and his work is included in several public and
private collections. He also works as a DJ, writer and freelance editor
and is currently based in Rotterdam.
http://jasoncoburn.tumblr.com
Jae Ko
Washington, D.C. based artist, Jae Ko uses rolled paper soaked
in sumi ink to form spare, geometrically balanced, wall relief
sculpture. Ko’s work “occupies a space between writing and
sculpture, between minimal abstraction and conceptual art.”
Her unconventional medium has been described as resembling
“yards of tightly wound velvet ribbon,” suggesting ordered and
organic nature.
Ko describes her process: “The edges of my three inch wide and
infinitely long bands of paper, create line drawings which spiral,
tighten and loosen depending on how they’re rolled. Saturating
the pre-set paper form in baths of Sumi ink such as saffron
and indigo, the flat pieces of paper elongate and swell from the
moisture.”
While visually bridging in appearance materials such as velvet
or charred wood, Jae Ko’s work offers sculptural surfaces that
compel inspection while suggesting the territory of deep space.
Jae Ko received her B.F.A. from Wako University, Tokyo, Japan
and her M.F.A from the Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD.
She has exhibited in Japan and throughout the United States,
including the Uneo Museum, Tokyo, Japan, the Corcoran
Museum of Art, Washington, DC, the Kennedy Museum of Art,
Athens, OH and the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art,
Ridgefield, Connecticut. She has been awarded numerous
fellowships including from The Pollock-Krasner Foundation and
Virginia Museum of Fine Art.
American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center, Washington.
Position
Since some years the artist Position has set the focal point of his work
on the contention with substantial spaces of urban surroundings.
Thereby he considers the specifics like material, surface, architecture
and utilization of each place. Transforming the spot in his certain way,
he offers the viewer a different way to perceive the setting.
In this intention installations and wall drawings are originated, often
very temporary and influenced by the environment. As long as the art
piece is exposed, the place is fulfilled with a special tension; it is now
a specific situation.
The artist, in civil life Stephan Köhler, studied at the University of
fine Arts in Berlin (UdK) and had class under Professor Frank Badur,
where he received his master degree in July 2009.
He exhibited in Berlin and abroad in:
Het Plafond in Rotterdam, The Netherlands
„La nuit de les musées“ , Musée des Beaux-arts Chambery, France
Cité des Artes de Chambery, France.
www.positionen.org
Borderlessness in Time and Space
