Exhibition documentation

 Exhibition documentation
Martijn in ‘t Veld
The And
ZINGERpresents, Amsterdam
5 November – 12 December 2009
ZINGERpresents Gerard Doustraat 154, 1073VZ Amsterdam The Netherlands +31 6 2493 9047
[email protected] www.zingerpresents.net
Martijn in ‘t Veld Exhibition Text
ZINGERpresents Gerard Doustraat 154, 1073VZ Amsterdam The Netherlands +31 6 2493 9047
[email protected] www.zingerpresents.net
Martijn in ‘t Veld
‘The And’
5 November – 12 December
ZINGERpresents is pleased to announce the opening of Martijn in ‘t Veld’s first gallery presentation
in The Netherlands. In ‘t Veld draws his inspiration from a wide array of sources: philosophy, art
history as much as literature touch upon his practice to conjure up an idiosyncratic lexicon that is the
artists own, but which shares its sensibilities with the poetic conceptualism of the Sixties.
If through language we attest to the values and qualities of everything visual, then the words of T.S.
Elliot, ‘‘It is not the arrival but the journey that matters’’, give literary substance to the visual
deconstruction and semantics at play in the practice of the artist. ‘The And,’ as the title suggests, is
neither the beginning nor the end of the works on display, but a lingering trace implicit of its
continuity.
For his exhibition at ZINGERpresents for example: five copies of a mass-market paperback, ‘More
Adventures on Other Planets’ (D. Wollheim, 1963)’ , occupy a single shelf. Each brings with it its
own unique history whilst their combined presence alludes to a broader collective sphere. The
uncertainty about the prior owners, their experiences and adventures, opens the door to a Noirish
interrogation of history and the transcendental qualities of objecthood. Despite the restrained, near
puritanical language of the works on display each offers a broad, nearly endless string of open-ended
possibilities; as if in the practice of Martijn in ‘t Veld everything, even something as mundane as a
cup of coffee, exists entangled within the philosophy of time and space.
Martijn in ‘t Veld (1979) lives and works in Rotterdam, recent exhibitions
include 0.08014440536499023 °WL – 51.52841035161011 °NB 4.895009994506836 °OL –
52.356377979185666 °NB at ZINGERpresents, London, The I as an O, Tulips and Roses Vilnius, The
Long Take, Moot Nottingham. Martijn in ‘t Veld is a resident at Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam.
ZINGERpresents Gerard Doustraat 154, 1073VZ Amsterdam The Netherlands +31 6 2493 9047
[email protected] www.zingerpresents.net
Martijn in ‘t Veld Exhibition Images
ZINGERpresents Gerard Doustraat 154, 1073VZ Amsterdam The Netherlands +31 6 2493 9047
[email protected] www.zingerpresents.net
Martijn in ‘t Veld
‘The And’
Panoramic installation view ZINGERpresents, Amsterdam
5 November – 12 December
ZINGERpresents Gerard Doustraat 154, 1073VZ Amsterdam The Netherlands +31 6 2493 9047
[email protected] www.zingerpresents.net
Martijn in ‘t Veld
‘The And’
2009
Vinyl Lettering on wall
Dimensions variable
ZINGERpresents Gerard Doustraat 154, 1073VZ Amsterdam The Netherlands +31 6 2493 9047
[email protected] www.zingerpresents.net
Martijn in ‘t Veld
More Adventures on other planets
2009
five paperbacks on slanted wooden shelf
Dimensions variable
ZINGERpresents Gerard Doustraat 154, 1073VZ Amsterdam The Netherlands +31 6 2493 9047
[email protected] www.zingerpresents.net
Martijn in ‘t Veld
Untitled
2009
receipt for one cup of coffee at Planterium Cafe
27 x 10 cm
ZINGERpresents Gerard Doustraat 154, 1073VZ Amsterdam The Netherlands +31 6 2493 9047
[email protected] www.zingerpresents.net
Martijn in ‘t Veld
Bookmarks and other Stories
2009
Assorted bookmarks in wooden and steel display case
Dimensions variable
ZINGERpresents Gerard Doustraat 154, 1073VZ Amsterdam The Netherlands +31 6 2493 9047
[email protected] www.zingerpresents.net
Martijn in ‘t Veld
Bookmarks and other Stories
2009
Assorted bookmarks in wooden and steel display case
Dimensions variable
ZINGERpresents Gerard Doustraat 154, 1073VZ Amsterdam The Netherlands +31 6 2493 9047
[email protected] www.zingerpresents.net