Juliaan Andeweg
Update 31 October 2020. Recently, a large number of, to say the least, unsavoury facts and circumstances about Juliaan Andeweg have become known via NRC newspaper. One may say that a cesspit has been opened. I have no reason to doubt the multitude of issues that have come up in NRC. Even if only part of it is true, that’s bad enough. I was already aware that Andeweg is not always a pleasant personality. The facts as described by NRC were not known to me. I choose to keep articles about Juliaan Andeweg online. After all, these articles are a fact; what’s done is done. I do, however, value it that the reader is aware of the shocking behaviour of Juliaan Andeweg and how this has been dealt with over the years. See the article in NRC here: https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2020/10/30/hoe-een-kunstenaar-carriere-maakt-onder-aanhoudende-beschuldigingen-van-aanranding-en-verkrachting-a4018047. PDF: https://cdn.fbsbx.com/v/t59.2708-21/123299884_409567000213868_5072195490907602207_n.pdf/201030_NRC_beschuldiging_aanranding_verkrachting_JulianAndeweg.pdf?_nc_cat=102&ccb=2&_nc_sid=0cab14&_nc_ohc=odBGMpWbizYAX-qu7tq&_nc_ht=cdn.fbsbx.com&oh=e8e985b049d3fdbb574769820c76dd18&oe=5F9E3A7C&dl = 1. Introspection into these matters would suit the art world, including Villa Next Door.
This year’s Beelden in Leiden (Sculptures in Leiden) summer show is called Concepts of Time as the venerable National Archaeological Museum (Rijksmuseum van Oudheden) in the city is celebrating its two hundred years anniversary.
Juliaan Andeweg
Part of the exhibition is on show in the museum and that is where i started my own visit.
Juliaan Andeweg
Juliaan Andeweg
Juliaan Andeweg (1986) surely was lucky being able to install his work in the Museum’s Egyptian temple.
Juliaan Andeweg
Works by other artists are on show in a separate hall.
Damian Kapojos
Damian Kapojos
Damian Kapojos
Damian Kapojos
Damian Kapojos (1980) made a sculpture specially for the exhibition in his by now well known vocabulary full of inner conflict and search for harmony.
Camile Smeets
Camile Smeets
Camile Smeets
Camile Smeets
Camile Smeets (1983) undeniably has a place in a show in the Archaeological Museum full of mythology.
Nynke Koster
Nynke Koster
Nynke Koster (1987) is also an artist that springs to mind when thinking about archaeology and time.
Emma van der Put
Emma van der Put
Emma van der Put’s (1988) video is about sculpture and the instability of vision.
Bastienne Kramer
Bastienne Kramer (1961) has a wall for a series of small objects based on the feminine in sculpture from the early days of humanity up to the present.
Bastienne Kramer
There are also two big sculptures by her on show.
Daniëlle van Ark
Daniëlle van Ark (1974) gives a photographic reinterpretation of Michelangelo’s David’s hand.
Bastienne Kramer
Bastienne Kramer
Jasper Hagenaar
Painter Jasper Hagenaar (1977) paints his own self imagined mythologies.
Jasper Hagenaar
The exhibition in the museum is modest but diverse and may give the visitor to the museum some interesting afterthoughts about the present as part of history and archaeology.
Damian Kapojos
Beelden in Leiden’s home base is Hooglandse Kerkgracht, a closed canal turned into an intimate, leafy avenue.
Damian Kapojos
Damian Kapojos
Damian Kapojos
Damian Kapojos
Damian Kapojos
At the north end of the canal the show starts with another, bigger work by Kapojos, like the one in the museum looking like a complete cosmos elegantly kept in balance.
Yair Callender
Yair Callender
Yair Callender
Yair Callender
Yair Callender
Yaïr Callender (1987) is still in his mood of floating, sleeping, dreaming and the world of mythology and mystique it creates.
Jonathan van Doornum
Jonathan van Doornum
One of the more severe works (but uncertain about the will of a stern god) is by Jonathan van Doornum (1987).
Rein Verhoef
Rein Verhoef
Rein Verhoef
There is a certain strictness in this work by Rein Verhoef (1989) too, but of quite a different kind; it looks quite self-evident and the care with which it is made, makes it almost sensual.
Camile Smeets
Camile Smeets
Camile Smeets
Camile Smeets
In her fountain-like work Smeets tries to find yet another basic narrative language.
Robbert Pauwels
Robbert Pauwels
Robbert Pauwels
Robbert Pauwels
Robbert Pauwels
Robbert Pauwels (1983) made a batman as a sentinel, his ears vaguely reminiscing the guarding Anubis’ ears.
Daniel van Straalen
Daniel van Straalen
Daniel van Straalen
Daniel van Straalen
Daniel van Straalen (1987) apparently used Indo-Pacific carving as the base for two poles painted completely white, standing to wait for ancestors that still have to be born.
Juliaan Andeweg
Juliaan Andeweg
Juliaan Andeweg
In Andeweg’s installation i missed the promised “bottle with imitation water,” but it is all the more intriguing.
Lillian Vlaun
Lillian Vlaun (1993) quasi-reconstructed a vase in materials that are not what they seem to be.
Nynke Koster
Nynke Koster
Nynke Koster
Nynke Koster
Koster has an ornamented circle or lid in front of the magnificent gothic facade of the north transept of the 15th century Hooglandse Kerk; the scarab on the circle being a reminder of time.
Lillian Vlaun
The Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC) is the third venue for Concepts of Time.
Alexandra Hunts & Anna Fijnstein
The place, although sympathetic, is not photography friendly, so here is a choice of the more or less photographable works.
Alexandra Hunts & Anna Fijnstein
Alexandra Hunts (1990) and Anna Frijstein (1991) made a number of variations on the Willendorf Venus.
Sander van Noort
Sander van Noort (1986), originally a painter, now also makes sculptures based on classical sculpture.
Jonathan van Doornum
Jasper Hagenaar
Sander van Noort
Camile Smeets
Camile Smeets
Bas de Wit
There are also sculptures by Bas de Wit (1977) who seem to lead a life apart from reality.
Jasper Hagenaar
Bas de Wit
Daniëlle van Ark
Nynke Koster
Generally curator Sandrine van Noort (curator of the LUMC art collection) has made a very strong choice, avoiding easy sentimentalism and easy art that should appeal to different target audiences.
Nynke Koster
Nynke Koster
Nynke Koster
Nynke Koster
There is a strong sense of history being part of the contemporary world, and there is place for mysticism, mythology and ideas about craftsmanship in present day art practice.
Nynke Koster
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Content of all photographs courtesy to the artists and Beelden in Leiden.
Bertus Pieters
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