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A while back, our friends in the Netherlands, Joris Lindhout and Maaike Gouwenberg opened a show entitled What the modern era has gained in civility it has lost in poetic inspiration. It deconstructed the romantic and mythical image Hollywood has created of the Southern States, which are labeled ‘failed’ by neo-liberalism.
So, we had the opportunity to design their literary companion, To Live in the South One has to Be a Scar Lover— a collection of essays from the European perspective on the American South.
Nathan Martin of Room220 provided a wonderful review.
Also, you can support and purchase the book directly from Constance.
above: To Live in the South, One Has to Be a Scar Lover. 64 pgs., exposed binding, Edition of 500. 978-94-6190-238-2 | Editors— Maaike Gouwenberg & Joris Lindhout | Texts— Agnes Andeweg, Hal Crowther, Maxime Lachaud, Tom Patterson, Maarten Zwiers
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Berlin-based digital artist Sebastian Schmieg creates new work based on algorithmic image search results from Google. In the above video, he fed a transparent image into Google Image Search, asking it to find similar images. He then took the top result and fed it back into the algorithm, 2951 times. Interesting results indeed.
above: Search by Image, Recursively, Transparent PNG, #1, 2011
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Willem Popelier is a Dutch visual artist who uses photography focusing on conceptual representations of identity. He is fascinated by the common and manifest ways in which portraits are being used.
His series ||||| and Willem chronicles the lives of the identical twins ||||| and Willem, who were separated for ten years during their youth. The project questions modern family relationships and how identity is perceived through photography.
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Dutch publication Mister Motley recently covered an artist group show entitled, What the modern era has gained in civility it has lost in poetic inspiration. It was curated by our friends behind Southern Gothic- Joris Lindhout and Maaike Gouwenberg at 1646 in Den Haag.
The artists included: Brad Benischek & Case Miller, Chris Cogan, Jeremiah Day, Howard Finster, Joris Lindhout, Greely Myatt, Ricky Needham, Sanne Peper, Paul Thomas and Michel Varisco.
Read the full article here. —
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Anouk Kruithof lives and works in Berlin and the Netherlands. She is multi-media artist; primarily taking photos as well as working in video, installation, artist publications, and in collage.
In 2009, she created ENCLOSED CONTENT CHATTING AWAY IN THE COLOUR INVISIBILITY, an ever-changings installation out of approximately 3500 found coloured books. The installation is shown together with a video of the process.
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Ruth van Beek is a collage artist living and working in the Netherlands. She combines paper folds and origami to obstruct and hide the newly created imagery.
image: from series the great blue mountain range nr 3
