Behind Images

The exhibition Behind Images opens on Friday 15 November 2013 at 20.00 hrs.

There is a grey area between the abstract imagination and the actual art object.
The group exhibition Behind Images deals with this battle between intuition and ratio in which emotions, coincidence and context play an important role. How is the invisible made visible by the visual artist? What is hidden behind the reality that we can observe?

In Behind Images, six visual artists are looking for the underlying truth. Their work is no longer a representation of a reality they observed. Their work is a new reality, guided by their emotions and imagination. When has the art object been contrived and when has it been ‘freely’ created?
Drawings, sculptures and paintings illustrate this very fine line between emotions and ratio.

With Navid Nuur (IR), Conrad Shawcross (GB), Jochen Mühlenbrink (DE), Alexandra Roozen (NL), Gabrielle van de Laak (NL), Jonas Wijtenburg (NL)

Brandstof is a regular event providing background information about the Garage Rotterdam exhibitions. We would like to invite you to two lectures to accompany the Behind Images exhibition on Sunday afternoon 15 December 2013 at 15.00 hrs.

The group exhibition Behind Images at Garage Rotterdam is about abstract art and the battle between intuition and sense. When is a work of art a product of the mind and when has it been created intuitively? How do emotions, coincidence and context influence the creative process?

The speakers are Sacha Bronwasser (art critic for Dutch national newspaper De Volkskrant) and Susanne van Els (violinist and Classical Music coordinator at the Royal Conservatory for Music and Dance in The Hague). In their lectures, both speakers will explore the grey area between sense and intuition on Sunday afternoon 15 December 2013.

Sacha Bronwasser will shed light on the role of intuition and coincidence when writing a text. She will show a short video that cannot be expressed in language to illustrate her point. She will involve the audience in this experiment.
Susanne van Els will discuss the link between sense and emotions when experiencing music. She opposes the idea that making music is mainly about emotions. According to Susanne van Els, music is simply about music.

Tickets € 4.50
Please register at info@garagerotterdam.nl

Behind Images until 12 January 2014.
Featuring Navid Nuur (IR), Conrad Shawcross (GB), Jochen Mühlenbrink (DE), Alexandra Roozen (NL), Gabrielle van de Laak (NL) and Jonas Wijtenburg (NL)

Klein Onderhoud is an event with drinks held on the last Friday of each exhibition. On Thursday 9 January 2014 from 16.30 – 20.30 is the concluding drink to mark the end of Behind Images.

The Wall
Garage Rotterdam starts on Klein Onderhoud with The Wall: a new platform for a new generation artists. Rosa Peters will present her work ‘Nachtegaal II’ in this first edition.

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