Fifty-five years of work from the life of Marten Hendriks. Starting this Saturday, his wonderful selection of art will be on show for four months.
From 13 October, the multifaceted ‘Time Slip’ exhibition by Marten Hendriks (b. Doetinchem, 1941) will be on display at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. ‘Time Slip’ coincides with the publication of the monograph by Alex de Vries, which also showcases the artist’s life and work. The Hendriks exhibition has been compiled from a varied combination of paintings, drawings, photography and scale models.
Over the first decade of his artistic career, Marten Hendriks was chiefly concerned with painting and drawing. He exhibited in the Netherlands and abroad, and his first retrospective was staged at Museum Arnhem in 1972. On seeing that overview he felt that he was experiencing a retrospective of a deceased artist and stopped painting. He started to work with sound, photography and film, and created installations and performances. His interest in graphics led to 16mm films and performative actions. The artist developed video art, sound art, mail art and all kinds of other applications for his expressive ideas. In the 1970s Hendriks investigated the space that the body occupies. He produced a soundtrack of his body by punching its contour into a piano roll, resulting in a melody line in 3/4 time.
In the 1980s, when Hendriks started to paint again, he produced about 20 paintings over a decade. He also worked on a great quantity of drawings every day, and by looking at these selectively these fed into his painting. Over the last two decades Hendriks has above all evolved into an artist who works with the latest digital media as a contemporary continuation of the graphic visual idiom. The influence of Marten Hendriks on several generations of artists who trained in Arnhem is recognized by many of his former students.
The exhibition has been compiled with help of guestcurator Alex de Vries, who has also written a monograph about the artist: ‘Marten Hendriks – Leven en werk’ (Marten Hendriks – Life and Work). The impressive cohesion of the selection of the artist’s diversity of work makes the exhibition exceptional. The presentation includes Hendriks’ ‘unseen’ works: ‘Grote rode verkleuring’ (‘Red Discolouration on Canvas’) and ‘Grote donkere verkleuring’ (‘Large Red Discolouration’) from Collectie De Groen in Arnhem. Components of Hendriks’ hotly discussed ‘Onvoltooide beeldindex’ (‘Incomplete Visual Index’) are also being shown. The selection for ‘Time Slip’ has been compiled from the collections of Museum Het Valkhof, the CODA Museum in Apeldoorn, Museum Arnhem and Museum Jan Cunen.
‘Time Slip’ can be visited at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen through to 13 January, coinciding with the exhibitions ‘Pure Rubens’, ‘Boijmans in the War’, and ‘Sensory Spaces 15’ by Sol Calero.
· Monograph: ‘Marten Hendriks – Leven en Werk’ by Alex de Vries, with the support of the Mondriaan Fund, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds and the Jaap Harten Fonds. Published by Uitgeverij De Zwaluw.
Contactgegevens
-
- Vincent Cardinaal
- Persvoorlichter//Press Officer
- vincent.cardinaal@boijmans.nl
- +31657263104
Gerelateerde thema's
Gerelateerd nieuws
Reminder: herplaatsing beeld Hulya Yilmaz, 24 april 2024 Westerkade Rotterdam
Komende woensdag 24 april, om 16 uur, is de feestelijke herplaatsing van het beeld For you my love © van Hulya Yilmaz. Het iconische beeld was vanaf 2003 tot 2019 te zien voor het gebouw van Museum...
Snakken naar Boijmans: museumgebouw vanaf 1 juni 2024 vijf weken geopend!
Vanaf 1 juni 2024: bezoek het monumentale gebouw van Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen voor een unieke kunsttoer door de bouwplaats.
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen valt in de prijzen bij de 100 jaar Volkskracht Awards!
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen heeft 150.000 euro gekregen van de Stichting Bevordering van Volkskracht. Dit voor het project Snakken naar Boijmans. In de zomer van 2024 gaat het nu gesloten museumg...
Zuid. Boijmans zet stap richting museum van de toekomst
Met kunstprojecten biedt het Rotterdamse museum podium aan een nieuwe generatie kunstenaars op Zuid. Het hele jaar hebben kinderen, studenten, jonge makers en de buurt meegebouwd aan een bruisende ...
Ruim half miljoen bezoekers zien collectie van Boijmans bij de buren
Meer dan vijfhonderd topstukken uit de collectie van Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen zijn de afgelopen jaren te zien geweest in elf tentoonstellingen bij acht buren in Rotterdam. Dat smaakt naar meer.