SYC/3 a sneak preview

 

 

a teaser

  

welcome in SMAHK (Stedelijk Museum for Contemporary Art , Assen, The Netherlands

1-29/11/2015

 

 

The project

 

Show Your Colours is based on the cross pollination and interaction between visual artists. The initiative comes from a Belgian artist Marjan Verhaeghe. The /1 edition of the project was shown in Wieze (2011, Space for actual art Villa de Olmen, Be), the /2 edition in Lausanne (2012, Musée Espace Arlaud, Ch), the /3 edition was presented in Assen (2015, SMAHK, Nl). Each time she invited some artists to join the project. Show Your Colours has now developed to an interaction between artists from Lithuania, Switzerland, The Netherlands , South Korea - The Netherlands, Great-Britain, Germany and Belgium.

There is an affinity between the participating artists, though they come from different countries, different socio-cultural backgrounds, vary in age and experience, work in different media.

In each edition the participants got to know each other during a first meeting. They joined the project to discuss and share in a confidential way ideas, concepts and process.

The artists meet a few times on location. The rest of the action is virtual and takes place in their own studios. Via (private) blog, mail & skype we keep contact.

Show Your Colours is the theme. The intention is that the participating artists inspire each other while discussing this sentence. In order to find new points of view in their usual way of thinking and working, to deepen their proper artistic ways, to create new work. During the last phase all artists gather on location to find the best location and presentation for each work. This way both, the individual works and the exhibition itself, will benefit.

Confrontation with the public is important. An exhibition has an extra value one can’t get in virtual galleries: the tactile, visible, measurable aspect. Therefore it’s important to find a right presentation location: the exhibition is not only about the works shown, but also about the concept behind it.

On one hand this way of working offers the participants "tools" to create interesting works, strong in form and content, with a renewing or strengthening aspect in their own oeuvre.

On the other hand there is the intention to generate communication. Interest in the story of the other artists, their background and their way of working, is the base of a cooperation with an international value.

The project is defined by its length and caracterized by enthusiasm.