Klaas Kloosterboer
20 May - 28 Jul 2006
KLAAS KLOOSTERBOER
20 May - 28 June 2006
Klaas Kloosterboer considers his work in the first place as an occupation. To make a statement as an individual artist one has to occupy space in a context of occupations of others, once more. Related to this he says: "The 'I' is occupied by the collective, the notion 'I' is a collective invention, the word 'I' covers up a cleavage. Language itself is an occupation, art is an occupation. There is no get away, one is occupied." It expresses a feeling of necessary aggression which actually does not belong in the arts and which above all ought to be a haven of freedom. The artist knows that continuously space has to be created in order to be able to occupy. It is a paradox of desiring to be 'free' and yet at the same time inevitably having a bondage to what there is already. This glaring contrast is found in his current exhibition in forms of occupation and clearance, of locating and destroying a place.
20 May - 28 June 2006
Klaas Kloosterboer considers his work in the first place as an occupation. To make a statement as an individual artist one has to occupy space in a context of occupations of others, once more. Related to this he says: "The 'I' is occupied by the collective, the notion 'I' is a collective invention, the word 'I' covers up a cleavage. Language itself is an occupation, art is an occupation. There is no get away, one is occupied." It expresses a feeling of necessary aggression which actually does not belong in the arts and which above all ought to be a haven of freedom. The artist knows that continuously space has to be created in order to be able to occupy. It is a paradox of desiring to be 'free' and yet at the same time inevitably having a bondage to what there is already. This glaring contrast is found in his current exhibition in forms of occupation and clearance, of locating and destroying a place.