Chris Burden - Beam Drop

The sculpture was constructed live before a large audience on May 30 2009 in the sculpture park of Middelheimmuseum - Antwerp - Belgium.

Chris Burden - Beam Drop

Grab a cup of coffee or pour yourself a glass of wine and take the time to view this VIDEO taken during the installation of a similar sculpture at Inhotim - Brazil in 2008.

Stunning!!!

Camiel Van Breedam - J'ai rendez-vous avec vous

Camiel Van Breedam (B) - J'ai rendez-vous avec vous

artist in residence Flanders Fields Museum 2009

Rendezvous

Alan Seeger, 1916

I have a rendezvous with Death

At some disputed barricade,

When Spring comes back with rustling shade

And apple-blossoms fill the air

I have a rendezvous with Death

When Spring brings back blue days and fair.

It may be he shall take my hand

And lead me into his dark land

And close my eyes and quench my breath

It may be I shall pass him still.

I have a rendezvous with Death

On some scarred slope of battered hill,

When Spring comes round again this year

And the first meadow-flowers appear.

God knows 'twere better to be deep

Pillowed in silk and scented down,

Where Love throbs out in blissful sleep,

Pulse nigh to pulse, and breath to breath,

Where hushed awakenings are dear...

But I've a rendezvous with Death

At midnight in some flaming town,

When Spring trips north again this year,

And I to my pledged word am true,

I shall not fail that rendezvous.

related posts
Camiel Van Breedam - pure and simple

Camiel Van Breedam - 7² x 2

Art from the Start

"Art from the Start" is a unique art event taking place on 23-25 October 2009. The venue is a 1930s residential property boasting its original architectural features. Visitors can admire and purchase original high quality works of art directly from the artist.
14 artists in various disciplines exhibit and sell their works - all info HERE

opening night ...

... with view on the artworks in the garden.

and all over the house.

sculptor Leo de Buysere

painter Helen Tyrell

details ...

... and more ...

... hard to photograph because of the light.

Karim Kaïdi

view his site (by clicking his name) to see much better pictures and videos about his work

mixed media artist Eline 't Sant

view more posts on Eline 't Sant's art in 'Search this blog' on top right of page.

small detail of large painting by painter Marloes Wijtsma

detail of ceramic work by Georges de Buysere

photographer Rebekka Vanderhaeghen

ceramist Philip Van Hoeck
to view more of his work : use 'Search this blog' on top right of page

painter Jan Goris

lighting sculptures by felt-artist Ann Galand

Mels Dees - Wolkenampel

traffic light for clouds

12 meters high working traffic light is placed in a natural reserve 'Het Vinne', the only natural lake in Flanders.

The rational element of a traffic light doesn't cooperate with the natural freedom of nature.

Mels Dees (Netherlands)

part of Tempus Arti triennial art route this summer

36 international artists - interaction between local environment and art installations.

posts on Tempus Arti via this LINK.

Sofie Vangor at Tempus Arti

Location : a tall old watermill that - because of the use of the colours - looks like a dollshouse... it is inhabited by tiny little people...

... with endless stairs spiralling upwards to the top.

Looking down, and we've not even reached the upper level yet.

There is one level higher up but it is closed to the public.

So, now that we are here ... where is the artwork?

All over the building, from top to bottom, are teeny weeny little shelves with teeny weeny little people cut out from very old photographs.

Sofie Vangor creates intimate scenes where the people pictured come back to life, she brings them into the present.

There are so many of them one would like to invent a story to assemble the different scenes into a storyboard or picture novel.

The picture below is just to show the size of the artworks.

I could not find a personal website of Sofie Vangor, but HERE is more of her artwork.

part of Tempus Arti triennial art route this summer

36 international artists - interaction between local environment and art installations.

posts on Tempus Arti via this LINK.

Maria Kapteijns & Valentijn Dijkmeijer - Leap in the Deep

Sprong in het diepe

Location : a neglected army site in the midst of the fields; an abandonned subterranean water reservoir that used to provide water for the fire brigade.

The space is in complete darkness, the picture below was taken with a flash, only then was it visible of how the room looked like.

In the partitions between the concrete beams are frames. The frames will light up one after the other following the movement of persons jumping into a void.

Almost impossible to capture with my type of camera the pictures are of poor quality, but I was quite impressed with the feeling of this dark space (the pictures show more details of the building than actually visible in reality).

www.mariakapteijns.nl


part of Tempus Arti triennial art route this summer
36 international artists - interaction between local environment and art installations.
posts on Tempus Arti via this LINK.