Life of Ornament by Viewmaster Projects

Life of Ornament is a crossover project combining cultural heritage and time-based media. Artist duo Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács present two video works in which the renowned ceramic decals of Sphinx and the Société Céramique come to life. Projected large onto the historic Eiffel Building’s facades, the once motionless, decorative prints on saucers, cups, plates, and teapots transform into animated leitmotifs that flow into one another, creating new juxtapositions of the imagery. Using modern digital techniques, the ornaments ‘detach’ from the decorative dinnerware they embellish. The two video works – one highlighting floral prints, the other, landscape motifs – honour the outstanding design of Maastricht’s manufacturing industry and function as a contemporary animation, entwining different cultures and style periods.
Trailer Life of Ornament from Viewmaster Projects on Vimeo.

Life of Ornament runs parallel to the Eiffel Building’s renovation. In the evening, when refurbishing work halts, the two video works illuminate the scaffolding scrim surrounding the building. The projections will partly move with the different stages of the restoration.

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Out There Part 1 in Maastricht

Out There part I 
Viewmaster Projects in cooperation with The Nederlands Fotomuseum

The two-part exhibition Out There kicked of in Maastricht in October and is now counting its last days. The follow-up, part two will is planned for Rotterdam (February 2015).
Out There is showing present-day landscape images by contemporary artists who work with various media such as video, photography and ‘net art’.
50 artworks are put on display that are part of the 500-year-old tradition of landscape art and at the same time stretch and make current the traditional frames of meaning through new techniques and views. 
Spread out through various locations in public spaces such as the impressive Eiffelgebouw (Sphinx), Mosae Forum and Boschstraat,  Out There #1  Maastricht features work of 25 international artists such as Barbara Visser, Marjolijn Dijkman, Carlos Irijalba, Dan Walwin, Marnix Goossens, Atomic Elroy, Noémie Goudal, Thomas Steiner and many more.

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Encounter with Sanne Vaassen

Maastricht based artist, Sanne Vaassen (Sittard, 1991), recently graduated from Fine Arts department at ABKM Maastricht. With her graduation work she made a successful entrance to the art world. She was awarded with Henriëtte Hustinxprijs 2013.

At the moment you can see her work in the Museum De Pont in Tilburg and in Heerlen and with various exhibitions and plans ahead Sanne is ready and excited to develop her art further.
I met Sanne few years ago, she came to FASHIONCLASH model casting, very pretty and tall girl with genuine charm and cheerfulness. Very sweet, but with a character. I have not seen her work before until I attended the 2013 graduation exhibition at ABKM. Her work is as sincere and cheerful as her personality, and at the same time visually tasteful. She creates poetic representations of various processes where coincidence and transformations are involved.
She pretends nothing, she just is. When I spoke to her lately she said to me (with a big smile on her face): “I really like what I do and make.”

Paraphrasing Babel

Last night I attended the opening of a brand new exhibition by Viewmaster foundation 'Paraphrasing Babel'.
As you may remember I also reported about the previous exhibitions, Body Talks in 2011 and For Real in 2010. This time the video installations and projections are showcased in public space in Maastricht and in Heerlen.
The evening started with a bus tour from Maastricht to Heerlen, where the official opening took place.
Here you can take a look at some impressions but I recommend you to take a walk in Maastricht and Heerlen and enjoy the full experience of Paraphrasing Babel. The exhibition is open until November 18th ( every evening 6 pm - 23 pm).
http://www.paraphrasing-babel.eu/

Paraphrasing Babel is a multidisciplinary exhibition with video projections, video installations, moving graphic structures and sound artworks in the public space of the cities of Heerlen and Maastricht - two urban centres with a very diverse feel in a border region where different languages and dialects are spoken and different cultures meet. The 35 projections and ‘soundscapes’ have rarely been shown outside the confines of museums or art institutes. Their specific contents make these pieces perfect for showing in the (semi-)public domain. After all, it is on the street where different languages meet or blend and where the media and commerce are directly addressing the public. In these surroundings, the artworks engage in a direct relationship with the onlooker or passer-by and reach the public in an alternative form.

BodyTalks, video art installations in public space

BodyTalks – Video Art & Cinedans in Public Space

19 video works in the city + 4 installations inside cultural institutions
September 30th until October 23rd - 18.00 - 00.00 hrs - Maastricht

In few hours Nederlandse Dansdagen (Dutch Dance Festival) will open with a very promising program.
Before that let’s have a look at BodyTalks, that had it’s opening last week. From September 30th until October 23rd, Viewmaster Maastricht and Cinedans Amsterdam present the exhibition BodyTalks – Video Art & Cinedans in Public Space in the inner city of Maastricht. From shop windows, vacant business premises and residences, 23 videos and Cinedans films are showed every evening on the streets of Maastricht.http://brankopopovic.blogspot.com/2011/09/bodytalks.html 

I am a boy band

The video installations can be found in Brusselse Straat and Grote Gracht in Maastricht and that is very good choice. First of all because it’s the street I have to use while I go home after work and I get to enjoy this experience more often. But also because these street have certain urban atmosphere where various people are coming through. There are coffeeshops, student bars, University, empty shops, snack bars, but also very nice houses. I’ve always liked this part of the city because it has a ‘big city’ vibe. BodyTalks gives it an extra dimension and lights it up.

Street view with flyer image  from Prototype (2007) by Yves Ackermann 

EGOTRIP.TV by Daniel van Hauten

EGOTRIP.TV by Daniel van Hauten
30.01 - 14.03 2010 Schunck* Heerlen

* for more information: EGOTRIP.TV
* www.danielvanhauten.com