Summer in the City
With works by:
Marie Aly
Sander Breure & Witte van Hulzen
Heide Hinrichs
Khan Lee
Tatiana Macedo
Stephan Mörsch
Anna Ostoya
Sanne Rous
Fernando Sanchez Castillo
Aldwin van de Ven
Marjolijn de Wit
Review at Metropolis M magazine:
More interesting, more varied and more atmospheric, the summer exhibition at Tegenboschvanvreden Summer in the City. Gallery owners Pietje Tegenbosch and Martin van Vreden suggested a summer exhibition of up and unprecedented work.
Besides Anna Ostoya collages, installations of Heide Hinrichs and mysterious portraits of Marie Aly are the pictures of the Portuguese Tatiana Macedo and the works of Fernando Sanchez Castillo Spanish the most.
Tatiana Macedo travelled to Shanghai in 2008 and photographed chairs of various Chinese tourist buses parked in profile. The upholstery of the chairs is corny, the curtains through which they are pale and wrinkled stabbing. Everything speaks the fatigue of the long journey. But in the window reflected the sky, creating an atmosphere of freedom and dreaming.
The video Castillo shows that political commitment has not disappeared from contemporary art. Castillo had a group of blind (stored) statues of the former dictator Franco groping, groping as a symbol of a dark past. The blind literally get dirty hands and the hesitant way in which the blind touch the statues, symbolizing the loading and sensitivity of the subject.
Thomas van Lier
