Yes, These Eyes Are the Windows, catalogue

This catalogue was published on the occasion of the projection of the video Yes, These Eyes Are the Windows directed by Saskia Olde Wolbers at the Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles, from 13 February to 24 April 2016 and from 14 May to 11 September 2016 . The Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles presents the film Yes, These Eyes Are the Windows by Saskia Olde Wolbers. In this video piece, the dilapidated terraced house at 87 Hackford Road in south London, where Vincent van Gogh lived in 1873, is cast in the role of biographer, and narrates a fictional history that revolves around the mythification of Van Gogh’s stay within its humble walls. This publication – comprising texts, archival photographs and stills from the video – revisits the vast research project that testifies to the admiration and fascination surrounding 87 Hackford Road and the work and life of Van Gogh. Saskia Olde Wolbers’s visual creations, with their aqueous consistency and feverish atmosphere, weave themselves into a speculative documentary composition. This catalogue is published in an edition of 500. The first 50 copies are published as a limited edition signed by the artist and numbered 1 to 50 on the colophon page, and are accompanied by an original 4-colour print on 320g Rives Tradition, 18.5 x 28 cm, numbered and signed by the artist

Mit der Leidenschaft des Anderen : ein Kurzführer durch das Werk von Thomas Hirschhorn

Schon seit Ende der 1980er Jahre und bis heute setzt der Schweizer Künstler Thomas Hirschhorn Gesten in den öffentlichen Raum, aber auch in Museen und in Galerien, die das Wesen eines irrlichternden Mementos aufweisen, Zeichen einer kalkuliert in Szene gesetzten Hilflosigkeit. Dabei erfindet er sozusagen eine Kunstfigur, die seine Werke zu machen scheint. Seine wuchernden Objekte, Schrift- und Bildtafeln, entsprechen Handlungen, die ein Getriebener, ein Wahnsinniger gemacht haben könnte. Hirschhorn betätigt sich somit als Überbringer einer entfesselt leidenschaftlichen Emotionalität, die in krassem Kontrast steht zum kontrollierten, von der Vernunft gelenkten, von übertriebenen Affekten und Irrationalität geläuterten Idealbild des westlich aufgeklärten Kulturmenschen

Albert Welti im Kunsthaus Zürich : die Versuchungen des rechtschaffenen Bürgers ; Zeichnungen und Graphik rund um die "Walpurgisnacht" ; [Ausstellung im Kunsthaus Zürich, 16. Februar bis 18. März 1984] / Bice Curiger

ALBERT WELTI IM KUNSTHAUS ZÜRICH : DIE VERSUCHUNGEN DES RECHTSCHAFFENEN BÜRGERS ; ZEICHNUNGEN UND GRAPHIK RUND UM DIE "WALPURGISNACHT" ; [AUSSTELLUNG IM KUNSTHAUS ZÜRICH, 16. FEBRUAR BIS 18. MÄRZ 1984] / BICE CURIGER Albert Welti im Kunsthaus Zürich : die Versuchungen des rechtschaffenen Bürgers ; Zeichnungen und Graphik rund um die "Walpurgisnacht" ; [Ausstellung im Kunsthaus Zürich, 16. Februar bis 18. März 1984] / Bice Curiger (1) Einband (1) Vortitelblatt (9) Titelseite (11) Impressum (12) Inhaltsverzeichnis (13) Vorwort (15) Einleitung (17) Lebenslauf (18) "Walpurgisnacht" (36) Die Macht der Gebote (56) Katalog der Gemälde und Zeichnungen (65) Konkordanz (94) Bibliographie (96) Abkürzungsverzeichnis (97

Yes, These Eyes Are the Windows at the Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles

Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles Shown in conjunction with the preceding exhibitions at the Fondation from February to April 2016, the film Yes, These Eyes Are the Windows (2015) by Saskia Olde Wolbers is once again being presented in its own room. This film revisits the unusual past of the house at 87 Hackford Road in the Brixton area of south London where Van Gogh lived from 1873 to 1874. On the basis of his letters and different accounts relating to his brief stay in this terraced house, Saskia Olde Wolbers creates a video piece combining fantasy with realism, in which her free interpretation of the facts mingles with elements of reality. The house, in the role of narrator, unfolds a fiction about the layers of myth that have settled upon the artist and about his ghostly influence on the fate of the house and its subsequent owners. Organic and talkative, this storyteller built of bricks and wood conducts us into its universe of fluid outlines, a mosaic of visual and documentary elements. The work Yes, These Eyes Are the Windows is the fruit of a production in two stages. It was first presented in 2014 as a site-specific audio installation in Van Gogh’s house in Brixton, as the culmination of a two-year collaboration with the London-based art association Artangel. In 2015 it was then created as a film, in which form it is now being shown in Arles. Curators of the exhbition: Bice Curiger and Julia Marchand About the artist Dutch artist Saskia Olde Wolbers, born in 1971 and living in the UK, has been working with video since the mid-1990s. Her short productions are meticulously elaborated microcosms that blend fictional scenarios, documentary facts and fantastical environments. Sustained by a narrative that is delivered – anonymously and out of sync – by an off-screen voice, and which attests to the artist’s fascination with the transmission of histories, these videos mirror the question as to the credibility of today’s profusion of information. Simultaneously aerial and aquatic, Saskia Olde Wolbers’s fluid universe oscillates between utopia and nightmare: like images in a darkroom, these stories prove to be at once reality and illusion. Represented in numerous museums, collections, galleries and public spaces, Saskia Olde Wolbers has won multiple awards