Serge Onnen: Cell Animations bakery, 13 April - 18 May 2002

The artist Serge Onnen (Paris, 1965) lives and works in Amsterdam. Onnen, who debuted as a painter in 1994, has spent the last few years working primarily on various forms of drawing; making publications, animations and organising shows on the art of drawing.

For The Bakery, Onnen designed wallpaper whose motif features a fence of people stopping up their ears. You only see their heads, arms and hands. It gives a sense of not being able to escape from your own thoughts, of being isolated from the world. The wallpaper is interrupted in three places by small monitors on which animated films are being shown. The films have no stories to tell; they are ideas that have been worked into drawings. In the film entitled 'Head', one pair of hands catches a head that is falling through the air: first that of an old man, then that of a young girl or a boy with wiry hair. Onnen made the film's soundtrack with his band OORBEEK. In the second film, 'New Self', two hands pull on the face of a head as if it were a mask, from which a new face keeps appearing. In the third animated film, 'Transman', a figure is in the process of turning himself inside out.

At the opening, Serge Onnen will present VOLUME O, a zingmagazine publication (shrink-wrapped with zingmagazine #16). This book, curated by Onnen, consists of drawings of heads by various famous, anonymous and dead artists such as Rita Ackermann, William Blake, Holger Bunk, Maurizio Cattelan, Robert Crumb, John Currin, Marlene Dumas, Dürer, Pam Emmerik, Raymond Pettibon, Daragh Reeves, Paul de Reus, David Shrigley, Elise Tak, Lisa Yuskavage and others. For more information see www.volumehead.org.