For the exhibition Origins, the video The Great Hunger (2016) by Maria Barnas is shown alongside paintings and drawings by Koos Flinterman and the Galapagos game by Felix Salut, at the Amsterdam venue of Lensvelt.
On the occasion, the book Koos Flinterman. Works 1970-2017, with texts by Maria Barnas and Marlies Levels will be presented.
Language as maker - In the 3-D animation The Great Hunger, 5 voices of shapes and sculptures by Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Kippenberger and Michel Houellebecq, discuss their respective heritage, linked as they are, by actual and metaphoric holes in themselves. The humorous animation suggests that it is only language - and the interpretation of art history that the language is taken from - that sets them apart. The question of whether identity and supremacy is based on a choice of words underlies the conversation between the objects.
Koos Flinterman, Origins
November 17-27, 2-6pm
Private view: Thursday November 23, 5-9pm
Lensvelt, Herengracht 178, Amsterdam
November 17, 2017 - November 27, 2017
