BLOW AWAY A BLUE WHALE, 2013 - Fondazione Antonio ratti
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BLOW AWAY A BLUE WHALE, 2013 Installation of 10 blowing fans, total used capacity: 120 kWh over 30 days. Stranded whales that are collected from the Dutch beaches are being processed into electricity for common use. With data from the rendering plant that is responsible for handling all animal surplus material, I was able to estimate the amount of electricity that would be derived from the biggest whale that was ever measured and blow it away in an effortless gesture.
TOP OF A MOUNTAIN, BOTTOM OF A CUP, 2015
2 times 26 x 38 x 6 cm piezoprints on Canson paper in chestnut wooden box frames
courtesy of Teylers Museum Haarlem, NL courtesy of Allard Pierson Museum Amsterdam, NL
THE DENT OF WALTER UMENHOFER, 2015
‘The Dent of Walter Umenhofer’ is a study in text and image on the relativity of size, especially with regard to things that are so much bigger than we are.
I asked various people about the weight of a blue whale and followed the reference points from their estimations as a framework for this publication. The
book became a research on how our definition of reality is founded on a constant comparison between subjects and shows just how many shapes our
imagination can take on.
21.15 x 16.92 cm offset print in Munken paper, Japanese folding
THE DENT OF WALTER UMENHOFER, 2015 Unfolded the pages of this book all together cover the exact same length of the largest measured blue whale Performance during the book launch
SUMMIT OF VAN DALE, 2015-2016
30.7 x 41 cm and 15 x 20.5 cm
piezoprint, single page from the Van Dale Dutch Dictionary, fourteenth revised
edition, graphite pencil
TRAVELLING COLONY, 2016
approx. 100 x 100 cm (detail)
fiberglass measuring tape, silk yarn
CAPSULES, 2016
various sizes, each one containing 1 meter length
painted acrylic
DOODSREUTEL, 2017 The Dutch word ‘doodsreutel’ (death rattle) has recently been eliminated from the Dutch Van Dale Dictionary. This got me thinking of extinction within language, and the consequences to our perception of phenomena of which we have lost the words to describe. In an attempt to re-animate ‘doodsreutel’ I collaborated with Ecuadorian artist Oscar Santillan to bring this word back into the public domain. To do so we followed the criteria by which the lexicographers from the dictionary conclude the liveliness of words: by using the words within public printing. Therefore we placed an obituary advertisement in the Dutch national newspaper, De Volkskrant, on April 5th 2017. The same day a performance took place in the Artis Zoological Library in Amsterdam.
WE SET OUT LATE BECAUSE WE HAD SNOW TO DISSOLVE FOR BREAKFAST, 2016 Collecting perpetual snow on 3,300 m above sea - Melting perpetual snow at sea level 47 x 70 cm
THE SUMMIT OF THE SHADOW OF MONT BLANC, 2017 100 x 140 cm C-print on dibond
SHADOW OF THE ROOSTER, 2017 Localising the shadow of the church tower Monument for the shadow of the church tower that touched this stone on June 18th 2017 at 10:41 am
CLOUD INVERSE, 2017
The summit of Mont Blanc was expropriated by geologist Horace-Bénédict de Saussure during the first scientific expedition op the mountain in 1787.
For many years this triangle of granite rock has been residing in Teylers Museum, the Netherlands, at a mere 3.2 meter above sea level. ‘Cloud Inverse’
describes my own expedition of 17 days in which I follow the geologist’s footsteps and travel through a diverse landscape, both geographical and imagined,
before finally arriving at an obscure mountaintop. Touching upon correlating traces within landscape and travel literature.
24 x 16.3 cm The Elevation Chart serves as a table of content: it shows al ascend and descend throughout the publicationCLOUD INVERSE, 2017
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