Boijmans TV episode 2

Beautiful misery, Bas Jan Ader

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In 1975, Bas Jan Ader (Winschoten 1942 - 1975) set off in a small boat in an attempt to cross the Atlantic ocean. Nothing has been heard of him since. His deserted boat was found off the coast of Ireland. The journey was supposed to be a part of his three-part art work: ’In search of the miraculous’. The collection of Museum Boijmans van Beuningen contains his video work ‘I’m too sad to tell you’ from 1971. This video shows Bas Jan Ader crying. In 2006, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen held a major retrospective of Bas Jan Ader’s work.

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The pleasure principle, Lily van der Stokker
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Lily van der Stokker (1954, Den Bosch) is known for her works about optimism and kindness. In the past she has questioned the heavy, intellectual nature of the art world, replacing it with the so-called ‘pleasure principle’. She has made large wall paintings with fluorescent colours and decorative forms, and covered furniture, clothes and even entire buildings with her flower motifs. However, there is a critical dimension to this apparent frivolity. For Van der Stokker, art is not only about beauty and exaltation.

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Cloackroom Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
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Wieki Somers’s cloackroom is situated in the entrance area of the museum, that can be visited without entrance ticket. In 2008 the occasional designers collective, was invited to redesign the several public services in this part of the building. Studio Wieki Somers was part of this collective.

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Beautiful misery, Bas Jan Ader
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In 1975, Bas Jan Ader (Winschoten 1942 - 1975) set off in a small boat in an attempt to cross the Atlantic ocean. Nothing has been heard of him since. His deserted boat was found off the coast of Ireland. The journey was supposed to be a part of his three-part art work: ’In search of the miraculous’. The collection of Museum Boijmans van Beuningen contains his video work ‘I’m too sad to tell you’ from 1971. This video shows Bas Jan Ader crying. In 2006, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen held a major retrospective of Bas Jan Ader’s work.

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Museum Boijmans van Beuningen is a perfect location for a television programme about the many faces of art. The museum has a world-class collection ranging from Old Masters to modern and contemporary art. But the museum does not draw a strict distinction between these periods. The relationship between historical and recent art has been cast in a new light since the installation in early 2007 of a work by the contemporary artist Maurizio Cattelan in a gallery among Old Master paintings. The work consists of a lifelike copy of the artist, poking his head through a hole in the floor, staring at a landscape by the painter Wijnand Jan Joseph Nuyen (1813-1839). Maurizio Cattelan shows us that there is more to this art work than simply the work itself. The relationship between the viewer and the work is every bit as fascinating. This is a wonderful subject for a television programme. When Wilfried de Jong was invited to participate in the development of a programme about Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, he instantly saw the potential of this particular work. The series director, Sander Burger has captured the essence of this work in a programme that is about the experience of art rather than the work or the artist. Cattelan’s work encourages the museum visitor to study the painting by Wijnand Jan Joseph Nuyen in much greater depth. And so, we expect this art programme, which focuses on the experience of art, to stimulate viewers’ interest in art.
!!Otro magnífico episodio!! I love it! Congratulations Boimans TV

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