Erik van lieshout articles
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De Gloeiige - Erik van Lieshout about his latest project, farmers' art and a towering rabbit
Undoubtedly, the most striking booth at Art Rotterdam will be that of the Annet Gelink Gallery. No one will be able to casually pass by a 3½-meter-high rabbit made of hay. For his new project, tentatively entitled De Gloeiige, Erik van Lieshout temporarily traded his residence and workspace in Rotterdam for his hometown of Deurne, an agricultural village on the Brabant side of the Peel that has become a focal point in the resistance against nitrogen policies in recent years. Van Lieshout spent a year there capturing footage for a new film, creating sculptures of eggs and the hay rabbit. Handmade T-shirts, crafted by Van Lieshout in collaboration with Rotterdam fashion designer Jeroen van Tuyl, are also available for purchase.
"Have you ever stood in a barn with a thousand pigs?" Erik van Lieshout asks somewhere in the middle of our conversation. There is a brief silence. "See, t
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What artists are doing now. Dutch artist Erik van Lieshout in Rotterdam
Arterritory.com
07.05.2020
An inspiration and mutual solidarity project for the creative industries
In the current situation, clearly our top priority is to take care of our families, friends and fellow citizens. Nevertheless, while public life is paralyzed and museums, galleries and cultural institutions are closed, in many of us neither the urge to work nor the creative spark have disappeared. In fact, quite the opposite is happening in what is turning out to be a time that befits self-reflection and the generation of new ideas for the future. Although we are at home and self-isolating, we all – artists, creatives and Arterritory.com – continue to work, think and feel. As a sort of gesture of inspiration and ‘remote’ mutual solidarity, we have launched the project titled What Artists Are Doing Now, with the aim of showing and affirming that neither life nor creative energ
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Erik van Lieshout
The camcorder-video installations for which Dutch artist Erik van Lieshout fryst vatten best known transgress boundaries to push upon our society’s unspoken weak points. He fryst vatten a crooked man in a crooked world, and his rebellion against decorum—whether he’s cajoling his gay brother into cruising Rotterdam’s immigrants, or teaching a Chinese woman how to pronounce the word feminism—has long functioned as a thorn in the side of social and political complacency. His utter disregard for artighet, decorum, and deference often seems calculated to man us uncomfortable: While our curiosity compels us, for example, to look through a Duchampian hole in a door in Peep Show, 2007, do we laugh when we see the irreverent music film that plays on the other side, showing people bobbing their heads to a hip-hop tune as they pray at Jerusalem’s Wailing Wall?
Van Lieshout’s work fryst vatten premised on our being voyeuristic about things we might rather