‘Innocence is precisely: never to avoid the worst.’ This final sentence of Lettre au nègre , written in 2003 by Belgian artist Philippe Vandenberg (1952-2009), has become the title of an exhibition…
In 1997 the work Arena by American artist Rita McBride was shown at Witte de With, center for contemporary art, in Rotterdam. Arena consists of semicircular segments of bleachers which, for that…
Thierry De Cordier has made it his main concern to ‘contradict the world’ – not out of stubbornness or arrogance (though he has found many ‘lies’) but as an experiment, in order to see where it will…
No Chinese artist is as well known as Ai Weiwei (Beijing, 1957). That fame stems not only from his art, but also from his struggle for greater political and social freedom. Visual artist, architect…
The Marlene Dumas exhibition Name no Names has been organized by the Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne and is being shown in Tilburg following presentations in Paris and New York. It…
The two grey monochromes by Gerhard Richter, which De Pont has on long-term loan, form a strong visual contrast with his multicolored, 120-part Abstraktes Bild (Abstract Painting) from 1992. In a…
Four large drawings from the past two years comprise the basis of an exhibition of work by Johan Kuipers (Sneek 1960) in the project space at De Pont Museum. Their dimensions far exceed those of an…
Far from the entrance to De Pont is Wolfgang Laib’s Wachsraum (Wax Room), a space which was constructed with slabs of beeswax. An opening in the wall provides access to a narrow corridor, which curves…
For the expressive, at times almost violent-looking paintings of the Austrian artist Arnulf Rainer (Baden, 1929), an existing depiction has almost always served as the point of departure up to now.…
Due to the use of aluminum and its industrial finish, Kafka’s Palindrome by Roni Horn is somewhat reminiscent of works from Minimal Art, particularly those of Donald Judd. But whereas Judd’s forms are…