Artpace Announces Arnoud Holleman Exhibition In The Hudson (Show)Room January 26 – April 23, 2006

01.05.06

Media Contact: Libby D. Tilley
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SAN ANTONIO, TX – Through video, films, photographs, drawings, and print projects, Amsterdam-based Arnoud Holleman appropriates and creates imagery, blurring boundaries between documentation and fiction, reality and fantasy. While pivoting between media and commercial and fine art production, Holleman consistently interrogates the creation and reception of cultural material–of looking and of making items that are looked at. For Holleman’s first show in the United States, Artpace San Antonio will present past projects and debut new ones on the idea of portraiture.

The exhibition will combine films, photographs, and drawings. The film Staphorst (2003) startlingly re–works 1950s footage of villagers from a notoriously conservative Dutch town avoiding the invasive gaze of an unwanted camera. In Hester, a series of drawings and text elements first developed in 2004 for Re–Magazine, which Holleman co–edited, a depressed woman’s painful articulations of self and surroundings are framed and filtered through the lens of the visual and literary arts. Through these works, and others, Holleman’s exhibition will challenge classical notion of portraiture as truthful representations of self and other.

Arnoud Holleman lives and works in Amsterdam, Holland. Recent shows include solo exhibitions at Frans Halsmuseum/DeHallen, Haarlem, The Netherlands, Galerie Buchholz, Köln, Germany, and at the Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam, and group exhibitions “Today’s Man,” John Connely Presents, New York City and the Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo, and “K48/the bedroom show,” Galerie du jour agnès b., Paris. He received art degrees from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, The Hague and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam.

Exhibition Details and Related Events

March 8 – May 7, 2006

Exhibition Dates
January 26 - April 23, 2006

Reception and Walk-Thru
Thursday, January 26, 6:30-8:00 PM

Brown Bag Lunch
Wednesday, February 22, 12:00-1:00 PM
Join Curator Kate Green for a tour of Arnoud Holleman and a brown bag lunch provided by Sip ($6.50). Please call Artpace for menu and reservations.

¿Cómo Vives?
Culmination of workshop with students: March 30, 2006

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Artpace San Antonio is supported by individual and corporate donors as well as The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, Kronkosky Charitable Foundation, Texas Commission on the Arts, a grant from the Ruth Lang Charitable Fund of the San Antonio Area Foundation, Myra Stafford Pryor Trust, Edouard Foundation, and the Amy Shelton McNutt Charitable Trust.

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