Are You Now
About this activity.
Three northern artists show their work in the new exhibition Are You Now in Wall House #2: Gabrielle Kroese, Sabine Liedtke and Ismaël Lotz. The title refers to Lotz's project, but includes the work of all three artists. In paintings, drawings and film they show the space that arises from limitation and how they use this space with their work and convey it to the viewer.
Paintings
Gabrielle Kroese (Rotterdam, 1963), graduated from Minerva Academy. Her work has been nominated several times and is included in various collections. Kroese has worked as an artist in residence in Iceland (2015) and in Japan (2018).
Kroese's second working visit to Japan was canceled in 2020 due to COVID-19. It is precisely because of this that the Painted Prints series came into being, where she worked with photos she previously made in the Munich Botanical Garden; archived nature as a symbol of the current corona pandemic.
At the beginning of the pandemic, the sky was an unprecedented clear bottomless blue. Kroese has taken pictures of this time and again. She calls the new color that has arisen from this Covid_Blue. For the series Covid_Blue she edited photos she previously made in Munich with these blue color areas. By disrupting the image, she wants to slow down looking in order to intensify it. This method is characteristic of her paintings.
Drawings
Sabine Liedtke (Drachten, 1971) makes drawings and combines materials such as paint, photography and ceramics. She zooms in on details from nature. Isolating the subject from the environment is a way for her to look better. She carefully chooses figurative and abstract forms as visual language. Her drawings are built up by repetitively drawing lines or dots. Representing reality is a means, but ultimately it is about the feeling that the work evokes.
During a walk she experienced the magic of a large flock of 'dancing' starlings. Liedtke used this image for her Murmurations series. The exhibition includes a series of 25 drawings that she made from her bedroom, where she stayed in isolation after she herself tested positive for COVID.
Movie
Ismaël Lotz (Assen, 1975) started capturing the world around him at a young age. From 1998 he worked as an all-round filmmaker. In 2016 he made his first international feature film, Who is Alice? Two years later, in 2018, he was told by doctors that he was terminally ill. He made the intimate series Lotz lives about his disease process.
His project Are You Now, which he started in 2014, can be seen on the top floor of Wall House. He shows portraits of people whom he asked to stand still for three minutes in front of his camera. The feeling that comes over you when you have to stand still for three minutes, as a portrayed person, but also as a viewer: do you experience the peace or does it make you restless? The series now contains more than 270 portraits, which can be seen on various screens.
Free access
The building and the exhibition Are You Now will open on Saturday 5 June. Entrance is free. Reservation is not necessary.
Wall House #2.
Wall House #2 is een bezienswaardigheid, met zijn veelheid aan vormen, kleuren, interessante details, symbolen en betekenissen. Het is een exponent van de architectuur in de jaren tachtig en negentig van de vorige eeuw, toen de stad Groningen zich als podium voor internationale postmoderne architectuur profileerde. Het exuberante woonhuis werd ontworpen door de architect John Quentin Hejduk (New York 1929 - 2000 New York).
Location.
Wall House #2
A.J.Lutulistraat 17
tel 06-52065213
www.groningermuseum.nl/wallhouse