By de Appel’s CP 07/08
May 12 – June 8, 2008
Opening: 3pm, May 11, 2008
Stanley Brouwn building
Hogeweide 3B, Leidsche Rijn, Utrecht
Artists: Mariana Castillo Deball, Raimond Chaves, Ricardo Cuevas, Gintaras Didziapetris, Geoffrey Farmer, Victoria Fu, Dora García, Noa Giniger, Gabriel Kuri, Nick Mangan, Radim Pesko & Louis Lüthi, Sandy Plotnikoff, Michael Rakowitz, Simon Starling, Michael Stevenson, The Faculty of Invisibility and others.
“Master Humphrey’s Clock” is a project by de Appel’s Curatorial Programme 07/08 that explores the many intersections between circulation and storytelling. It will take place at a number of sites including the Shadow Cabinet at de Appel arts centre in Amsterdam, and a building designed by Dutch conceptual artist Stanley Brouwn and architect Bertus Mulder in Leidsche Rijn, Utrecht.
The project is inspired by the context of a second-hand shop located in the heart of a heavily designed, new surburban development in the Netherlands (Leidsche Rijn, Utrecht). Here residents and people visiting the area come together to deposit and exchange belongings. The circulation of objects and the stories held within them have been crucial to the development of “Master Humphrey’s Clock”.
The project’s title is borrowed from a periodical written and published by Charles Dickens in 1840. Produced in weekly installments, it contained a variety of approaches to storytelling and a multitude of storylines (one of which reappeared as the novel “The Old Curiosity Shop”).
Dickens’ example of intertwining narratives and the model of collection and dispersion presented in the second-hand shop are explored in this exhibition. The artists in “Master Humphrey’s Clock” engage with the intersections between storytelling and circulation in both form and content.
“Master Humphrey’s Clock” is curated by Yulia Aksenova, Jesse Birch, Sarah Farrar, Inti Guerrero and
Virginija Januskeviciute.
For more information: www.masterhumphreysclock.nl
“The Book of Intentions”
The fourth issue of de Appel’s bi-annual journal “F.R. David: The Book of Intentions” is one of the sites of “Master Humphrey’s Clock”. Within the camouflage of this pirated journal, the curators encapsulate their intentions (shared, stolen or otherwise discovered), rather than letting them multiply or dissolve into the
final exhibition.
Comprised of eight chapters that explore in-depth the thematic interests “Master Humphrey’s Clock”, “F.R. David 4: The Book of Intentions” contains selected texts and works by writers and artists.
The second part of this publication, “Index”, will be published in June 2008. “F.R. David” is distributed by Idea Books, Amsterdam ( www.ideabooks.com ).
Exhibition hours:
Tuesday – Sunday: 12 – 6pm
Free entry
Address:
Stanley Brouwn building, Hogeweide 3B, Leidsche Rijn, Utrecht (opposite the Kruidenlaan in Parkwijk, Leidsche Rijn).
Buses from Art Amsterdam-RAI, Sunday 11 May, departing at 2pm
The bus ride will include a Q&A with a group of visiting international curators.
In association with Close connections and Tijdelijk Museum Amsterdam.
There will also be a component of the exhibition at de Appel arts centre:
April 19 – May 25, 2008
The Shadow Cabinet, de Appel arts centre
Nieuwe Spiegelstraat 10, 1017 DE Amsterdam
For press enquiries, or for more information, please contact:
Inti Guerrero
Curatorial Programme 07/08
de Appel arts centre
Nieuwe Spiegelstraat 10
1017 DE Amsterdam
Email: cp@deappel.nl
Tel: +31(0)20 6255651
Fax: +31 20(0)6225215
“Master Humphrey’s Clock” is made possible with the kind support of:
de Appel arts centre ( www.deappel.nl ), SKOR Foundation Art & Public Space ( www.skor.nl ) and Beyond: the long term art project for Leidsche Rijn ( www.beyondutrecht.nl ).
