Talking parrots don't read.
From August 28 to September 25
Opening on Sunday 28 August between 16:00 and 19:00
Two stained-glass parrots have stood guard in Cokkie's space for almost 150 years.
It is an obvious association, but not a wrong one, to allow the parrots to experience Studio Ossidiana's 'Furniture for birds'; furniture for both birds and humans.
The rest of the works rhyme with this. The nice thing about rhyme is that you don't have to agree with it.
A boarded-up group exhibition with a considerable crack.
Gijs Frieling
In 'Parroting 1/2' and 'Parroting 1/2' we see two paintings of two parrots. They are exactly the same, as far as this is possible with handmade paintings. Repetition and copying are important in Frieling's work. But never before has he made two works that are really the same.
Maike Hemmers
shows some drawings representing inner explorations in colour and form. In her work, the exchange with the parrot is less about a literal relationship than it is about a sense of connection.
Joost Krijnen
draws and paints with a certain controlled haste and directness in which observation, memory and fantasy merge. Themes that seem uncomplicated at first glance can actually invite the viewer to a complex interpretation. An unsettling sense of arbitrariness disguised in a clear imagery, almost like a talking parrot that still appears to have a cognitive understanding of language.
Ingrid Kruit
is known for a number of popular sculptures in the public space of Rotterdam, including the Chicken, the Goose and the Rabbit. In the gallery she shows a number of colored pencil drawings of photorealistic fantasy jellyfish. Those jellyfish 'wash up' in her brain
Studio Ossidiana
shows a number of prototypes from their Furniture for a Human and a Parrot series. The furniture was made during the COVID lockdown for the parrot Coco and his human companions.
Panamarenko
Together with the leading Belgian artists of the 1980s Jef Geys, Bernd Lohaus, Jacques Charlier, Didier Vermeiren, Jan Vercruysse and Lilie Dujourie, Panamarenko portrayed himself accompanied by a number of his beloved parrots.
Koen Taselaar
Just as a parrot can talk but has no idea what it is saying, Taselaar's drawings are constructed without having a plan or subject in advance. But still - after a longer look - you will recognize more and more things in it.
In addition to drawings, a new tapestry of his can be seen, where the punctuation marks - within a snake-like shape - march out of the text.