JCJ VANDERHEYDEN, Simultaneous, 1988
This photo work in a recessed frame consists of a black and white photo with approximately 20 hand-colored tiny paintings. At the bottom, a title sign 'Simultaneous', which is remarkably spacious in terms of length, is screwed into the wooden panel, almost as if it wants to be a horizon...
JCJ Vanderheyden took the photo in 1978 in the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven when he had a solo exhibition there. On the left of the photo, two Polaroid photos of horizon paintings in his studio can be seen in a box frame. An enlarged photo of it is hung next to it. On the adjacent wall you can see a canvas with these horizons and next to it a much larger one with more or less the same horizon-paintings.
In principle, this is a documentary photo in which the playful way of repetitive hanging in the Van Abbemuseum is recorded. In 'Simultaneous' Vanderheyden has immortalized this document of how he hung his work there by turning it into a work of art itself.