Canto 4 – ink, pencil, watercolour, acrylic paint and gouache on paper – 83.5 x 144,5 cm – 2022
Canto 5 – ink, pencil, watercolour, acrylic paint and gouache on paper – 91 x 140 cm – 2022
Canto 6 – ink, pencil, watercolour, acrylic paint and gouache on paper – 85 x 109,5 cm – 2022
Canto 7 – ink, pencil, watercolour, acrylic paint and gouache on paper – 91 x 140 cm – 2022
Canto 8 – ink, pencil, watercolour, acrylic paint and gouache on paper – 80 x 140,5 cm – 2022
Canto 12 – ink, pencil, watercolour, acrylic paint and gouache on paper – 100 x 161,5 cm – 2023
Canto 13 – ink, pencil, watercolour, acrylic paint and gouache on paper – 98 x 198 cm – 2022
Canto 18 – ink, pencil, watercolour, acrylic paint and gouache on paper – 72 x 112 cm – 2023
Canto 28 – ink, pencil, watercolour, acrylic paint and gouache on paper – 85 x 109,5 cm – 2022
Canto 34 – ink, pencil, watercolour, acrylic paint and gouache on paper – 98 x 198 cm – 2022…
Trouble wandering (to eternity) at Kasteel Wijlre estate
Trouble wandering (to eternity) at Kasteel Wijlre estate, Wijlre, The Netherlands
After the floods of July 2021 that inundated the estate and severely damaged the Hedge House, the renovated art pavilion reopens with the exhibition Trouble wandering (to eternity), curated by Xander Karskens.
Trouble wandering (to eternity) traverses land and plummets beneath the waves. This group exhibition combines works from the Jo & Marlies Eyck collection at the Bonnefanten with works by contemporary artists that raise questions about how humans relate to the world around us and, more specifically, to nature during the climate crisis. How can we redefine our relation to ‘landscape’ given the rapid changes to the planet in the wake of climate change? Can art provide a deeper understanding of our relationship to our environment and provide tools for improvement? Can art help us develop an ecological awareness by activating our imagination, and project alternative futures?
Participating artists: Maud van den Beuken, Jean-Marc Bustamante, Ronald Cornelissen, Elspeth Diederix, Mimi Lauter, Tala Madani, Otobong Nkanga, Rory Pilgrim, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, and Carel Visser.
Photo’s: Peter Cox (courtesy Kasteel Wijlre estate)
Thanks to Manon Berns and Xander Karskens
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Book presentation HÖLL by Stichting C.o.C.A. during Art Rotterdam
During Art Rotterdam, C.o.C.A. Foundation hosted the presentation by Ronald Cornelissen and graphic designer Simon Davies about their recently published book HÖLL (for more information see https://www.ronaldcornelissen.com/rcblog/index.php/2022/01/27/holl-book/) .
This presentation was part of the VIP programme of Art Rotterdam (19 to 22 May, 2022) and could be seen at Eendrachtsweg 56b in Rotterdam.
Many thanks to Alexander Ramselaar and Julian Oggel.
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The Mole I
Fire and Ice
Een ver afgelegen huis
From 5 February to 6 March 2022, the exhibition A far-away house was shown in the Vishal in Haarlem. Years ago curator Luuk Wilmering heard the story of a fellow artist, who at a certain point decided to retreat to a remote island to start a sheep farm in the desolation of that place. Away from everything, a new life. That story really appealed to him. It touched upon a vague longing in himself.
Many artists, writers and philosophers are familiar with the desire to isolate themselves from the world, temporarily or otherwise. In this age of WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram, this need seems greater than ever. It is almost impossible to escape the fleeting communication on social media. Whereas silence and isolation are prerequisites for free thinking and artistic research. A remote house sounds tempting. It can be a place where you can come to yourself and to new insights. But it can also be a place where you are confronted with yourself, with deep doubts, fears and imperfections. And it can be a place where you are not really welcome.
The exhibition can be seen as a search for the house where you naturally feel at home. For a place that mirrors yourself. For a sense of security that comes from your memory. A distant house can be seen as a last refuge, to be found in time as well as space. But it can also be a house where you don’t feel welcome. Where you are excluded. That is literally beyond your reach.
With Elise ‘t Hart, Wim Bosch, frank mandersloot, Luuk Wilmering and Ronald Cornelissen.
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Book presentation HÖLL at Galerie Bernard Jordan in Paris
On Saturday 18 December Galerie Bernard Jordan hosted the book presentation of the new bilingual ( English/ French) publication HÖLL by artist Ronald Cornelissen and graphic designer Simon Davies. The first copy was presented to Maarten Loonen, Associate Professor Arctic Ecology at the University of Groningen and Manager and scientific director Netherlands Arctic Station in Ny-Ålesund in Svalbard.
With thanks to Marieke Wiegel.
Photo’s by Photo’s by Marion van Rijssel.
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HÖLL book
This publication features a series of drawings made by Ronald Cornelissen after a stay at the Netherlands Arctic Station on Spitsbergen, the largest island in the Svalbard archipelago. The scenes depicted in the first edition of Gerrit de Veer’s travel famous journal The Three Voyages of William Barents to the Arctic Regions (1594, 1595, and 1596) from 1596 served as the starting point for these drawings. The drawings mashup the work of Gerrit de Veer with that of Elzie Segar, John Carpenter, Michel Serres, Vladimir Demikhov and Mary Shelley and serves up an alternative image of the Arctic. The book, designed by Simon Davies, represents the drawings at different scales; from 1:1 (details) to 1:14 (whole drawings). This mimics the movement of visitors viewing the large scale drawings in an exhibition context. The books design refers to the subjects explored by the drawings as well as to the form of De Veer’s original journal.
Number of pages: 176
Language: French / English
Hardback (cover: Silkscreened grey board)
Price: 40 €
Foreword: Ronald Cornelissen
Essay: Julie Enckell Julliard
Lithography and design: Simon Davies
English translation: Kim Laidlaw, French translation: Jeanne Bouniort
English editing: Jane Bemont, French editing: Sylvie Philippon
Photography: Simon Davies and Ronald Cornelissen
Distribution: Les Presses du réel, Dijon, France
https://www.lespressesdureel.com/
Published by Ronald Cornelissen and Galerie Bernard Jordan, Paris, France
©2021, the authors, the photographers and the artist
All rights reserved
ISBN: 978-90-9035313-5
Many thanks to the Mondriaan Fund (NL), Jaap Harten Fund (NL), Droom en Daad Foundation (NL), Backing Grounds (NL) and the Centre national des arts plastiques (FR) who made this publication possible by their generous support.
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