lustwarande tilburg
juli 19, 2008
wassenaar
juni 7, 2008
Last week, there was an opening of a sculpture exhibition (’Hoogspanning’)in the park ‘Paauw’ around the cityhall of the village of Wassenaar, very close to The Hague. I participated with a workshop/masterclass with seven students of the visual ‘Vrije Academie’ from The Hague. We have worked 4 days on the beautiful location and had an intense and dynamic atmosphere. The concentration and dedication to the work was terrific despite of a lot of political carry on at the site of our adventure! Moreover, the organisation was especially focused on the Royal prince and princess who opened the exhibition and with whom I had a nice chat last week.
Our installation is called ‘Identiteit is weten wie je bent omdat je hondje je herkent’(free translation on a quote of Gertrude Stein’s ‘Identity is knowing who you are, because your doggy recognizes you’).
The beginning……..
leading the highnesses through our little sculpture park…….
‘Forgetting is harder than remembering’, 2008, ArteSwa project in the barrio of Buena Vista: “Un bon bista di buena Vista”. Permanent mural, collaboration David Bade with students IBB and pupils of the primary school Cola Debrot.
O’Brien Arnhem sings the national hymne of Curacao during the opening festivities 17 mei 2008.
IBB continues
mei 11, 2008
The finalists and the two winners: Harvey Davelaar and Papito Reigina
All young filmmakers with tutors (artists: Avantia Damberg(Curacao), Sebastian Romo (Mexico), Michael McMillan (St. Vincent/ UK) and Tirzo Martha (Curacao).
Elvis Chen and Farid Guzman, students of IBB
Yesterday night Instituto Buena Bista (IBB) and Kosmopolis Netherlands gave out the prices for two winners of the Kosmopolis Stranger Videoworkshop, which took place in the IBB last week. For a local jury of experts on film, it turned out to be very difficult to choose two winners out of the eight small movies by Christy Sambo, Elvis Chen, Nick Polanco, J.C Stenacker, Darnel Rafaela, Frenjeska Schoop, Harvey Davelaar en Julivean ‘Papito’ Reigina. Still, the final winners chosen by the jury were the same as the ones chosen by the public: Harvey Davelaar with his movie “Running From Myself” en Papito Reigina with “Nadi Hasi”. They will be participating in the next round, the 3rd till 5th. of july in Amsterdam on behalf of foundation Kosmopolis, Strangerfestival Europe.
Yours sincerely,
on behalf of Kosmopolis as well,
Instituto Buena Bista
Curacao Center for Contemporary Art
Drs. Nancy Hoffmann (MA)
Director
P.O.box 4696 Curacao N.A.
www.institutobuenabista.com
nancy@institutobuenabista.com
Cell +5999 5400127
*** Let op! Workshop IBB/ArteSwa van 6 tot en met 16 mei in de wijk Buena Vista: ‘Un Bon Bista di Buena Vista’!
*** Please note! Workshop IBB/ArteSwa from the 6th untill the 16th of May in the neighborhood of Buena Vista!
Opening Exhibition ‘Jorge and Jimmy’…
maart 25, 2008
… at Metis NL Amsterdam this Saturday (22nd 2008). Just a few photo’s…
Tirzo and me talking to mr. Paul Comenencia, the Mandate Minister of the Dutch Antilles, who opened the exhibition for us. Together with his PR manager, Norman Serphos, we walked through the exhibition…
Visual artist and ex-IBB resident on Curacao, Ronald Cornelissen, hands over the first official copy of Wormhole in the Netherlands to the Mandate Minister of the Netherlands Antilles, mr. Paul Comenencia at the Metis NL Galery in Amsterdam. (in the middle you see Rosanna Alberico from Metis NL)
At the moment among other commissions ,assignments and duties I am prepairing for a show in Amsterdam at gallery Metis_NL with my ‘compagneru’ Tirzo Martha. (opening 22th of March) I am working on a series of oil-paintings. So, therefore now two older drawings, which tend to play a role in my latest works……
“Intelligentsia”, I think 2004, acrylic on paper, 70×100 cm
“DJ Ayatollah”, 2003, pencil on paper, 70×100 cm

































