Produced on the occasion of Patty Chang: Glass Urinary Devices at A Tale of A Tub, Rotterdam, 14 September – 3 November, 2024. In 2015, American artist Patty Chang followed the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, the longest aqueduct in the world, which brings water from southern to northern China. While walking, she collected her urine in discarded plastic bottles found along the way, drawing a connection between the large-scale infrastructural attempt to control the flow of water and the uncontrollable flows of her own body. Once back in Boston, Chang made a series of hand-blown glass sculptures modelled on the plastic bottles that she utilised during her journey. For Chang’s exhibition at A Tale of A Tub, a collection of these prosthetic-like sculptures will be presented on the ground floor, reflecting on the flow of water that once passed through the former washhouse alongside Chang’s own ruminations on water as a metaphorical point of departure for geopolitics, human excess and waste.
Memorial edition produced on the 10 year anniversary of the deaths of Wies Smals, Josine van Droffelaar, Gerhard von Graevenitz, Martin Barkhuis and Hendrik Smals in a plane crash.
“This is a facsimile of a small aluminum tag which reads ‘Aanwezig’ (Present) on one side, and ‘Afwezig’ (Absent) on the other. It was found at an airport for private planes in Holland in May of 1983. These tags hung on hooks under the names of pilots who frequented that airport, indicating their presence or absence. I was moved to take one, and have had it on my desk ever since.”
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Produced on the occasion of the exhibition I don’t know if Thomas Edison invented the excuse at Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, 7 May – 13 June, 2004.
“I regret that a previous engagement prevents me from accepting your kind invitation to dinner at your home, on Thursday evening, September seventeenth,” is a sentence taken from a letter written by inventor Thomas Edison. Pieroth’s interest in the life of Edison led to the discovery the inventor often made excuses to avoid attending social functions. Pieroth then wrote to the American Patent Office requesting a patent on behalf of Edison for the invention of the “excuse.”
Produced on the occasion of Stephen Willats’ exhibition World Without Objects at Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp 13 October–30 November, 2013.
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Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Werner Büttner: Nieuw Werk at Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, 12 November–7 December, 1985.
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Invitation card for the opening of the exhibition Marcel Broodthaers at Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels, Wednesday April 29, 1987. With a text titled MB le solipsisme by Bernard Blistène.
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