a DIY exhibition
Friday, 16 November to 10 December
open all day every day
upper platforms 3 & 4 in the Lloyd Hotel
free admission
Two Installations
The Cultural Embassy invited Ritsaert ten Cate to set up an exhibition. In the exhibition 'Be Like Rudi Fuchs: Make Your Own Exhibition' he shows two installations. 'How Do You Like Your Eggs in the Morning: I like mine with a smile', after a Dean Martin song, consists of a photo print of a famished family from Madras, South- India. It was taken in 1876 by Willoughby Wallace Hooper. In front of the picture a kitchen machine is set up, which houses a microwave, a coffeemaker and a toaster.
The second installation is the titel of the exhibition: 'Be like Rudi Fuchs: Make Your Own Expo'. On four beer tables Ten Cate's private collection of art books, catalogues and newspaper cuttings are displayed. It concerns a study display Ten Cate made as a model for an installation commissioned by Frans de Ruiter, professor at the Art College of Leiden University. They refer to Ten Cate's sources of inspiration: Nouvelle Vague and Arte Povera. Ten Cate used the study to discuss the role of art with art critic Janneke Wesseling, Frans de Ruiter and Rudi Fuchs.
A copier is available with the installation, so that the public can DIY with the materials at hand to compose a reader which they find relevant.
Godfather
The Cultural Embassy's work method is based on that of Ritsaert ten Cate, whom they therefore consider their Godfather. Ten Cate is famous for founding and directing avant-garde theater Mickery which invited theatre companies like The Wooster Group and La Mama to the Netherlands in the 70/80s. Later he went on to be founder/director of postdoc theater course Das Arts. Currently he owns studio Touch Time. Two keywords are applicable to his work: international and multidisciplinary. The attitude that underpins his installations, lectures and essays is one of great curiosity after the 'state of the world', and the position of the artist therein. His art works are to a high degree actual, politically inspired, and poetical.
