Poplar multiplex, aluminum, iron spray paint and water based paint.
Height 650cm, Width 370cm, Depth 125cm
Due to our successful Art Pong collaboration, Harry Markusse and I were invited to create a new, permanent artwork for a new office building in the center of Arnhem (NL). It resulted in this installation, in which one can clearly see how both our visual languages come together.
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Photography by Friso Boven.
Scoll down for some images of the build-up.
Collaboration with Felipe van Laar.
Installation size 800x800x500cm
OCTA (Or Call This Art) is a collaboration of 8 artists:
Leslie Nagel, Evelien Gransjean, Emilio Timp, Bas Ruis, Bas de Boer, Felipe van Laar, Bart Schalekamp and Kevin Bauer.
The group planned two exhibitions - one at Maakhaven in the Hague and one at Kunstliefde in Utrecht.
Scroll down for some overview shots of the Maakhaven exhibition. Photographed by Lotte van Uittert.
In 2019, Samuel Treindl (DE) and I collaborated for our project Alles Easy. The collaboration was a taNDem-project: taNDem encourages Dutch and German artists from the euregio area to collaborate for a cultural project.
For our project „Alles Easy“, Samuel Treindl and I went on a journey of discovery through the EUREGIO. During the road trip between The Hague, Münster and Osnabrück, we collected stories, materials and techniques in villages, abandoned factories and workshops. We took these to their “Factory” in hase29 in Osnabrück.
The original idea was that, in the second phase, we would work on the exhibition in a publicly visible and accessible process. We collected cardboard, plaster and the materials along the way for the production. Visitors would also get involved in the process and could add their own material. The results, devices and structures would then be then presented in an exhibition.
In March 2020 we would have opened our exhibition in hase29, Osnabrück. Unfortunately, due to covid-19, we could not finish this project.
Art Pong was a collaboration with Harry Markusse at ExpoBart Nijmegen in January 2020.
Text from the ExpoBart website:
Art Pong? This immediately conjures up vivid images of two artists 'ping-pong' together. An activity that has something convivial: meeting around the table tennis table for an apparently sociable and innocent game. But it also suggests that a competitive element is inevitable. If a ball is smashed hard on the edge of the table or falls carelessly over the net – how does the opponent catch it?
It is a metaphor that illustrates how Harry Markusse (1990) and Kevin Bauer (1987) plan to fill in their working period in the Expo Bart project space. It remains a hypothesis, 'because it will probably go differently from the first moment than you think in advance,' says Harry. The desire to work together arose about five years ago, when the artists exhibited together. Although their work has since grown apart, a friendship developed on a personal level. “We now want to see where our work touches each other, where it clashes or reinforces each other.”
One paints abstractly and fundamentally minimalist, the other as a sculptor questions the function and usefulness of apparently recognizable objects. Although their media and working method are not directly related, they take on the challenge of making a space-filling installation together in two and a half weeks. For Harry a step towards spaciousness, for Kevin an opportunity to explore the flat surface. Their 'Gesammtkunstwerk' will not arise through the democratic discussion of ideas, but will be given shape in a physical way through quick actions and (re)actions. Kevin: 'It will be bouncing back and forth, hijacking ideas, provoking and anticipating.'
No pressure, especially a lot of freedom; the game is more important than the result. ‘We are not looking for a crystallized end result, it is best to have ideas or sketches. As a base for more experimentation in the future," says Harry. Kevin adds: 'By entering into this together in a playful way, we each also expect to find new entrances for our own practice.' The question remains who will serve the first ball.
Some kind of exotic proposal (and we honestly believe it is not necessary for you to understand what it all implies) 2017
At Kunst op de Koffie, in October 2017, Liesbeth Doornbosch and I were invited to collaborate in a Meester-Gezel construction at the house of the family Dobbelsteen. Due to the Moai head sculpture (Easter Island) in the backgarden, I made an installation containing an altar for this unexpected exotic appearance and an idol sculpture in the hole in the wall between their kitchen and livingroom. For the installation I also used elements that were already in the family’s house, together with a self-made construction and objects.