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February 2011 with a film programma. See Projects for more information.
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After a 8 year break
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The # 11 issue had a preview presentation in May 2007 and is availlable
in September 2007.
No need to dust off the videoplayer - Zapp will now be released on DVD
format.
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As guestcurator for
ARTIS, Zapp Magazine presented the show Someone makes a Call and
the Sun goes down featuring Robby Müller and Daragh Reeves.
On May 20 Zapp # 11 was launched at the exhibitionspace.
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In Someone makes a Call and the Sun goes down Corinne Groot and Rob van de Ven, Zapp Magazine editors, show two artists who also appear on #11: Robby Müller and Daragh Reeves
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April 14 –
May 20 2007
Someone makes a Call and the Sun goes down
Opening: Artis, Den Bosch, April 14, 15.00 hrs
www.artisdenbosch.nl
As guestcurator for
ARTIS, Zapp Magazine presents the show Someone makes a call and
the sun goes down featuring Robby Müller and Daragh Reeves.
On May 20 Zapp # 11 will be launched at the exhibitionspace.
In Someone makes a call and the sun goes down Corinne
Groot and Rob van de Ven, Zapp Magazine editors, show two artists who
will also appear in #11: Robby Müller and Daragh Reeves.
Director of photography and camera-man Robby Müller
(1940) employs astonishingly simple basic principles, which have produced
masterful images for well over forty years. Müller’s cinematography
turned films such as Paris Texas (Wim Wenders), Down by Law (Jim Jarmusch)
and Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier) into modern film classics.
For the exhibition Müller selected film fragments from 10 films,
to be shown simultaneously on several monitors. By isolating the images
from the movie context, the observer experiences a concentrated view of
Muller’s legendary composition, camera dynamic, and lighting...
Müller’s cinematic gems encounter the work of one of his many
younger admirers, the British artist Daragh Reeves (1974).
Where Müller seeks to give the actors as much freedom as possible,
through unconventional lighting, large frames, or dynamic camerawork,
Reeves seems to enjoy to intervene in the image. In his drawings, photo
collages, objects, videos and films, he reacts to and anticipates the
power and expectations that are locked up in the individual frame of film
and the film’s narrative as a whole. For Reeves, paint, tape and
text constitute the negation of any fixed genre. Referring to the unwritten
rules of Hollywood, which Müller himself prefers to disregard, Reeves
also creates his own illusory univers, just as wilful as that of Müller.
His work seems to consist of snapshots of a reality that appears both
actual and fictional.
Both Müller and Reeves turn the act of viewing into a revealing and
equally intangible experience, which on the basis of their presented work,
increasingly blurs the boundaries between fiction and reality in order
to grasp, for a brief or slightly longer moment, a third reality summoned
by images.
Robby Müller (1940) graduated from the Nederlandse
Film Academie in 1964 and has operated the camera on more that 60 films
and countless television productions. He has worked with renowned and
unorthodox filmmakers including Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch, Peter Bogdanovich
and Lars von Trier. Müller has received various prestigious prizes
for his camerawork.
Daragh Reeves (1974) took his BA at the Camberwell College
of Arts in London and his MFA at the School of Visual Arts in New York.
From 2002-2004 he stayed at De Ateliers in Amsterdam. Since then his drawings,
sketches, photo collages, videos and films have found their way to exhibitions
in a large number of cities, including Amsterdam, Tokyo and New York.
Text: Miryam van Lier
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