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Folkert de Jong’s The Immortals @ Dukan Hourdequin – Paris

01/09/2012 @ 8:00 am - 13/10/2012 @ 5:00 pm

free

A first for Paris and a first for Dukan Hourdequin… our beloved foam expert Folkert de Jong is coming to the French capital next month to present his project The Immortals.

Folkert de Jong - The Immortals (Trio), 2012 (image via DukanHourdequin gallery)
Folkert de Jong – The Immortals (Trio), 2012 (image via DukanHourdequin gallery)

The works collectively titled The Immortals represent a concentrate of a number of Folkert de Jong’s themes. Invited by the Glasgow School of Art to exhibit in April 2012, he took as his starting point works by famed architect and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh, originator of the School’s building. Influenced by the Arts & Crafts movement, Mackintosh’s creative world brought standardisation and a nostalgia for the artisanal together in an association of traditional techniques and the most advanced technology the late nineteenth century had to offer. De Jong shows the architect and his less celebrated artist wife Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh working in a simultaneously avant-garde and highly conservative Victorian setting. The title of the work is the Mackintoshes’ name for the group – also known as The Four – they formed with Herbert McNair and Margaret’s sister Frances.  (…)

After the “christening” that was the initial installation, these pieces were subsequently shown in other venues in the same way as at the galerie dukan hourdequin in Paris, and thus developed a new life elsewhere: so little does their appearance seem to owe to the past that, at least at first glance, their historical content is no longer visible

Folkert de Jong - The Immortals (Mr and Mrs), 2012 (image via DukanHourdequin gallery)
Folkert de Jong – The Immortals (Mr and Mrs), 2012 (image via DukanHourdequin gallery)

Those elegant forms and aristocratic poses combined with flashy colors have made from the Dutch artist one of the most popular contemporary artists in the past decade with works spread all over the globe (from the Saatchi Gallery to Montréal’s Beaux-Arts museum).

 Despite their initial “gore” movie impression, his works focus systematically on historical events or established art masterpieces, speculating about issues like power, reputation, exploitation, morality and the human being’s capacity for self-destruction. The history of sculpture is the history of commemoration, of the monument raised to mark a great battle or pay tribute to a king or a religious dignitary. This is why de Jong never treats his subjects gratuitously, and draws each work’s raison d’être from its context.

Folkert de Jong - The Immortals (Black Madonna), 2012 (image via DukanHourdequin gallery)
Folkert de Jong – The Immortals (Black Madonna), 2012 (image via DukanHourdequin gallery)

The exhibition runs from September 1st to October 13th @ DH gallery, although on top of this exhibition, Folkert de Jong also takes part to the collective exhibition at Institut Néerlandais (13th September – 4th November) drawn from a selection of works of the Rabobank collection and shows a monumental installation at “la vitrine de la Maison du Peuple” in Clichy (1st September – 30 September).

Details

Start:
01/09/2012 @ 8:00 am
End:
13/10/2012 @ 5:00 pm
Cost:
free
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Venue

galerie dukan hourdequin
24, rue Pastourelle
Paris, Paris 75003 France
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Phone:
+33 9 81 33 49 95

Organizer

galerie dukan hourdequin
Phone:
+33 9 81 33 49 95
Website:
http://www.dukanhourdequin.com