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Gabriel Kuri at M.H.C by de Appel's | Netherlands

05-11-08

Master Humphrey’s Clock
opening may 11 | 3p.m.

at Het Gebouw by Stanley Brouwn & Bertus Mulder Hogeweide 3B, Leidsche Rijn, Utrecht
may 12 - june 8, 2008

Master Humphrey’s Clock is a project by de Appel’s Curatorial Programme 07/08* created for the new suburban location of Leidsche Rijn, Utrecht, the Netherlands. The main exhibition venue is Het Gebouw; a pavilion designed by Dutch conceptual artist Stanley Brouwn and architect Bertus Mulder (commissioned by BEYOND: the long-term art project for Leidsche Rijn). Part of the project will take place in The Shadow Cabinet, an exhibition space at de Appel arts centre in Amsterdam.

Master Humphrey’s Clock is an exhibition inspired by the presence of a second-hand shop in the heart of a heavily designed, new suburban development in the Netherlands (Leidsche Rijn, Utrecht). In this shop residents and people visiting the area drop off their old belongings and attain new ones, participating in the circulation of objects and the stories they hold.

The project’s title is borrowed from Charles Dickens’ “Master Humphrey’s Clock” (1840-41), a periodical that presents a variety of stories through the narrative of one character: the elderly Master Humphrey, and his treasure of manuscripts. Part of this serial publication was later transformed into a novel called “The Old Curiosity Shop” (1841). The participants of the Curatorial Programme 07/08 found the story of Master Humphrey on a bookshelf in the second-hand shop in Leidsche Rijn.

In the development of a local identity for this new city, historical sites have played an important role. On the borders

of Leidsche Rijn is a fourteenth century medieval castle rebuilt from ruins by architect Pierre Cuypers (the architect of the Rijksmuseum) and, during the initial stages of construction in Leidsche Rijn, the remains of a Roman cargo ship were discovered. While these examples refer to the distant past, the local second-hand shop is an active site where the recent past is constantly being negotiated through the exchange of objects and their stories.

Participating artists: Agency (BE), Mariana Castillo Deball (MX/DE), Ricardo Cuevas (MX), Gintaras Didžiapetris (LT), Geoffrey Farmer (CAN), Victoria Fu (US), Dora García (ES/BE), Noa Giniger (IL/NL), gerlach en koop (NL), Július Koller (SK), Gabriel Kuri (MX/BE), Nick Mangan (AU/DE), Flávia Müller Medeiros (UK) and Irka (BY/LT), Radim Peško & Louis Lüthi (NL), Sandy Plotnikoff (CAN), Michael Rakowitz (US), Simon Starling (UK), Michael Stevenson (NZ/DE), The Faculty of Invisibility and others.

más información: www.masterhumphreysclock.nl


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