TONIGHT WITH OLIVIER FOULON
The fourth If I Can't Dance Tonight featured Olivier Foulon. Foulon presented a lecture starting from his new work The Soliloquy of the Broom, presented at de Appel till the 9th of November. After this presentation, If I Can't Dance... curator Frederique Bergholtz and Olivier Foulon talked more extensively about the work.
The afternoon was concluded with a contribution by Anne de Vries and J.J. Evangalista who introduced us into the world of Swing.
The Soliloquy of the Broom 16mm film (2008)
Olivier Foulon’s project 'The Soliloquy of the Broom' focuses on the concept of masquerade in relation to painting. Central to this work is the portrait of 'Jo, the Beautiful Irish Girl' painted by Gustave Courbet in 1865 in Trouville. It shows a lady named Jo, mistress and model of the artist James Whistler, looking at herself and her hair in a mirror. Due to great demand Gustave Courbet copied the painting several times.
Nowadays, the four versions to the Metropolitan Museum, New York, the Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, the National Museum of Stockholm and to a private collector. Olivier Foulon brought the four paintings together with the help of 16mm film and visualizes not only early forms of mass production in art, but works with the concept of a model that is used as a template for a painting which itself then becomes the model for another painting. Olivier Foulon's work shows arrangements through which art history can be renegotiated and interpreted anew.
The Soliloquy of the Broom is a co-production of If I Can't Dance... and the Kölnischer Kunstverein.
Olivier Foulon’s project 'The Soliloquy of the Broom' focuses on the concept of masquerade in relation to painting. Central to this work is the portrait of 'Jo, the Beautiful Irish Girl' painted by Gustave Courbet in 1865 in Trouville. It shows a lady named Jo, mistress and model of the artist James Whistler, looking at herself and her hair in a mirror. Due to great demand Gustave Courbet copied the painting several times.
Nowadays, the four versions to the Metropolitan Museum, New York, the Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, the National Museum of Stockholm and to a private collector. Olivier Foulon brought the four paintings together with the help of 16mm film and visualizes not only early forms of mass production in art, but works with the concept of a model that is used as a template for a painting which itself then becomes the model for another painting. Olivier Foulon's work shows arrangements through which art history can be renegotiated and interpreted anew.
The Soliloquy of the Broom is a co-production of If I Can't Dance... and the Kölnischer Kunstverein.
Tonight with Olivier Foulon, 26 October 2008, Frascati Amsterdam
'Swing Dance Hall Masquerade', J.J. Evangelista
J.J. Evangelista
J.J. Evangelista hosts a Swing Dance Hall Masquerade where you are invited for a short introduction on some basic steps of Lindy-Hop and Jitterbug Dance, and swing the night away as a Ginger Rogers, a Fred Astaire, a Mae West and maybe even a James Brown. Dance fellow conspirator: the fabulous Orly Nurany. Dance hall orchestra: the infamous Anne de Vries
J.J. Evangelista hosts a Swing Dance Hall Masquerade where you are invited for a short introduction on some basic steps of Lindy-Hop and Jitterbug Dance, and swing the night away as a Ginger Rogers, a Fred Astaire, a Mae West and maybe even a James Brown. Dance fellow conspirator: the fabulous Orly Nurany. Dance hall orchestra: the infamous Anne de Vries
In the way of Fernando Pessoa, the Portuguese poet from 1910's, J.J. Evangelista created throughout his life different heteronyms - characters for his different acts. He started off as Zoah Krieger drawing illustrations. Later he became J.C. Costa, the computer scientist, studying at University of Lisbon. In a cross border manoeuvre to theatre performing and stage building, he became Joao Guerreiro, the performance artist working for Bomba Suicida. Thereafter he moved to Holland where he majored at School for New Dance Development and became J.J. Evangelista, the choreographer/ director.
Anne de Vries (1977)
De Vries is visual artist and DJ. He graduated from the Rietveld Academie in 2002. De Vries focuses on staged photography. He was commissioned by Foam, museum for contemporary photography, and the Nederlands Filmmuseum. He was guest curator for the Arnhem Mode Biënnale edition 2007.
De Vries is visual artist and DJ. He graduated from the Rietveld Academie in 2002. De Vries focuses on staged photography. He was commissioned by Foam, museum for contemporary photography, and the Nederlands Filmmuseum. He was guest curator for the Arnhem Mode Biënnale edition 2007.
