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Akinci is proud to present a new series of painting by Jaap den Ende (b.
1944, Delft) .
In these new works
he follows a line from previous series; the works are made up of several
seamless attached canvasses.
The diverse images,
whether figurative or abstract, are connected and fluidly emerge into
one another. The paintings doesn’t just confront the onlooker with one
dominant composition, but a total view that reveals itself in divided
images and parts. In this visual voyage trough the painting, the
onlooker chooses his own path. Jaap van den Ende has an immense oeuvre
nowadays.
He has
gained international recognition in the 60- ties and 70-ties with his
abstract works, and surprised many when in the 90-ies he started to also
work figurative.
Our Attachment Space
has had a metamorphosis; is has changed into a nursery. Theo Jansen’s
strandbeests have started to procreate.
Jansen
explains: “Until now I had always felt that the reproduction of
the beach animals constituted a utopia.
There would be
animals that you only need to carry tubes and they were of such pipes to
build new beach animals. Or even more utopian. The animals must go to
the country, towards the factory of pipes, tubes there to steal it and
produce beach animals out of it. Let's be realistic, that I no longer
get in the next twenty years. Give me a few extra millions of years and
it works…But guess what? Behind my back beach animals were already
heavily reproducing. Youtube is full of descendants. They are mostly
school teachers and students who are engaged in making copies.” “Well,
the reproduction has recently been accelerated. I'm talking about the
new method of breeding animals. You can print animals with a three-D
printer. Bo Janzen and Tim Bentley have already made a number which can
be seen at the exhibition of the THEO JANSEN UNIVERSITY. It therefore
seems possible to a gene pattern (zeros and ones) to low pass into
matter. We are therefore at a very key point in evolutionary history
that the reproduction does not necessarily take place in protein, but
also in nylon powder.”
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