CBK Zeeland
Publication 'Pointing Elsewhere' - conceptual wall drawings - text Sandra Smets
Artists: Aimée Terburg, Martin Grosz, Tinka Pittoors, Marc Nagtzaam, Marijn van Krey, Piet Dieleman
CBK Zeeland, Balans 17, 4331 BL Middelburg NL
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Every invited artist was asked to make a conceptual wall drawing in situ, in one week, for the Summer Studio 2014 titled 'Pointing Elsewhere'. The theme 'Pointing Elsewhere' for me refered to history. The research about the history of the CBK Zeeland building revealed that in the 18th century the 'Middelburgsche Commercie Compagnie' or 'MCC' (trading company of Middelburg) was seated at Balans 17 in Middelburg, in those days called the 'Commerciehuis (commercial house)'. The MCC had a big part in trading enslaved Africans in the West-Indies in the 18th century. The slaves were shipped from Africa across the Atlantic Ocean and sold in the West Indies to traders and plantation owners. When back in the Netherlands the MCC sold plantation products (mostly sugar, tobacco and cacao) and made big profits of this so called triangle trades. This year, 2014, the Provence of Zeeland organises the national commemoration of the abolition of slave trade in 1814, 200 years ago. Considering my Dutch-Suriname background I was intregued by the MCC and their trading triangle journeys and took it as a starting point to make it visible. The result as a pattern of triangles of (overlapping) paper in three shades, was created and build after days of shifting, taping and removing with no design in advance, alike my process of drawing and painting.The use of the triangle became a symbol for the trading triangles of the MCC during the working process and was also inspired by the art and handcraft of the Maroon in Suriname, descendants of escaped slaves. The work reveals bigger triangles and three columns that interact with the pillars in the space, depending on the moment of the day and angle of daylight which paper is visible. Just as history this image is not fixed, it changes in time, but this site-responsive work is there to be seen. |
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| CBK Zeeland, Balans 17, 4331 BL Middelburg NL Open: Mo - Fri 09.00 - 17.00 hr, first Sunday of the month 7 September 13.00 - 17.00 hr Extra: Saturday 6 Sept 12.00 - 17.00 hr + Sunday 7 September 13.00 - 17.00 hr www.zeeuwsarchief.nl/zeeuwse-verhalen/herdenking-afschaffing-slavenhandel |
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| 3 shades of paper, folds, doublesides tape, spray adhesive | ||