35. Exposition Hall Maastricht
- Rechstraat 19 – Exposition space-

Paul PM Gilissen is a painter and a poet, thus an  artist.

www.kunsthandelgalerie.nl

36. Artspace B32
- Bourgondiërstraat 32 -34 – Artistic breeding ground -

Title: Showing Talking

Performance SmallTalk – Stijn Demeulenaere (B) + concert Nu&Apa Neagra (Ro) and related happenings.

During Art Tour 11, B32 presents two projects. The first, by Stijn Demeulenare (Belguim), a continues conversation between eight glasses standing on a table, each with their own microphone.  The second by  ‘Nu & Apa Neagra’, who present a performance installation  between word samples in search for a debate been frequencies with no title together with folklore sounds, improvised songs and electronic sounds by Timisoara from Romania. Four musicians performing free form music in a world filled with boundaries. In addition, ‘Nu & Apa Neagra’ will give an audio visual performance that mixes the authentic tastes of the traditional cuisine under the name, Psychenaturadatura.

program
Saturday | 22.05 |
15h | performance by Stijn Demeulenaere (B)
17h | Audio Visual immersion with guest Dj|Vj crew
Sunday | 23.05 |
17h | concert Nu&Apa Neagra (Ro) + DESTRUKTIEF NETWERK
Monday | 24.05 |
17h | full sense experience audio-video-taste Psychenaturadatura (Ro)
On going – SmallTalk | installation

Titel: ‘Our Time’ – Part 2

Nir Evron, Uriel Orlow, Declan Clarke, Emanuele Becheri, Ivan Moudov, Paulien Oltheten, lvia Kolbowski

Time can bring an interesting perspective on works of art. 15 young curators from across Europe place emphasis on the phenomenon of time within a group exposition. The project, ‘Our Time’ was initiated by Joao Murao in 2008 during the Cecac workshop led by Charles Esche, Nedko Solakov and Fondazione Ratti Milaan. The project that consists of 15 films and is divided in three parts  can be visited  since February of this year and will remain open until upcoming June.  A publication, with the same name forms as its closing piece; a magazine will act as the guide to the exhibition and is available on location. ‘Our Time – part 2′ shows five films that tell the story of individuals who lean against the sidelines of society, those whose physical and mental conditions are on the borderline. Their stories are universal, they are not linked to space, time or culture. The narrators are thus not only the films protagonists but take part of the art discourse.

See advert on pages 51 – 52 (Art Tour Mag.)  for Photos, location, works and texts.
www.b32.org

37. Atelier Ton Franssen
- Wijckergrachtstraat 28 c -

Drawings and Paintings
www.tonfranssen.nl

38. Atrium Rijkswaterstaat Gebouw
- Avenue ceramiek 125 – exposition space

Title sculpture: Change is eternal.

Nature is the feeding ground of everything we fabricate. Increasingly entire landscapes are being cultivated by humans. Without nature, we cannot exist, still we try and attempt to tame and bend nature to our will. In the works of Bram Braam one can witness the struggle between nature and architecture. Is nature and human production working together or against each other ? In the end who really dominants ? www.brambraam.com

39. Atelier Els Trijnes
- Alfons Ariensstraat 106

Artists: Els Trijnes – Art works , Mirjam Korse - Art works , Henry Konsten – Saxophone, Andrea Ivanyos – cello

On Sunday 23rd of May between 13:00 and 15:00 one can find: Sound Art

By: Andrea Ivanyos (cello) and Henry Konsten (saxophone)-  original compositions

40. Bonnefantenmuseum
- Avenue Ceremique 250 – museum –

Extra opening hours on Monday 24th of May!

Open for viewing:

Titles: Augenspiel, Going south,Sidi El Karchi / Bas de Wit

Augenspiel

A selection of praised pieces – old, modern and contemporary art. (Exhibition lasts till the 31st of December 2010)

On the first floor, the museum is presenting a new display of highlights of the collection. It includes old, modern and contemporary works of art, which this time are not ordered according to classical arrangement principles, such as chronology, but set out along a route that aims to refresh the eye and intensify the way works are viewed. Old and new are intermingled, with an open invitation to view them detached from context or theory.

Each painting, image or object has been selected on its own individual merits, with uniqueness, singularity and quality as the guiding principles.

Every work of art is able to communicate, without there being a direct case of understanding and choices. Augenspiel is no usual collection presentation. A sharp selection of highlights from Old Masters to contemporary art is presented for the very first time to the museum’s visitors. From the one room to the other, you are invited to stand eye in eye with artefacts and works of art from very different times and centuries. As the title underlines it, Augenspiel is all about the pleasure of watching. Contact with art can be made on an initial level of emotions and sensitivity.

Free visitor’s guide available (36 pages – NL, ENG, D, FR). Audiotour available (NL – ENG ).

Going South

16de en Vroeg 17de eeuwse Zuid-Nederlandse meesters
(Exhibition open until June 6th, 2010)

The Rijksmuseum Amsterdam houses a major collection of 16th and early 17th-century Old Masters from the Southern Netherlands. From March to June 2010, a selection of 50 works will be presented on the refurbished exhibition floor of the Bonnefantenmuseum.

The presentation will include painters like Rubens, who in their day made their way south to Italy, where they found inspiration. Others obtained their information about ‘the south’ second-hand and interpreted it in their own way. The exhibition runs chronologically from the last generation of Flemish primitives, such as Quinten Metsys and Adriaan Isenbrandt, to the great three of the Flemish Baroque: Rubens, Jordaens and Van Dyck. A highlight of the exhibition is the ‘St Jerome’ by Marinus van Reymerswaele, which has undergone a transformation after extensive restoration work at the SRAL (the Limburg Conservation Institute).

Sidi El Karchi / Bas de Wit
(Exhibition open till 27th of June 2010)

Since Sidi El Karchi and Bas de Wit successfully completed their studies at the art academy a little less than ten years ago, the museum has followed their progress.That was fairly easy to do, as they both studied in Maastricht and still live and work in the vicinity – apart from short visits to New York and Antwerp. Now El Karchi and De Wit’s careers have really taken off. Their CVs each list a series of group and solo exhibitions, they have won incentive prizes, and galleries in Cologne and Amsterdam are representing their work, which is gradually finding its way to the (buying) public. Not to be outdone,the Bonnefantenmusem has acquired a total of eight paintings and two sculptures by the two gentlemen. And these acquisitions are now being exhibited in the form of a large-scale deo presentation.

Three additional tours will take place on the 22nd, 23rd and 24th of May:
Saturday 22nd May at 14:00 h.- By Ton Quik, conservator-education: Augenspiel
Sunday 23rd of May at 14:00 h. – By Alexander van Grevenstein, museum director: Sidi El Karchi / Bas de Wit
Monday 24th of May at 14:00 h. – By Lars Hendrikman, conservator Ancient Masters: Going South

Free entrance –  Dutch Spoken – open Teus. till Sun. 11:00 – 17:00 hrs. – extra opening Mondag 24th of May.
www.bonnefanten.nl