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For English and article Het Parool, scroll down please, thank you Te zien tot en met zaterdag 2 oktober Ik wil graag een catalogus ontvangen van Sarah Maple Ik wil graag het Parool artikel lezen Iedere expositie weer verrijkt Maple ons met haar vrije ideeën rond de thema's identiteit, religie, (werking van) de kunstwereld, feminisme, vreemdelingenhaat, overheersende mannelijkheid en vrijheid van meningsuiting. Zichzelf centraal Wat te zien Sitcom – een meta ervaring Dit sleutelwerk is een baanbrekende reeks korte films waarin kunst en sitcoms worden gecombineerd. Een ‘art-com’ zo je wilt. Zo wil Sarah Maple de grenzen verleggen van wat kunst kan zijn. Zoals het een Maple expositie betaamt, zal de galerie onconventioneel ingericht worden met onder andere een Sarah Maple Behang. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Informatie - Marina Abramovic heeft recent Maple’s video performances Freedom of Speech, Thoughts and Prayers en Dedicated to World peace geselecteerd voor haar persoonlijke tv uitzending. Deze performances zijn ook tijdens de expositie te zien. - In 2011 heeft Sarah Meuleman de 60 minuten durende documentaire Sarah’s Barbaren gemaakt, deze is te zien via VPRO uitzending gemist. - Het niet te missen en spraakmakende werk The World As We Know It debuteerde tijdens Art Rotterdam 2021 op het buitenterrein van de Van Nellefabriek. Het werk is nu weer relevant door het betwiste curatorschap van haar vader, die nog steeds enorme controle op Britneys leven heeft, tot de anti-conceptie aan toe . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SARAH MAPLE De expositie is te zien tot en met zaterdag 2 oktober Opening Galerieseizoen 2021 2022 Onder leiding van een curator, kunstverzamelaar of journalist bezoek je verschillende Amsterdamse galeries. Tijdens de tour leer je de andere deelnemers kennen en ga je in gesprek met de galeriehouders. Verwacht een mix van opkomend talent en gevestigde namen, en een verscheidenheid aan mediums en technieken. Op zaterdag 4 september vertrekken tussen 12.00 en 14.00 uur vijf rondleidingen langs een aantal galeries, onder leiding van jazzmuzikant en kunstenaar Yuri Honing, kunstverzamelaar Casper van der Kruk, disco-feminist en kunsthistorica Cathelijne Blok, en Nina Folkersma en Martine Halsema van Amsterdam Art. Deelnemen
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Every exhibition Maple enriches us with her free ideas on the themes of identity, religion, (functioning of) the art world, feminism, xenophobia, dominant masculinity and freedom of expression. Self-centered What to see Sitcom – a meta experience This key work is a ground breaking series of short films that fuse art with sitcoms. An ‘art-com’ if you will. Exploring the experience of being an artist, and a very particular outspoken artist, each film is a semiautobiographical piece, a heightened reality that draws influence from Extras and Curb Your Enthusiasm as well as seminal artists such as Cindy Sherman and Sarah Lucas. The fictional sitcom/video art will be a meta experience, blurring the line between fiction and reality. Maple aim to push the boundaries of what art can be and who it is available to. As befits a Maple exhibition, the gallery will be decorated unconventionally and Sarah Maple will be present during the opening of the gallery season. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Information • Marina Abramovic has recently selected Maple's video performances Freedom of Speech, Thoughts and Prayers and Dedicated to World peace for her personal TV broadcast. These performances can also be seen during the exhibition. • In 2011, Sarah Meuleman made the 30-minute documentary Sarah's Barbaren, which can be seen via VPRO broadcast. • The unmissable and controversial work The World As We Know It made its debut during Art Rotterdam 2021 on the outside area of the Van Nelle factory. The work is now relevant again due to the disputed trusteeship of her father, who still has enormous control over Britney's life, right down to birth control. Sarah Maple retrospective: a cocktail of provocation, vulnerability and confusion by Edo Dijksterhuis British-Indian artist Sarah Maple makes her identity the focus and subject of her work. This raises controversy, which she counters with humor. On Saturday her retrospective exhibition: 10 Years - I Still Wish I Had A Penis opens in Koch x Bos. The Freedom of Speech video starts out conventionally enough. Sarah Maple looks straight into the camera and talks about her artistic intentions. Perhaps the platitudes about 'connecting with the public' sound a bit hollow, but that doesn't mean she needs to be hit by an arm that suddenly seems to come from behind the camera. Maple doesn't flinch and carries on stiffly, but more blows follow, at shorter and shorter intervals. Maple wipes her from her face, starts to stutter and struggles to the finish line sobbing in the last minute. “I recorded Freedom of Speech after a period in which I had made a lot of controversial work,” says the artist, who is opening a retrospective exhibition at the Koch x Bos gallery today. “With images from popular culture, I responded to the negative stereotypes about Muslims that became common after 9/11. I painted a Muslim woman with a pig in her arms and a woman in a burqa with a button that reads 'I love orgasms'. This provoked violent, sometimes frightening reactions. I told myself it didn't bother me. But in Freedom of Speech, for which I had nothing planned and certainly not those tears, the frustration came up.” The video fills the viewer with disgust and pity, but also with a feeling of almost sadistic satisfaction – because that soft talk fuels the aggression. It is Sarah Maple in full: an intriguing cocktail of provocation, vulnerability and confusion. Her most impressive work to date is The Sarah Maple Show, a six-part sitcom poking fun at the art world. Absurdistic, anti-authoritarian and dryly comical as only the British can do. “I'm not quite sure what to call this work yet,” Maple admits. “I have resisted the label 'sitcom' for a long time, even though the series was broadcast by the commercial channel Sky. In my head it's a sitcom-style video artwork, but maybe that's my own snobbery.” Layer of irony The artist grew up as the daughter of an Indian Muslim woman and a white British father. Little was done about art in the parental home. “But as a teenager I discovered that through self-portraits I could convey a message that I could not express in words. Because I was good at drawing and painting, I went to art academy.” There she made the key work Signs. It is a photographic triptych in which Maple is dressed in a headscarf in the first image and is holding a sign that reads 'I wish I had a penis'. In the second she wears only red lingerie and a sign that reads 'because then I'd fuck you'. She holds the punchline 'then steal your job', dressed in a business suit. Body as canvas Maple herself is inspired by Sarah Lucas, who fought for herself in the testosterone-driven universe of the Young British Artists with macho self-portraits in the 1990s. Like Lucas, Maple uses her body as a canvas. “My work is autobiographical, but what you see is not me, more a character. Lately I've been a bit less of a figure in my work, but that will soon change. I am pregnant. As an artist my whole life has always revolved around my work, but immediately something else comes first. I am curious how motherhood will influence my work.”
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