Knip-en plakwerk van mijn hand te zien, mogelijk ook een aangeklede tape, maar een bezoek is het waard. En als je weer buiten op het trottoir staat, dan bemerk je al snel dat de skyline van Den Haag ook op knip-en plakwerk lijkt.
Verdere tekst van Lula Valleta:
Isabel Reitemeyer… Caro Mantke… and many internationally renowned collagists more. A field day for the connoisseur.
Everyone reading this should not waste time, but take the car, a taxi or the first train to Verbeke Foundation, the art site at Kemzeke near Sint-Niklaas, Belgium. It’s there that HOK’s Lula Valletta has curated the great collagists’ exhibition GlueHeads A Berlin odyssey into the unreal, on view this whole summer until 4 November. And now in HOK, starting Friday 21 July, we have the rejects from this Glueheads exposition, the works that did not finally make it into Verbeke, the never-before exhibited, the rarities, the not-to-be-accepted, in short: the collector’s items.
To make this exposition possible, HOK’s artist in permanent residence Lula Valletta has dug up her own roots from a seven years’ stay in Berlin, home of the homeless and cradle of the disruptive, if not to say destructive art called collage. And where Lula’s roots are, there are HOK’s roots as well.