Dominic van den Boogerd, Wouter Vanstiphout et al.

Jeroen Doorenweerd

Design: Gebr. Silvestri, Illustrated (colour), Paperback, 192 pages, size: 23 x 28 cm
English/ Dutch edition, ISBN 978-90-5662-676-1, € 33.00
February 2009

With the support of the Netherlands Architecture Fund, te Netherlands Foundation for Visual Art, Design and Arhcitecture (Fonds BKVB) , The New Brabant Art Foundation (NBKS), the Foundation for art and Public Space (SKOR) and the City of Tilburg

Exhibition at De Lakenhal, Leiden, from 24 February to 19 April 2009

The Tilburg-based artist Jeroen Doorenweerd (b. 1962) is best known for his projects in public space. For Doorenweerd the power of art in the public domain lies in its potential to hold up the mirror of intensified forms of the quotidian, which presents the possibility of a heightened experience of the here and now.

Examples of his work include a swimming pool in a prison that could not be used for swimming by order of the powers that be, a monumental, temporary structure for the Theaterfestival Boulevard in Den Bosch, a music kiosk for a nursing home, a greenhouse for drug addicts, a live relay image and sound from a cowshed to a screen in a ministry building, and the construc¬ tion of a boathouse containing a sloop at a business park. In 30 or so intriguing projects he broaches a whole diversity of modern-day topics, such as the individual’s relationship with the built environment and the landscape, traditional handi¬ work and high-tech observation equipment, and the impact of music and sound on the perception of one’s surroundings.

This first comprehensive monograph about Jeroen Dooren¬ weerd’s work presents an overview of his most important projects over the last 18 years. His architectural projects form the connecting thread in this narrative. In addition, the working methods, concepts and ideas that underlie his various projects are set within a critical framework by architectural historian Wouter Vanstiphout and art critic Dominic van den Boogerd.

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