[Nettime-nl] Stroom Den Haag presents Calin Dan

[Geert Lovink <geert@xs4all.nl>]

> Calin Dan
>  ‘sony/wmf/pp. Trip. Sample City. –
>  Three takes on Emotional Architecture’
> October 15 - December 17, 2006
>  Hours: Wed thru Sun, 12-5 pm
>
> Stroom Den Haag
> Hogewal 1-9
>  2514 HA The Hague, The Netherlands
>
>  T +31-70 3658985
>  info@stroom.nl
>  http://www.stroom.nl
>
>  Over the past few years the Romanian-Dutch artist and theorist Calin 
> Dan (1955) has identified a specific field of research, defined as 
> ‘Emotional Architecture’, while developing a highly personal idiom 
> where video and photography, next to text and music, play an important 
> role. His recent presentation at the 15th Sydney Biennial, one of 
> today’s foremost international visual art events, forms the basis for 
> his exhibition at Stroom Den Haag. Three video works - ‘sony/wmf/pp’, 
> ‘Trip’ and ‘Sample City’ - will be shown together in The Netherlands 
> for the very first time, with in addition a selection of other works.
>
>  Calin Dan focuses on the use, the experience, the meaning and the 
> emotional value of architecture and urban environments. Until now he 
> worked mainly on areas where totalitarian regimes had played an all 
> important role, like Tallinn and Bucharest. These areas do not only 
> reflect his background, but also inspire him because of the many 
> conflict situations, which, even if less explicitly, generate dilemmas 
> in the cities of Western Europe as well. Calin Dan views the city as 
> an ever-changing equation of walls, private vs. public property, 
> visions, relations and blind spots, continually in the process of 
> self-denial and adjustment. Through his observations of the city, his 
> explorations of neighborhoods, his contacts with dwellers and 
> visitors, and through his research of traditions, Calin Dan developed 
> an almost psychoanalytical way of looking at things. His work is an 
> original blend of personal observations, folklore, historical facts 
> and architectural analysis.
>
>  Over the past few years Calin Dan has participated in various 
> prestigious exhibitions and international projects, like the ‘Biennale 
> Cuvée’ at O.K. Centre for Contemporary Art in Linz (Austria). In 
> addition to being an artist Calin Dan is active as a curator and 
> author. Just recently part 2 of the self-published book series 
> ‘Emotional Architecture’ was released, and will be available at Stroom 
> during the exhibition.
>
>  The exhibition at Stroom is an introduction to a project he will 
> realize about and on a location in The Hague next year.
>
> Stroom Den Haag focuses on the urban environment from the viewpoint of 
> visual arts, architecture, urban development and design.


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