fridoblog

Stavanger

2011-06-17T13:15:00.001+02:00

Prep

TransportAt tou works

Atelier w17

2011-05-27T17:30:00.001+02:00

The world, the universe and beyond

Ready...

2011-05-11T14:13:00.001+02:00

Everything set and done at art amsterdam

Art amsterdam

2011-05-11T10:47:00.001+02:00

Come on ketchup

2011-04-21T15:08:00.001+02:00

Some more

2011-04-21T13:54:00.001+02:00

Two of Jonathan Brewer's paintings and two new works of mine

Setting up the show at MFAPS

2011-04-21T13:41:00.001+02:00

Peter Booth, Hans Christian Skovolt and Peter Alexander

Pulse art fair New York

2011-03-03T01:27:00.001+01:00

Although the transportation company messed up big time with not delivering most of the work, we have a show.

Chelsea hotel

2011-03-02T13:23:00.001+01:00

The city sounds like the sea

NY

2011-02-16T17:34:00.001+01:00

Out in the plum tree
No later wanderer

mono

2010-12-16T18:06:00.001+01:00

Mono at ONO Gallery monday the 6th

preview Berlin

2010-10-14T19:48:00.001+02:00

Preparations

Tudamdamdam~dadudamdam

2010-10-08T12:19:00.001+02:00

it's almost like poetics of opposites

2010-09-23T00:45:00.002+02:00

a new work

2010-06-10T01:06:00.001+02:00

next wednesday, 12 May

2010-05-10T01:46:00.000+02:00

Tudamdamdam~dadudamdam

2010-04-06T22:41:00.003+02:00

uchihara yasuhiko

2010-04-06T22:36:00.002+02:00

rio workshop

2010-03-02T23:23:00.001+01:00

beauty is business

2010-02-02T23:47:00.001+01:00

Beauty is business

I crawled out of the desert as the sun was nearing the flat horizon. The rock outcroppings, signaling the end of my journey, were covered with blue flowers slowly opening their pedals to the small nocturnal forms that hovered over them, waiting to suck their nectar. My mouth was dry and my lips cracked. I dragged my knees across the stones that separated the Jamaican sands to the west from the lush jungle ring just before the Barbador harbor. My skin flaked off like cracking paint, leaving traces on the stone. The day had been dry and hot and I would not survive another unsheltered night.

Then I noticed something small and bright dancing before me in the darkening landscape. Clinging to the lowest branch of a lone tree, a slender silver cone. Blurry to my eyes it was like the Madonna beckoning to me. On that blessed branch, was a single icicle, about 20cm long, dripping onto a dark spot on the stone, defying natural law and the days heat.

I touched it shyly with my fingers. It was cold, wet, but I still did not trust my senses. I ran my tongue over it experiencing pleasure that I had never conceived. My limbs shuttered with joy, my insides laughed. Like Captain Shaddock I found a miracle, but mine was only for me.

Sucking on it, I managed to pull myself onto my weak legs and stumble in the darkness until I reached the shore. I was wrapped in blankets by the crew and placed in a long boat to be ferried to the barque anchored in the Barbador harbor. They had not given me up for dead. They had waited even for a lowly cabin boy. The boat rocked and I slept deep.

Capitan (then cabin boy) Timothy “little John” Bronfman. 1784

On the 4th of February 2010 'Pavilion 2009' presents:
Dirk van Lieshout (NL), Klara Adam (DE), Marije Vermeulen (NL) and Guido Nieuwendijk (NL)
curated by Frido Evers and Jonathan Brewer

The artists will present themselves at the Open Forum at the Oslo Academy of the Arts at 18:00 that same day.
At 19:00 the show will open
Performance will start at 19:30

The exhibition will be open on the 5th and 6th of Februari from 12:00 till 17:00

Pavilion2009.org, St Olavsgata 32

oil painting no.1 -tribute to rene daniels-

2010-01-26T01:02:00.001+01:00

Hotchpotch London

2009-10-21T19:16:00.003+02:00

getting them planks from the mountain

2009-10-21T18:58:00.001+02:00

studio

2009-08-21T16:40:00.003+02:00

the windmills of our mind

2009-08-10T07:55:00.001+02:00

there it is

2009-06-07T23:59:00.000+02:00

The end is nye...

2009-05-15T03:10:00.001+02:00

30000 carat diamond

2009-05-12T01:59:00.002+02:00

you broke the looking glass, now break the stone - model

2009-05-12T01:58:00.000+02:00

2009-05-12T01:57:00.001+02:00

finalstudioIV

2009-05-12T00:32:00.000+02:00

CRYPTOCRISTALLINE

2009-04-30T10:46:00.002+02:00

cutting ice the video

2009-03-26T08:43:00.001+01:00

cutting ice

center of the story as far as we know it

2009-03-20T23:52:00.003+01:00

the seven sided lantern...

cutting ice 2

2009-03-18T22:00:00.000+01:00

So this is what happened after all that chainsawing

Me and my chainsaw pt II

2009-03-18T12:15:00.002+01:00

Cutting Ice

TAC opening

2008-12-08T12:28:00.003+01:00

TAC nights

2008-12-08T12:19:00.001+01:00

pavilion 2009

2008-11-18T13:04:00.004+01:00

www.pavilion2009.org

Back in Oslo

2008-10-30T10:52:00.002+01:00

And the morning after I arrived there was snow.

Steam powerd grill adventure Strijp-X DDW

2008-10-25T18:38:00.004+02:00

And here the beast on the grill, it was so damn good.

DDW Strijp-X

2008-10-25T18:06:00.005+02:00

It's been nice. Lot's of people. Strange though being among these designers..
here's some video footage

Dutch Design Week

2008-10-25T17:58:00.002+02:00

Strijp-X

2008-10-15T22:25:00.003+02:00

This is how the situation looked when I landed after a four hour delay. I was stuck on the airport with a big box and a broken trolly to transport it. (not this one, I put it in the box) And of course the two other pieces of luggage. It being after 24:00 there weren't going too much trains anywhere.

I managed to get to Utrecht though. After a lot of sweat scraping the box over the floor while dragging the luggage behind me. ... very slowly...
And after a night of travel I made it to Eindhoven where Piet was waiting with a trolly. The hero.

And in the gigantic hall I found myself allready, looking through the gap.

And now to work, deadlines are waiting merciless.

Exhibition at the Dollhouse

2008-10-01T18:32:00.002+02:00

Utopia is some kind of myth/real kind of place. But I guess all places have their own kind of history

Frido Evers

Opening Saturday 04.05.08 - 3pm

4.05.08 – 12.05.08

(Open between 2pm-4pm Weekends only)

"It isn`t necessary for a work to have a lot of things to look at, to compare, to analyze one by one, to contemplate. The things as a whole, its quality as a whole, is what`s interesting. The main things are alone and are more intense, clear and powerful."

Donald Judd, Specific objects - 1965.

Your voice sounds through the telephone. Your voice is far away. A smile upside down, cause the corners of your mouth want that. The square is strange. You have been there often, but it stays apart. It isn't standing where it did before. You go inside.It is known, you would like to retreat into the space of tar. Gentle words surrounds you.

www.fridoevers.nl

DOLLHOUSE

Dollhouse is an artspace in the suburbs of Oslo. The space will show artists in secret while Skylstads parents are travelling abroad. The space is located in the childhood home of Kristian Skylstad, at Kjelsås/Grefsen.

"The Provincial hearth of Black Metal and EMO culture is pending in the zone between the market's bracket hand and the silent, empty scrub forest outside the housing field. Here, between the center and wilderness the black-clad kids form their identities. This is now of significant interest in the arts."

Erling Mogstuen Bugge

Dollhouse, Saturnveien 3, 0492 Oslo.
Contact: 004799619610

http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=27946267724&ref=share

Dollhouse

2008-09-29T09:45:00.000+02:00

Saturday opening in the dollhouse.
More news later...

tonemaker

2008-04-29T08:20:00.002+02:00

1st OF MAY PERFORMANCE WITH THE TONEMAKER AT HOUSEMANIA (PODIUM)

BOom bust

2008-02-13T18:51:00.003+01:00

For all of you who are in Norway:

BOom bust

Opening 18:00h, 21st February

Gallery 21:24 / Gallery 21:25 presents Peter Booth and Frido Evers in a duo show.

Open Friday 22nd. til Sunday 24th, Februari 2008, 12:00h til 17:00h
Gallery 21:24 /Gallery 21:25, Enga, Oslo, (behind the Nobel Peace Centre)

Project(or)

2008-02-13T16:18:00.003+01:00

After a (another) eighteen hour trip by car from norway, this is where we ended up. Rotterdam hosted an alternative art fair for projectspaces and the likes. So I was there to represent Artis Den Bosch for the last time. This was one half of our stand, Showing a part of a work by Kristina Bræin, Nikolaus Gansterer on the left and Katy Dove. On the other side there was another work by Kristina Bræin, a painting by Walter Svennen and a chair made by Jochen Weber.

Galleri Rekord from Oslo joined on this long trip. They showed Ivan Galuzin in their booth.

strange roads

strange hallways

2008-01-10T14:51:00.000+01:00

There it was the van again packed till over the top

the result after putting it in the studio, so now it's quite impossible to walk there. Sorry Kristian.

And here the two bravehearts Kaj and Marieke, who joined me on this crazy adventure of a couple of thousand km. And drove the van back.

Eindhoven last stay

2007-10-31T17:57:00.001+01:00

Design week Eindhoven. Of course I had to see what the Plumbums did.

And of course check the Werkplaats, where they managed to build this huge platform/hut/bathroom with a big white cross light.

We ended sleeping there, outside by the fire... mid oktober

Brussels

2007-10-25T13:51:00.001+02:00

And of all cities to run into an oktoberfest. But what fun!

Christo and Jeanne-Claude

2007-10-25T13:33:00.000+02:00

At Würth's artlocation in Den Bosch.
Here one of their lovely scetches.

Pilot Pilot

2007-10-25T11:52:00.000+02:00

To begin to begin with a concept of a talkshow. Based in the Attic.
Mike Storm hosting the show, me as co-host, bandleader and set builder.

The show begins...

Mike dealing with the unprepaired mess

And then we go wild!

We even had an audience. They off course had to assist us due to a lack of crew.
Well, we never said it would be easy.
...to be continued

mountains

2007-10-09T11:16:00.000+02:00

Long time... almost four weeks again.
them weeks go by like the mountain wind.

Been there where the bears roam

but isn't it pertty

if only every door could be like this

2007-09-21T16:42:00.000+02:00

my door doens't look like this.
it's a nice door nonetheless.
...

le academie

2007-09-14T13:51:00.001+02:00

This is the way to the academy on those rare blue sky days.

Another week has past, barely back from germany for all the artcircus on my way to the netherlands again. Cleening up the old studio and such...

wednesday

2007-09-12T17:31:00.000+02:00

Ingredients:
- Ice
- 45 ml vodka
- 15 ml Kahlua or Tia Maria
- some cream

pictures

2007-09-11T13:24:00.000+02:00

first picture waiting for the night bus in Gotenborg, after we stranded with the car.
oslo from above
in the woods
my new studio
and we tried to fix the car when we stranded near Gotenborg.

OSLO

2007-08-30T16:39:00.000+02:00

What a trip. But I'm in Norway now. haven't unpacked too much yet, but been attending school already.
It was quit an adventure to get here in the start. After a exploding tire of course the car decided to puke diesel out of it's pipes as well. So the travel stagnated 300 km from oslo just after Gotenborg. Which isn't too dramatic because those things tend to happen now and again. The thing was that I had to be in Oslo the day after on the monday.
Because of the darkness nobody was willing to take me for a hitchhike... fortunately i managed to get the last bus to Gotenborg tot take the bus to Oslo hours later. In the station they played this elevator music which was kind of a strange experience while waiting half sleeping. But eventually i arrived in Oslo. 05:30 to be precise. So I was more than on time for the opening speech at one. Which of course, in a norwegian fashion was immediatly followed up by drinking a lot of wine.

more news soon...

little downdate

2007-06-08T12:09:00.000+02:00

the weeks fly by and the only thing i do is producing furniture..
two more month and than the master starts at the art academy in oslo!

MA department art academy

2007-05-07T14:17:00.000+02:00

This is the place where i'll spend a lot of my time in the coming two years.

Some toy cars I made

2007-05-07T13:59:00.000+02:00

The bloodybigtoycars the limousine and the sport model..

another plainride

2007-05-07T13:42:00.000+02:00

It almost starts to feel like taking a bus. At least I'm on one the same amount of times...
But nice to be in Oslo again.

Zapp Magazine, Robby Müller, Daragh Reeves at Artis den Bosch

2007-05-07T12:55:00.000+02:00

14 april 2007 t/m 20 mei 2007
Zapp Magazine, Robby Müller, Daragh Reeves
SOMEONE MAKES A CALL AND THE SUN GOES DOWN

De door Artis uitgenodigde tentoonstellingsmakers Corinne Groot en Rob van de Ven van Zapp Productions brachten van 1993-1997 10 issues van Zapp Magazine uit. In dit internationale kunsttijdschrift op video presenteerden zij nieuwe ontwikkelingen binnen de hedendaagse kunst. In samenwerking met een internationaal team van correspondenten en vrienden deden de uitgevers verslag van exposities en performances. Daarnaast namen ze videobijdragen van kunstenaars op.

Zapp Magazine theoretiseerde niet maar vormde ook zeker geen objectieve verslaglegging. Het deed waar video groot in kan zijn: door een scherpe selectie en combinatie van beeldmateriaal de uiteenlopende manifestaties van hedendaagse kunst als artistiek medium in hun onderlinge verwantschap dan wel tegenstelling tegen het licht houden. Zapp Magazine scherpte zowel blik als overzicht en had een oog voor aanstormend talent. Groot en Van de Ven hervatten dit jaar hun uitgave, ditmaal op dvd: Zappmagazine issue # 11 zal tijdens Postproductie op 20 mei in Artis worden gepresenteerd.

Het redacteursoog van Zapp Magazine geeft in Someone makes a Call and the Sun Goes down de ruimte aan een even maagdelijke als onvoorspelbare ontmoeting tussen twee kunstenaars, die ook in #11 voor zullen komen: Robby Müller en Daragh Reeves. Ze hebben op het eerste gezicht niet meer met elkaar gemeen dan dat ze beiden met het medium film werken. Er bestaat eerder een zeker spanningveld tussen hun werkwijzen.
De zwijgzame maar zeer gerenommeerde Nederlandse cameraman Robby Müller (1940) werkt vanuit verbazingwekkend eenvoudige basisprincipes, waaruit al ruim veertig jaar lang magistrale beelden voortkomen. Müllers cinematografie maakte films als Paris Texas (Wim Wenders), Down by Law (Jim Jarmusch) en Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier) tot moderne filmklassiekers. Zijn beeldcompositie, cameradynamiek en belichting zijn legendarisch en zullen in een aantal door Müller geselecteerde filmfragmenten uit 10 films, op simultaan spelende monitoren, vrij van geluid en dramaturgische context tot hun volle recht komend, de kijker bespelen. Daarnaast creëren de curatoren een huiskamersetting, waarin Müllers films on demand integraal kunnen worden bekeken. Nooit eerder vormden zijn speelfilmbeelden het uitgangspunt voor een tentoonstelling. Müllers werk vormt echter een inspiratiebron voor vele kunstenaars, ook buiten de filmwereld en onder andere Doug Aitken en Steve McQueen verzochten hem inmiddels om samenwerking. Groot en Van de Ven koppelen in Someone makes a Call and the Sun goes down Müllers cinematografische juweeltjes aan het werk van één van zijn veel jongere bewonderaars, de Britse beeldend kunstenaar Daragh Reeves (1974). Waar Müller de acteurs door onconventionele belichting, grote kaders of dynamisch camerawerk zoveel mogelijk vrij spel wil geven grijpt Reeves het liefst in het beeld in. Hij reageert en anticipeert in zijn tekeningen, fotocollages, objecten, video’s en films op de macht en verwachtingen die in het afzonderlijke filmbeeld en de filmvertelling als geheel besloten liggen. Bij Reeves vormen verf, tape en tekst de negatie van welke genrevastheid dan ook. Gebrek aan eenduidigheid vormt zijn manier om met bestaande conventies te spelen. Refererend aan de ongeschreven wetten van het Hollywood waaraan Müller zich het liefst onttrekt, creëert ook Reeves, even eigenzinnig als Müller, zijn eigen illusionaire universum. Zijn werk lijkt te bestaan uit momentopnames van een realiteit die even werkelijk als fictief lijkt. Reeves jongleert vrijelijk maar doelbewust met de paramaters tijd en illusie, die het medium film al meer dan honderd jaar zijn onweerstaanbare aantrekkingskracht bezorgen. Someone makes a Call and the Sun goes down projecteert als ultieme vertolking hiervan de jongste film van Reeves, die hij onlangs in New York uit fragmenten van bestaande speelfilms heeft gemonteerd.

Zowel Müller als Reeves maken de daad van het kijken tot een even onthullende als ongrijpbare ervaring die, met hun gepresenteerde werk als basis, minder en minder de grenzen tussen fictie en werkelijkheid onderscheidt om voor een langer of korter moment een derde, door beeld opgeroepen realiteit te verstaan.

Robby Müller (1940) studeerde in 1964 af aan de Nederlandse Film Academie en was cameraman bij meer dan 60 films en talloze televisieproducties. Hij werkte met gerenommeerde en onorthodoxe cineasten als Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch, Peter Bogdanovich en Lars von Trier. Müller ontving verschillende prestigieuze prijzen voor zijn camerawerk.

Daragh Reeves (1974) verbleef aan De Ateliers in Amsterdam. Zijn tekeningen, schetsen, fotocollages, video’s en films vonden inmiddels hun weg naar exposities in een groot aantal steden, waaronder Amsterdam, Tokyo en New York. Recent exposeerde hij in Amsterdam, The Fountains of New York, W139 (2005). Op dit moment is zijn werk te zien in A Jaimaca, Queens Thing, Jamaica Centre for Arts and (L)earning, New York (April 2007), The Go-Between, De Appel, Amsterdam (April 2007) en later dit jaar Drawing Typologies, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (Juni 2007) en bij Ellen De Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam (2007).

Corinne Groot (1964) en Rob van de Ven (1955) vormen samen Zapp Productions. Van 1993 tot 1997 brachten zij 11 issues (#0 - #10) van hun kunsttijdschrift op video, Zapp Magazine, uit. # 11 dat in mei op dvd verschijnt wordt tijdens de op 20 mei as door Artis georganiseerde Postproductie gepresenteerd. Zapp Productions, maakt tentoonstellingen, adviseert, en produceert kunstenaarsvideo’s, waaronder die van Leigh Bowery en L.A. Raeven.

Tekst: Miryam van Lier

Artis den Bosch

queensday

2007-05-03T13:10:00.000+02:00

And with thousands of people I sold crap on queens day. Before I move to Oslo I wanted to do such a cultural thing:-)
It went really good. I started selling at 1400 instead of 0600 like everybody else. And three and a half hours later almost everything was gone. OK i had to almost throw stuff to people, but I have to get rid of my stuff...

wereldtuin

2007-05-03T12:48:00.000+02:00

Sometimes one just builds. Here I'm making a shed a couple of meters longer.
This is for the Wereldtuin in Katendrecht Rotterdam
http://www.wereldtuinkatendrecht.nl/

Minorpresentatie kunstacademie den bosch/breda

2007-04-01T22:18:00.000+02:00

Maandag morgen. Veertig studenten van het tweede en derde jaar van de kunstacademie.
Vrijdag presentatie en opening....

En het was de taak van Thomas Bakker, docent aan de academie, en ik vanuit Artis, om het geheel naar een goed einde te coordineren.

model 187

2007-03-27T09:29:00.000+02:00

There it is! the new work procuced during the show at the CBK. The opening was a succes (photos will follow). Lot's of people and a nice talk from Ad de Visser. And the show is open till the 8th of april.

and it suddenly hit me...

2007-03-16T15:15:00.000+01:00

Sometimes when you're working a lot in your own space, you start to notice things... like that it might be possible that's it's a horible mess...
And as i was working on the four tables for studio tween, and working on the new work for the CBK exhibition, and of course doing all the small things in between, I suddenly got into this cleaning spirit. (http://www.studiotween.com/)

So this is the befor..

And this is after I was done at 0100

...eh still looks like a mess though, but you can actually see the floor ( a small smile forms)

news from the front

2007-03-13T08:27:00.000+01:00

As the situation is now it appears that I'm accepted into the masters at the artacademy in Oslo! It wasn't easy to get the news out... cuase i couldn't find the key for the letterbox during the week when they were going to send me an answer. On the monday after, I already started calling, but of course couldn't reach them, I checked the mailbox again with an illegal method and then... tada the letter appeard which said (as far as I understood) that I'm accepted into the master program.

to the events so far

2007-03-08T00:35:00.000+01:00

Some more pictures from our show in den bosch. This is the overview of the LAb. We use the lab as a starting point where we present a part of the impressions we took back from Los Angeles. We are producing new work from there.
This will be presented on the 25th of March at the CBK in 's-Hertogenbosch

Here some of the old picsHere is us, your personal crew... Marije, Evelyne, Dirk and me

At the opening when Maarten (vanden Eynde) did his presentation/performance.
And more pictures from the opening at the 25th of Februari.

THE BAR WITH M&Ms POPCORN (SALT N SWEET) DONUTS AND ICE WITH COKE.
This will be available at the next opening too at the 24th of March!

And building up the exhibit.

time flies when you're having a lot to do

2007-02-26T13:58:00.000+01:00

Back from the american continent. already busy with the next exhibition. we barely survived that.

Here the first pictures from the first opening

the quest continues

2007-02-07T11:10:00.000+01:00

the getty, so the to see list gets smaller.

Mountain School of Art, a school in a bar isn't that great! and they are so nice to allow us to participate as guests in there programm. which is really great! People who attend it for a three month period with lectures from interesting artist, courses in science, philosophy and lot's of discussions.

and this is how one starts to see LA, a bit blurred.

Opening Raid Projects

2007-02-05T08:48:00.000+01:00

So there it was! and so were we...
...and a hundred people

awesome!

and then the party began

transport

2007-02-01T09:30:00.000+01:00

they had to be BIG themcardboardthingies...
mede mogelijk gemaakt door het prins Claus Fonds

the days are numbered

2007-02-01T08:33:00.000+01:00

zijn inzet was goed...
the days are ticking so we decided to actually do something...

starting point

2007-01-30T22:36:00.000+01:00

... but we began working for real now...

www.raidprojects.com

http://tinyurl.com/3y5tdt

Fitting in:-)

2007-01-30T22:32:00.000+01:00

So here we are then in the middle of things. Got a golden chain now. moehahahaha it's silly i know but found it in the car.

lalaland 2.1

2007-01-29T09:20:00.000+01:00

HMMMMMM.......

Nüans, Düsseldorf

2007-01-24T18:18:00.000+01:00

Here some news.
At the 3rd of Februari I'm in a exhibition at Nüans in Düsseldorf (Ellerstrasse). So for all the people who would like to see go.
On the 22th of Februari starting at 18 h we'll do a presentation of our project at Raid projects (LA) (Dirk van Lieshout, Evelyne Montens, Marije Vermeulen, Reinaart Vanhoe, Maarten vanden Eynde)

Dirk goes wild!!

2007-01-24T09:21:00.000+01:00

This is were the fun starts...

Raid day one

2007-01-22T23:02:00.000+01:00

Well we arrived at Raids. Later than expecten (about six bloody hours due to snow in washington) But it's nice to be back!

02:39

2007-01-20T02:39:00.000+01:00

The site is online!
www.fridoevers.nl is een feit

me and my chainsaw

2007-01-19T23:48:00.000+01:00

THIS IS IT!!
...ok I admit it's a bit trashy....
.... and it needs a lot of work...
but I just found it after wishing for it for so long!

oh maybe not my chainsaw

2007-01-16T23:51:00.000+01:00

me and my chainsaw

2007-01-16T23:34:00.000+01:00

...hello...
...anybody out there...
..roarrrrrrrrrrr.....