Browse all

exhibition

Machteld Teekens

Books and Texts

05/12/2006 - 26/01/2007
Location: Van Abbemuseum: Library

For Machteld Teekens drawing and writing with both hands is a study into the bilateralness of the body, space and thinking all at the same time. Her books are examples of concrete dialectics in which the left hand gives depth to the right hand. 

Thus her way of working can be described as ‘the unique phenomenon of a distance, however close it may be’ [Walter Benjamin] . ‘Distance’ is the pre-mod­ern awareness that breaks through the ‘now’ moment of drawing and writing. With this way of working she places herself outside the prevailing views on visual art. At the same time, via her numerous texts, songs, poems and educative projects she is passing comment.

Participants

Artist: Machteld Teekens

 

Van Abbemuseum | Bilderdijklaan 10 | 5611 NH Eindhoven | Netherlands | t +31 40 238 10 00 | f +31 40 246 06 80 | e info[at]vanabbemuseum.nl | Disclaimer | Colofon

Opening times: Tuesday to Sunday, 11:00 to 17:00. The museum is closed on Monday, with the exception of public holidays. The museum is closed on New Year's Day, King's Day and Christmas Day. The Van Abbemuseum is open until 21:00 on the first Thursday evening of the month, admission to the museum is free from 17:00 on those nights. The museum cafe is also open until 21:00 on these evenings. We offer an internet connection via WIFI in the whole museum.