Opening Tagtics!!!

In case you missed it, the opening of the Tagtics exhibition @ Quartair for you in pictures!

The crowd listening to Erik Jan Ligtvoet, one of the Quartair artists, in the front the cube piece of Mischa Rakier.

Erik-Jan is talking and hanging, just relaxed…

Lotte Geeven officially opened the show with a great lecture about the importance for an artist to travel!

The crowd was pleased and listening carefully behind the fragile work of Ralph de Jongh.

Mischa Rakier and Lotte Geeven in front of the bar, painted by Marije Vermeulen.

On the right the Happy Painter is looking at his work in the corner as a satisfied man. On the floor a work by Paul Komada.

The corner painting already had fans.

Marielle Buitendijk and Marcel Swint are enjoying the show…

There was fresh soup and bread enough for everyone.

Marije, Mischa, Robert and Paul.

The Quartair Bar-team!

Paul Komada from Seattle and Alain Biltereyst from Brussels

Robert Nilsen from Trondheim next to his work.

Welcome

Tagtics is going to be an exhibition in Quartair, The Hague (NL) from November 9 till December 1, 2013 organized by artists Jeroen Glas, Sibylle Eimermacher, Guido Nieuwendijk and Marije Vermeulen.

Abstraction in its broadest sense will be a recurring and connecting element in the exhibition, where we’ll investigate what distinguishes the participating artists, what the different starting points are and how each artist finds the way to his/her formal language.

The formal and personal interests and themes in the work of the artists will be categorized as <tags> which emphasize mutual similarities. These Tags can connect different artists, but there are also Tags that have no connections. These are often personal methods, triggers and associations. Usually you don’t see this at first glance in the works. Uncovering these connections is a unifying theme in this exhibition. This process of connecting and creating a network will also be reflected in the design of the exhibition space. The exhibition can be experienced as a blog, with tags as search queries. Interfaces, associations and motives impose a link between the works, which aim is giving a richer picture of the artworks and the artists.

Networking is an important part of this exhibition. We will also organize a network evening on saturday, November 15, so save the date!

The participating artists are Marleen Sleeuwits (NL), Mischa Rakier (NL), Ralph De Jongh (NL), Alain Biltereyst (BE), Julie Alpert (US), Paul Komada (US), Robert Nilsen (NO), Per Formo (NO), Jeroen Glas (NL), Sibylle Eimermacher (GER), Marije Vermeulen (NL), Guido Nieuwendijk (NL).

On this blog you can follow the development of the project, get introduced to the artists, look behind the scenes and you will be the first to see our graphic edition that will accompany the exhibition. See you here!