coming
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For the first time I collaborated with Weverijmuseum Geldrop.
The ‘translation’ of my drawings into weaving takes place on a computer-controlled Itema jacquard machine that is quite new at the old Weverij.
The ‘slow’ making and ‘weaving with lines’ is related to my own daily drawing practice, in which time investment plays a role.
going
Saturday 20 july 2024 – 31 augustus 2024
‘TIJD’ Zomersalon CBK Zuid Oost
Anton de Komplein 120
1102 DR Amsterdam
Friday 2 august – sunday 15 september 2024
Galerie Art Singel 100
1015 AD Amsterdam
recent publication
Artist Publication L’état dans des circonstances
Edition of 80 – Release: april 2024
Jan Van Den Dobbelsteen – Lost Album, Paris, edition of 80 original A3 fullcolour photos + A4 insert
Karin Herwegh – Deux semaines, quatre jours, A4 fanzine, 20 pages, black and white digital print
Danielle Lemaire – il pourrait ne pas disparaître, folded A2 poster, fullcolour digital print
Marc Nagtzaam – Les traits, 2x A2 poster + A4 insert, fullcolour digital print
This publication results from an artist collaboration at Atelier Néerlandais in Paris in 2023, L’état dans des circonstances, based on the collection of Frits Lugt at Fondation Custodia.
Price: € 55,- Order
At gallery Traits Libres Danielle Lemaire shows works that emerged from several projects she did related to colonial history. There is a focus on narrative drawings based on colonial archive material. One of the things she studied was the wonderful ‘The Song of Saka Ladja’ written by a Dutch priest, Piet Heerkens, based on spiritual songs of the indigenous people of Flores, about the mystical cycles in nature and the universe.
BANDUNG INDONESIA
Oh Tina! Before Eulogy
a site-specific magical performative artproject with Goethe Institute Bandung
Architect Dea Widya and writer Suina Latersia developed “The Tina and Joi” Trilogy; a fictional story that tells about a young couple struggling in a conflictual marriage and their daily life in the city.
A beautiful former colonial house, home to the Goethe Institute, managed by The Lodge Foundation in the heart of Bandung’s DAGO district, staged the performance-related installations in various media that respond to the story of the mysterious Tina.
In an artistic re-enactment, the house regains its original status during the project, as the home of the disappeared bride Tina. The multimedia disciplines of the participating artists complement each other, placed in a hybrid route through different rooms in the house.
As the audience enters, they feel Tina’s presence in “traces she left behind” and her spirit hangs in the atmosphere.
I elaborated on the story with a magical installation consisting of large printed 400 cm high endurable textile panels that hung down in the patio. New drawings and real plants from the houses environment were projected via two mobile overhead projectors on the panels. Performative presentations were done two times on 7 nights. The audience became part.
read: Bandung Bergerak article by Awla Rayul / Ahmad Fikri
ABOUT MY WORK
Drawing and making art is a way to generate energy and consciousness in a world of decay. A way of life.
A memory of happiness and purity can be present in my work.
It can give space for melancholy and contemplation.
Sometimes you find symbolic references to universal undertones.
Nature gives direction and the voices of my (ancestors) parents whisper in my ear.
My drawings in (multimedia) installations often tell about a special history of a place or a special person.
They are part of a greater whole and can coexist with other visual and audio media and third-party collaborations. I always show them in a different special context.
My work is created in a sensitive and organic way, in which time investment plays an important role. It takes a lot of scrolling with elements before the drawing gets concrete form.
I’m looking for inexplicable ‘throbbing’ moments in the studio, when all the elements come together perfectly in magic moments.
In my drawings shadows of human life become tangible in universal and timeless situations.
In large drawings that coincide with the architecture, or small drawings as momentum and intimate conversation with the subject.
Danielle Lemaire
Generaal Bothastraat 5 K
Eindhoven
daniellelemairestudio at g mail dot com
skills & experiences
curating:
– curator artprogram Extrapool
Nijmegen, 2008-2022
– guest curator ZUIVER. 2022
– master and yearmaster Kunstpodium T
2018-2019
teaching:
– private lessons drawing-painting
– CKE visual arts, children & adults
– guest teacher Dutch Design Academy
– guest teacher KSE highschool (2022)
– Vincent’s Tekenlokaal (2018)
– guest Sandberg Dirty Art Dept (2017)
– summerschool Stedelijk Museum
Breda (2021)
advising:
– Cultuur Eindhoven
– Mondriaanfonds scout Prix de Rome
(2017)
jury:
– Gilbert de Bontridder prijs Art Institute
Maastricht (2023)
– Municipality of Eindhoven
Art in Public Space, Light artwork
Meerhoven, Esplanade
lectures 2023:
– University of Missouri, MFA (online)
– ROC Koning Willem College, School
voor de Toekomst, BLIK, Den Bosch
– Design Academy Eindhoven
– Kopi Kecil, Indisch Atelier, Eindhoven
sound performances
– many occasions 1997 – 2023
I am available for lectures, art education and creating a project especially focused on your space and in collaboration with your organization. *Fair Practise
“il pourrait ne pas disparaître“
inspired by the collection of Frits Lugt at Fondation Custodia
I see my love for drawing figurative and natural elements and stories in the drawings of the Custodia Foundation collection. During the working period at Atelier Néerlandais in April, I worked on a collection of ‘miniature drawings’ that took up residence in an antique art nouveau album I found at the flea market. The album is reminiscent of the beautiful folders of drawings Frits Lugt collected for the Custudia Foundation collection.
JaDa – De Missie Residency project
From March 1 to May 31, 2021, JaDa worked at the studio of
AIR De Missie, in nursing home Park Zuiderhout. We lived and worked among the priests and missionaries, who reside there in the last phase of their working lives. We studied the history of the institution and its residents. The former missionaries traveled the world; they worked in Congo, Ghana, the Philippines, Brazil, Papua New Guinea and the Dutch East Indies and have amazing stories. JaDa was also on a mission: the mission to propagate the arts.
A double LP ‘Zij Zoeken Zich Zelf Niet’ next to the book (see top at this page) as a result of the project is in the make.
Also, a few documentary and art movies are in the make. To be released!
Presentation: september, 2022, NEXT, Stedelijk Museum Breda. i.c.w. kunstloc Brabant en Park Zuiderhout.
support JaDa releases: Cultuur Eindhoven and Constant van Renesse Fonds
Jan Van Den Dobbelsteen & Danielle Lemaire
i.s.m. Stedelijk Museum Breda, en Kunstloc Brabant
