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Bouke de Vries - War & Pieces, 2012

            Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag 2015

Er lijkt net een atoomramp te hebben plaatsgevonden in de installatie van Bouke de Vries. Op de acht meter lange tafel is, met de chemische wolk als middelpunt, een agressieve veldslag te zien bestaande uit duizenden scherven porselein gemixt met stukken plastic speelgoed. Met het monumentale War & Pieces brengt De Vries een hedendaagse interpretatie op de eeuwenoude decoratieve tafelstukken die in de 18de eeuw de tafels sierden. Speciaal voor het Gemeentemuseum maakte De Vries ook zijn eerste bestek, een ‘gevaarlijk’ ogende set met de naam ‘Kalasjnikov’. Zijn werk is een bijzonder contrast met de gereconstrueerde tafels in de tentoonstelling Nederland dineert, dat tegelijkertijd in het museum opent en een uniek kijkje in de geschiedenis van de Nederlandse tafelcultuur geeft.

A nuclear bomb seems to have been dropped in this installation by artist Bouke de Vries. The eight-metre table, with a mushroom cloud as its centrepiece, is the scene of a fierce battle: thousands of fragments of porcelain mixed with parts of modern plastic toys. De Vries’s huge War & Pieces is a contemporary interpretation of the decorative sculptures that adorned 17th- and 18th-century banqueting tables. Specially for the Gemeentemuseum de Vries has for the first time designed cutlery, producing his ominous-looking set entitled Kalashnikov. His work is an interesting contrast with the reconstructed table settings in the museum’s Dutch dining exhibition – opening at the same time – that gives a unique insight into the history of dining culture in the Netherlands.

Taken on: November 29, 2015

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