| In the beautiful museum Het Valkhof, recently opened, in Joris Ivens’ birthplace Nijmegen the special exhibition ‘Passages, Joris Ivens and the arts of this century’ will be held from 27 November 1999 till 5 March 2000. The exhibition, designed by Frank van der Schoor and André Stufkens, does not have a biographical aim, but shows the changes in the arts of this century in four portraits of the era. By clashing opposing views of artists of the arts and society the extreme nature of the 20th century emerges and at the same time the artistic and social context in which Joris Ivens’s oeuvre came into being. Ivens is a cultural phenomenon, who is typical of the artistry of this century, as a result of his many international contacts. In his work and life coem together the awakening of a city, Nijmegen, the awakening of the avant-garde art of film of a country, the Netherlands, and the awakening of of a new type of global artist: the international artist nomad for whom the borders of a country no longer apply. |
| In each portrait Ivens’s films are shown. They are, composed of paintings, photographs, posters and objects, Ivens films are shown. The exhibition contains over 250 works of art by among others: Pablo Picasso, Kurt Schwitters, Paul Strand, Laszlo Moholy Nagy, Robert Capa, Alexandr Rodchenko, Dziga Vertov, Mart Stam, Gerrit Rietveld, Roberto Matta, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Germaine Krull, George Grosz, Man Rray, Robert Doisneau, Jan Toorop, Charley Toorop, Ger Lataster, Pyke Koch, Eva Besnyö, Paul Schuitema, Ed van der Elsken, Johan van der Keuken and Cas Oorthuys. |
| Portraits: 1 - Nijmegen awakes! Naturalism and Jugendstil 2 - Construction for Utopia, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris and Magnitogorsk; Dadaïsm and the technique of montage, New Realism 3 - Realism and confronting reality, the thirties Borinage, Spain, China, America; Social Realism 4 - The story of the wind and water, art and engagement after 1945; Abstract-Expressionism, Pop Art and Cultural Migration |
| An extensive catalogue is available. |
| Museum Het Valkhof Kelfkensbos 59, Nijmegen Phone: 0031 (0)24 360 88 05 E-mail: mhv@museumhetvalkhof.nl; Homepage: www.museumhetvalkhof.nl Open: Tuesday to Fraiday: 10.00-17.00; Saterday, sunday and Public Holidays: 12.00-17.00 Closed: Monday and Christ-mas Day Tickets: 17 years old and over: Fl. 7,50; 4-16 years old, Young people's cultural pass CJP and groups: Fl. 5,00 |
