Vinyl adhesive letters on window, 2012. (click pictures to enlarge)
A series of interventions/photographs for which I collect sentences from business proposals that are being emailed to me and that I have plotted out as vinyl adhesive letters. With those sentences I look for vacant commercial windows (shops, offices). Once a suitable window is found I then paste a sentence on the empty shopping window. Oddly enough the business opportunities a vacant shopping space offer work beautifully with the empty promises of loads of money in your email box.
The letter font is Arial, one of the ten Core fonts for the Web.
Hand sawn hardwood, 9x9x1 cm, 2012.
Hand sawn and painted mdf, 2012.
On three consecutive days in december 2011 I received 5.000 messages in my spamfilter that claimed to ‘ve said that least’ X amount of times. X being a number between 1.000.000 and 10.000.000.
An IT expert told me the messages might be a way for spammers to test which computers in a botnet are still under the spammer’s control. I decided to select five numbers (1074228, 2113205, 3322205, 4527317 and 5819268).
The letter font is Arial, one of the ten Core fonts for the Web.
Vinyl adhesive letters on window, 2011. (click pictures to enlarge)
A series of interventions/photographs for which I collect sentences from business proposals that are being emailed to me and that I have plotted out as vinyl adhesive letters. With those sentences I look for vacant commercial windows (shops, offices). Once a suitable window is found I then paste a sentence on the empty shopping window. Oddly enough the business opportunities a vacant shopping space offer work beautifully with the empty promises of loads of money in your email box.
The letter font is Arial, one of the ten Core fonts for the Web.
Vinyl adhesive letters on window, 2011. (click pictures to enlarge)
A series of interventions/photographs for which I collect sentences from business proposals that are being emailed to me and that I have plotted out as vinyl adhesive letters. With those sentences I look for vacant commercial windows (shops, offices). Once a suitable window is found I then paste a sentence on the empty shopping window. Oddly enough the business opportunities a vacant shopping space offer work beautifully with the empty promises of loads of money in your email box.
The letter font is Arial, one of the ten Core fonts for the Web.
Trendbeheer @ Art Amsterdam 2011
For The Love Of Money I
Suzanne Biederberg Gallery
Sacha de Boer
*Sold*
A site-specific exhibition performance by Jeroen Bosch, Jeroen Jongeleen and myself as part of Trendbeheer’s ongoing Trendbeheer presenteert exhibition series.
Potrait of an art fair in 150 sales. During the 5 days of Art Amsterdam 2011 we documented ‘every’ sale made by photographing the red sales stickers. In every picture we would center the red dot and scale it it to 8 mm (the standard size of the red sticker), give it a title (included in every picture), print it, frame it and hang it in our booth. At the start of the fair our booth was empty (except for a grid of 300 screws) and by the end of the fair the installation was complete.
The framed photographs are also for sale (edition of 1). During the fair 79 pieces were sold. For a list of all the works see: Trendbeheer.com/2011/05/23/for-the-love-of-money-de-werken-2/
More info, stories and pictures at: Trendbeheer.com/tag/for-the-love-of-money/
Hand sawn and painted mdf, 2010.
Part of an ongoing series about the ubiquitous computer generated texts known as spam.
The letter font is Arial, one of the ten Core fonts for the Web.
Chantal Rens & Gummbah, Born to be Alive.
November 13 – 18, 2010.
For Trade Gallery in Nottingham (UK) I put together a compilation program (2 x 50 minutes) and an exhibition (7 single-channel works) showcasing 10 years of Rotterdam VHS Festival as part of the Sideshow 2010/ British Art Show 7 .
Hand sawn and painted mdf, 2010.
Made specifically for The Giving Garden, a one night only event curated by Abner Preis at the Kunsthal Rotterdam. Part of an ongoing series about the ubiquitous computer generated texts known as spam.
The letter font is Arial, one of the ten Core fonts for the Web.
Hand sawn and painted mdf, 2010.
Part of an ongoing series about the ubiquitous computer generated texts known as spam.
The letter font is Arial, one of the ten Core fonts for the Web.
