HMK { HotelMariaKapel }

Architectural interventions, humorous modernist references and a taxidermic installation by Nathan Edmunds, Toby Huddlestone en Anton Goldenstein (Bristol / Londen), brought together by John Pym (Bristol). The artists are guests in Hotel Mariakapel from 10 Nov - 10 Dec 2006. 

TALKS on Friday 1 December in Amsterdam and Hoorn, see left.

OPENING on Sunday 10 December, 4 pm
With an introduction by artist John Pym from Bristol.
Open until 14 Januari 2007, fri-sun 2-5 pm (closed 29-31 dec)


John Pym on the selection of Toby, Anton and Nathan:

?In some respects, their inclusion has been dictated by the very nature of the Mariakapel. As artists, their practises vary, they are all a pivotal stage in their development. They are perceptive and, most importantly, they can adapt to new circumstances. This is central to the Hoorn experience, the potential for a new direction. If anything binds them together artistically, it is the use of wit/humour within their work. Ultimately I felt they would flourish within the special artistic and social atmosphere created by being at the Kapel for a month and hopefully surprise us and themselves.?

Anton Goldenstein makes installations in which stuffed animals play a (often humorous)role.?It has always been important that my work can be universally understood. I attempt to utilize a general (world) language that could be seen as either a pidgin or creole code that reaches beyond the boundaries of restricted language codes which are only understandable to particular groups or cultures.?

Nathan Edmunds´ current work focuses on the peripheries of towns, the housing estates, industrial complexes and wastelands that are so manifold yet so easily overlooked. Through photographing, making paintings and sculptures, he is trying to discover the appeal of these monotonous, repetitive and soulless places.

Working through various media involving both individual and collaborative practices, Toby Huddlestone attempts to point the finger at things pointless in order to render them valued. In recent work, throwaway Northern sayings are juxtaposed onto adapted domestic furniture to investigate regionalism, division, nostalgia, and a certain crude philosophy; a philosophy about pointlessness and futile interest.