Han Hoogerbrugge
26 Jan - 18 Mar 2012
HAN HOOGERBRUGGE
La grande fête des voyeurs
26 January – 18 March, 2012
In February and March 2012, TENT presents an extensive solo exhibition by the Rotterdam artist Han Hoogerbrugge. La Grande Fête des Voyeurs is the first retrospective of his work. For nearly fifteen years, Hoogerbrugge has been drawing his alter ego, a loner in a black suit who observes the world around him with (black) humour. Hoogerbrugge publishes a daily comic on his website Pro Stress. In 2011 his animation Quatrosopus was shown in the Danish pavilion at the Venice Biennale and the animation game FLX was recently acquired by the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
Hoogerbrugge has developed into a prominent example of a contemporary cross-media artistic practice, in which the borders between the real and virtual, between dream and nightmare, between high and low art, do not exist. Hoogerbrugge’s drawings and animations are frequently shown at festivals, pop concerts, in newspapers and magazines, but also in museums, exhibition spaces and galleries.
In La Grande Fête des Voyeurs, TENT is transformed into the artist’s private universe. Slideshows, drawings, video monitors and projections show work from the past fifteen years, from the pioneering stage in which Hoogerbrugge made animations with simple computer programs, to the refined computer technology that moves the public to play the Hoogerbrugge games. Hoogerbrugge is currently working on a monumental new video installation in which the various characters from his comics are placed in a visual argument with one another. The video installation will be premièred at the opening of the exhibition. An extensive side programme will also be presented in the exhibition.
La grande fête des voyeurs
26 January – 18 March, 2012
In February and March 2012, TENT presents an extensive solo exhibition by the Rotterdam artist Han Hoogerbrugge. La Grande Fête des Voyeurs is the first retrospective of his work. For nearly fifteen years, Hoogerbrugge has been drawing his alter ego, a loner in a black suit who observes the world around him with (black) humour. Hoogerbrugge publishes a daily comic on his website Pro Stress. In 2011 his animation Quatrosopus was shown in the Danish pavilion at the Venice Biennale and the animation game FLX was recently acquired by the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
Hoogerbrugge has developed into a prominent example of a contemporary cross-media artistic practice, in which the borders between the real and virtual, between dream and nightmare, between high and low art, do not exist. Hoogerbrugge’s drawings and animations are frequently shown at festivals, pop concerts, in newspapers and magazines, but also in museums, exhibition spaces and galleries.
In La Grande Fête des Voyeurs, TENT is transformed into the artist’s private universe. Slideshows, drawings, video monitors and projections show work from the past fifteen years, from the pioneering stage in which Hoogerbrugge made animations with simple computer programs, to the refined computer technology that moves the public to play the Hoogerbrugge games. Hoogerbrugge is currently working on a monumental new video installation in which the various characters from his comics are placed in a visual argument with one another. The video installation will be premièred at the opening of the exhibition. An extensive side programme will also be presented in the exhibition.