Travel in California and residency at The La Brea Studio, Los Angeles
'How to work' was a central theme in the project named 'Zinging Tangerine' Koen Delaere and Jeroen Doorenweerd did in the Vleeshal, where the museum was their shared studio space, open to the public while they were making the works for the duo show. Now they staying at La Brea studio artist residency in Los Angeles together. Any other place would have been ok too, but Los Angeles poses a specific challenge. Los Angeles and California are very present in our collective consciousness. The desert, the movies, Agnes Martin, David Lynch.
California and Los Angeles have been the studio and the backdrop for producing and presenting paintings.
Delaere and Doorenweerd shared experiences and sensations working on site, producing work. The input was similar, the output very different. A new Zinging Tangerine magazine was produced after the residency.
Delaere and Doorenweerd shared experiences and sensations working on site, producing work. The input was similar, the output very different. A new Zinging Tangerine magazine was produced after the residency.
Delaere and Doorenweerd traveled separately for a month within the epic natural context of California, the desert, the mountains and canyons, the sea. They worked together for a month in Los Angeles, a place with so much cultural context you can easily drown in it.
'I expect painting will save me from drowning. I can get overwhelmed by so much input. But when I paint the desert is sand, the ocean is salty water, the sun is hot, the street is dusty, the coffee black, the egg fresh and I focus on the right thickness of the paint.'
'There is a similarity between the artist and the explorer in that there is a risk in regards to the outcome. Like the unknown regions that the explorer has to discover, the artist’s aim is to find “new territories” in the landscape of contemporary art. This research is complicated because, according to Agamben, the contemporary is shrouded in darkness. We can feel it, but it is not visible, only with the perspective of time and distance do things become more clear and evident. Distance is a principal element in the landscape – things become a landscape at the moment that they become small and merge into one another forming a single image. The relationship between the artist and the explorer lends an important aspect to the concept of theo artist – not only as someone who creates artworks, but as someone who creates new perspectives. Just as the explorer provides new possibilities of discovering things which already exist, the artist too is a producer of new visions. The risk in attempting to accomplish this task, is that nobody knows beforehand what will possibly be found. In this way, the geography of the unknown becomes the vast terrain to be discovered by the artist, who undertakes the exploration at the risk of getting lost.' (Lorenzo Benedetti in Jeroen Doorenweerd 'flow and drift and perform and sit (random but in order)', Onomatopee 74)
'Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgandy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries.' (Jack Kerouac, On the Road)
'I love Los Angeles. I know a lot of people go there and they see just a huge sprawl of sameness. But when you’re there for a while, you realize that each section has its own mood. The golden age of cinema is still alive there, in the smell of jasmine at night and the beautiful weather. And the light is inspiring and energizing. Even with smog, there’s something about that light that’s not harsh, but bright and smooth. It fills me with the feeling that all possibilities are available. I don’t know why. It’s different from the light in other places. The light in Philadelphia, even in the summer, is not nearly as bright. It was the light that brought everybody to L.A. to make films in the early days. It’s still a beautiful place.' (David Lynch)
The La Brea Studio
144 N. La Brea Ave LA 90036
2400 Sqf Ground floor, Full bathroom, Small Kitchen, Natural lights + ‘Natural light’ Fluorescent's, 18 foot ceiling, Roll up door.
Danny First is an artist that for two years now is hosting out of town artists at his studio.
The studio is around 2400 sq in a prime location on La Brea Ave just south of Beverly Blvd in Los Angeles. Artists such as James Krone, Christian Rosa, Evan Nesbit, Gergo Szinyova, Michiel Ceulers, Bas van den Hurk and Jean Baptist Bernadet are a few of the artists that already worked at his space.
144 N. La Brea Ave LA 90036
2400 Sqf Ground floor, Full bathroom, Small Kitchen, Natural lights + ‘Natural light’ Fluorescent's, 18 foot ceiling, Roll up door.
Danny First is an artist that for two years now is hosting out of town artists at his studio.
The studio is around 2400 sq in a prime location on La Brea Ave just south of Beverly Blvd in Los Angeles. Artists such as James Krone, Christian Rosa, Evan Nesbit, Gergo Szinyova, Michiel Ceulers, Bas van den Hurk and Jean Baptist Bernadet are a few of the artists that already worked at his space.