Ultimate domestic ornament
Lieshout is interested in the notion of space and decoration applying to various aspects of the household, including furniture carpentry, curtain and dress garnishing, and pastry baking. For example he uses sugar icing to decorate/cover the main subject of found images. Lieshout employs decoration to explore the issue of concealment. The layers of concealment he creates are often hermetic. They tend to overgrow objects or cover up interior spaces as an impenetrable boundary, letting nothing in or out.
For New Life and the Dream Garden, Lieshout will present a new work commissioned for the show. It is a new version of a series of works all titled "Anteroom". These works are installations with screens, reorganising private spaces, like an artist's studio or living room. This version consists of a 40-panel decorated screen, folded up, hinged on both sides of a doorway and placed on wheels. When pushed open the screen creates a space unfolding from the doorway. The work explores the idea of an anteroom occupying the space in limbo between two rooms. |
Mathijs Lieshout (b.1975 The Netherlands) lives and works in Amsterdam and Utrecht
Lieshout studied Fine Arts at Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht (1995-2000) and philosophy at Universiteit van Amsterdam (2000-2003). He has participated in projects/residency programs and organizes events/projects across the Netherlands, such as in 2005 he took part in Project Basis, Artis Den Bosch; Toine's Immortality Bar, Stadsgalerij, Heerlen; Creation is Beautiful, Destruction is Awesome, Galerie minimaal twee weken, Schiedam; Subgoed, Kunsthuis Syb, Beetsterzwaag; Sequence, De Roode Bioscoop, Amsterdam and The Space, London. In 2006: Enter the Callcenter, Performancelab, Kunstvlaai6, Amsterdam; Nuzeum, Kunstlab Orbino, Alkmaar. |
