The title of the show: “It’s The Thought That Counts…” you might be familiar with: “when people give you things that you don’t want, you must remember that it’s the thought that counts”.

The same might go for this retrospective of Hughes' works. No one asked for them but behind every piece there’s a kernel of an idea to reveal. 

"This exhibition will connect 10 years of autonomous works by showcasing them in one space together for the first time, displaying a dominant visual language and thinking that is an integral part of my practice. Which is why you might discover giant slinky’s next to condoms, vandalised design classics, a motley crew of pooping pigeons and a car covered in bullet holes.”

- During the opening there will be a Flop Shop (a play on Keith Haring's infamous store) - an extension of Hughes’ work with limited edition multiples on sale. 
- Live music is supplied by: Kiran Bhaat @kiranvfbhatt
- Sunday 19 March 15:00 a community mural will be instigated, come one come all (meeting at De Bouwput).

Funded by AFK Amsterdams fonds voor de kunst.

Opening
Friday 17 March 
18:00 - 22:00

Opening hours gallery 
Daily between 12:00 - 18:00
& by appointment on 0639587041

Events:

Community Mural Painting
Sunday 19 March 
15:00 - 17:00
meeting at De Bouwput

Finissage 
Friday 24 march 
16:00 - 18:00

Joseph Hughes is a visual artist and autonomous designer who combines ready-made sculpture, assemblage, conceptualism, design and film to communicate his thoughts to a broader public. His work demonstrates a child like playfulness that is simultaneously novel yet apparently obvious. He actively seeks to avoid classification and instead prefers to assume the position of a jack of all trades and a master of some."

Graduating from Chelsea College of Art and Design, London with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree he then studied Design for Visual Communication at the London College of Communication before relocated to Rotterdam and Amsterdam, respectively. His professional experience in the fields of design, architecture and higher education amalgamate in his autonomous works. Ricocheting between design as art, the amateur and the professional but always somewhere between communication and visible language.

W: www.hughesjoseph.com
IG: @hughesjoseph 
FB event: "It's The Thought That Counts..."

De Bouwput is proud to be hosting the presentation of “Signature Selfie Volume 1: A-G, M, V.” featuring work by Mariana Vidal-Escabi. The NYC-based artist started the series of hand-printed textiles in Amsterdam’s AGALab in the Summer of 2021 as part of their AIR program and completed the work in New York. It is returning to Amsterdam for the first time at De Bouwput. The show will run from March 14th to 16th, 2023, with a finissage happening on Thursday, March 16th, from 6-9 PM.

Signature Selfie explores how the symbols, signs, and visual markings we wear affect the perception of ourselves.

A series of medium and large-scale hand-printed textiles inspired by Wiener Werkstatte’s use of monograms as personal logos and the uniquely personal and abstract nature of handwriting and handwritten signatures. These prints hover between abstraction and figuration and invite the viewer to question the ubiquity and purpose of personal branding.

Each piece comprises silk-screen printed geometric and organic shapes that form the letters in a monogram. On the fabric’s selvage, heat-pressed markings resemble handwriting exercises on the edges of a page. These suggest something that continues outside the picture plane, like a bolt of printed fabric with its continuous patterns or pages of a notebook full of scribbles and doodles.

Various added elements that nod to the tradition of garment making (straps, hems, and finishes) make it unclear if these textiles are supposed to be draped on a body or hung to be displayed.

We also see the creation process of these monograms in more detail, resembling the repetition in writing exercises interpreted as the constant search for different ways of presenting oneself—our diverse identities.

Mariana Vidal Escabi (b.1977, San Juan, Puerto Rico) earned a BA from Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano in Bogotá, Colombia, and an MFA in Fashion Design and Textile Design from Academy of Art University in San Francisco, CA. The artist has participated in exhibitions at “Printed Matter’s Art Book Fair” at MoMA PS1, New York, in 2018 and 2019; “Every Woman Biennial” in New York in 2019; Baxter Street Camera Club, New York in 2019; “Stand Out Prints” at Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN in 2018; Fisher Parrish Gallery inaugural show, New York in 2017. Vidal-Escabi had a solo exhibition of her textile work in 2021 in New York City. Her work is part of the library collections at the MoMA and the SFMoMA.

She is Assistant Professor of Fashion Design at Parsons School of Design in New York.

Vidal-Escabi currently lives and works in New York City.

www.marianavidal.com
www.awindownyc.com
www.debouwput.com

with: Korrie Besems - Carina Diepens - Clary Stolte - Ad van Campenhout

opening hours
Friday 10 February: 17.00-20.00 > opening
Saturday 11 February: 14.00-18.00
Sunday 12 February: 14.00-18.00 < 16.00-18.00 > finissage in the presence of the artists

The exhibition ONONDERBROKEN shows work of four different artists. What they each share is that they continue to work on foundations developed in depth over a long time frame: memories are made into solidified stories.

Each artist interweaves various actions, materials, words and/or time fragments into a work of art. Continuously they add layer upon layer, line to line and image upon image. Parts are cut out, erased, scratched out or brushed away and earlier operations, image fragments and layers remain visible. Repetitive actions in charcoal, photo, crayon, rubber and tape, are attempts to capture narrative stratas in images. The joyful ease of replication is restrained, subdued rather than exuberant and colour is mostly sober. 

Because the repetition does not aim for perfection, like stuttering, the stories falter. But where and how they falter creates new room for ever more shifting interpretations. Due to new turns, these solidified stories are never finished, but continue to open up new re-creations and metamorphoses.

curator Korrie Besems

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BOUWPUT gallery
Ferdinand Huyckstraat 74
1061 HW Amsterdam
www.debouwput.com
free parking on Sunday

Artists at Broedplaats Bouw are opening the door to the public. 

It’s a great opportunity to explore a vast array of art and design, see the most recent artwork and talk to artists about their creative process. You can also buy affordable art directly from the artist. 

DJ Cristel Ball and DJ Urvin are playing the tunes, food and drinks are on us! Mexican food and Margaritas by Lupe, vegan food by ASA Vegan Sushi. Beers by Oedipus. 

Kick off at 16:00. The entry is free. 

Location 
Ferdinand Huyckstraat 74
1061 HW Amsterdam 

Participating Studios:

Aga Lab
Atousa Bandeh
Boro Atelier
Bob Waardenburg
Brigitte de Langen
BYBROWN
Cian-Yu Bai
Clary Stolte
Daan Mars
Floor Knaapen
Gildelab
Studio Hagel
Hessel de Ronde
Itamar Gilboa
Iris Box
Josse Pyl
Ko Aarts
Logic Locks
Magnus Monfeldt
Meike Sier
Marilyn Sonneveld
Marnix Postma
Maureen Nahumury
Natalia Wyspianska
Peim van der Sloot
Roman Zhuk
Suat Ogut
Theo Brandsma
Tjitske Oosterholt
Triplets
Zid Theater

Highlights of the Program:

Aga Lab
AGA LAB will run a special photo printing workshop, where participants will be invited to print an image on traditional paper in the photo darkroom, using their own photos from their phones. This unique experience is a blend of old and new technologies and will give everyone a taste of what darkroom photo printing is really like. This drop-in workshop fun lasts maximum of 15 minutes and is open to small groups as well as individuals. 

Zid Theater
As part of Winter Bouw Open, ZID Theater will play the location performance Re-Dreams, followed by IthaKaZa (dinner with open stage) and afterparty at ZID! 
The performance of ZID Theater Re-Dreams starts at 17:00. This location performance takes you through Broedplaats Bouw on a journey through undiscovered dream landscapes. After the performance there will be IthaKaZa (dinner with open stage) in ZID Theater with a closing afterparty! 

If you want to show your stage talent during the open stage, sign up by sending an e-mail to organisatie@zidtheater.nl 

Boro Atelier
BORO*SUPER Sample Sale & dye-your-own t-shirt workshop with black beans and avocados. Open from 16.00h till 21.00h. Enjoy a warm cup of soup with some tortilla chips from 17.30h. 

Triplets
Between 19:30 and 22:00 you will be able to experience ‘Taking a Trip’ - three open improvisation jam sessions combining movement, performing arts, robots and fashion. 

BYBROWN
Take advantage of their studio sale, where you can buy bags made of recycled tent materials, archive clothing stock and of course their amazing raincoats.

N’atelier
New collection premiere and sale. Find out about and sign up to Ceramic Art courses. 

And so much more! 

Duration: 87 min
Location: Ferdinand Huyckstraat 74
free entrance

In the next edition of De Bouwput Curated Movie Nights, we will be tackling the issues of free cultural spaces and self-organization in Senka Domanovic’s 2018 documentary Occupied Cinema. Occupied Cinema is a film about guerrilla action initiated by young activists taking over privatized cinema Zvezda in Belgrade, Serbia. The film chronicles this activity, paying equal attention to the structural factors that motivated the actors, as well as the internal struggles the collective has experienced in the process.

In Domanovic’s words: “The Occupation of the cinema was an opportunity for people to come together, to self-organize and manage a contained micro economy essentially bypassing the market logic and break away from the ideological apparatus of the state. There we had a rare gathering of artists, activists, former cinema employees, standing up together against the injustice -- and moment later everything collapsed. My film is an attempt to understand this transformation.”

Join us on Friday, December 2^nd at 19.30h for film and drinks, and a hearty deliberation on spatial and cultural agency in the increasingly privatized urban environments. After the screening, we will have a short Q&A with the director.

Directors’ statement:

It is commonly held that we are living in times where people have lost their trust in institutions and the state. The Occupation of the cinema was a opportunity for people to come together, to self-organize and manage a contained micro economy essentially bypassing the market logic and break away from the ideological apparatus of the state. There we had a rare gathering of artists, activists, former cinema employees, standing up together against the injustice -- and moment later everything collapsed. My film is an attempt to understand this transformation.

In terms of style, ethics and production, this film relies on the cinéma vérité method. Occupied Cinema, as an investigative documentary, putting things in medias res. The camera doesn't hide its presence, it invites movement members as well as the cinema goers to a dialogue.

Senka Domanović, short biography:

Senka Domanović lives and works in Belgrade, Serbia. Occupied Cinema is her debut feature film.

In gebouw ‘Kostgewonnen” zijn meer dan 21 eenheden waar gewoond en gewerkt wordt.

Gezamenlijk beheren we het gebouw, tuin en dakterras. In de tuin is een gedeelte met vaste planten en er zijn ‘tuinbakken’ waar individueel, kleinschalig groenten en kruiden worden gekweekt. Op het dakterras zijn bakken met kruiden en daar kunnen eventueel meer planten komen omdat daar nu dichtbij (regen)water voorhanden is. Dat is echt nodig want de planten op het dakterras drogen extra snel uit.

We hadden zelf al 3 watertonnen aangeschaft, waarvan één kleine ton voor het dakterras. Door de subsidie hebben we onze regentonnen kunnen aansluiten. Dit hadden we eerder nog niet kunnen realiseren omdat we geld aan het reserveren zijn voor oa het verduurzamen van het pand en stond dit project stil. Met de subsidie hebben we dit project eindelijk kunnen afronden en kunnen we meer regenwater opvangen, wat we goed kunnen gebruiken voor de planten in de tuin en op het dakterras.

We zijn al bewust bezig om zo zuinig mogelijk om te gaan met water voor de tuin. Het is fijn om nu voor het bewateren, meer regenwater te kunnen gebruiken. De planten in ‘de tuinbakken’ die langer in de zon staan, hebben vaker water nodig dan de vaste planten in schaduwrijke tuin.

Met de kinderen in het pand worden samen de ‘tuinbakken’ onderhouden, zodat zij worden meegenomen in het groeiproces en het water geven. Daarnaast hebben we bepaalde vaste planten de afgelopen zomers extra water moeten geven. Dit deden we plaatselijk met een gieter. Naar verwachting zullen we dit elke zomer moeten blijven doen. Dus zullen we extra spaarzaam moeten zijn met het regenwater dat we nu kunnen opvangen.