Leslie Nagel

In deze installatie rollen ballen rond die vanzelf kriskras door de ruimte rollen. De bezoekers kunnen op de bankjes van springveren zitten. Dit was te zien geweest tijdens de expositie Your Playground dat met museumnacht Amsterdam open was in ARTI ET AMICITIAE.

Voor tentoonstelling Must See, in opdracht voor het Zuiderzee Museum Op de dijk staat de bewegende sculptuur van kunstenaar Leslie Nagel. Met het oer-Hollandse beeld van de molen in gedachten, heeft zij een door de wind aangedreven, kinetische installatie gemaakt.

‘Room to Live’ is a duo exhibition by Leslie Nagel (NL) and David Powell (UK) The title of the exhibition is taken from a song by Manchester band The Fall (1976-2018) and reflects both artists shared interests in energy, movement, sound, music, tainted glamour and the hand crafted object in a post digital world. The artists works are not a refutation of the digital, more an investigation into the consequences of living in the computer age. Once upon a time television and radio were mediums with huge experimental potential, nobody really knew what these mediums would birth which made them irresistible as the language had not been learnt, soon enough ‘regulation’ set in and programme schedules needed to be filled. So here we are perpetually sharing and consuming images, endlessly texting through cracked screens. Nagel and Powell take their time with things, they’re both equally fascinated with lo-fi analogue processes, things that leave indelible traces of subjectivity and inwardness, a give and take between skill and (de)skill, learning and unlearning. A healthy suspicion of established institutions can compel redirection so a restart can take place, the studio becomes a testing ground for necessary and urgent challenges to common held presumptions. Is the past tomorrow? History ushered into the present tense? In 1843 Søren Kierkegaard wrote a book about repetition; that it was a kind of ‘recollection forwards’. Nostalgia is too often underestimated. Do forms of time travel exist outside of sci-fi? There remains a collective desire to possess things when you know the object of your gaze and desire cannot be grasped. Just out of Reach. The exhibition will consist of sculptures, paintings and drawings that embody an attitude that strips away the fluff of the mainstream revealing something previously lost about to be reclaimed, a language? An escape route? A temporary journey into pure unequivocal joy? And when you smile. You know you blind me. To all the horrors I see. David Powell, October 2021

‘Room to Live’ is a duo exhibition by Leslie Nagel (NL) and David Powell (UK) The title of the exhibition is taken from a song by Manchester band The Fall (1976-2018) and reflects both artists shared interests in energy, movement, sound, music, tainted glamour and the hand crafted object in a post digital world. The artists works are not a refutation of the digital, more an investigation into the consequences of living in the computer age. Once upon a time television and radio were mediums with huge experimental potential, nobody really knew what these mediums would birth which made them irresistible as the language had not been learnt, soon enough ‘regulation’ set in and programme schedules needed to be filled. So here we are perpetually sharing and consuming images, endlessly texting through cracked screens. Nagel and Powell take their time with things, they’re both equally fascinated with lo-fi analogue processes, things that leave indelible traces of subjectivity and inwardness, a give and take between skill and (de)skill, learning and unlearning. A healthy suspicion of established institutions can compel redirection so a restart can take place, the studio becomes a testing ground for necessary and urgent challenges to common held presumptions. Is the past tomorrow? History ushered into the present tense? In 1843 Søren Kierkegaard wrote a book about repetition; that it was a kind of ‘recollection forwards’. Nostalgia is too often underestimated. Do forms of time travel exist outside of sci-fi? There remains a collective desire to possess things when you know the object of your gaze and desire cannot be grasped. Just out of Reach. The exhibition will consist of sculptures, paintings and drawings that embody an attitude that strips away the fluff of the mainstream revealing something previously lost about to be reclaimed, a language? An escape route? A temporary journey into pure unequivocal joy? And when you smile. You know you blind me. To all the horrors I see. David Powell, October 2021

Onderdeel van de openstelling tijdens IPIHAN#10 in Rotterdam

Gekleurde geplisseerde stof draait rond

Zie video: https://vimeo.com/373407951

Zie video: https://vimeo.com/373405072

‘THE WIDTH OF A CIRCLE’ in W139. Hierin heb ik samengewerkt met Aura Rendón Benger. De bezoeker wordt uitgelokt op een rode knop te drukken. Zo laat de elektromagneet het object wat eraan hangt naar beneden vallen. Via het controlepaneel kan de bezoeker een takelmotor bedienen en het object aan de magneet hangen. De drie objecten zijn gebaseerd op wiskundige platonische lichamen. Deze structuren nemen telkens andere vormen aan wanneer ze vallen en omhoog gehesen worden.

Zie video: https://vimeo.com/280916848

Een installatie in samenwerking met Aura Rendon Benger

Zie video: https://vimeo.com/160757998 Aan de ene kant maakt dit beeld wrijving tussen de materialen zonder dat ze elkaar raken. Aan de andere kant probeert het zich ook schurend en bonkend los te maken van het blok.

Een reactie op de schilderijen van Paul de Jong.

Zie video: https://vimeo.com/166229918 Een arm trekt langzaam aan een zeef en verandert het gelaat. De be­weging schuurt. Het maakt een piepend en krakend geluid.

Dit object draait langzaam om zijn as zodat de kwastjes over de pilaar strijken. (synthetisch nep haar, ijzerdraad, motor)

In dit werk wordt de bezoeker uitgenodigd via een trap een podium op te stappen, daar aangekomen zakt de vloer naar beneden en ploppen vaandels uit kieren van het plateau omhoog Onderdeel van de tentoonstelling: Where art we going? in Nest (hout, metaal ,plastic)