Fix the Variable, Exclude the Accidental, Eliminate the Impure, Unravel the Tangled, Discover the Unknown
About the work
In the work of Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács, the perception of nature and the construction and manipulation of the landscape plays a prominent role. For 'Raamwerk', they made a work based on the exotic plants that George Clifford, an Amsterdam banker and director of the VOC, brought together around 1737. The Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778) classified these plants in his own classification system. In doing so, however, he did not necessarily assume an objective representation of the plants, but on a so-called ideal version. In the Broersen & Lukács video, these individual plants come to life as a fierce crowd and try to break out of the imposed straitjacket in a threatening manner.
Acquisition with the support of the Mondriaan Fund 2020-21 (commissioned by the museum)
About Raamwerk
For Framework we ask an artist or collective to create a new work or modify an existing work. The assignment here is that the content matches the subject of the main exhibition that takes place in the museum. This way we literally bring art outside the museum walls.