The Kunsthal Presents: My Secret Garden. Arne Quinze

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The Kunsthal Presents: My Secret Garden.

Arne Quinze

PR Newswire

ROTTERDAM, the Netherlands, June 4, 2012

ROTTERDAM, the Netherlands

,

June 4, 2012

/PRNewswire/ --

- 24 May to

2 September 2012

The Kunsthal Rotterdam proudly presents

My Secret Garden

, the first exhibition

in

the Netherlands

of work by the Belgian artist Arne Quinze. Quinze who works

internationally, creates large-scale public installations and sculptures. His works

are often built from of various types of wood.

My Secret Garden

is his first

large-scale indoor project. Especially for the installation, Quinze has introduced

light and sound compositions by music duo Danny Mommens and Els Pynoo.

Visitors can follow the artist at close range and via an online time lapse video

during the setup of the installation from 24 May to 7 June. This Kunsthal

exhibition is part of a double project. At the same time, the permanent

installation

Rock Strangers

will be opened at Beaufort04 in Ostend, together

with the exhibition

Cities like open air museums

at the Venetiaanse Gaanderijen

(Venetian Galleries) along the Belgian coast. On the Zeedijk (sea dike) in Ostend

the visitors will be in direct contact with the Kunsthal via live stream. They are

able to see the visitors in

Rotterdam

walk through the installation.

Arne Quinze

Arne Quinze (1971) lives and works in Sint-Martens-Latem in

Belgium

. He began

work in the 1980s as a graffiti artist but never followed an official course of

training. Quinze concentrated on creating sculptures, drawings, paintings and

large-scale installations, his smaller artworks, sketches and drawings serving as

studies for his large installations. Social interaction, communication and

urbanism are recurrent themes in Quinze's oeuvre. Quinze has constructed

installations including Cityscape and The Sequence in

Brussels

, The Visitor in

Lebanon

, Uchronia in the Nevada Desert and The Traveller in

Munich

.

My

Secret Garden

is comprehensively documented at

http://www.arnequinze.com/mysecretgarden

Opening

The exhibition will be opened on

Saturday June 9th

at

4 pm

by Saskia de Coster

and Arne Quinze himself. Doors open at

3.30pm

. The famous Belgian band Vive

la Fête will give a swinging electropop performance. The concert starts at

7 pm

(free entrance). Press is welcome, please confirm your presence via

[e-mail]

Publication

This double project is accompanied by a special box containing two publications

and the DVDs

My Secret Garden

and

Rock Strangers

. Texts are written by

Saskia de Coster.

http://www.kunsthal.nl.