Marc Philip van Kempen & Tim Phillips

For this residency, Tim and Marc have created imposing installations that play with notions of chaos and order. Marc‘s complicated whole room assemblages, seem to be ‘just a messy studio’, but at a certain framed two dimensional copy of an art historical image. This ‘order out of chaos’ is reversed in the work of Tim, who has built futurist impression of a semi ecclesiastical purpose, but holds instead a void of belief. Both artists works are obviously impressive in the physical handmade nature of the making, but the source material for both their art is computer derived. They are interested in how the internet visual content. Marc‘s work uses the literal borders of the computer screen window as a frame to transfer into a three dimensional installation,thereby losing the meaning of the original “famous“ art image into a visual game of space. This removal of the context is then further underlined by the photos of the installation which are shown in the publication, as part of the work. Tim is interested in this same historical borderlessness of the internet , a dissolving of the context in its images, to form the authoritative patterns within his work. His sculptures seem out of some futuristic cult, mingled with the faux casino glitz surrounding the gallery in Wedding. Despite the lighting, slick surfaces and the invented symbols, the viewer is led into a direction of nothingness. This vacuum originates from the chopping of sources, occurring in both Tim and Marc‘s work and is carried out in the making of their installations as a re-fabrication of time and space.

Marc Philip van Kempen is a Dutch artist based in Berlin. His work brings elements of photography, sculpture and new media together in unconventional ways, challenging the viewers perspective. Much of his work consists out of media images that have been made into threedimensional installations that result in kind of ‘spatial collage’. During and after the building, these structures are documented with (analogue) photography. The resulting photographs become part of the work, or replace the work alltogether. Marc has studied visual arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Akademie (Amsterdam) and media studies at the University of Amsterdam. Recently he has exhibited at Museum Huis Marseille (A’dam 2010), Mart House Gallery (A’dam 2011) Nest (Den Haag 2011) and was invited as a resident for the 2011 Hyères Photofestival. Marc’s stay at Lobe has been partially made possible with support of the Stichting Niemeijer Fonds.

Tim Phillips lives and works in London. His meticulously constructed sculptures reference ethereal symbols of veneration, both real and virtual from materials allied to status and mercenary arrangements Phillips manufactures an ambivalent union between worlds of culture and belief, commercialism and the archaic forms of religious authority. Phillips has exhibited widely in London including Innere Klang, Rod Barton curated by Irene Bradbury (2009), and was nominated for the Catlin Art Prize in 2009. His Work is held in a number of private collections including the Zabludowicz Collection.

LoBe is a residency-led contemporary art space, which provides artists with an opportunity to develop their practice within an environment that promotes dialogue, collaboration, exhibition making and interdisciplinary practice. The aim of the project is to develop meaningful cross-cultural networks within a British German context by giving artists from the UK the opportunity to collaborate with Berlin based artist and visa versa, in our permanent space in Berlin.

Marc Philip van Kempen & Tim Phillips

Künstler:
Marc Philip van Kempen, Tim Phillips

Kuratoren:
Olivia Reynolds