Author Archives: Frans van Lent

V I E W S O N L A N D S C A P E S
fotowerken en tekeningen

Frans van Lent, 2017-08-24/13.00 Inkjet op Hahnemühle (op Dibond), 75 x 100 cm.

Uitnodiging voor de opening op za. 21 oktober van 16 tot 18 u.
Lon Robbé, Lynne Leegte, Frans van Lent en Bas Ketelaars

De tentoonstelling is te zien tot 26 nov.
REUTEN GALERIE
Prinsengracht 510
Amsterdam

open: wo – za : 13 – 18 h
en op afspraak 020 6207537,
reutengalerie@upcmail.nl

B O E K P R E S E N T A T I E E N P E R F O R M A N C E

U bent van harte uitgenodigd voor de presentatie van
het boek The Swap in Pictura
op zondag 22 oktober om 15:00 uur.

Dit boek The Swap documenteert de gelijknamige installatie
die eerder dit jaar in Pictura werd geëxposeerd.

Het boek wordt uitgebracht in een genummerde oplage
van 100 exemplaren.
U kunt zelf een eigen nummer uitkiezen.
Indien gewenst wordt uw boek door mij ter plaatse
van een zwart geïnkte duimafdruk voorzien.

Ter gelegenheid van de presentatie vindt gelijktijdig
van 15:00 tot 16:00 uur het werk Aandacht plaats.

Aandacht is een performance, uitgevoerd door drie personen,
in de directe omgeving van het Pictura gebouw.
De performance kan het beste vanuit de foyer door het raam worden waargenomen.

PICTURA
Voorstraat 190-192
Dordrecht

Frans van Lent
fransvanlent.nl
+31(0)628599938

October 22 – November 26, 2017
Views on Landscapes
with Lynne Leegte, Lon Robbé, Frans van Lent, Bas Ketelaars.

Opening: October 21, 16.00

Reuten Galerie
Prinsengracht 510
Amsterdam

The Swap

Installation
Pictura, Dordrecht (NL)
April 8-May 14, 2017

The Swap was an installation based on the measurements and layout of the exhibition rooms of Pictura. This work was realised by plotting the rooms’ floor plans in identical sizes and compass points in natural reserve De Biesbosch.
A series of photographs was taken inside the projected floor plans and life-size prints were placed in the corresponding rooms in Pictura. This provided a tangible and physical connection between the Pictura rooms and the site in De Biesbosch.
No artificial light was used in the exhibition rooms.

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October 6 2017, 20.00
Denial as the Leading Principle

A Scene #9: Jackets

On Saturday, November 18th, 2017, at exactly 14:20 CET, I entered a department store at Hoogstraat 185 , Rotterdam (5155.2323,N,00428.9270,E).
I walked straight on to the menswear department and selected three jackets. I went to a fittingroom and tried on the three jackets.
The first jacket did not fit my size, the second jacket did not fit my taste, the third one did not fit my budget.
I returned the jackets to the clothes racks and left the store without spending any money.

About Scenes:
On this website and on Facebook I announce small events that will take place at a certain location and at a certain moment in the near future.
Everybody is invited to be at the exact spot at the exact time to contribute to the scene with his/her own simultaneous activity (or inactivity).

A Scene #8: Parallel (with Johanna van Overmeir)

A Scene #8A (In cooperation with Johanna van Overmeir)
On Friday June 16, 2017 I travelled from Dordrecht to Breda by train. At exactly 14:20 CET I entered the T-Huis, John F. Kennedylaan 15, Breda, (51.59127340000001 4.78122350000001). I took a seat and ordered a mint tea and a piece of applepie. I read my newspaper, drank my tea, ate my pie. At 15:00 I asked for the bill and paid the waiter. I then folded my newspaper and walked away into the park.

A Scene #8B (by Johanna van Overmeir)
On Friday June 16, 2017 I travelled from Antwerp to Breda by train. At exactly 14:20 CET I entered the T-Huis, John F. Kennedylaan 15, Breda, (51.59127340000001 4.78122350000001). I took a seat, ordered a coffee, a glass of tap water and a piece of cake. I drew in my sketchbook, looked at the park, drank my coffee, ate my pie and drank my water. At 15:00 I asked the bill and paid the waiter. I closed my sketchbook, went to the restroom and walked into the park.

A Scene #7: One hour in sixty minutes

On Saturday, April 15th, 2017, at exactly 14:20 CET, I was standing on Stationsplein, Rotterdam
(51 ° 55’24 “N 4 ° 28’13” E), facing Central Station.
One minute later I started to move very slowly in an arc to the right, to walk a circle with a diameter of about six meters.
One hour later, at exactly 15:21, I was back at the starting point and closed the circle.
I then entered the railway station and left.

Call Again

On Friday 21 July 2017 I was walking near Ste. Orse in the Dordogne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, southwestern France.
I published an invitation to call me on that day between 13:00 and 14:00 (CEST).
When the telephone rang I did not answer the call but instead I made a photo of what I was looking at on that moment. I then sent the photo to the number that showed up on my phone.

I got 42 calls and sent 42 photos.

A Separated Song for Separated Lovers

The quality of physical separation is blurred by contemporary media.
This experience of separation can also celebrate your love,
can make you feel more intensely bonded.
Restore the harmony to be separated not only in space but also in time.
Make a small poem, a song or a gesture.
Write this in a letter to your lover.

Then both of you recite, sing or perform this
at the same hour, but in your local time zone.

(concept #078 in the Collection TheConceptBank.org)

July 21, 2017
Call Again

On Friday 21 July 2017 I will be walking somewhere in the South of France. Call me between 13.00 and 14.00 (CEST). I will not answer your call but instead I will make a photo of what I am looking at on that specific moment. I will then send this photo to the number that showed up on my phone. To you.

Please write me for my telephone number.