Iede Reckman
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Agenda 2025:
Opening public sculpture Kamakiri / October 26, Kamiyama, JP
Residency KAIR / August 28 - November 4, Kamiyama, JP
Exhibition The Symbiocene Forest - Roots / October 18 - 26, Bioart Laboratories, Eindhoven, NL
Exhibition with Arnoud Dijkstra and Marius Lut / June 28, Buitenplek Oost, Harfsen, NL
Public sculptures:
Kamakiri Oawayama-mountain Art Walk, Kamiyama, Japan
SpantenBouw
Spaarndam, SpaarneBuiten, junction Rijnland-Wetering
From 2023 to 2026 my art practice is supported by Mondrian Fund
15398Doppelspalt (Double slit)
345x109x230cm / wood, primer
at the group exhibition 'Bestand und Fiktion' in public rural space in Jamlitz, Germany
This sculpture refers to the double slit experiment in modern physics. This experiment shows that a single particle can be in two places at the same time. This wave-particle duality is often demonstrated with a double slit experiment in which a particle travels through both slits at the same time. This sculpture invites you to take a leap of thought and try to understand this phenomenon.
15194Time and again
550x550x230cm / wood, concrete, Lego, roller bearings, motor
at the group exhibition 'Changing perspective' at Kunstgarage Franx, Zoetermeer
photography: Jhoeko
14994Passage-fence
40x42x194cm (each) / plaster
sculpture for Pleasant Place issue 1. Enclosures
photography: Pleasant Place
14057SpantenBouw
420x360x630cm / basralocus wood (recycled bollards), aluminum T-joints, steel column base
location: Spaarndam, SpaarneBuiten, junction Rijnland-Wetering
photography: Jhoeko
13961Carbon storied
370x60x225cm / wood (beachcombed at De Houthaven Amsterdam), powder coated steel
as presented at Cargo in Context, Amsterdam
for the group exhibition 'Van hout en de dingen die voorbijgaan'
photography: Jhoeko
here to read (in Dutch): 'De Houthaven is geen niemandsland zonder geschiedenis' in Het Parool by Edo Dijksterhuis
13849Plenum
installation view / concrete, ceramics, steel, ceiling tiles, hydro granules, wood, magnets
duo show with Rein Verhoef at Billytown, Den Haag
(sculptures by Verhoef: Untitled (glass holder), Untitled (pipe holder), My lady stone, Doorstopper, Rats;
sculptures by Reckman: Vestigium, Pavilion 1, Pavilion 3;
collaborative sculptures: Wall 1-3, Planters, Forever 22)
photography: Jhoeko
"Plenum" is the technical term for the space above a dropped ceiling or under a raised floor; space used for the air circulation of heating and air conditioning systems. In more general terms, these spaces symbolise the functional structures of offices, homes and exhibition spaces that remain out of sight. Working around this architectural condition, the works of Iede Reckman and Rein Verhoef assembled in this exhibition reference or directly present the colour, provenance or usage of elements that are typically imperceptible, obscured or discarded. These interventions turn the ambient world of infrastructure inside out. What was previously invisible now becomes an object on display.
Verhoef's work bears the imprint of the functional logic inherent to architectural settings, such as storage spaces. For instance, the horizontal steel pillar has the inclination to support a sewer pipe and the concrete pedestal is constructed to be lifted with a pallet jack. The structure supports the superposed frameworks of a glass cart, itself another carrier. For Reckman, it is rather the process of creation of the work that is informed by what is out of sight. Vestigium is made from recycled clay and the greenish grey patina of the Pavilions sculptures are the result of dipping the works in a basin of months of leftover ceramic glaze. Their collaborative installation points towards non-aesthetic functional situations. The form and texture of repurposed ceiling tiles (measuring exactly 1/3rd of the 90x90cm of Billytown's ceiling raster) are accentuated by pulling them out of their usual context as cladding material.
The act of foregrounding unspectacular functional elements is extended to the support structures of the exhibition itself. Reckman and Verhoef aim to examine the surrounding elements and framing devices of sculpture. Their undertaking has resulted in the construction of pavilion-like concrete walls which are loaded with sculptural meaning, blurring the distinction between sculpture and scenography. While the pavilion is traditionally an architectural device highlighting the effect of the sculpture it houses, its purpose here fluctuates with every change of angle and turn of a corner. The role of the pavilion here remains unstable (unlike a Dan Graham approach, through which the pavilion itself becomes the primary object of display). The concrete support structures can be considered expressive forces on their own, at the same time they continue to serve the sculptures they encompass.
While the sculptures take up the codes of functionality, the concrete walls of the backdrop play with the possibilities of autonomy as sculptural elements. Conversely, as the sculptures adopt the functional language of elements and processes that usually remain unseen, the function of display is also challenged, rendering both enigmatic.
Laurens Otto
13028Booth 75
Art Rotterdam 2017, representing Billytown
installation view (incl. Higgs 12449, Higgs 12524, Higgs 129xx, Polyominoes in thirteen segments (beech series),
Polyominoes in thirteen segments (perspex series), Untitled 12518, Untitled 12521)
wood, plaster, paints, plywood, perspex, paper, pencil, pen, glass
photography: Jhoeko
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