Who
Meer over Abandon
Who
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or What is Abandon? | Meer over Abandon |
| ABANDON | is a name for extra museal art projects and small scaled productions in print and /or audio-visual media. |
| Founded in 1978 | originally by an artist couple:
Han Maagdenberg and Dick Harmsen. |
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| After 1981 | Abandon becomes a legitimate foundation. | ||
| until now... | Stichting Abandon KvK R.dam: 41127361 |
| Online texts
Early work |
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texts in relation to creativity and art 'Youth (-full) transgressions' |
| The name | ABANDON was chosen on the basis of the semantic; visual; aural; (Dutch & English as well as French pronunciation) and historical meaning of the word. After the conception (yes it was influenced by concept art) and realization of an idea you’ll have to abandon it... going on to the next without shame or regrets about the previous. The freedom to experiment. |
| 'La patte' | No styles; no ‘La Patte’ (the painters
paw) according to Marcel Duchamp and any technique fitting the individual
ideas (but rather not the traditional techniques) and a preference for
the new mass-media.
This would also mean the abandonment of some traditions, not so much the artistic traditions however but mainly the traditional social cultural circumstances such as scarcity; museality and art trade. |
Short list of activities |
| Visually | the word is compact and bold with a nice balance of consonants and vowels using five nicely matching diagrams: |
| N O t B A D |
| French | It can be pronounced natively - with equivalent semantics - in many languages and originally the word derived from French ‘mettre à bandon’ which means: ‘hand down to (the mercy of) someone else’. |
E-mail:
info@abandon.nl |
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| . | • Stichting Abandon • p/a Josephstraat 97-B • 3014 TL Rotterdam • Netherlands • Europe • |