Work
Atomic Hanging Lamp
Steel
182,5 x 115 x 60 cm
In this series of Atomic lamps, Atelier Van Lieshout evokes the energy created by the atom splitting, paradoxically serving comfort while posing a threat to the planet’s safety. It recomposes the light source with a spatial geography of cylindrical volumes in folded sheet steel cut in different sections. Using this system of mobile pendulums or unwavering volumes, it renews the art of physically spreading light waves, determining the beams’ direction by calculating the segment and the height. It is the director of a spectacular light show in space using magic and the chasing-projector effect, like on stage.
More info via Carpenters Workshop Gallery
Pendulum
Wood, steel
534 cm x 210 cm x 345 cm
Pendulum (2019) is a massive, mechanical clock powered by a swinging pendulum. The clock’s hands tick loudly, ominously counting down to the “end of everything” which then ushers in the “beginning of everything” – a perpetual cycle of destruction and creation characteristic of our constant search for utopia.
Pendulum (2019) was part of the following exhibition(s):
‘The CryptoFuturist and The New Tribal Labyrinth‘, Pioneer Works, New York (USA), 2019
‘The Clock Which Will Solve Every Problem in the World‘, Kunstraum, Dornbirn (AT), 2020
For enquiries: please contact Atelier Van Lieshout via info@ateliervanlieshout.com
Press here for a video of Pendulum (2019)
Exhibitions
‘It’s About Time’, International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, Rotterdam (NL)
22 September 2022 –13 November 2022
Fifty years after the publication of the Club of Rome report, the 10th edition of the Architecture Biennale Rotterdam is taking stock. The exhibition brings historical research (from 1972 onward), inspiring practical examples (in 2022) and future scenarios (towards 2072) together. This overview paints a picture that is both worrisome and hopeful.
IT’S ABOUT TIME hints at the ever-mounting time pressure under which we are trying to counteract the effects of climate change and connect them to other social challenges. The title also zooms in on time and speed as crucial factors in architecture and spatial design processes and appeals to the profession to work effectively to resolve socioecological urgencies.
Atelier Van Lieshout shows the installation ‘The Clock Which Will Solve Every Problem in the World’, including Pendulum.
‘The Clock Which Will Solve Every Problem in the World’, Kunstraum Dornbirn (AT)
3 September 2020 – 8 November 2020
We are all going to die. The end is near. Second by second The Pendulum reminds us of our mortality. The giant time piece is like a hibernating bear: beautiful and perhaps even endearing, but deadly nonetheless. Its sound is more a hypnotic pulse than a nervous ticking; every 15 minutes a hammer striking a gas cylinder sounds an industrial death knell.
The Pendulum consists of an elaborate system of cogs which is powered by two suspended pallets carrying cement bags that weigh some 1,000 kilos. The counterweights are attached to the roof of the exhibition space, making it part of the work and physically encapsulating visitors in time, the building becomes a part of the clock.
Atelier Van Lieshout artworks on view: Pendulum (2019), Le Balzac (2017), Calgon (2017), Daalderop (2017), Mensch (2017) and others.
Kunstraum Dornbirn,
Jahngasse 9, A – 6850 Dornbirn, Austria
Sneak preview: press here for a video of Pendulum (2019)
‘The Time is Now’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Online exhibition
17 April 2020 – 8 May 2020
Time is money. Time is fleeting. Time is precious. Time heals. Time is of the essence. Time is an illusion. We make time. We take time. We spend time. We race against time. We fight time. We try to control it – speeding it up, slowing it down. It’s just a matter of time.
The Time is Now is an online group exhibition curated by Carpenters Workshop Gallery. Atelier Van Lieshout’s works speak to the necessity or “time” for change, symbolizing a hope for a revolution of consciousness and the awakening of more mindful beings. AVL continually investigates the cycles of life that are born through the passage of time and the end or destruction of systems; while his clock sculpture Pendulum is designed to destroy and change so as to make way for the potential of new beginnings, his scepter-like Walking Stick 5 Hourglass reflects on the path to the future. Another AVL artwork on display: Pipe Bomb Clock (2019).
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‘Atelier Van Lieshout’, AVL Mundo, Art Rotterdam (NL)
7 February 2020 – 9 February 2020
During Art Rotterdam, AVL opens its doors with an exhibition of recent and older works of Atelier Van Lieshout at Joep van Lieshout’s private exhibition space.
Keileweg 26, Rotterdam
Fri – Sun, 11:00 – 19:00 hrs
Free entrance
Artworks on display: Wise Guy (2019), Mother Earth Constructivist (2015, on image), Leemwerker (2016), Wall Decoration (2008), Bad Man series (2002), Boat (1983), The Philosopher (2017), Le Corbafrique (2011) and others.
This Art Rotterdam Atelier Van Lieshout’s Pendulum (2019) is on display as well. It is part of The Performance Show. More details and tickets via this link.
‘Killing Time’, Willem Twee, Den Bosch (NL)
22 December 2018 – 17 February 2019
Atelier Van Lieshout artworks on display: Pipebomb (2002), Fog Horn (2017), Pipe Bomb Clock Small, Medium, Large (2018), Walking Stick #5 (2018), Back To The Future Clock (2018), Hourglass Large (2018), Willem de Zwijger (2018), Naar de Kloten Klok (2018), Gallow Clock (2018), Pendulum (2018).
Willem Twee, Den Bosch, The Netherlands