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Eric Van Hove

January 01, 1970

Éric Van Hove (born 1975 in Guelma, Algeria) is a Cameroon-raised Belgian metamodern[1] conceptual artist. He lives and works between Brussels and Marrakech.[2] He is the grandson of Louis Van Hove, co-founder and CEO of the Structures Group, the largest post second world war functionalist architecture firm in Belgium.

Eric van Hove during the circumambulating of Mount Kailash in western Tibet, in 2005

Early work edit

Eric Van Hove studied at the École de Recherche Graphique in Brussels and received a Master's degree in Traditional Japanese Calligraphy at the Tokyo Gakugei University in Tokyo.[3] He obtained a PhD degree from the Tokyo University of the Arts in 2008.[3]

Bordering on activism with an existentialist tone, Van Hove's early work is based on the artist's nomadic willing to simultaneously address local and global issues.[4] It encompasses many media ranging from installation to performance, video, photography, sculpture and writing.[5] At times insubstantial and subversive, Van Hove's conceptually poetic interventions[6] often ponder and cross-refer to sociological, political and ecological issues as shown with Japanese Constitution Worm Autodafé,[7] Free Trade Concrete Mixer Kaleidoscope,[8] or Shark Fin Piñata, which relates to the illegal Taiwanese shark finning in Costa Rica (1998–2006), portrayed in Rob Stewart's documentary Sharkwater. Made at the end of 2007, Dan Liever the Lucht In is a body of works[9] responding to the 2007–2011 Belgian political crisis which was first shown in situ at the Belgian embassy in Tokyo before the building was destroyed for reconstruction.[10]

Van Hove's early work includes wanderlust, defamiliarization, psychogeography and dérive,[4] and he early on acknowledged transcendentalist influences[11] in trying to oppose a more spiritual and decentralized approach[vague] to the Eurocentric intellectualism of the contemporary art world.[12] During this period Van Hove became "known as a poet and avant-garde calligrapher … with projects that involve drawing improvised poetry in unusual modes and locations worldwide" [13] He also collaborated with musicians such as David Hebert and Kenji Williams.

Interested in bringing contemporary art not only to the public space outside galleries and museums but outside of the Western context itself,[12] Van Hove has been prolific in such diverse places as the Siwa Oasis in Egypt, Mount Kailash in Tibet, the Laguna de Perlas in Nicaragua, the Issyk Kul lake in eastern Kyrgyzstan, the Fianarantsoa province in Madagascar or more recently the foothills of the Himalayas in the northwestern part of Yunnan Province, China.[14] He also conducted artist talks (which calls “story-telling objects” or “oral exhibits”) in venues as different as Ramallah, the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, the Darat al Funun in Amman, and the University of Sarajevo.[15] Having made site specific works in over 100 countries by the age of 35, Van Hove counts among the best traveled artists of his generation.

The "Metragram Series", a complex photographic series Van Hove started with his mother in 2005[16] crossing the artistic genre of self-portrait, vanitas, iconography and Memento mori[4][16] in which he is seen inking the womb of women categorized as belonging to different types of groups, gathers images he produced in over 29 countries in 3 years. A digital slide show display of the Series was first presented as part of the Mediation Biennial in Poznań in 2008 (other Belgian artists were Jan Fabre and Koen Vanmechelen).[17]

Atelier Eric van Hove - Fenduq edit

 
Eric van Hove - V12 Laraki, 2013. fifty-three materials including: Middle Atlas white cedar wood, high Atlas red cedar wood, walnut wood, lemon wood, orange wood, ebony wood of Macassar, mahogany wood, Thuya wood, Moroccan beech wood, pink apricot wood, mother-of-pearl, yellow copper, nickel plated copper, red copper, forged iron, recycled aluminum, nickel silver, silver, tin, cow bone, goat bone, malachite of Midelt, agate, green onyx, tigers eye stone, Taroudant stone, sandstone, red marble of Agadir, black marble of Ouarzazate, white marble of Béni Mellal, pink granite of Tafraoute, goatskin, cowskin, lambskin, resin, cow horn, rams horn, ammonite fossils of the Paleozoic from Erfoud, Ourika clay, geometric terra cotta with vitreous enamel (zellige), green enamel of Tamgrout, paint, cotton, argan oil, cork, henna, rumex.

In 2012, van Hove arrived in Marrakech, Morocco to resume work on an ambitious sculptural endeavor he had prepared for years: V12 Laraki. In the space of nine months, van Hove gathered around him 42 master craftsmen from the region and began rebuilding a Mercedes 6.2L V12 engine using rural materials and centuries old craft techniques from the North African country. Conceptually this sculpture is based on the story of the Laraki Fulgura, a Moroccan supercar by Industrial designer Abdeslam Laraki. While the Fulgura was entirely manufactured in Morocco to the exception of its engine, the artist decided to try and reproduce that cutting-edge component locally using craft, which accounts for 20% of the country’s work force[18] and he saw as an unjustifiably neglected part of the national industry.

That sculpture, displayed at the 5th Marrakech Biennale and soon acquired by the Hood Museum of Art,[19] would rapidly become the cornerstone of a new chapter in his creative practice leading to the founding of his atelier also known as Fenduq or Atelier Eric van Hove: a context-specific production facility and, in his own word “a living socioeconomic sculpture”, from where the artist started working on “a renaissance of African craft”.[20][21] V12 Laraki was later made into a comprehensive publication introduced by well-known African curator Simon Njami and distributed by Motto Distribution in Berlin.[22]

In the following years, many more sculptures came out of Atelier Eric van Hove including D9T (Rachel’s Tribute) in 2015, and Mahjouba I in 2016, which is a functioning replica of a Chinese electric motorbike using traditional African craft.[23] In turn, this grew into what the artist called The Mahjouba Initiative,[24] a long term project mixing African craft, 3D printing, and industrial production. Mahjouba II, a second craft-made electric prototype was made later that year.[25] The Mahjouba Initiative is a long term on going artistic project aiming to re-integrate Moroccan craft into the mainstream industry via the manufacturing of electric mopeds for the local market using materials and techniques from the craft sector. The Initiative relies on two main facts: the presence in Morocco of nearly three million craftsmen whose trade is increasingly threatened by globalization, and the Noor Power Station Project by which the north African country plans to generate 42% of its energy from renewables by 2020.[26] In 2018, Van Hove was a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College.[27]

Fenduq is a large retrospective exhibition the Fries Museum dedicated to the artist that opened in 2019,[28][29] which will travel to Vandalorum, Sweden in February 2020.[30]

References edit

  1. ^ Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker, Motor skills, originally published in the exhibition catalogue “Fenduq”, published by Jap Sam Books in 2019 to accompany the exhibition of the same name at the Fries Museum in The Netherlands (ISBN 978-94-92852-11-3).
  2. ^ Les Métragrammes d'Éric Van Hove "Éric Van Hove inscrit l'itinérance au cœur de sa pratique artistique. Aux quatre coins de la planète, ses ..."
  3. ^ a b Here at Van Hove's website.
  4. ^ a b c Laurent Courtens, "On the Road Again" L'Art Même N° 41 2011-07-24 at the Wayback Machine, 2008, Brussels, pp 22-23.
  5. ^ Marleen Wynants, Interview for Janus Art Magazine, 2008, Brussels.
  6. ^ Here 2011-07-08 at the Wayback Machine at Van Hove's own profile at creativeafricanetwork.com.
  7. ^ Van Hove interviewed, shift.jp.org.
  8. ^ Here at Van Hove's website.
  9. ^ "Dan Liever the Lucht In #1", Van Hove's site.
  10. ^ "Belgian Embassy Sale in Tokyo[permanent dead link]", Deloitte, November 2006, Belgium.
  11. ^ "installations in Finnish Lapland", Van Hove's website.
  12. ^ a b Jan Van Woensel, Interview for Lokaal01/Breda, 2007, New York. Van Hove's website.
  13. ^ Hebert, D.G. (2018). Cultural Translation and Musical Innovation: A Theoretical Model with Examples from Japan. In D.G. Hebert (Ed.), International Perspectives on Translation, Education and Innovation in Japanese and Korean Societies (p.309-331). Cham: Springer, p.310.
  14. ^ Here at Van Hove's website.
  15. ^ Here at Van Hove's website.
  16. ^ a b "Metragram Series", Van Hove's website.
  17. ^ "Mediations Biennale Fundations". Retrieved 24 September 2023.
  18. ^ Schott, Jeffrey J. (7 May 2004). Free Trade Agreements: US Strategies and Priorities. Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780881324587.
  19. ^ "Van Hove's bespoke engine: Part homage, part reproach - the Boston Globe". The Boston Globe.
  20. ^ "A Big Bang Theory".
  21. ^ "Eric van Hove". 25 May 2014.
  22. ^ "V12 Laraki".
  23. ^ "Eric van Hove at Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt". 14 December 2016.
  24. ^ https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswcd6 "Éric Van Hove - BBC In The Studio interview"
  25. ^ . Archived from the original on 13 January 2017. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
  26. ^ "Morocco to switch on first phase of world's largest solar plant". TheGuardian.com. 4 February 2016.
  27. ^ "Fellows Overview". 17 June 2016.
  28. ^ "De Belgische kunstenaar Éric van Hove laat motorblokken van voertuigen nabouwen. Stukje voor stukje, in landen over de hele wereld, in allerlei materialen. Waartoe?". 31 January 2019.
  29. ^ . www.friesmuseum.nl. Archived from the original on 19 April 2019.
  30. ^ "Program 2019-20 - Announcements - e-flux".

External links edit

  • Van Hove's website atelierericvanhove.com
  • Eric Van Hove at the PILOT:3 archive website 27 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  • Eric Van Hove interviewed by Natasha Hoare for Abraaz
  • Eric Van Hove at Freunde von Freunden website
  • Eric Van Hove at the Tokyo Art Beat website

January 01, 1970
eric, hove, Éric, hove, born, 1975, guelma, algeria, cameroon, raised, belgian, metamodern, conceptual, artist, lives, works, between, brussels, marrakech, grandson, louis, hove, founder, structures, group, largest, post, second, world, functionalist, architec. Eric Van Hove born 1975 in Guelma Algeria is a Cameroon raised Belgian metamodern 1 conceptual artist He lives and works between Brussels and Marrakech 2 He is the grandson of Louis Van Hove co founder and CEO of the Structures Group the largest post second world war functionalist architecture firm in Belgium Eric van Hove during the circumambulating of Mount Kailash in western Tibet in 2005 Contents 1 Early work 2 Atelier Eric van Hove Fenduq 3 References 4 External linksEarly work editEric Van Hove studied at the Ecole de Recherche Graphique in Brussels and received a Master s degree in Traditional Japanese Calligraphy at the Tokyo Gakugei University in Tokyo 3 He obtained a PhD degree from the Tokyo University of the Arts in 2008 3 Bordering on activism with an existentialist tone Van Hove s early work is based on the artist s nomadic willing to simultaneously address local and global issues 4 It encompasses many media ranging from installation to performance video photography sculpture and writing 5 At times insubstantial and subversive Van Hove s conceptually poetic interventions 6 often ponder and cross refer to sociological political and ecological issues as shown with Japanese Constitution Worm Autodafe 7 Free Trade Concrete Mixer Kaleidoscope 8 or Shark Fin Pinata which relates to the illegal Taiwanese shark finning in Costa Rica 1998 2006 portrayed in Rob Stewart s documentary Sharkwater Made at the end of 2007 Dan Liever the Lucht In is a body of works 9 responding to the 2007 2011 Belgian political crisis which was first shown in situ at the Belgian embassy in Tokyo before the building was destroyed for reconstruction 10 Van Hove s early work includes wanderlust defamiliarization psychogeography and derive 4 and he early on acknowledged transcendentalist influences 11 in trying to oppose a more spiritual and decentralized approach vague to the Eurocentric intellectualism of the contemporary art world 12 During this period Van Hove became known as a poet and avant garde calligrapher with projects that involve drawing improvised poetry in unusual modes and locations worldwide 13 He also collaborated with musicians such as David Hebert and Kenji Williams Interested in bringing contemporary art not only to the public space outside galleries and museums but outside of the Western context itself 12 Van Hove has been prolific in such diverse places as the Siwa Oasis in Egypt Mount Kailash in Tibet the Laguna de Perlas in Nicaragua the Issyk Kul lake in eastern Kyrgyzstan the Fianarantsoa province in Madagascar or more recently the foothills of the Himalayas in the northwestern part of Yunnan Province China 14 He also conducted artist talks which calls story telling objects or oral exhibits in venues as different as Ramallah the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art the Darat al Funun in Amman and the University of Sarajevo 15 Having made site specific works in over 100 countries by the age of 35 Van Hove counts among the best traveled artists of his generation The Metragram Series a complex photographic series Van Hove started with his mother in 2005 16 crossing the artistic genre of self portrait vanitas iconography and Memento mori 4 16 in which he is seen inking the womb of women categorized as belonging to different types of groups gathers images he produced in over 29 countries in 3 years A digital slide show display of the Series was first presented as part of the Mediation Biennial in Poznan in 2008 other Belgian artists were Jan Fabre and Koen Vanmechelen 17 Atelier Eric van Hove Fenduq edit nbsp Eric van Hove V12 Laraki 2013 fifty three materials including Middle Atlas white cedar wood high Atlas red cedar wood walnut wood lemon wood orange wood ebony wood of Macassar mahogany wood Thuya wood Moroccan beech wood pink apricot wood mother of pearl yellow copper nickel plated copper red copper forged iron recycled aluminum nickel silver silver tin cow bone goat bone malachite of Midelt agate green onyx tigers eye stone Taroudant stone sandstone red marble of Agadir black marble of Ouarzazate white marble of Beni Mellal pink granite of Tafraoute goatskin cowskin lambskin resin cow horn rams horn ammonite fossils of the Paleozoic from Erfoud Ourika clay geometric terra cotta with vitreous enamel zellige green enamel of Tamgrout paint cotton argan oil cork henna rumex In 2012 van Hove arrived in Marrakech Morocco to resume work on an ambitious sculptural endeavor he had prepared for years V12 Laraki In the space of nine months van Hove gathered around him 42 master craftsmen from the region and began rebuilding a Mercedes 6 2L V12 engine using rural materials and centuries old craft techniques from the North African country Conceptually this sculpture is based on the story of the Laraki Fulgura a Moroccan supercar by Industrial designer Abdeslam Laraki While the Fulgura was entirely manufactured in Morocco to the exception of its engine the artist decided to try and reproduce that cutting edge component locally using craft which accounts for 20 of the country s work force 18 and he saw as an unjustifiably neglected part of the national industry That sculpture displayed at the 5th Marrakech Biennale and soon acquired by the Hood Museum of Art 19 would rapidly become the cornerstone of a new chapter in his creative practice leading to the founding of his atelier also known as Fenduq or Atelier Eric van Hove a context specific production facility and in his own word a living socioeconomic sculpture from where the artist started working on a renaissance of African craft 20 21 V12 Laraki was later made into a comprehensive publication introduced by well known African curator Simon Njami and distributed by Motto Distribution in Berlin 22 In the following years many more sculptures came out of Atelier Eric van Hove including D9T Rachel s Tribute in 2015 and Mahjouba I in 2016 which is a functioning replica of a Chinese electric motorbike using traditional African craft 23 In turn this grew into what the artist called The Mahjouba Initiative 24 a long term project mixing African craft 3D printing and industrial production Mahjouba II a second craft made electric prototype was made later that year 25 The Mahjouba Initiative is a long term on going artistic project aiming to re integrate Moroccan craft into the mainstream industry via the manufacturing of electric mopeds for the local market using materials and techniques from the craft sector The Initiative relies on two main facts the presence in Morocco of nearly three million craftsmen whose trade is increasingly threatened by globalization and the Noor Power Station Project by which the north African country plans to generate 42 of its energy from renewables by 2020 26 In 2018 Van Hove was a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College 27 Fenduq is a large retrospective exhibition the Fries Museum dedicated to the artist that opened in 2019 28 29 which will travel to Vandalorum Sweden in February 2020 30 References edit Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker Motor skills originally published in the exhibition catalogue Fenduq published by Jap Sam Books in 2019 to accompany the exhibition of the same name at the Fries Museum in The Netherlands ISBN 978 94 92852 11 3 Les Metragrammes d Eric Van Hove Eric Van Hove inscrit l itinerance au cœur de sa pratique artistique Aux quatre coins de la planete ses a b Here at Van Hove s website a b c Laurent Courtens On the Road Again L Art Meme N 41 Archived 2011 07 24 at the Wayback Machine 2008 Brussels pp 22 23 Marleen Wynants Interview for Janus Art Magazine 2008 Brussels Here Archived 2011 07 08 at the Wayback Machine at Van Hove s own profile at creativeafricanetwork com Van Hove interviewed shift jp org Here at Van Hove s website Dan Liever the Lucht In 1 Van Hove s site Belgian Embassy Sale in Tokyo permanent dead link Deloitte November 2006 Belgium installations in Finnish Lapland Van Hove s website a b Jan Van Woensel Interview for Lokaal01 Breda 2007 New York Van Hove s website Hebert D G 2018 Cultural Translation and Musical Innovation A Theoretical Model with Examples from Japan In D G Hebert Ed International Perspectives on Translation Education and Innovation in Japanese and Korean Societies p 309 331 Cham Springer p 310 Here at Van Hove s website Here at Van Hove s website a b Metragram Series Van Hove s website Mediations Biennale Fundations Retrieved 24 September 2023 Schott Jeffrey J 7 May 2004 Free Trade Agreements US Strategies and Priorities Columbia University Press ISBN 9780881324587 Van Hove s bespoke engine Part homage part reproach the Boston Globe The Boston Globe A Big Bang Theory Eric van Hove 25 May 2014 V12 Laraki Eric van Hove at Frankfurter Kunstverein Frankfurt 14 December 2016 https www bbc co uk programmes w3cswcd6 Eric Van Hove BBC In The Studio interview Art Daily Archived from the original on 13 January 2017 Retrieved 10 January 2017 Morocco to switch on first phase of world s largest solar plant TheGuardian com 4 February 2016 Fellows Overview 17 June 2016 De Belgische kunstenaar Eric van Hove laat motorblokken van voertuigen nabouwen Stukje voor stukje in landen over de hele wereld in allerlei materialen Waartoe 31 January 2019 Eric van hove Exhibitions See and do Fries Museum Leeuwarden Friesland www friesmuseum nl Archived from the original on 19 April 2019 Program 2019 20 Announcements e flux External links editVan Hove s website atelierericvanhove com Eric Van Hove at the PILOT 3 archive website Archived 27 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine Eric Van Hove at the Museum De Paviljoens website Eric Van Hove interviewed by Natasha Hoare for Abraaz Eric Van Hove at Freunde von Freunden website Eric Van Hove at the Tokyo Art Beat website Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Eric Van Hove amp oldid 1214324734, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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