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Saskia Noor van Imhoff
Four floating patches, secondary shoots
Sept 4 - Oct 10, 2020
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GRIMM is pleased to present new works by Saskia Noor van Imhoff, on view in Four floating patches, secondary shoots, the artist's first solo-exhibition at the gallery's Van Baerlestraat location in Amsterdam. Van Imhoff’s installations are driven by the conceptual and historical significance of objects and places, and reveal the interconnections that contribute to our understanding of them. In this presentation, the artist continues to work with ideas of material and time, yet makes a significant departure from her previous methodology by centering a plot of land as the focal component of this body of work.
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Saskia Noor van Imhoffuntitled (Malus d. 'Bellefleur'), 2020Enhanced matte paper on MDF in plexiglass box, tinder fungus35.7 x 25.5 x 15 cm | 14 1/8 x 10 1/8 x 5 7/8 inSold
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Saskia Noor van Imhoffuntitled (they grow on weak, old or dead trees), 2020Enhanced matte paper on MDF in plexiglass box, tinder fungus35.7 x 25.5 x 19.5 cm | 14 1/8 x 10 1/8 x 7 5/8 inSold
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Examining the growth of plant life and the evidence of past activity embedded in the soil, the earth tells a story of human and nonhuman interactions. Van Imhoff interprets and compliments this story with archival materials such as maps and historical documents which she has used to inform her understanding of the terrain and contribute to a layered, visual conception of the property.
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Saskia Noor van Imhoffswitch for heated handles (555FXT), 2020Blackberry root, neon, silicon cable, transformer50 x 20 x 25 cm | 19 3/4 x 7 7/8 x 9 7/8 in€ 7,500.00
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Saskia Noor van Imhoffquick sampling part 01, 2020Blackberry root, salvaged iron, neon, silicon cable, transformer46 x 55 x 28 cm | 18 1/8 x 21 5/8 x 11 1/8 in€ 7,500.00
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Grafting, the act of transplanting one part of a plant or tree onto another holds deep interest for Van Imhoff as a metaphor for the progress of culture. She sees the manipulation of the landscape as a kind of grafting, deepening the relationship between people and place, a relationship through which the concept of nature is borne. As one moves through the gallery space, each artwork creates a new focal point to include representations of the land and its flora, found objects extracted from the environment, and replicas of organic material. These discrete concentrations of information take on an incredible character as hybrid forms.
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Install views | Four floating patches, secondary shoots | GRIMM, Van Baerlestraat, Amsterdam -
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About the artist
Saskia Noor van ImhoffSaskia Noor van Imhoff (b. 1982, Mission, CA) lives and works in Amsterdam (NL). She received her BA in Fine Art from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam (NL) in 2008. She was a resident at De Ateliers, Amsterdam (NL) in 2012, and Künsterlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (DE) in 2014. Van Imhoff was awarded the ABN Amro Art Prize (NL) in 2017, the same year she was nominated for the 2017 Prix de Rome (NL). In 2012, she received the Walter Tielmann Prize for Book Design (DE) and the Gerrit Rietveld Academie Prize (NL) in 2008.
She has had exhibitions at the following notable venues; the Arnulf Rainer Museum, Baden (AT); the 11th Gwangju Biennial (KR); Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR); Frans Hals Museum / De Hallen, Haarlem (NL); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL); De Appel, Amsterdam (NL) and the Moscow Biennial (RU). Van Imhoff’s works are included in the collections of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL); Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar (NL); Verbeke Foundation, Kemzeke (BE); De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam (NL); AKZO Nobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam (NL) and ABN Amro Collection, Amsterdam (NL) among many other public and private collections.
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