GERMAINE KRUIP, A Possibility of an Abstraction: Square Dance 9 SEP (SAT), 14h00 (Park), 17h30 (Villa), 19h00 (Villa) Dancer: Huseyin Kara Duration: 20’ Closely connected to the culture of Sufism, whirling dervishes perform a ritualistic circular dance in order to try and reach a state of transcendence. Since 2011, Dutch artist Germaine Kruip has been creating installations and performances examining the various meanings attached to geometrical shapes. Here she presents her A Possibility of An Abstraction: Square Dance. Kruip asked the der- vishes to break through their circular dance patterns and introduce the pattern of a square into their ritual, thereby shifting the dancers' focus and alluding to the tradition of abstract geometrical art. Germaine Kruip lives and works in Amsterdam and Brussels. Since moving from theatre to the art world in the early 2000s, Kruip has been pursuing several lines of thought and work: her interest in ephemerality and where it condenses briefly into a physical or visual moment; in scenography of uncontrollable or ungraspable phenomena, such as the ever-changing daylight and the passage of time; in ritual and performance as abstracted moments of everyday life; in historical and art histori- cal examples of attempts to reach abstraction by means of geometry – and finally in the desires, theories and ideologies that underlie these attempts. Germaine Kruip received the Charlotte Köhler Prize in 2001, the Prix de Rome (2nd prize) in the category theatre/autonomous art, and the Best Solo exhibition prize at Art Brussels 2015. Recent Solo Exhibitions include; A Possibility of an Abstraction, Rotterdamse Schouwburg, NL (2017); Geometry of the Scattering, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, NL (2015-2016); Seeing the Unseen, Art Brussels with Sofie Van de Velde, BE (2015); A Possibility of an Abstraction, EMPAC, US (2014); Geometric Exercises, Parra & Romeo, Madrid, ES (2013); A Possibility of an Abstraction, The Approach, London, UK (2012); A Room, 24 Hours II, Parra & Romero, Madrid, ES and the Ap- proach, London, UK (2010); Only the Title Remains, Museum De Paviljoens, Almere, NL (2009-2010); Aesthetics as a Way of Survival, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düs- seldorf, DE (2009).
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