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From the 19th - 27th of october the Dutch Design Week took place in Eindhoven, NL. During this week the exhibition 'Missing Link' was on view at Artspace Flipside.

The term ‘Missing Link’ is used to describe a perceived evolutionary gap between archaeological finds.

The Missing Link exhibition explored a view on the gap dividing design and the origins of human image-making. The participating visual artists are in search for connections between the contemporary arts and a broad sense of visual history, whether this is prehistoric imagery, alphabets, cinema or the underbelly of the web.

The works - video, sculpture, drawings, installations, prints - transcend the evanescent term ‘contemporary’. The imagery is deeply nested into the archaic processes of the mind: myth, stories, nature or on the other hand the supernatural. This connects the artists in ‘Missing Link’. 

Still from the 1915 stop motion animation 'The Dinosaur and the Missing Link: a prehistoric tragedy'

Most of these artists are multidisciplinary, and do not only work as a sculptor but also as a draftsman, musician, writer or filmmaker. A disused arrangement is chosen, in which the works are not presented next to each other in a bright white cube, but processed into an installation in the darkened space, reminiscent to the presentation of objects and artefacts in a museum for ethnography or anthropology.

With: Jan Dietvorst (NL) Fia Cielen (B) Filip Vervaet (B) Lisa Jeannin & Rolf Schuurmans (SE/NL) Guy Rombouts (B) Jean De Lacoste (B) Antoine Boute (B) Erwin van Looveren (B) Kelly Richardson (CA/UK) Yannick Val Gesto (B) Bart van Dijck (B) Geoffrey de Beer (B) Tim Vanhamel (B) Hans Biezen (NL/SE)

Artspace Flipside
Tarwelaan 56/58
5632 KG Eindhoven
www.artspaceflipside.nl 




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