HABILLE JUSQU' AUX NEUFS

"Habillé Jusqu' Aux Neufs" began life in response to an invitation to participate in a group show called 'Sample Sale', which took place at the Henn Gallery in Maastricht, NL, in 1995. The exhibition was curated by Nicolette Pot and Dees Linders, it took place from 9th to the 16th of December. (see below)  The following year the Artist made a photographic work of himself wearing the 'hat' while leaning on it's support - also entitled "Habillé Jusqu' Aux Neufs"  This Ciberchrome print is 152 x 108 cm and framed under glass. (see above and below).

 

Excerpt from 'Maintaining a Calorific System by Ventilation" by Natalie Banco.

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"Habillé Jusqu' Aux Neufs"   1995 

c. 24cm Dia. x 46cm High and made to fit the head of the artist, from; Cotton Duck Painting Canvas, Cardboard and Metallic Spray Paint.  Stand and Book; 'Heating and Ventilation' by Barker.

"Habillé Jusqu' Aux Neufs,  Supplement." 1995

Steel Ventilator (Bought in an iron Mongers in Antwerp).


SUPPLEMENT
"A 'Supplement' is something that is double, paradoxical and contradictory in its' nature and basic structure.  It is by definition something extra added to a preexisting whole and therefor excluded from the whole and dependent on it.  It is 'only a supplement' to the completed work.  At the same time, however, a supplement supplies something lacking from the wholeness of the original work and reveals it as incomplete, precisely because it needs to be supplemented, needs to have its' deficiencies made up ... therefor both works are at once wholes and holes. "

Nan Rosenthal

"Habillé Jusqu' Aux Neufs" 1995

Shown here in the exhibition 'Sample Sale' in 1995, behind the work of the artist Imogen Stidworthy.

Exhibition; 'Heteronymous ... '
San Michele a Ripa, Rome, 1997.



The two works were shown together for the first time in this exhibition curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, which took place from 16th March to 15th June, 1997.  The original 'Hat' piece was shown inside one of the cells of the renaissance prison. (Above)  The photographic piece was hung outside in the large hall, behind the "Aristocratic Hairline Machine" (see separate page), seen reflected in the picture. (Right)

Exhibition; 'Three Way Switch'  art agents gallery, 2001. 

This show in Hamburg took place between 21st September and 26th October. (see separate page)  Here we see "Habillé..." behind the piece "Weg Ten Hemmel" 1999.


"Habillé Jusqu' Aux Neufs"  being installed by the Artist in the Brasserie Verschueren in Brussels, as part of the series "Coin Vide" curated by the artist Marc Rossignol.  The work was on show from 5th of February until 22nd of March 2003.

(In connection to the "Coin Vide"  see "The Rufus Affair" - coming soon)