The Game
View of the show at the Jan van Eyck Academy,
Maastricht, 2018.
View of the show. In the background, works by Thomas Schütte as part of the installation.
Detail, different materials.
Detail, wood, plywood, acrylic.
Detail, wood, plywood, acrylic.
Detail, wood, plywood, acrylic, oil crayons.
Fragment of installation.
Detail, wood, plywood, acrylic, oil crayons.
Detail, plywood, acrylic.
Detail, wood, plywood, acrylic, oil crayons.
Detail, wood, plywood, acrylic, oil crayons.
We live in times when a feeling is created that the people who lead the world are crazy. And from time to time there are facts that tell us that it is so.
Two years ago, one of the deputy directors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), who spent his vacation on the Mediterranean, disappeared without a trace. Together with his yacht. In his hunting lodge in the Swiss Alps, the investigators discovered a kind of board game. “Reach the Shelter”- so it was called. The house keeper said that the owner came every weekend to fanatically play this game. And the house keeper was supposed to play with him. When you scrutinize this game, you can not get rid of the feeling that its owner is out of his mind.
In our installation “The Game” we tell this story to the public.