A Thinnest Thin - rabin huissen & Reinier Vrancken, (18/12/2021 — 05/01/2022)

rabin huissen and Reinier Vrancken exhibit together in het gebouw, a building by the godfather of dutch conceptualism, stanley brouwn/   their exhibition is the result of an exchange of thought between the artists and a dialogue with the pavilion, that is both sculpture and architecture/  it was completed in 2005 as part of the art project; beyond leidsche rijn/    what are now construction sites used to be uncultivated fields of grass/   the pavilion consists of two elongated volumes, stacked on top of each other, based on stanley brouwn’s unit of measurement, the sb-foot, that is used extensively in his artistic practice/   this exhibition is an experiment in which the practices of huissen and Vrancken meet and situate themselves within the formal and conceptual framework of het gebouw/   what connects huissen and Vrancken is an intimate, perceptive, and at times poetic concentration that is so characteristic for their practices/   the works can be subtle, yet, at the same time, communicate big gestures/   both artists start from an idea, an investigation into form and action, which sometimes results in an art object, or in a performance, or sometimes even in absence/   the works of huissen and Vrancken are on display in and around the pavilion, in search of resonance and connection with one another and the setting/

rabin huissen captures his presence in photograms/   it is important where he is exactly, and what gesture he captures in the recording time, which has a certain length, that influences the final image/   a photogram is an early form of photography, in which an image can be made onto light-sensitive paper/   his recordings are performances in which gesture, time and location merge/   this can last for minutes, a timeframe in which spontaneous influences help shape the image: brightness, climate, grains of sand blowing onto the paper, onto the body or the amount of motion made by huissen himself/   as a ritual, he washes the photo with liquids from the environment, sometimes water, sometimes a drink/   different layers of color and pigment follow, with each color referring to a day of the week on which he made the piece. the contact between fingers, hand or foot with the paper, the contact with the paper on the spot, are ways of recording the traces of an action, of his own presence/   huissen made a series of new works especially for A Thinnest Thin/