Bas Jan Ader, Fall 2, Amsterdam, 1970, Film: 16mm, black-and-white, silent, 19 seconds, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam. Courtesy of the Bas Jan Ader Estate and Patrick Painter Editions.
Bas Jan Ader
The World Was Young When Gravity Fell
7 November – 7 December 2012
at Å kuc Gallery, Ljubljana
The exhibit The World Was Young When Gravity Fell features work by Bas Jan Ader, who disappeared at sea while attempting to cross the Atlantic Ocean in the smallest sailboat as part of the piece In Search of the Miraculous in 1975. Throughout Bas Jan Ader’s oeuvre, there is a constant tension between two opposite elements (heroic-failure, rational-emotional, analytical-poetical etc); and somehow, an endless rejection of the axioms of artistic approaches, and merely in this way, not taking any side, and by creating a constant ‘tension’ as his artistic approach, makes Ader’s conceptual gesture unique. The exhibition in Škuc Gallery examines Ader’s works, thoughts and ideas, and shows the importance and influence of his art in today’s art world. [read the full text here]
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