Bethan huws biography template
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Bethan Huws
Works on Paper / Word Vitrines
17.4.– 5.9.2021 | Beim Stadthaus & Reinhart am Stadtgarten
Bethan Huws *1961
Untitled (Go0d…), 2003
© 2020, ProLitteris, Zurich
A WORK OF ART WITHOUT EMOTION IS NOT A WORK OF ART. The statement, which Bethan Huws, born in 1961 in Bangor, Wales, and now living in Paris and Berlin, will realize as a neon writing for the Kunst Museum Winterthur, is to be understood programmatically, even if the artist herself immediately questions the prominent statement: ARE YOU SURE? The two-part neon work commissioned by Galerieverein will connect the two buildings of the museum visually and intellectually. To celebrate the inauguration of the work and to integrate the publicly accessible work into Bethan Huws’ oeuvre, the Kunst Museum Winterthur will present two essential aspects in the artist’s multimedia and conceptual oeuvre: Works on Paper / Word Vitrines.
Works on Paper: Bethan Huws’ watercolors are of an incomparable tenderness and vulnerability. The act of drawing is also one of personal memory. It can be a reminiscence of certain places or things. The artist concentrates her memory images in such a way that they receive something universal, or that they cross the boundaries to abstraction. Parallel to t
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Bethan Huws
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Bethan Huws: Haus Esters Piece
Given: 1) Haus Esters, Krefeld, Rheinland, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, built 1928–30, ground floor, now an exhibition space for contemporary art, empty, spring 1993. 2) Sheet of paper folded once, handmade paper, text in English and German, distributed to all visitors.
A connection between the space and the text is suggested or assumed. A work of art is presumed somewhere between the space and the text and the process of walking around and the act of reading. At first sight the connections are little short of hermetic; but the form of the work is entirely literal: the real rooms in this house, the legible words on the piece of paper, the person registering all this. A, B and C – albeit not linked by any signs yet. Like a test bed, where the aim will only be determined during the experiment.
This work in Krefeld had been preceded by Bethan Huws’ first text work, The Lake Piece (1991), which in essence established an associative relationship between words, space and viewer/reader. Four separate texts covering twenty-four hand-written sheets were presented on the walls of the upper gallery of London’s ICA. The texts are calm, purely descriptive accounts – differently expressed – of a visit to a lake. A connection is made between