Picturing Museums

01 · Joris Baudoin

Picturing Museums

L’art sur l’art

Art about art. Museums becoming the subject.

Hollow cube, 2015. Reinforced concrete, 62 × 62 × 62 cm.
Hollow cube, 2015. Reinforced concrete, 62 × 62 × 62 cm.

Art for everyone, from the roundabout to the museum. A way out of the cave.

Joris Baudoin brings art into public space and takes the museum back outside. What he sees, he passes on: in words, in concrete and in an object that lights up an idea.

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Looking and passing it on

Watching Man

Since 2014, Joris Baudoin has visited around 130 European museums of contemporary art as Watching Man. Looking became a practice. Museale Beelden became a 459-page book without a single image.

The visits before 2021 are described in that book. New works are based on the works in the museums.

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The museum as subject and material

Museum blocks

The museum becomes a sculpture in its own right. In concrete, a visit takes another form: not a report, but a response.

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A century, one object

A Banana with an Idea

A century of conceptual art in a single banana. And the light works.

Duchamp, Beuys and Cattelan meet in one object. Art refers to art and becomes something to look at anew.

The work

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From the roundabout to the museum

Art for everyone, from the roundabout to the museum. A way out of the cave.

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Museums and galleries

A conversation about work that looks at the museum. About a museum block referring back to its point of departure, a conceptual series or a coherent exhibition.

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Contact

For a conversation about the work.

For exhibition enquiries and questions about the work: info@picturingmuseums.com.

Personal contact: piet@picturingmuseums.com.

Selection

Fifty-three works, after the artist’s pages on jorisbaudoin.nl. Photographs by Joris Baudoin. A title names the work. It says nothing about ownership or a place in a museum.

Museum blocks

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Blue Ripe, 2018-3, reinforced concrete, acrylic paint, Joris Baudoin

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Blue Ripe

2018-3 · reinforced concrete, acrylic paint · 40 × 40 × 40 cm

n.t. 2018-4, 2018-4, reinforced concrete, acrylic paint, Joris Baudoin

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n.t. 2018-4

2018-4 · reinforced concrete, acrylic paint · 40 × 40 × 40 cm

Chill, 2018-7, reinforced concrete, Joris Baudoin

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Chill

2018-7 · reinforced concrete · 35 × 35 × 35 cm

Ludwig, 2018-11, reinforced concrete, Joris Baudoin

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Ludwig

2018-11 · reinforced concrete · 35 × 35 × 35 cm

Bunker, 2018-14, reinforced concrete, Joris Baudoin

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Bunker

2018-14 · reinforced concrete · 35 × 35 × 35 cm

Installations

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Anchor chain, 2017, metal, plastic, concrete, electronics, Joris Baudoin

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Anchor chain

2017 · metal, plastic, concrete, electronics · 60 × 60 × 230 cm

Sculptures

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Ax, 2015, reinforced terrazzo concrete, wood, gold leaf, Joris Baudoin

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Ax

2015 · reinforced terrazzo concrete, wood, gold leaf · 80 × 40 × 70 cm

Tree, 2019, reinforced concrete, gold leaf, Joris Baudoin

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Tree

2019 · reinforced concrete, gold leaf