'The Everywhere Tool Chest'
'WRONG TIME, WRONG PLACE', TENT., Rotterdam, May 25th- July 1th 2007
'WRONG TIME, WRONG PLACE' info
WRONG TIME , WRONG PLACE
SURNAME: Bruggeman
GIVEN NAMES: Frank
NATIONALITY: Dutch
Installation Title: The Everywhere Tool Chest (dimension L5xB2H2 meter)
DATE OF ARRIVAL IN ROTTERDAM: 15th april 2003, at B.a.d. 1 sept. 2006
DATE OF DEPARTURE FROM ROTTERDAM: unknown
PLACE OF RESIDENCY: B.a.d.
ROTTERDAM STATEMENT (english): Frank Bruggeman shows how he works and lives in the
industrial
harbour
surroundings
of Rotterdam in the way this city actually ‘forces’
him to.
Next to his three
dimensional work in blue (objects and furniture) he continued
his
gardening
overhere and
was compelled to create his so called mobile garden.
Unexpectedly,
due to
Rotterdam’s
wide (studio)
spaces,
the botanic activities delivered
profitable
derivatives in the
shape of
large-scale nature projects.
In the meantime Bruggeman exhibited all kinds of installations in which the
culture of botanics are applied, or otherwise combined with items from his
‘Blue collection’. Alltogether they represent a total environment where working,
living and exhibiting become one with references to utopianism and autarkism.
By now the most important starting points of Bruggeman’s output can be described as:
the development of a value system within his work based on equal importance of all
objects and plants and a tendency to insert anarchistic elements in high urban
surroundings
as a reminder of rural inventiveness.
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B.a.d. pictures: spring 2007