About Allard van Hoorn

He investigates the language of representation to understand territory and its manifestations. He applies (re-) design, architecture, dance, music, writing, sculpture and mapping to study the correlation between these disciplines. His work is a permanent exploration of Ma, the Japanese term for the space between two structural parts, the interval which gives shape to the whole.

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NEWS _ MATCHMAKER video at New Museum (New Art, New Ideas), New York

The video of the recently completed project MATCHMAKER, a project for Salvador de Bahia is to be shown at the New Museum in New York as part of Lee Walton's Rhizome commissioned project Remote Instructions. Exact dates of lectures and screenings at The New Museum are to be confirmed later.

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2008 _ MATCHMAKER - Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil - MATCHMAKER maps the city of Salvador de Bahia in Brazil identifying the colors of its skies, waters, beaches and buildings by their Pantone® codes, investigating how language is used to create systems of reference and representation.
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2007 _ (re-) Creating History - The Moore Space, Miami - Investigating Miami as a place of blending cultures and transition by displacing a scene from Mongolia onto the local beaches. Two slides, scanned, enlarged and reproduced as props of a stage-play re-enact the scenes shot by the artist 11 years before in Mongolia.
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