Pour en finir avec la coquetterie Making up for coquetry

series in mixed media, 2008
installation
installation detail
picture
e-mail
picture with sound recording
drawing

Investigating mechanisms of awesomeness.

‘Non mais bon, c'est ça que je voudrais—mettons que je voudrais sincèrement, simplement,—je voudrais simplement, sincèrement, formidablement, eh, vachement, c'est un de mes rares désirs non ironiques: je voudrais simplement, sans ironie, être fringant et formidable.’
‘Nee goed dat wil ik—laat ik zo zeggen ik ook gewoon, oprecht, heel gaaf, euh heel graag—ik wil gewoon oprecht, dat is één van mijn weinige onironische verlangens: ik wil gewoon onironisch gaaf en knap zijn.’
‘I just want to hippily—uh, happily—in all honesty, I just want, that is one of my few unironic longings: I just want to be awesomely attractive and unironically hip and handsome.’
June 29-July 30, 2008
Je m'aime
Van Kranendonk Gallery, The Hague
January 17, 2009
WinterNest
DCR The Hague
Translation suggestions
Rokus Hofstede, Amsterdam.
Cambridge Audio kindly provided
Dimex BV, The Hague.
You see a gallery space. On the wall the following works have been neatly arranged: three variations of the same picture of Eric Schrijver wearing a pink sweater, one sketchy looking drawing and two black and white photographs on which you can make out people in some kind of studio setting. Near to the biggest black and white picture, to the right of your view, a closed-back headphone hangs from a microphone stand. It is connected to a CD-player which stands on top of a small side table, made of translucent plastic.

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pour en finir avec la coquetterie
mixed media, installation view

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l: ‘Pour en finir avec la coquetterie’
r: “‘Ik ben gaaf en knap, en ik ga met knappe mensen om en oh ik ben ook nog briljant’ mag dus niet de boodschap van 't werk worden!”
‘I am awesomely attractive and I frequent the handsome and the hip’ may not end up as the message of this work!
installation view. l: pen on offset on retroreflective foil r: pencil on paper
You see Eric Schrijver, wearing a pink sweater. This picture shows a three-quarter profile; Eric looks into the camera, serious and somewhat formal. You can make out from the lighting and the sharpness of the image that it was probably taken in a studio.

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‘Que je sois vachement bath et beau gosse, et que je fréquente de belles gens bath, ce n'est pas ce dont il s'agit ici’
‘that I'm hip and handsome and awesomely attractive, and that I frequent the handsome and the hip, that’s not what this is all about’
C-print on aluminium, 42cm x 42cm
You see the same image, but this time as part of the print-out of an e-mail. It’s the attachment in a mail responding to a call for an actor playing Van Gogh. The text of the e-mail is as follows: “I would say that you need me. I have reddish hair, a slight build, Dutch is my mother tongue, and I speak French fluently (albeit with a Dutch accent). Next to that, although I’ve worked as an actor, my main occupation now is as a visual artist which means I can very well relate to the sentiments of Van Gogh. Having said all this, I wasn’t planning on coming to L.A. in the coming time so if you’re interested we could maybe arrange a casting by teleconference. Regards, Eric Schrijver (Amsterdam, 1984)”

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Pour en finir avec la coquetterie
e-mail: Laserprint mounted on aluminium, A3

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‘Non mais bon, c'est ça que je voudrais—mettons que je voudrais sincèrement, simplement,—je voudrais simplement, sincèrement, formidablement, eh, vachement, c'est un de mes rares désirs non ironiques: je voudrais simplement, sans ironie, être fringant et formidable.’
‘I just want to hippily—uh, happily—in all honesty, I just want, that is one of my few unironic longings: I just want to be awesomely attractive and unironically hip and handsome.’
Être fringant et formidable
Being hip and handsome
Soundrecording (0:32) and Baryta print on dibond, 60cm by 60cm.

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‘Ik ben gaaf en knap en ga met gave knappe mensen om en oh ik ben ook nog briljant’ mag dus niet de boodschap van 't werk worden!
‘I am awesomely attractive and I frequent the handsome and the hip’ may not end up as the message of this work!
Pencil on paper, 50cm by 65cm
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