Tender Prey
18 October – 16 November 2003
Arti et Amicitiae
Amsterdam, NL
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Press Release
Tender Prey
Arti et Amicitiae
Rokin 112,
1012 LB Amsterdam: October 18-November 16 2003
Private View: 17/10/03 6-8pm
Tariq Alvi, Stefan Banz, Hans Bellmer, Gillian Carnegie, Nick Cave, Francesco Clemente, Michael Curran, Steve Dwoskin, David Haines, Marc Hulson, Pierre Klossowski, Paul Kooiker, Kiki Lamers, Bas Meerman, Cathy de Monchaux, Susan Morris, Arno Nollen, Leonie Oostvogel, Roma Pas, Esther Planas, Thom Puckey, Paul de Reus, Mariette Renssen, Alex Schady, Bea Stienstra, Reinjelle Terpstra
love is the drug, love is sacred, love is a quest, an affliction
Taking as its theme the persistence and potency of human desire, of yearning for amorous union, Tender Prey is an exhibition of contemporary art about love, intimacy and eroticism. The title itself, taken from an album by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, suggests emotional paradox -both intimate identification and erotic violence, a duality that emerges in musical form through the tension between the love song and its dark twin, the murder ballad.
Tender Prey explores this tension in visual terms, presenting a highly personal selection of images curated by artists Marc Hulson and Mariette Renssen. The works range from the celebratory to the disconsolate and nihilistic, reflecting the twin currents of spiritual yearning and carnal obsession that permeate the discourse of love.
The exhibition does not attempt to identify either a current trend or a historical tendency in contemporary art: the selected artists work with diverse traditions and media, and emerging artists are placed alongside established historical figures.
What much of the work shares however is a certain obliqueness of approach to personal material. While their subject matter may be emotionally charged, most of the artists avoid overtly diaristic forms of self-representation. Private, subjective experience is used, but as a basis for diverse transformative and formal strategies that re-frame, stage or ritualise amorous desire, and affirm the work,s autonomous life.
A publication, including commissioned texts by David Lillington, Cees Maris and Susan Morris, and contributions by the artists, will accompany the exhibition.
Supported by: Amsterdam Fonds Voor de Kunst, Mondriaan Stichting, The British Council