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Berry van boekel: Top 100 2009
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Top 100 2009
Berry van Boekel
COUNTRY CLUB / CINCINNATI
AUGUST 13 – OCTOBER 23, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Berry van Boekel is a Columbus, Ohio-based artist. His
intensely obsessive ongoing project documenting the bands and
musicians he listens to, has developed an avid following of art
collectors, curators and music fans around the world.
Van Boekel writes "In February 1983, aged 18 years old—in
the midst of exploring music, I made a chart of the 10 tracks
that I’d enjoyed most. Then three days later I made another one
and I’ve continued to do so every three or four days ever since.
At the end of each year I collect all charts and compile a list of
100 songs from it. 2008 marked the 25th anniversary of such
lists. In 1986 I started to illustrate the lists, fi rst with the copy
machine but soon I started to draw. The Top 100 of 1991 was
the fi rst in which all one hundred entries were drawn by hand. I
have claimed many times that a particular year was going to be
the last one but instead I continue with more zeal every year."
Van Boekel marks the beginning of each year with an
exhibition of paintings featuring the Top 100 songs he heard
the previous year. Firmly rooted in portraiture and gure
painting, his work nonetheless is able explore a variety of
stylistic approaches. The simple elegant concept of the list
not only allows for experimentation with a wide range of
musical tastes but also gives van Boekel license to evoke
different moods and sensibilities within the paintings.
In 1993, he also began assembling small handmade Top 100
books that he would give away to friends. Typically he would
make only a handful of these documents. On the occasion of
this exhibition, Country Club/Iconoclast will issue an edition
of 100 books from van Boekel's Top 100 of 2009, bringing his
idiosyncratic list- and image-making available to an even
wider audience.
Van Boekel has exhibited with the prestigious alternative
non-pro t space White Columns in New York; Skylab in
Columbus; Reed Gallery at the University of Cincinnati; and
with the NADA Art Fair in Miami. This is van Boekel's first
exhibition with Country Club. Van Boekel moved to Columbus,
Ohio in 1993 from the Netherlands. He received an MFA from
The Ohio State University where he continues to teach and
work as the Head Preparator for the OSU Art Department.
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