Frank Bruggeman

I Wake to the Calling of  the Green Basement                                                      
10 January - 24 February 2007

Mart House, Amsterdam
  
At the exhibition 'I Wake to the Calling of  the Green Basement' Frank Bruggeman presents his personal universe consisting of furniture objects, nature, photography, computer drawings and casestudies. Interior and exterior leave behind consumer society. Poverty, riches, fashionability or out of time, it doesn't matter anymore. Space and mentality is what it's all about. The exhibition offers an invitation to intensify the view on one's own surroundings as an along side result.

The shown furniture collection is typically Bruggeman, recognizeable to a specific (cyan) blue color. This logically used color diminishes the mutual hierarchy. Indifferenceness is converted into valueability. Archetypical shapes like the piled up cubes take shape in reflecting perspex and by that refer to architecture.

Bruggeman visualizes his fascination for vegetation in urban surroundings, taken to shape in provisional gardens. These container gardens worm with desire and ideals, due to urban restrictions. Regional nature is a continuous element. Exotic plants represent personal landmarks, as reminders to once visited resorts.