Palestra e Workshop
Unnoticed Art |
by Frans van Lent
Quarta-feira, 07 maio 2025 Palestra, 14h00 — Biblioteca Jorge Araújo Workshop, 15h00 — Estúdio 3, sala Branca (Dep. Artes Cénicas) Limite de 40 participantes (inscrições: bcantinho@uevora.pt ) Coord: Prof.ª Beatriz Cantinho
The work of Frans van Lent (Rotterdam 1955) can be described as a concept-driven research process which is guided by personal experience.
Little or no material products are created during the work. Sometimes a sound recording, a video or some photos remain, but very often a work ends with just a text describing the procedure followed. These texts evoke an image, making the process concrete, tangible and imitable.
An important formal aspect in many of his works is a symmetry in time, from a beginning to an end: a process starts with nothing and ends again with nothing. An activity took place, an image was created and it disappeared again. His work can be found at FransVanLent.nl
Collaboration with others artists and the curating of events are important and consistent aspects of his artistic practice. In 2014 and 2016 he organized the Unnoticed Art Festival in the cities of Haarlem and Nijmegen (NL). In 2015 he initiated TheConceptBank.org, a free online database for performance scores. In 2021, 2022, he organized the Nieuwstraat Festivals on the street where he lives in Dordrecht (NL).
Frans van Lent is initiator and editor of the website UnnoticedArt.com, and co-initiator/curator of 222lodge in Dordrecht (NL). He published two books, Unnoticed Art (2014) and TheParallelShow (2018), distributed by Jap Sam Books.
Frans van Lent studied Art Education at the Academie voor Beeldende Vorming in Tilburg (NL) and completed his MA in Fine Art at HKU in Utrecht (NL). From 2000 to 2020, he taught at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. He lives and works in Dordrecht, the Netherlands and in Hautefort, France.
About the workshop:
The artist will give a brief introduction on the conceptual background of the Unnoticed Art festival (from 2014 to the present) and on the impact the initiative has had on his visual development as an artist.
He will conclude the workshop with a practical assignment for the participating students.
Workshop
Unnoticed Art
by Frans van Lent
