Allard van Hoorn - Personal Website

By clicking on the links below you will find all the images, video and texts on the different projects.

This section of the website gives you all possible information on the research and projects done by Allard van Hoorn. For a complete overview of all exhibitions, workshops, bibliography etc. please refer to the section biography.

2008 _ MATCHMAKER - Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil - MATCHMAKER maps the city of Salvador de Bahia in Brazil identifying the colors of its skies, waters, beaches and buildings by their Pantone® codes, investigating how language is used to create systems of reference and representation.

2007 _ re-Designing the Guggenheim A drawing of a building translated into a dance, then into a picture, subsequently into a musical composition which is turned back into architectural models once again. This project is a study of transformation and the relationship between the state of the static and the dynamic.

2007 _ (re-) Creating History - The Moore Space, Miami - Investigating Miami as a place of blending cultures and transition by displacing a scene from Mongolia onto the local beaches. Two slides, scanned, enlarged and reproduced as props of a stage-play re-enact the scenes shot by the artist 11 years before in Mongolia.

2004 _ Urban Mandalas - El Forat de la Vergonya (The Hole of Shame) - Barcelona, Spain. The Tibetan mandala, a meditative circular drawing made from colored sand-grains, translated into a western street version making the mandalas from colored shopping bags stuck into the fences of cities in places of friction.