Das Loch [The Hole], 2010
Video, 00:27:00.
Collection: Courtesy the artists, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi.
In their most recent works such as Das Loch, de Gruyter & Thys have replaced actors with mannequins that have limited features, inhuman computerised voices and a certain emptiness at their core. Das Loch describes the complex rivalry that exists between two characters – Johannes, who believes in the universal expression of painting, and Fritz, a little red macho-man in possession of an HD camera. Johannes's empathic wife Hildegard, in a role that reduces her to the female stereotype from film history, acts as the linchpin for her husband’s emotions. Within the OPTIMUNDUS exhibition, the characters present from this work are Fritz wearing his sunglasses behind a fence, Hildegard, Ricco & Rocco, Tommy The Singing Trumpet, and Johannes amongst an expansive display of his paintings.
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Media
>video still with 'Fritz'
>Click here to watch a short clip of 'Das Loch'
Artist
> Jos De Gruyter & Harald Thys.
Exhibitions & Ensembles
> Exhibition: Jos De Gruyter & Harald Thys - Das Loch. NAK, Aachen, 27 May 2011 - 10 July 2011.
> Exhibition: Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys – Optimundus. M HKA, Antwerpen, 07 February 2013 - 19 May 2013.
> Ensemble: Video's van Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys [Videos of Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys].
Related Items
>Jos De Gruyter & Harald Thys, Fritz, 2013.Sculpture, mixed media.
>Jos De Gruyter & Harald Thys, Hildegard, 2013.Sculpture, mixed media.
>Jos De Gruyter & Harald Thys, Johannes, painter °1947 † 2010, 2011.Sculpture, mixed media.
>Jos De Gruyter & Harald Thys, Ricco & Rocco, 2010-2012.Sculpture, mixed media.
>Jos De Gruyter & Harald Thys, Tommy The Singing Trumpet, 2012.Sculpture, mixed media.