Packrat / 2015 / Podcast in 9 episodes

Presented at: Showroom Mama, Rotterdam (NL), 2015; Tefaf, Maastricht (NL), 2015

Recorded by Iwen Legro at IJland Studio, Amsterdam
Voice - David Bernstein
Jingle by Jokūbas Čižikas
Edited by Sjoerd Leijten
Curated by Rieke Vos
Commissioned by ING Bank for Tefaf 2015

These short stories take historical works of art and pretend that they are actually something else, that they are things my father, a hoarder, has collected. By playing with language and what we see, this podcast stimulates the listener to view the artworks with humorous imagination.

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Episode 1 - René Magritte / 1928 / Le Palais de Rideaux:









Episode 2 - Egyptian Limestone Relief / 2311 - 2140 BCE:









Episode 3 - Michaelina Woutiers / 1656 / Portrait of a Young Man With a Pipe:









Episode 4 - Thomas Fentham / 1815 / A Pair of Regency Convex Mirrors:









Episode 5 - Guillaume Duchenne de Boulogne and Adrien Tournachon / 1862 / Rire Faux (Fake Laugh):









Episode 6 - House of Fabergé / 1890 / Dessert Set:









Episode 7 - Kees van Dongen / 1908 / Lailla:









Episode 8 - Nam June Paik / 1998 / Diamond Sat:









Episode 9 - Anish Kapoor / 2014 / Untitled (Random Triangle Mirror):