Hours of idleness
23 november - 02 december 2012
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For Kunstvlaai 2012, Rongwrong presents a personal off-color library and a marbled whisky bar by Vincent Verhoef.
Hours of Idleness is the title of Lord Byron's first book of poetry, published when he was just nineteen years old (1807). This collection of poems marks the line of thought of his later books and is a kind of self-portrait of a young man and the endless hours spent in melancholic ardor. In ‘Hours of Idleness’ we retrieve some adolescent feelings of awe and desire, in which plunging into a book meant venturing into a world of wonder.
Imagine, from thousands of books, retrieving that one book that can, for an instant, make sense of life and of the day. As Virginia Woolf put it, this is ‘the disembodied, trance-like intense rapture, that used to seize us and comes back now and again’. Can one, upon entering a library by chance, during a cold late November night, forget about the contingencies of stock exchange time? And what about the consequences?
We offer the image of our private library from which some beloved books arise and are available to the casual reader. Without appointments or a prepared schedule, friends will come and go, while engaging in impromptus readings and conversations.
AC/AZ
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kunstvlaai, festival of independants
23 November - 2 December 2012
(former) Sint Nicolaas Lyceum Amsterdam
Prinses Irenestraat 21
1077 WT Amsterdam
www.kunstvlaai.nl
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For Kunstvlaai 2012, Rongwrong presents a personal off-color library and a marbled whisky bar by Vincent Verhoef.
Hours of Idleness is the title of Lord Byron's first book of poetry, published when he was just nineteen years old (1807). This collection of poems marks the line of thought of his later books and is a kind of self-portrait of a young man and the endless hours spent in melancholic ardor. In ‘Hours of Idleness’ we retrieve some adolescent feelings of awe and desire, in which plunging into a book meant venturing into a world of wonder.
Imagine, from thousands of books, retrieving that one book that can, for an instant, make sense of life and of the day. As Virginia Woolf put it, this is ‘the disembodied, trance-like intense rapture, that used to seize us and comes back now and again’. Can one, upon entering a library by chance, during a cold late November night, forget about the contingencies of stock exchange time? And what about the consequences?
We offer the image of our private library from which some beloved books arise and are available to the casual reader. Without appointments or a prepared schedule, friends will come and go, while engaging in impromptus readings and conversations.
AC/AZ
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kunstvlaai, festival of independants
23 November - 2 December 2012
(former) Sint Nicolaas Lyceum Amsterdam
Prinses Irenestraat 21
1077 WT Amsterdam
www.kunstvlaai.nl
