Lot 108: DAVID BADE

DAVID BADE DUTCH B. 1970 IN THE POCKET 2010 mixed media installation circa 184 x 120 x 110 cm / 72.5 x 47 x 43"

Some recent solo exhibitions
Gem/Gemak, The Hague 2010, 'Catch of the Day'
Metis-nl, Amsterdam 2008, 'Jorge & Jimmy & the Pirate Club'
De Hallen, Haarlem 2003, 'David Bade: Uw Kenmerk'

Some recent group exhibitions
White Box, New York 2009, 'Towing the Line, Drawing Space'
Stedelijk Museum cs, Amsterdam 2007, 'Drawing Typologies'
Limerick City Gallery of Art, 2005, 'Into Drawing'
Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna 2002, 'Political Correct? Dutch artists respond to a changing society'

Selected publications
Kitty Zijlmans, David Bade: Catch of the Day, The Hague: GEM/Gemeentemuseum Den Haag 2010
Roel Arkesteijn, Respect: forms of community, contemporary art from the Netherlands, Amsterdam: Mondriaan Stichting 2006
Chiara Guidi, David Bade, Bergamo: [s.n.] 2005
Jan van Adrichem [et al.], David Bade: next no text next, Nice: Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain 1999

Selected public and corporate collections
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, NL • Centraal Museum, Utrecht, NL • Stadsgalerij Heerlen, NL • Museum Jan Cunen, Oss, NL • Peter Stuyvesant Collectie, Amsterdam, NL • Abn Amro Kunststichting, NL • SNS Reaal Fonds, NL • NOG Collectie, NL • SMAK, Ghent, BE

donated by the artist

David Bade's drawings have a spontaneity and distinct immediacy. His drawings often incorporate critical texts; narrative scenes bursting with burlesque overstatement. His three-dimensional work is the result of an impulsive, associative process. The works have an informal, sometimes quirkily fun spirit, partly achieved by inviting members of the public to join in and help make a piece. Bade has no interest in producing a tightly finished product; the fragile, malleable and fleeting nature of the materials used in his installations underline a working method that centres on the creation process itself. Ordinary materials – clay, plastic, newspaper, chickenwire and plaster – are spontaneously employed in Bade's questioning of themes such as consumption, entertainment, religion and art. He creates a critical continuous processing of (caricatures) drawn from the everyday world around him.

David Bade was guest advisor at the Rijksakademie.
He won the basic prize of the 1993 Prix de Rome (NL).

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