Arnoud Holleman
Stedelijk Museum/Bureau Amsterdam
Arnoud Holleman’s recent show “Being There” began with drawings, but in a rather special form. The book Sperm Drawings, 2003, contains the results of five years of ejaculations on paper, with a neatly traced black background around the white blobs. This work seems like the ultimate result of the “classic” modern artist’s seclusion in his studio, and it introduced the friction between the public and the private as a motif for the show.
For Museum, 1998, Holleman acted like a latter-day Hays Office, eliminating all sex scenes from a gay porn film and showing the remaining footage as a weird ballet