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Eindhoven in Art Make Eindhoven
by Lex Grote
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In our city tour for “Eindhoven in art”, our host and artist Lex Grote shows us lesser known art hotspots of the Eindhoven region. For this edition he takes us to ‘Beeldenstorm / Daglicht’ at the NRE site, close to the center of town. Lex explains: “In this creative environment artists and designers can experiment with 3D techniques, materials such as glass and metal as well as graphic techniques, for example silkscreen printing, etching and lithography.”
The director of this very dynamic art spot is Lex van Lith: “What started as two separate workshops, Beeldenstorm and Daglicht, became one organization in 2017. Now, three years later, it’s time to combine the activities under a new name: Make Eindhoven. To be presented in September, hopefully with a grand opening.
Make Eindhoven is the place to be for the creative and artistic thinkers such as the professional visual artists, designers, and architects. The people who want to push their boundaries with materials, and the students of study programs who start an uninhibited learning process. We offer advice, space, knowledge, facilities and time to support the makers in realizing their ideas.”
Make Eindhoven is a place to experiment, innovate, create, and stimulate. To share knowledge. Makers are invited to discover and research materials and techniques. To be surprised by the possibilities of making. All this with the certainty that mistakes do not exist, only possibilities.
Workshops: Lex continues: ”Make Eindhoven has a metal foundry where mainly bronze alloys and aluminum can be cast. There are possibilities for various (re)production methods and post-processing techniques. In addition, there are facilities for experiments with various glass techniques, such as melting, bending, fusing, kiln casting and stainedglass painting. The workshop has a large flatbed oven, two smaller ovens and possibilities for finishing operations. In the graphic workshop, professional makers can use different
techniques. Relief printing, surface printing, (litho/stone printing) intaglio (etching), screen printing, Toyobo printing and polymer printing. Here too, you can work on large (XXL) sizes.”
Education: Tailormade workshops are developed for educational institutions, in line with a curriculum for optimal practice and talent development. For example, Make Eindhoven structurally works with the Design Academy Eindhoven. Many (international) students find their way to the workshops and the Graduation Show often exhibits the results of their work. The workshops are not open to the public. After all, makers want to be able to work on their projects in a quiet, focused manner.
But Make Eindhoven organizes various public activities throughout the year. From exhibitions to workshops, and from educational projects to lectures.
During the Dutch Design Week, the designers and artists can be seen at work as the workshops are always open to the public. In addition, the Design Academy and Make Eindhoven collectively organize an exhibition of the results of a minor in ceramics, a trajectory that students work on for five months in the workshops on the NRE site.
Lex van Lith
Make Eindhoven Gasfabriek 12 Eindhoven
www.makeeindhoven.nl make@makeeindhoven.nl
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