Horse drawings

Made with paint, but usually understood by SMW as drawings. The words “drawing” and “painting” often used interchangeably. A bit of a “liminal space”.

The horses are very intuitive — usually five-minute pieces. Often, they depict the same horse face in a range of situations: from hanging itself to firing a cannon; in solitude or accompanied by other horses and/or a statement. The statements are intended as motivational reflections (RR), questions or expressions of perceived truths. Started when Sands turned 40 as a form of therapy and as a method for feeling happy. Typically, these are monochromatic or bi-chromatic, in black or blue. The body is also included, of the horse, and flowers, stars, hearts, rainbows, rivers, cacti and mountains and clouds and sky and birds flying and sometimes butterflies. If Sands feels anything is unclear, then he just paints what it is and puts an arrow pointing to the unclear thing. This is an unlimited series, painted with brushes in paint water, which is never cleaned or refreshed, only topped up. So, the color is from dirty paint water mixed with whatever color Sands feels appropriate spontaneously. Sands’ favorite paper is 80-gram white A4 (European or otherwise) printer paper. The cheaper and the more wrinkled when painted the better. Must keep that “trashy” quality, throw-away disposable etc. There are hundreds of these on various papers, also on pages from 1980s gay liberation magazine, the French “Gai Pied”. – SMW

Listings connecting to the sub typology “Horse drawings” (56)

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Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01394-2020-MaPi-HangingTime-048
  • Title
  • Hanging Time
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 50 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Date: 25.02.20. Location: Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of installation activities in the studio, with SMW, MH and Roger Cremers who assists with hanging a large vinyl print and the framed work dedicated to Carolee Schneemann. Unpacking materials. Sands holding a drawing with a clock and 'tyranny' text, a gift for Roger. The beginnings of making the horse cloud on the studio wall.

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Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01372-2020-MaPi-HangingTime-026
  • Title
  • Hanging Time
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 50 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Date: 25.02.20. Location: Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of installation activities in the studio, with SMW, MH and Roger Cremers who assists with hanging a large vinyl print and the framed work dedicated to Carolee Schneemann. Unpacking materials. Sands holding a drawing with a clock and 'tyranny' text, a gift for Roger. The beginnings of making the horse cloud on the studio wall.

  • Reflection Notes

“The horses are motivational, the horses bring solace, the horses bring confidence, the horses forever run to new horizons.” – RR.

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Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01405-2020-MaPi-HorseCloud-009
  • Title
  • Horse Cloud
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 14 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Date: 04.03.20. Location: Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of working on large horse cloud with SMW, MH and Amalia Calderón. First time GSA meeting with Amalia present, images of Sands and Amalia talking with poster of Hannah Wilke in the background.

  • Reflection Notes

Inventorying session + invited archivist (IA) meeting – 15.09.20. ”A friend who has a child told me the situation hasn’t changed-little boys still are denied the horses.” – SMW.

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Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01384-2020-MaPi-HangingTime-038
  • Title
  • Hanging Time
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 50 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Date: 25.02.20. Location: Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of installation activities in the studio, with SMW, MH and Roger Cremers who assists with hanging a large vinyl print and the framed work dedicated to Carolee Schneemann. Unpacking materials. Sands holding a drawing with a clock and 'tyranny' text, a gift for Roger. The beginnings of making the horse cloud on the studio wall.

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Photographer: Charlott Markus

  • Catalog No.
  • 01639-2021-DoE-InGoodCompany70
  • Title
  • In Good Company (Horsepower): Materials from the Gift Science Archive
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Digital image files
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

SMW solo exhibition at mistral, Amsterdam (2021). The exhibition opens up the process of the ‘monumental’ 18-month collaborative performance Gift Science Archive (GSA) to the public for haptic engagements with the artist’s working and archiving processes. Visitors are invited to peruse the GSA archive database and to pull materials from the collection for a closer look and, over a cup, for a story. The ‘research experience’ is thus set into relational motion, by conversations – a central part of Murray-Wassink’s practice. Co-curated by Megan Hoetger (If I Can’t Dance) together with Radna Rumping and Huib Haye van der Werf (mistral).

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Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01395-2020-1-MaPi-HangingTime-050
  • Title
  • Hanging Time
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 50 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Date: 25.02.20. Location: Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of installation activities in the studio, with SMW, MH and Roger Cremers who assists with hanging a large vinyl print and the framed work dedicated to Carolee Schneemann. Unpacking materials. Sands holding a drawing with a clock and 'tyranny' text, a gift for Roger. The beginnings of making the horse cloud on the studio wall.

  • Reflection Notes

GSA meeting – 12.01.20. “Archive is a buzzword.” – N/A. “Yeah but we’re messing it up!” – SMW. “We are messing it up, but we are still making a fucking archive.” MH. “If you can find a box for it and a label, then you’ve made it (an archive).” – SMW [sarcastic].

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Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01373-2020-MaPi-HangingTime-027
  • Title
  • Hanging Time
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 50 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Date: 25.02.20. Location: Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of installation activities in the studio, with SMW, MH and Roger Cremers who assists with hanging a large vinyl print and the framed work dedicated to Carolee Schneemann. Unpacking materials. Sands holding a drawing with a clock and 'tyranny' text, a gift for Roger. The beginnings of making the horse cloud on the studio wall.

  • Reflection Notes

“The horses are vastberaden/determined.” – RR.

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Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01406-2020-MaPi-HorseCloud-010
  • Title
  • Horse Cloud
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 14 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Date: 04.03.20. Location: Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of working on large horse cloud with SMW, MH and Amalia Calderón. First time GSA meeting with Amalia present, images of Sands and Amalia talking with poster of Hannah Wilke in the background.

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Image of Studio object

Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01385-2020-MaPi-HangingTime-039
  • Title
  • Hanging Time
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 50 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Date: 25.02.20. Location: Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of installation activities in the studio, with SMW, MH and Roger Cremers who assists with hanging a large vinyl print and the framed work dedicated to Carolee Schneemann. Unpacking materials. Sands holding a drawing with a clock and 'tyranny' text, a gift for Roger. The beginnings of making the horse cloud on the studio wall.

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Image of Studio object

Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01395-2020-MaPi-HangingTime-049
  • Title
  • Hanging Time
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 50 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Date: 25.02.20. Location: Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of installation activities in the studio, with SMW, MH and Roger Cremers who assists with hanging a large vinyl print and the framed work dedicated to Carolee Schneemann. Unpacking materials. Sands holding a drawing with a clock and 'tyranny' text, a gift for Roger. The beginnings of making the horse cloud on the studio wall.

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Image of Studio object

Photographer: Charlott Markus

  • Catalog No.
  • 01645-2021-DoE-InGoodCompany76
  • Title
  • In Good Company (Horsepower): Materials from the Gift Science Archive
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • Digital image files
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

SMW solo exhibition at mistral, Amsterdam (2021). The exhibition opens up the process of the ‘monumental’ 18-month collaborative performance Gift Science Archive (GSA) to the public for haptic engagements with the artist’s working and archiving processes. Visitors are invited to peruse the GSA archive database and to pull materials from the collection for a closer look and, over a cup, for a story. The ‘research experience’ is thus set into relational motion, by conversations – a central part of Murray-Wassink’s practice. Co-curated by Megan Hoetger (If I Can’t Dance) together with Radna Rumping and Huib Haye van der Werf (mistral).

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Image of Studio object

Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01374-2020-MaPi-HangingTime-028
  • Title
  • Hanging Time
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 50 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Date: 25.02.20. Location: Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of installation activities in the studio, with SMW, MH and Roger Cremers who assists with hanging a large vinyl print and the framed work dedicated to Carolee Schneemann. Unpacking materials. Sands holding a drawing with a clock and 'tyranny' text, a gift for Roger. The beginnings of making the horse cloud on the studio wall.

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Image of Studio object

Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01407-2020-MaPi-HorseCloud-011
  • Title
  • Horse Cloud
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 14 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Date: 04.03.20. Location: Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of working on large horse cloud with SMW, MH and Amalia Calderón. First time GSA meeting with Amalia present, images of Sands and Amalia talking with poster of Hannah Wilke in the background.

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Image of Studio object

Photographer: Radna Rumping

  • Catalog No.
  • 01386-2020-MaPi-HangingTime-040
  • Title
  • Hanging Time
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 50 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Date: 25.02.20. Location: Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of installation activities in the studio, with SMW, MH and Roger Cremers who assists with hanging a large vinyl print and the framed work dedicated to Carolee Schneemann. Unpacking materials. Sands holding a drawing with a clock and 'tyranny' text, a gift for Roger. The beginnings of making the horse cloud on the studio wall.

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Photographer: Megan Hoetger

  • Catalog No.
  • 01396-2020-MaPi-HorseCloud-001
  • Title
  • Horse Cloud
  • Dimensions
  • Variable
  • Materials
  • 14 phone snapshots
  • Object Location
  • Digital
  • Technical Notes

Date: 04.03.20. Location: Rijksakademie, studio manege. Images of working on large horse cloud with SMW, MH and Amalia Calderón. First time GSA meeting with Amalia present, images of Sands and Amalia talking with poster of Hannah Wilke in the background.

  • Reflection Notes

Rijksakademie Internal Open Studios – 07.09.20. “I used to be a horse-riding girl.” – N/A. “What happened?” – AC. “Drugs happened.” – N/A. “Drugs versus horses. Isn’t ‘horse’ supposed to be heroine?” – AC.

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