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Havel Ruck Projects. Nezla Jans Installation Spring 2013. Havel Ruck Projects. Havel Ruck Projects. Dan Havel Born in Minnesota Lives and work in Houston Creates site-specific installations that explore the visual and conceptual aspects of transformation. Havel Ruck Projects. Dean Ruck
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Havel Ruck Projects Nezla Jans Installation Spring 2013
Havel Ruck Projects • Dan Havel • Born in Minnesota • Lives and work in Houston • Creates site-specific installations that explore the visual and conceptual aspects of transformation.
Havel Ruck Projects • Dean Ruck • Born in Connecticut • Has lived and work in Houston since 1987 • Represented by Devin Borden Hiram Bulter Gallery in Houston, TX • Creates large and small sculptures, ambitious installations, and unconventional two-dimensional “drawings”
History of Collaboration • Began informally in 1994 • Project O House • Came together again in 2004 • Inversion and Apt Suite • Through 2008 • Scatter Boats and a series of “trespass” works • From 2009 to now • Formalized their collaborative as Havel Ruck Projects • Give and Take (2009) • Fifth Ward Jam (2010)
Critique of Inversion • This is another very impressive and visually stunning piece for me • Metaphor for the disappearing of old homes • I don’t see it going much further past that single metaphor • big spectacle • became entertaining instead of critical
Influences • Gordon Matta Clark • Building cuts • Anarchitecture • Assemblage
Sources • http://deanruck.com/bibliography • http://glasstire.com/2009/09/01/interview-with-dan-havel-and-dean-ruck/ • http://www.artlies.org/article.php?id=1256&issue=47&s=0 • http://www.chron.com/life/gray/article/Gray-Artists-turn-bungalow-into-Fifth-Ward-Jam-2195635.php • http://www.davidairey.com/focus-on-art-dan-havel-dean-ruck/
Sources • http://www.29-95.com/art/story/dan-havel-and-dean-ruck-make-ripleys-believe-it-or-not-book • http://unconsumption.tumblr.com/post/9874698783/houston-based-artists-dan-havel-and-dean • http://laughingsquid.com/artistic-house-reimaginings-in-houston-by-havel-ruck-projects/ • http://www.offbeatearth.com/tag/dan-havel/ • http://www.facebook.com/pages/Havel-Ruck-Projects/189211157783411?sk=photos_albums
Sources • http://blog.chron.com/artsinhouston/2009/04/and-speaking-of-dan-havel-and-dean-ruck/ • http://www.fluentcollab.org/mbg/index.php/mbgrecommends/index/123 • http://64.18.223.124/2005/06/02/dan-havel-and-dean-ruck-inversion/ • http://books.google.com/books?id=vPL3DkihxqcC&pg=PA108&lpg=PA108&dq=havel+ruck+petley+o+house+installation&source=bl&ots=fZeqxSqwqm&sig=L7LEPHCWLg7RIcZkM8Dj6_0XOvI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=VZ5HUZ6FIem3yQGn5oFw&ved=0CGoQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=havel%20ruck%20petley%20o%20house%20installation&f=false • http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2009/04/27/4150549.htm
Sources • http://www.katepetley.com/O_A_House_Installation.html • http://www.29-95.com/art/story/havel-ruck-projects-do-it-again-fifth-ward-jam • http://www.29-95.com/art/story/dan-havel-and-dean-ruck-offer-peek-their-latest-project • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Matta-Clark