Havel Ruck ProjectsNezla JansInstallationSpring 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– 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)

O House (1995)

O House (1995)

O House (1995)

Inversion (2005)

Inversion (2005)

Inversion (2005)

Inversion (2005)

Inversion (2005)

Inversion (2005)

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

Similar Works

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-h

avel-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