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This friday The Destroyed Room opens. A visual art and music project, for which the starting point is the work ‘the destroyed room’ by Jeff Wall. This is work is inspired by the painting ‘death of king sardanapalos’ by Delacroix and is later used as an album cover for Sonic Youth.  The first part happens in Berlin, the second one in Tilburg.

Works included in THE DESTROYED ROOM project range from films and photographs to objects, paintings and drawings. One of the featured artists is Sonic Youth’s guitarist Lee Ranaldo. The main participating artist in the project, however is the American director and photographer Cary Loren. For this project, Loren made a movie using the ruins of urban decay in Detroit as her scenery.

The other artists: AIDS 3-D, Dario d’Aronco, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Marco Fedele di Catrano, Marc Bijl, Kimberly Clark, Koen Delaere, Piet Dieleman, Jeroen Doorenweerd, Wineke Gartz, Martijn Hendriks, Anita Hrnic, Bas van den Hurk, Sandra Kranich, Marijn van Kreij, Paul Lee, Isa Melsheimer, Theo Michael, Hester Oerlemans, David Ostrowski, Benjamin Roth, Felix Schramm, Lieven Segers en Remco Torenbosch. Music will come from french metal band Glorior Belli and British dubstep producer and dj, James Blake.