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-da

n-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