Talk:ZERO foundation

the structure and organisation from the ZERO foundation is indeed based upon many other foundations. that is ineventable. these kind of texts are common information for cultural institutes. we have, as with the warhol foundation, the same goals. the text you have taken out is part from our foundation goals, and will be on our upcomming webside. our webside will be completely different from the wiki. please keep it as it is. if not, please take out the wiki zero foundation, as is does not explain now our working. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.62.59.197 (talk • contribs)

The following text is taken from the statutes from the ZERO foundation:

Co-operations with international archives (Yves Klein and Piero Manzoni Foundation), museums (Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam) and institutions (AFORK and MIT) are just some of the diverse internationally oriented activities of the ZERO Foundation. Through cooperative exhibitions, loans and permanent placement of work in museums internationally, the Foundation will ensure that the many facets of ZERO are both widely accessible and properly cared for. Ongoing preservation and restoration of works in the Foundation’s care complement these efforts. On a research level, the material contained in the artists’ archives will be examined, registered and classified according to thematic categories. In establising an archive and collection the Foundation paved the way for new ZERO scholarship and curatorial innovation as well as greater public understanding of ZERO’s profound significance. The Foundation oversight of thoroughly researched, extensively illustrated catalogue raisonné of ZERO’s international artistic output expands the possibilities for scholarship even further.

The ZERO foundation agrees with the use from that excerpt for the WIKI entry. Mattijs Visser Founding Director —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nul65 (talk • contribs) 18:07, 13 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Mr. Visser, as I've already told you many time at User talk:Mattijsmattijs, you shouldn't be editing articles with which you have a WP:Conflict of interest. MuffledThud (talk) 13:14, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

Dear Muffled: what does the foundation do???? This is not clear to me! --Sariensarien (talk) 08:52, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

Dear Muufled, you took out some time ago the references you are asking now. --Sariensarien (talk) 08:52, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

Why do you take out the links to the artists? For any student this is so helpfull, as there is no website wher you can find links to all artist from that historical movement. and several artist have no wiki. so please help students and keep it in. --Sariensarien (talk) 08:52, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

why do you take out the list with works from a public institure. you cant see that as promotion. the zero foundation is a public institute, not private, financed by the city, and has an important collection for students and researchers. please dont take out. --Sariensarien (talk) 08:52, 28 November 2009 (UTC)--

Mr Muffled, i have no conflict of interest, i work for a public institute, and this institute has goals, all written down, approved by the government. the goals from the foundation are clear and not promotion. or isit the style you dont like?--Sariensarien (talk) 08:42, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

It makes no sense to have a list with artists, as the foundation is not collecting all these artists, nor has information in the archive from all of them. it makes no sense to include a list with past activities, if you take out what the activities are... or? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sariensarien (talk • contribs) 08:50, 28 November 2009 (UTC)


 * I've removed another shovel-load of unreferenced promo, oddly similar to what also kept getting added here from other user accounts, as well as in Mattijs Visser, Artempo, etc., until five accounts got blocked for this at Sockpuppet_investigations/Mattijsmattijs/Archive. One was only blocked for a week, and I see it's now back in action again.   It's interesting that your account was created less than 2 hours after those blocks were put in place.
 * I didn't remove the links to the artists: you did, perhaps by accident. However I notice that I did accidentally delete the perfectly legitimate second half of the "Collection" section while clearing out the unreferenced promotion and speculation about future activities, but I have now restored that part, and please accept my apologies for that error.
 * As for the external links, please see WP:LINKFARM: if the institutions are notable, then write articles about them, otherwise you should use the ELs to reference where relevant in this article. Thanks, MuffledThud (talk) 15:05, 28 November 2009 (UTC)