Resultaten (12)
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Move Along
2018 || Paperback || Ilke Gers || Onomatopee office and project-space
Softcover, duotone, 60 images
English
Instruction manual for open ended games, actions and interventions to untrain the body and recondition space.
All design and content by Ilke Gers
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Leonardo da Vinci
The language of faces
2018 || Paperback || Michael Kwakkelstein e.a. || Thoth, Uitgeverij || met inkijkexemplaar
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) is undoubtedly the best-known artist of all time. He was famous during his own lifetime for his matchless gift for depicting human characters and emotions. He was one of the first artists to become fascinated by the expressiveness of the human face, be it deformed and ugly or beautiful and idealised. This is seen not only in famous paintings like the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, but even more so in the dozens of drawings that he made of people’s faces.
In add...
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Heterotopia
2018 || Paperback || Joost Colpaert || BORGERHOFF & LAMBERIGTS
Joost Colpaert (°1965, lives and works in Oudenaarde, Belgium) has been producing paintings and videos for many years in which recurring cycles, fluent progress and the force of water play a central theme. He is inspired by his musical background: where a painting is spatially restricted, music can continue to flow (eternally). In a series of paintings from around 2000 the idea of recurring cycles was expressed in the form of rings, streamers and tyres which wound around and through each oth...
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A conversation piece
The world of Bruegel
2018 || Paperback || Abdelkader Benali e.a. || Hannibal
The Battle Between Carnival and Lent is a masterpiece by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525/30-1569). Dating from 1559, the world-famous painting is rich in remarkable stories and characters.
This book zooms in on the many everyday objects portrayed by Bruegel in the painting. These objects have been meticulously examined and interpreted through a contemporary gaze. Just as Bruegel's paintings served in the sixteenth century as conversation pieces among guests at dinner, so too this book prese...
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René Daniels Back to Painting
works from 2006 to 2017
2018 || Hardcover || René Daniels e.a. || Roma Publications
In his works on canvas created over the past twelve years, René Daniëls often returns to his paintings from the period before 1987. He adopts ciphers deriving from these works but uses them to develop a different, unprecedented language. Changing pictorial constellations express an existential situation of non-communication and isolation but are also pushed beyond these limits into a realm of extraordinary painterly possibilities. The present publication accompanies an exhibition of René D...
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Play
A tribute to the Homo Ludens
2020 || Paperback || Patrick Ronse e.a. || Agora, Uitgeverscentrum
PLAY is a headstrong city festival organised from 23 June to 11 November 2018 that will take over the centre of Kortrijk with contemporary artworks. You can immerse yourself in the unique world of national and international visual art at diverse indoor and outdoor locations in the city. During PLAY, the city not only serves as a canvas; bit by bit the festival simultaneously dissects our relationship with 'play'. How does play influence our social behaviour ? How does 'play' reflect the evolu...
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The Matrix Project
2018 || Paperback || Thierry Lagrange || AraMER.
The Matrix Project comprises two contexts, namely photographic work of architect Thierry Lagrange and the self-reflective trajectory that he developed during his doctorate at KULeuven. Lagrange’s practice-based research developed into an autonomous artistic project, in which he studied the significance and nature of observation within a creative process. Through his multifaceted practice as an architect, photographer and researcher, Lagrange developed ‘The Matrix Method’; a method that ...
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Lonely Planet. Yamatai koku (邪馬台国). Susan Kooi
2018 || Paperback || Susan Kooi e.a. || Jap Sam Books
'Lonely Planet. Yamatai Koku.Susan Kooi' is the second part of the triptych, in which Dutch artist Susan Kooi travels to Italy, Portugal, and Japan to work with various traditions of ceramic crafts. During a three-month residency in Arita - birthplace of Japanese porcelain production with a rich history in ceramics - Kooi worked with recontextualizing and poetically reconstructing ceramic objects. This publication shows a selection of works made during Kooi's three-month residency in Arita, a...
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Lonely Planet. Escoural-O-Novo. Susan Kooi
2018 || Paperback || Susan Kooi e.a. || Jap Sam Books
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René Tosari. Diversity is Power
2018 || Paperback || Rob Perrée e.a. || Jap Sam Books