With elementary materials – wood, paper, clay, tape, paint – artist Fleur van Dodewaard creates ephemeral compositions that play with the possibilities of photography, sculpture, and painting. Situated at the intersection of these disciplines, her work uses photography to achieve the final result. ‘The Fold’ presents ten years of practice, reshaped according to the principles of book production methods such as folding, cutting, and binding. Operating like a “making-of” documentary...

Belgian artist Gert Robijns has spent the past decade working on his “Reset” concept, wherein the recreation and revaluation of the landscape are key. In 2010, Robijns made a copy of the small town of Gotem, his birthplace, out of white wood and metal on a scale of 75:100, including the church and rectory. From then on, he became dedicated to following this idea of “Reset” in various projects, among them Reset Charbon, a reflection on Limburg’s mining history, and Reset Mobile, a so...

Matthieu Ronsse creates paintings that often seem unfinished, comprised of references to old masters, fragments from his private life, or clippings from books on photography and architecture. He challenges the traditional painting method, questioning its qualities of materials, techniques, subject, and history. ‘A Procession of Lobsters’ offers an overview of work that Ronsse creates ‘in situ’: at a petrol station, in the house of a collector, for a catering company, within watchtower...

Kerry James Marshall is een van Noord-Amerika’s belangrijkste hedendaagse kunstenaars en wordt geroemd om zijn werk dat de ondervertegenwoordiging van de zwarte figuur in de Westerse beeldcultuur aankaart. Marshall staat vooral bekend als schilder, maar heeft tijdens zijn carrière ook een uitgebreid grafisch oeuvre geproduceerd, dat nauwelijks gedocumenteerd is. In zijn jeugd leerde hij tekenen en schilderen, maar verdiepte hij zich ook in grafische druktechnieken. Het merendeel van zijn g...

Crowned the “Prince of Painters” by Giorgio Vasari, Raphael (1483–1520) was one of the most popular artists of the Italian Renaissance. Famous for his serene and harmonious series of Madonnas and his work at the Vatican Palace, he was an extremely influential painter, both during and after his own lifetime. Raphael in Detail shows his masterpieces in unprecedented, large-format details. The art historian and specialist of the Italian Renaissance, Stefano Zuffi, takes the reader on a voy...

Between 2017 and 2020, street artist and political activist Banksy issued an unknown number of limited edition art objects in Palestine, only available to guests staying at the Walled Off Hotel in Bethlehem. Like the hotel, these hand-painted polymer resin multiples were intended to highlight the living conditions of the Palestinian people. The miniatures were created by Banksy, who supervised decorations carried out by Palestinian artists – copies of the iconic graffiti he has painted on t...

Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528), schilder, graficus en theoreticus, is een van de belangrijkste en invloedrijkste kunstenaars van de noordelijke renaissance. Hij kende alle grote Italiaanse kunstenaars van zijn tijd: Rafaël, Bellini, Leonardo da Vinci... Op tekengebied was Dürer een wonderkind. Vanaf 1512 genoot Dürer de bijzondere bescherming van keizer Maximiliaan I. Gravures, altaarstukken, (zelf)portretten, aquarellen en boeken volgden elkaar in snel tempo op. De close-ups in dit boe...