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A Black Collage
2023 || Paperback || Rob Perrée || Jap Sam Books
In this book, Rob Perrée tells the story of his involvement in African-American art through a chronological collage of new texts, linking texts, previously published articles, essays, interviews, reviews, columns and short stories from 1990 to 2023. Together, they show the development of African-American art and demonstrate how its appreciation and perception have changed over time, in the US, but above all in the Netherlands as well, among the public and art institutions. It is a look behin...
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OUT SIDE IN SIDE OUT. Linda Molenaar
2023 || Paperback || Linda Molenaar e.a. || Jap Sam Books
Out Side In Side Out is an overview of 25 years of work by Dutch visual artist and performer Linda Molenaar, linking animal aspects in humans with human aspects in animals.
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As Above, So Below. Ruchama Noorda
2022 || Hardcover || Ruchama Noorda || Jap Sam Books
'As Above, So Below' documents the work made by Amsterdam-based artist, Ruchama Noorda over a twenty-year period and explores the esoteric system of belief that links her practice to the early 20th century Lebensreformers, the European avant-garde, and today's no growth environmentalist movement.
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the artist's installations, drawings, video's, sculptures, and performances with written commentary by the artist and by California-based art and cultural...
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Marlene Dumas: Intimate Relations
2022 || Paperback || Marlene Dumas e.a. || Idea Books B.V.
Dumas’ first solo show in South Africa after moving to The Netherlands 30 years ago provided occasion for this catalogue. Featured are more than 50 paintings, drawings and prints presented at the exhibition, as well as personal letters, documents and photographs collected by the artist. A selection of the artist’s own writings is included, ranging from her unique commentaries on art to aphoristic writings and poetry that are once insightful, witty and thought-provoking.
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Cycladic Blues
Marlene Dumas
2023 || Paperback || Marlene Dumas e.a. || Idea Books B.V.
This cahier is a visual sketchbook for an exhibition by Marlene Dumas at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, in dialogue with the museum's collection. Although the exhibition has been postponed towards 2025, this anticipatory publication already arose from Dumas' enthusiasm and affection for this combination. The enigmatic Cycladic antiquities, dating from 3000-2000 BC, speak to us in the same timeless language as Dumas' contemporary works.
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Small Prints
Karel Martens
2023 || Paperback || Karel Martens || Idea Books B.V.
This artist’s publication contains a sequence of unique letterpress monoprints, made by Dutch graphic designer Karel Martens between 2014 and 2022. The prints, which are both highly geometric and brightly coloured, are reproduced in the book at their actual size. Textual elements accent the various abstract shapes and repetitions on almost every page. ‘Small Prints’ is available in two different cover versions, which itself is the result of a printing experiment. By printing the content...
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Great Temptations
The seduction of painting
2023 || Paperback || Dominic van den Boogerd || Idea Books B.V.
"I can resist everything", wrote Oscar Wilde, "except temptation". What is it that makes a painting so attractive, so irresistible? In this collection of essays, Dominic van den Boogerd writes with passion about the exhibitions he has seen, the painters he has spoken with, and the talks by artists that he has organised as the director of De Ateliers in Amsterdam. About the pleasures and pitfalls of painting, forbidden favourites and the flirtation between the art of painting and other muses.
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Forget & Remember
2021 || Hardcover || Gil e.a. || Jap Sam Books
Gil Nader (1968) and Moti Porat (1971) are known for their socially engaged work in which they explore the notion of individuality and question forms and norms of identity.
Forget & Remember investigates the background and migration history of their Jewish-Israeli families on the basis of their parents’ collections. In Forget & Remember, Gil's father Yitzhak and Moti's mother Naomi are the protagonists. The reader is introduced to the stories of and about them and their very different coll...
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Remy Jungerman. Behind the Forest
2021 || Paperback || Rein Wolfs e.a. || Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
In his work artist Remy Jungerman searches for an autonomous visual language that does justice to the cultures of the countries that define him: Suriname, the Netherlands and the United States.
'Remy Jungerman. Behind the Forest' focuses on his artistic output of the past fifteen years, including new work created especially for his eponymous solo-exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
In his sculptures, panels, installations, collages and screen prints, Jungerman traces pathways of p...
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Notes on Happiness
2023 || Paperback || Alex Farrar || Jap Sam Books
| A new book project by Alex Farrar, including an index of 49 questions about happiness.
| Limited-edition publication bound with several different covers, cut from a single drawing by Daniel Jacoby.
Are Dutch people happy people?
Does art make you happy?
What was your earliest memory of happiness?
What have you taught your children about happiness?
Notes on Happiness is a book project by artist Alex Farrar. The book is a long reflective text, based on conversations that Farrar had with peop...