In dit boek vertelt Rob Perrée zijn geschiedenis met Afrikaans-Amerikaanse kunst aan de hand van een chronologische collage van nieuwe teksten, verbindende teksten, eerder gepubliceerde artikelen, essays, interviews, recensies, columns en korte verhalen van 1990 tot 2023. Tezamen geven ze de ontwikkeling van deze kunt weer en tonen ze hoe de appreciatie ervoor en de perceptie ervan in de loop der tijd is veranderd, in de VS, maar vooral ook in Nederland, bij het publiek en de kunstinstelling...

‘In recent years, the practices of artists in non-artistic environments have set my mind in motion. Where before I could marvel at the visual outcomes of the artistic process and would want to understand how processes of creating meaning could be described, I am now particularly struck by the way in which artists are present, by their way of looking, how they make decisions, when and how they act, how they take responsibility. I have conversations with them and ask questions to better under...

This book contains performative ‘tanrenga’ poems, intended to be read out loud. A ‘tanrenga’ appears similar to a ‘tanka’, a form of five-lined Japanese poetry, but there are some differences. The poem is a conversation between what is essentially a three-line haiku and a two-line verse written by another writer in response, in this case British artist and curator Gavin Wade and poet Paul Conneally. The ‘tanrenga’ form was popular in Japan from the start of the Heian period un...

Yayoi Kusama (Matsumoto, 1929) is in de afgelopen decennia uitgegroeid tot een van de bekendste en meest geliefde kunstenaars ter wereld. Velen kennen haar polkadots, pompoenkunstwerken en infinity rooms. Minder bekend is dat zij in het Nederland van de wilde jaren zestig een basis legde voor haar baanbrekende artistieke oeuvre. Tussen 1965 en 1970 woonde en werkte Kusama verschillende periodes in Nederland, waar haar fallus-kunstwerken en haar happenings een sensatie veroorzaakten. Het polit...

A comprehensive illustrated monograph on the work of Dutch visual artist Jan van de Pavert, with texts by the artist and art critic Mark Kremer.

Jan van de Pavert. Collected Works is a richly illustrated body of work covering the artist’s oeuvre of the past years. Initially, Van de Pavert became known for his sculptures, his early works referred to architecture and resembled parts from buildings, such as windows and doors. An example is the 1987 work Inversion: the work is a door and doorp...

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...

“De afgelopen jaren brachten praktijken van kunstenaars in niet-artistieke omgevingen mijn denken in beweging. Waar ik vroeger verwonderd kon raken van de beeldende uitkomsten van het artistieke proces en wilde begrijpen hoe processen van betekenisvorming beschreven konden worden, zo raakte ik de afgelopen jaren vooral verwonderd door de wijze waarop kunstenaars aanwezig zijn, hoe zij kijken, hoe zij beslissen, wanneer en hoe ze handelen, hoe ze verantwoordelijkheid nemen. Ik spreek met hen...

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.

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.

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...