Het geëngageerde oeuvre van Pélagie Gbaguidi

In deze publicatie toont Pélagie Gbaguidi (°1965) nieuwe schilderijen, werken met textiel en tekeningen. De kunstenares ziet zichzelf als een hedendaagse ‘griot’, iemand die het individuele geheugen en het voorouderlijke verleden met elkaar verbindt. Haar werk is een lezing van de tekenen en sporen van trauma en gaat de confrontatie aan met koloniale en postkoloniale geschiedenissen. Ze hercontextualiseert archieven en verhalen om het proce...

An incredible detective story! The exact location of Vermeer's famous Little Street has occupied art historians for centuries. Did Vermeer paint his own house, his view or did he invent this wonderful composition? With new information Frans Grijzenhout is finally able to identify the site of the Little Street. His story was world news. An astonishing discovery that sheds new light on Vermeer's life and work, and his family. In Delft you can visit the location of the Little Street. English lan...

The Measurement of Presence

Iris Kensmil and Remy Jungerman

176 PAGES - 30 X 21.8 CM - SOFTCOVER - ENGLISH EDITION - ISBN: 978 94 9267 780 8 - € 30

For the Venice Biennale 2019, Benno Tempel,

director of the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag

curated the exhibition The Measurement of

Presence, in which he combines installations

by Remy Jungerman with wall paintings and

paintings by Iris Kensmil.

The Measurement of Presence is a

transnational presentation that explores

traditions and the past, bringing...

The Spanish Bernini

Pedro de Mena y Medrano (1628–1688) is

nowadays the most highly regarded master

of Spanish Baroque sculpture, on a par with

his contemporaries, the great seventeenthcentury

painters Velázquez, Zurbarán and

Murillo.

Mena’s contributions to Spanish Baroque

sculpture are unsurpassed in both technical

skill and expressiveness of his religious

subjects. His ability to sculpt the human body

was remarkable, and he excelled in creating

figures and scenes for contemplation.

T...

The definitive monograph on the work of sculptor, installation artist, and Arte Povera pioneer Luciano Fabro

The most comprehensive monograph available on the greatest living glassblower, Lino Tagliapietra

“…when I paint, I lose track of time and I step outside myself to a certain degree. While making a series of paintings I can’t even remember what happens during the days.“

For an artist who paints without a preconceived plan Harry Markusse is very well organised. On his ‘quests for a pleasing relationship between colour, form and space’ he makes sure that circumstances are such -in time and space- that the right conditions are present. This way he can afford to lose track of ti...

Jacob Ydema (1901–1990) was a versatile artist. His oeuvre consists of murals and stained glass in more than thirty churches and other buildings, over 200 paintings and drawings, as well as works in textiles and on metal. Ydema is considered one of the most important representatives of the Dutch so-called Expressionist Baroque style of the period between the two world wars. His artistic program, however, soon departed from the naturalistic rendering of his subjects. Over the years he develo...

Matthijs Maris initially acquired fame as a painter in the style of the The Hague School, just like his famous brothers Jacob and Willem. However, over the years he abandoned this realistic palette for more introverted and symbolic themes and started portraying dreamy children, young people on the verge of adulthood, fairytale figures and mythical landscapes using an increasingly smudged painting technique. Even in his own time, Maris was admired at home and abroad by collectors and artists i...

The Surrealists made abundant use of photography, and some even devoted themselves to it entirely. But Magritte never considered himself a 'photographer' - he reserved this practice for special moments and specific uses: family photos, models for paintings and advertising work, photos of paintings in progress, and scenes improvised with friends. Nevertheless, Magritte's photographs and films are closely related to his paintings and demonstrate a similar methos in their grasp on reality.