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...

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...

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