Kunstenaar José Vermeersch (1922-1997) staat bekend om zijn keramieken figuren van heterogene figuren. Hij was echter ook schilder, wever en ontwerper en creëerde een rijk oeuvre dat doordrongen is van zijn passie voor mensen, dieren en het leven.

Dit boek is een eerbetoon aan het ontstaan van het figuratieve werk van Vermeersch en laat, aan de hand van een honderdtal beelden en schilderijen, zien hoe zijn picturale en keramische oeuvre op een bijzondere manier met elkaar zijn verweven. He...

‘100MJ’ concerns an intuitive and personal drawing project about identity by Dutch artist Bas Kosters. The book shows a series of a hundred full page drawings based on the image of Michael Jackson. It is about how people are shaped trough the eyes of others, the reach of recognizability and identity. It plays with the ideas about visual culture and recognizability. In hundred portraits drawn on ephemera Kosters shows, in a poetic manner, man in all their strength.

Over the course of 202-2021, during the pandemic, Kara Walker has produced series of drawings in the style of a medieval 'Book of Hours'. Enigmatic images appear to traverse a range of time periods, from scenes of biblical and mythological origins, to images of historical violence, to others that suggest more recent political strife. The highly personal nature of these images capture Walker's own response to the intersection of past and present as a way to understand our contemporary politica...

Situated in the middle of the river Maas, between the northern and southern parts of Rotterdam, Noordereiland is shaped like a typical riverboat. Bart Lodewijks trekked from its western to its eastern end, making his drawings in chalk on commercial buildings, ship cabins, quay walls, houses, and steel pipes. He then wrote a poetic account of the life he encountered on the island, published in three parts. His presence as an outsider there elicited both questions and stories from the island’...