The everyday connotations of the original, the real, sincere, valid, historical or deep are well-known, and the opposite of the authentic may then be the superficial, false, not-what-it-seems, or just new. Nonetheless 'the real thing' is still a fruitful starting point to analyze changes in the post-digital society. Digital technology is embedded in almost every personal relationship, in labour conditions, and in aesthetic practices. What does this mean for the 'authentic'? To unfold the nuan...

The work of Koen Taselaar is a unique universe in which only he determines the rules. He makes skillful drawings, but also clumsy ceramics and elaborate Tapestries.

Taselaar’s visual language emerged from the grey area in which text is not only meaning but also form. He expresses this in drawn puns, imaginary record sleeves or large psychedelic paintings. In search of ways to process his diverse output, he makes publications and large scale drawings, which function as flat exhibition space...

The monograph Hannah van Bart contains over more than 100 art works (paintings and drawings) and gives an intriguing look at the work of Dutch artist Hannah van Bart (1963). The publication is published in collaboration with the Centraal Museum Utrecht on the occasion of the solo exhibition of Hannah van Bart at Oud Amelisweerd country house. Hannah van Bart is represented by Marianne Boesky Gallery New York & Aspen, and Vielmetter Los Angeles. With a foreword by Artistic director of Centraal...

Curating exhibitions and ‘art writing’ are closely related: both activities construct a meaningful narrative about artefacts and artists, both interact with a public, viewers/readers; both make space for the experience of art objects. For their work, curators and art writers tap the primary source: the living artist, their work and world. Both cherish a proximity to the maker, for it allows them to delve into artistic processes, consider things in a state of becoming. An essential tool fo...

Poolkoorts | Arctic Fever - 22 tekeningen van B.C. Epker en 20 gedichten van Peter du Gardijn

Geïnspireerd door het dagboek van de Amelander walvisvaarder Hidde Dirks Kat (1747-1824)

The Pictures in this book are also available as postcards, posters or stamps.

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All images © 2013 Artist Pepijn de Jonge

Magdalena de Coninck is kunstschilder en dichter.

Na het verschijnen van ‘Zweefpauze in de Lucht – schilderijen en gedichten’ ligt hier haar tweede boek ‘Aardezang – schilderijen en gedichten’. Het thema is de aarde als bezielde planeet en de mens die er zijn plek zoekt en zich vragen stelt. Hij heeft de aarde als gesprekspartner en als spiegel.

Magdalena brengt in dit boek kleurrijke schilderijen, die lyrisch-intuïtief of expressief zijn neergezet. Haar gedichten sluiten daarbi...

Munayem Mayenin's artworks, paintings, kollarimaginics, drawings and designs