With elementary materials – wood, paper, clay, tape, paint – artist Fleur van Dodewaard creates ephemeral compositions that play with the possibilities of photography, sculpture, and painting. Situated at the intersection of these disciplines, her work uses photography to achieve the final result. ‘The Fold’ presents ten years of practice, reshaped according to the principles of book production methods such as folding, cutting, and binding. Operating like a “making-of” documentary...

Naar aanleiding van het dertigjarig bestaan van Galerie Ronny Van de Velde duikt auteur Jan Ceuleers in haar kleurrijke geschiedenis. Vanaf midden jaren 1990, toen de kunstmarkt ten gevolge van de Golfoorlog door een diep dal ging, besliste Van de Velde om resoluut in te zetten op namen uit de historische avant-garde. Na een eerste retrospectieve van Marcel Duchamp groeide de galerie in enkele maanden tijd uit tot een selfmade museum met alles erop en eraan. Nadien volgden retrospectieven van...

‘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...