"De Onderstroom / The Undercurrent" is published by Jap Sam Books i.c.w. Museum Rijswijk, on the occasion of the exhibition Robbie Cornelissen & Karin van Dam. The Undercurrent in Museum Rijswijk (March 26th - June 11th, 2023) in which the artists combine drawings, objects, and animations. "De Onderstroom / The Undercurrent" gives an insight into the distinctive and long-standing collaboration between two artists, who, in addition to their own artistic practice, find each other in shared fasc...

The Battle Between Carnival and Lent is a masterpiece by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525/30-1569). Dating from 1559, the world-famous painting is rich in remarkable stories and characters.

This book zooms in on the many everyday objects portrayed by Bruegel in the painting. These objects have been meticulously examined and interpreted through a contemporary gaze. Just as Bruegel's paintings served in the sixteenth century as conversation pieces among guests at dinner, so too this book prese...

In his works on canvas created over the past twelve years, René Daniëls often returns to his paintings from the period before 1987. He adopts ciphers deriving from these works but uses them to develop a different, unprecedented language. Changing pictorial constellations express an existential situation of non-communication and isolation but are also pushed beyond these limits into a realm of extraordinary painterly possibilities. The present publication accompanies an exhibition of René D...

Every kind of change belongs to a form of community art’, stelt de Italiaanse filosoof Antonio Negri. Het is de omkering van het gebruikelijke adagium dat community art een deel kan zijn van gewenste maatschappelijke veranderingen. Negri stelt niet alleen de community art, haar voorstanders en critici voor een uitdagende verantwoordelijkheid, maar iedereen in de samenleving die verandering wil teweeg brengen op sociaal, politiek, economische, technologisch of ecologisch vlak. Artistiek én c...

A collection of paintings made by Andre Schreuder.He was born in Delft in 1960 in The Netherlands.He gets his inspiration from everyday life,nature,reading and most of all music.In this book you will see his style developing from realism to a more abstract way of painting.

Tatyana Galtseva was born in Kemerovo (Siberia) in 1967 and has lived in Antwerp, Belgium, since 2000.

Besides her daily work at the Heritage Library Hendrik Conscience, she took several courses (ceramics, painting) at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berchem. Since her studies at the Academy, Tatyana has been working as an independent artist in her own studio.

An important source of inspiration in her search for her own forms and her own style and colour palette is the art theory of the founder o...

Only boys... is a processing artproject that was carried out between 2020 and 2023.

In 25 large pastel portraits Jimmy Groen shows a hidden world of aspects of identity, gender and identification during childhood. The drawings are based upon personal experiences and provide an unique insight in what might become in dissociative identity disorder from adverse experiences during childhood.

Only boys... it\'s the observer of the portraits that completes the dots.

'This Road Leads to Nowhere: Pierre Punk' brings together archives and reflections from a music scene that flourished in small-town South Dakota from the early 90's through 2010. Merging the tradition of DIY punk publications and regional travel guides, the book sings an unsung hymn of American underground culture. This Road Leads to Nowhere includes writings and images from Pierre community members, musicians who traveled through and played in the town, and kindred spirits from similar scene...

RAABJERG by Danish artist Rune Peitersen (1971) explores the changing landscape of northern Jutland (DK) from the last Ice Age until today.

During the 16th-19th centuries, climate change and human extraction of natural resources led to violent sand drift, which transformed the once fertile landscape into a barren wasteland. Different governments – from kings to elected parliaments – enacted laws to try to reverse it. After 200 years, they ‘succeeded’ and started reintroducing plants i...