CAROUSEL: INTO THE
MOUNTAINS , Thomas Elshuis
Design: Mart. Warmerdam
Text: Sandra Beerends
Edition: leporello book, 31 x 23 cm, 34 pages (4.14 m wide), fc
Price: € 59,00
ISBN 978-90-78670-00-1
In literature, it has often been explored, the possibility of undertaking of a journey without actually setting foot outside the door. An unusual point of departure underlies Thomas Elshuis’ manipulated photographic
works, namely, a continuous journey through a private archive of 20,000 photographic slides. Elshuis inherited this archive on the death of a family friend, who, between 1960 and 1995, captured his numerous world travels on slide.
As Xandra de Jongh wrote in the Volkskrant in 2006: “In a certain sense Elshuis has taken over the mantle of traveller from the deceased friend. Like a digital Marco Polo, he zaps a trail through the immense world of images – isolating and rearranging fragments, details, structures, and atmospheres in order to eventually return home bearing new depictions.”
‘Carousel: Into the Mountains’ is the first part of an exceptional triptych, in the form of a lepo-rello book. Using 144 images, Elshuis creates a new, imaginary mountain landscape which, when unfolded, ‘reads’ as a spectacular, over 4 meter wide panorama. After ‘Into the Mountains’, ‘Into the Cities’ and ‘Into the Desert’ will follow.
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HELLY OESTREICHER
Published: May 2011
Essays: Marjan Boot, Thimo te Duits, Beppe Kessler a.o. English translation: Gerard Forde
Photography: Tom Haartsen, Thijs Quispel
Design: Reynoud Homan
Edition: 28.5 x 21 cm, 107 fc ills., 208 pages, hard cover
ISBN: 978-90-78670-19-3
Retail price: € 40,00
Helly Oestreicher (1936) is a sculptor with a remarkably diverse oeuvre, in which
ceramics play an important and often decisive role. She is concerned not with the beauty of things but with their individual character and the definition of a tangible, spatial existence. The material – often pure – is therefore the expressive means par excellence.
Alongside clay, Oestreicher also works with glass, steel and bronze, often in combination with brick, paper and photographs. Whatever material she chooses, her works have an instantly recognisable signature characterised by a fragility and unsteady balance.
This richly illustrated book affords an overview of Oestreicher’s career spanning more than fifty years and contains insightful texts by Marjan Boot, F Starik, Beppe Kessler, Thimo te Duits, Elisabeth Moortgat (Berlin), Inge van der Vlies, Monica Strauss (New York) and Helly Oestreicher herself.
Exhibitions: Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, 25.06 t/m 25.09.
Book presentation: 04.09, 15.00 uur, Steendrukkerij Amsterdam
SPECIAL EDITION
Paul Bogaers UPSET DOWN
Published : September 2010
Photography/Text/Editing:
Paul Bogaers, Frank van der Stok
Design: Mart. Warmerdam
Edition: 21.6 x 17 cm,
hard cover, 160 pages .
ISBN: 978-90-78670-16-2
Price € 29,50
For the composition of 'Upset Down’, the Dutch photographer Paul Bogaers has organized his work in a completely new mode. On every right page, a photograph is reproduced upright, while every left page bears an upside down photograph. This remains unchanged of course when the book is turned around, although every picture will be reversed in position. In this way, the book presents two different but closely interconnected expeditions – parallel journeys along unexplored phenomena, the starting point of the first being the reversed destination of the second and vice versa. Both journeys can be tracked from either end of the book, which as a consequence has two frontsides and no back. The consistency with which this organizing principle is applied brings strange things into daylight that would otherwise have remained hidden behind the apparently average..
Exhibition in Museum De Pont, Tilburg from 02.10 through 21.11.2010.
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HANS DE BRUIJN
Atelier. Vijftig kunstenaarsportretten
Published: May 13, 2009
Author: Hans den Hartog Jager
Design: Mart. Warmerdam.
Edition: hard cover, 216 pages, 200 fc illustrations
Size: 22 x 24 cm.
Price: € 27,50
ISBN: 978-90-78670-10-0
Language: Dutch
Portrait photos of fifty Dutch artists in their studio:
Ad Arma, Jan Andriesse, Armando, Sjoerd Buisman, Marc Bijl, Tom Claassen, Joost Conijn, Anton Corbijn, Robbie Cornelissen, René Daniëls, Iris van Dongen, Sam Drukker, Charlotte Dumas, Marcel van Eeden, Irene Fortuijn, Gil en Moti, Daan van Golden, Klaas Gubbels, Jeroen Henneman, Heringa/Van Kalsbeek, Teun Hocks, Seet van Hout, Natasja Kensmil, Job Koelewijn, Erik van Lieshout, Joep van Lieshout, Lucebert, Mark Manders, Bertien van Manen, Hellen van Meene, Pieter Laurens Mol, Marc Mulders, Erwin Olaf, Pieter Pander, Uwe Poth, Charlotte Schleiffert, Rob Scholte, Berend Strik, Joost Swarte, Fiona Tan, Piet Tuytel, Emo Verkerk, Barbara Visser, Carel Visser, Jasmijn Visser, Harald Vlugt, Marijke van Warmerdam, Guido van der Werve, Co Westerik, Robert Zandvliet.
Gabriëlle van de Laak
PARTICLES & WAVES
Published: January 30, 2010
Authors: Anneke Brassinga,
Roos van Put
Design: Mart. Warmerdam
Edition: 21 x 16.5 cm, 95 fc ills., 96 p., hardcover
ISBN: 978-90-78670-14-8
Price € 19,50
When viewing the new paintings by Gabriëlle van de Laak, one is gripped by the experience of timelessness and spacelessness. The forms give the impression that they take no heed of the
composition, of their own outlines or of the boundaries of the canvas. Their space is equally boundless, and the movement can go on for ever. Looking at her works on paper, one is struck by the same feeling. In these works, Van de Laak employs paint and textile. In the artist’s hands, paint acquires the appearance of fabric and textile assumes the guise of a fresco. She paints illogical logic. Particles can become waves and vice versa. What is shown seems a fraction of a far larger, immensurable whole, and the canvas seems to want to expand into infinity. Her work offers an intuitive glimpse of absolute reality, of the structure of the universe. Precisely because this reality is immensurable and therefore intangible, as a viewer, you may be even more aware of the boundaries of the here and now, of the tick-tock of advancing time.
Published in co-operation with Galerie Nouvelles Images, The Hague. Exposition: 30.1-3.3.2010
Michiel Hogenboom
SALTWATERBLEEDERS
Published: 15 November 2009
Design: Mart. Warmerdam
Edition: 30.5 x 24.5 cm, 26 fc illustrations, 36 pages, sewn
Printing: Grafinoord
ISBN: 978-90-78670-14-8
Price € 15,00
Michiel Hogenboom is an artist who paints the male gaze; men staking their claim or showing their trophy, who desire to be noticed. His first series of paintings in 2000 was called Saltwaterbleeders, and
displayed fishermen showing their
slippery catch with a mixture of male bravado, testosterone and clumsiness. In his next series (Great Outdoors and A Pagan Ethos), Hogenboom focused on the backward half-look, the bold look over the shoulder, shifting between monumental suspicion and sheer indifference.
Over the years the euforic defying men changed into artist portraits. The pressure amongst peers remains the motive. The leaving point for these paintings now derive from biographies. It’s the look of the artist over the shoulder of the photographer towards his ancestors and colleagues, mildly paranoid and competitive.
Recently Hogenboom returned to his Saltwaterbleeders. The fishermen are the archetypical searching souls, their bravado transcends time and space. They represent our passion, joy, dark dreams and fear for existence.
Elvira Wersche
SAMMLUNG WELTENSAND
Published: 31 October 2009
Authors: C. Gruwez, M. van Hoogenhuyze, M. Fansa.
Design: Mart. Warmerdam
Edition: 24 x 31 cm, 57 fc illustrations, 40 pages., sewn
ISBN: 978-90-78670-13-1
Price: € 15,00
Sammlung Weltensand can be called a truly cosmopolitan project. Elvira Wersche collects different types and colours of sand from all over the world and uses it to
construct complex mosaics,
composed of geometrical patterns, on the floors of museums, churches and synagogues.From what initially appears to be a jumble of lines and figures, an ingenious and fascinating spectacle made up of triangles, irregular quadrangles, rhombuses and other polygonal shapes unfolds before the viewer’s eyes. The pattern seems to be in constant motion, changing according your angle of vision and the point on which you focus. What is more, the making of this work has a special dynamic of its own: the work-in-progress format means that visitors are involved as the artwork takes shape.
When the artwork is finally finished, Wersche obliterates it again: in a performance she literally erases the carefully constructed pattern. By doing so, she emphasizes that everything is in constant flux. And that everything is only temporary.
In the summer of 2010, Elvira Wersche will create a new work in Pecs, Hungary – which will be European Cultural Capital that year − in the mosque of Pasha Gazi Kassim.
BORN IN GEORGIA – Contemporary art from Georgia
Published: January 24, 2009
Authors: J.H.Sassen, J.A. Sharp, G. Edzgveradze
Design: Mart. Warmerdam Printing: Grafinoord, Assendelft
Edition: hard cover, 88 pages, 60 fc illustrations
Size: 28 x 22 cm
Price: € 23,50
ISBN: 978-90-78670-09-4
In this very lucid publication, both the texts as well as the images provide a fascinating overview of the recent developments in the work of an entire generation of young Georgian artists. Even though contemporary politics has manifestly had an impact on their work, this is not what gives it its direction. In terms of forms of expression, art rooted Georgian soil is thriving entirely within contemporary Western art traditions. At the same time, however, this work is deeply grounded in the region from which the artists have come.
This catalogue accompanies the exhibition ‘Born in Georgia. Contemporary art from Georgia’ in the Cobra Museum of Modern Art Amstelveen, 24.01 -14.06.2009
DJ – A COLLECTION
OF DJ PORTRAITS BY
KRIJN VAN NOORDWIJK
Edition: hard cover, 168 pages, 140 fc illustrations.
Size: 30 x 30 cm
Design: Maslow, Amsterdam ISBN: 9789078670087.
Price (incl. shipping costs): € 55,00 (Netherlands), € 65 (Europe), US $ 95 (outside Europe)
With over 140 full colour studio portraits of DJ’s from all over the world, photographer Krijn van Noordwijk honours today’s musical hero. Most of the time, your average person in an
audience only catches a glimpse of the artist, standing behind a pair of decks on a vast distant stage. Now this book is showing some of the personalities close up, in more than one sense. It puts an icon to the idol. All portraits are shot in a classical way, technically speaking. But the expressions and emotions of the subjects are rather contemporary. Van Noordwijk spent over two years of DJ hunting to create this unique collection of portraits of some of the world’s best-known and most talented DJ’s. Carl Cox, Sven Vath, Isis, Armin van Buuren, Derrick May, Tommie Sunshine and Juan Atkins are just some of the names that go with the portraits in this book. Krijn van Noordwijk’s idiosyncratic style of portrait photography makes this collection a true tribute to the DJ.
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ALL ABOUT HAARLEM
Six City Walks and Four Highlights
Titel: All about Haarlem
Size: 16.5 x 11.5 cm
Edition: paperback, 36 pages, 20 fc illustrations
Printing: Grafinoord , The Netherlands
Published: 2008 ISBN
Price: € 17,50
All About Haarlem leads you literally through the city’s history. This will often take you to an historic spot, as in the route Vijfhoek and Heilige Landen or perhaps will explore an historic theme, such as the story of Dutch beer production, in The Beer Road. The historical background is presented in a concise and accessible way, telling a story as you walk along. Armed with a route map, easy to fold and put in a pocket, you follow the suggested paths, reading about the relevant background of the places you pass. With each walk there’s an estimate of the time it will take from start to finish. On the way, of course, you can always stop at one of the delightful restaurants for a truly Dutch snack.
Not to mention the many fascinating boutiques – you will not be surprised to learn that Haarlem is said to boast the finest shopping facilities in the Netherlands.
Haarlem and surrounding districts simply burst with history. The historic city heart is founded upon a six-hundred-metre wide sea wall, or embankment, built upon what was once impenetrable peat marshland. The well-known Haarlemmerhout (Haarlem Wood) is actually the descendant of a five-thousand-year old primeval forest. And did you know that the city has over twenty hofjes, old almshouses built around paved or grassy courtyards? Or that Teylers Museum is the oldest museum in the Netherlands? That the city’s main market place, Grote Markt, is reckoned to be one of the finest public squares in the country? Or – epicureans take note – that in the Middle Ages this city reached the top of the league tables for its number of beer breweries? And did you know that Amsterdam’s famous ring of concentric canals is built upon sand that
was dug from the dunes near
Haarlem, on the estate of Elswout in Overveen?
So it’s fair to say that All About Haarlem is more than just a guide for the tourist visiting Haarlem for the first time; it also provides intriguing information for those already familiar with Haarlem, who want to find out more.
City Walks / Highlights:
Around the Grote Markt – St Bavo’s, the Great Church – Teylers Museum – Vijfhoek and Heilige Landen – The Hofjes (Almshouses) – Doings and Dealings – Corrie ten Boom Museum – The Haarlemmerhout (Haarlem Woods) – The Beer Road – Country Estate Elswout.
Richard Galpin
SURFACE TO SURFACE
Title: Richard Galpin. Surface to Surface
Author: David Thorp
Design: Mart. Warmerdam
Printing: Lecturis, The Netherlands
Published: 2008
Size: 26 x 22 cm
Edition: hard cover, 96 pages, 44 fc illustrations
ISBN 978-90-78670-03-2
Price: € 27,50
Richard Galpin produces dynamic and fantastical works that are derived from
the artist's own photographs of chaotic cityscapes. Using only a scalpel Galpin intricately scores and peels away the emulsion from the surface of the photograph to produce a radical revision of the urban form. The artist allows himself no collaging, or additions of any kind – each delicate work is a unique piece made entirely by the erasure of photographic information
Surface to Surface shows Richard Galpin's development of a distinctive visual language over a 6 year period. Earlier works reveal the underlying patterns of urban structures, and return the living city to a utopian ideal. More recent works push the transformation further, working against perspective, leaving disorientating clusters of form. The works play between abstraction and
representation, and draw on early 20th Century painting and sculpture (particularly constructivism, cubism, and futurism) for their aesthetic and formal language.
Richard Galpin was born in 1975 in Cambridgeshire, UK, and lives and works in London. Solo exhibitions include: Hales Gallery,
London (2003, 2006), Galeria Leme, Sao Paulo (2005, 2007), Roebling Hall, New York (2005), and Brancolini Grimaldi, Rome (2008).
Seet van Hout
SEWN, BOUND
Title: Seet van Hout ,‘Genaaid, gebonden’ (Sewn, Bound)
Borduurdagboek (Embroidery Diary) 2005
Author: Martin Bril
Design: Mart. Warmerdam
Printing: Flevodruk
Published: 2007
Size: 22 x 22 cm
Edition: hard cover, 120 pages, 420 fc illustrations
ISBN: 978-90-78670-02-5
Price: € 27,50
Seet van Hout is a multi-faceted artist, who works in various media. She paints, embroiders, makes ceramics and produces artists books. Recently her work was exhibited in Kunstforum Niederrhein Emmerich (Germany) and Museum Het Valkhof in Nijmegen. Selecting a single photograph each day from a daily newspaper in The Netherlands, De Volkskrant, which she then manipulated with her 'commentary', consisting of embroidery, she created a fascinating diary in which day-to-day experience of life in The Netherlands and global events in 2005 are tied together. The book was accompanying a presentation at Nieuwspoort, the press center of the Dutch Parliament, and a concurring exhibition in Galerie Nouvelles Images in The Hague.
Sebastiaan Bremer
AVILA
Title: Avila. Sebastiaan Bremer Authors: Sabine Russ and Jordan Kantor
Design: Mart. Warmerdam, Haarlem
Printing: Lecturis bv, Eindhoven Published: 2007
Size: 31 x 24 cm
Edition: hard cover, 112 pages, 90 fc illustrations
ISBN-13: 978-90-78670-01-8
Price: $ 59
Sebastiaan Bremer's work originates from snap-shots taken by either him, friends or family, which Bremer enlarges as C-prints. He keeps an archive of these personal photographs and sorts through them to find a suitable image. What is locked in Bremer's memory forms the ground work for each piece of his work.
Once the right image is found, redeveloped and printed to size, Bremer starts to draw intricate webs of small dots with white retouching paint over the photographic surface. Paradoxically this process obscures sections of the original image whilst redefining other parts, adding a new content to each piece.
These ethereal drawings change the once familiar image into something more opaque, each thread spreads organically over the surface like the mycelia of a fungal
growth creating a sense of decay. Thin washes of coloured India ink are occasionally applied by Bremer creating imagery reminiscent to the colours you see when you close your eyes.
Each piece varies in its level of abstraction. The visceral quality of the work lies in its inventiveness and technical complexity, whilst the compositions created by Bremer have a fine balance between the intricate and bold.
Sebastiaan Bremer has recently had solo shows at Roebling Hall, New York City (2006) Hales Gallery, London (2006) , Rabobank Collectie -Gemeente Museum, The Hague 2005 and Air de Paris, Paris (2004).
Group shows include Out of True, Basel/Miami (2006) and The Photograph as Canvas, (curated by Stephan Maine) at The Aldrich Museum, Connecticut (2007).
Bremer has recently been included in The Invisible Museum, (curated by Devon Dikeou) at the Denver Museum (2006), Pin-Up: Contemporary Collage and Drawing, Tate Modern, London (2004) and Curious Crystals of Unusual Purity, PS1 Contemporary Art Museum, Queens, NY, curated by Bob Nickas (2004).