Besides the overwhelming amount of visual information that can stand in the way of a pleasant museum visit, there’s another trivial matter: meaning. Many of us aim to understand and categorize everything we see, but what do you truly think when looking at a particular artwork? The activities on these cards help you to establish a connection with an artwork yourself, despite any given information. You can do this in each museum, anywhere in the world. Follow the activities from A-Z, choose o...

Situated as it is at the very turn of the century, and questioning from the outset the inflation and desubstantialisation involved in the hegemony of images, Michel Mazzoni’s photographic practice is an image factory or rather an image-thinking factory. An image which outflanks it and decompartmentalises it in multifarious ways, from its installation in situ to its editorial deployment. An image qua cultural artefact in its capacity to link us to the world in a shared sense of perpetual pre...

Het Nijmeegse kunstenaarsinitiatief KNUST werd opgericht in 1983. Het kwam voort uit de kraak- en punkbeweging en maakte naam met stencilkunst die uniek was voor die tijd en dat eigenlijk nog steeds is. KNUST opereerde tussen 1983 en 1987 vanuit het opvallende, kleurrijk beschilderde kraakpand De Westland en maakte daarna een doorstart vanuit een nieuw pand dat werd omgedoopt tot Extrapool. Extrapool ontwikkelde zich tot een podium en productiehuis op het gebied van kunst, muziek en drukwerk,...

As one of the greatest pioneers of international conceptual art, Italian artist Piero Manzoni (1933-1963) maintained strong ties with the Netherlands. The unlocking of his intensive correspondence with Rotterdam gallery owner Hans Sonnenberg has revealed the extent of Manzoni's influence on the post-war avant-garde in the Netherlands.

During his short artistic career Piero Manzoni produced more than a thousand canvases, sculptures and other objects. He radically rejected the conventional cont...

To celebrate its 35th birthday, Espace 251 Nord shares its history with a 392 pages’ volume book, opening with an extensive plates’ section of exhibition views and closing with an exhaustive chronology of the 187 exhibitions and events, produced by Espace 251 Nord under the direction of Laurent Jacob since 1983. As a preview to this upcoming publication ‘E2N Archives Active/Published’, this edition was produced as a limited edition gift at the 58th Venice Art Biennale 2019.

With the book ‘Saudade’, Laura makes a call to the ambassadors of the word. She hopes to ‘contaminate’ as many people as possible with her love for this word, so it might become shared and

commonplace.

When she heard the word and the meaning sinked in after repetition, she experienced a kind of homecoming. It was as if everything fell into place; her oeuvre and that which pushed her to paint suddenly had a common denominator, a flag that covered the load. And she discovered something...

A Masterpiece Examined.

Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers, which he completed in the southern French town of Arles in 1888 and 1889, are among his most famous paintings. In radiant shades of yellow, he created five large still lifes featuring vases of sunflowers, which now hang in museums all over the world. This book focuses on the version of Sunflowers in the Van Gogh Museum’s collection – a masterpiece that has been studied in recent years by an international team of more than thirty sc...

Het Lam Gods van de Gebroeders van Eyck

(1432) wordt wereldwijd erkend als een

uitzonderlijk kunstwerk en als één van de

meest invloedrijke schilderijen ooit gemaakt.

Op ‘s werelds eerste grote olieverfschilderij

is de religieuze mystiek alom aanwezig.

Het werk leest haast als een ABC van het

Christendom – van de Annunciatie tot het

symbolische offer van Christus, met het

‘Mystieke Lam’ op een altaar in een hemels

landschap, bloedend in de Heilige Graal.

De gebroeders Hubert en Jan ...

Once the mark of an underground subculture, tattoos have well and truly stepped out of the shadows and into the streets. Join photographer Nicolas Brulez and Mylene Ebrard on their road trip through Berlin, London, Paris, New York and Tokyo to capture the most stylish designs and cutting-edge tattoo artists the world has to offer. Showcasing over 300 photographs of diverse people and their unique designs as well as the cities' best artists, this is a keepsake as well as an informative guide t...