In a pivotal moment in the development of the arts and the sciences, Pieter Bruegel painted The Blind Leading the Blind (1568), a major work that embodies the transition from the medieval to the humanist mind. In The Blind Leading the Blind, Bruegel ascribed a different treatment to the fi gures and the landscape. I will show how Bruegel applied a white preparation underneath the human fi gures and not beneath the earthy ground surrounding the blind men. In doing so, he physically placed the ...

Dutch artist Zoro Feigl has built his remarkable oeuvre with installations that roar and meander, are both exhilarating and terrifying, intimidate and then sooth. The works in Sun-spark spraying mark a new step in Feigl's oeuvre. He has succeeded in getting to the core of his artistic practice. The former rascal of Dutch art has grown up.

In his work, Zoro tries to capture natural phenomena and everyday things in installations. Think of the behavior of a swarm of starlings, ridges in the sand...

'A Max De Vos' is a novel by Liam Gillick. A fairy tale in 25 chapters, littered with Belgian proverbs, 'A Max De Vos' alternates between a flaneuristic tour of the historical surroundings of the Brussels Palace of Fine Arts and the fortunes of a young artist making his way to that very institution, without ever arriving. part fiction, part autobiographical, the novel also takes cues from historical sources on the Brussels Palace of Fine Arts and a 1918 British book of stories collected by Je...

Er is een groeiend besef dat ons huidige economische systeem verantwoordelijk is voor de verslechtering van het milieu en de opwarming van de aarde. Dit bedreigt niet alleen de toekomstige welvaart van de mens, maar kan existentiële gevolgen hebben voor alle soorten op aarde. Dit boek verkent verschillende (socio-economische) toekomstperspectieven en onderzoekt hoe we onze relatie met de planeet kunnen herstellen. Het rijk geïllustreerde boek bevat een mix van essays, verhalen en gedichten ...

Accountable Temporary Expedients is a practice that challenges the ability of dancers to attend to multiple stimuli at once and instigate situations which embrace confusion, doubt and uncertainty. This work stands in response to the notion that dance urges to emancipate. Baldini’s current critique sees dance as being "stuck, gooey, a victim of its own habit and, so in love with itself, it does not recognise its limitations. It is self-seduced, self-sufficient, and self-indulgent. Dance is n...

Punk Back Magazine is a visual journey through art and culture. The Dutch writer and artist Fredrik Hamer give his vision of the world through 23 subjects in words and images. Enjoy literature, music, dance, photography, and much more. In volume 1, extra attention is paid to Utrecht, Fredrik's birthplace. Read, watch, and frame it!

Punk Back Magazine is a visual journey through art and culture. The Dutch writer and artist Fredrik Hamer gives his vision of the world through 23 subjects in words and images. Volume 2 focuses on Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands. Also in the magazine: Music, Fashion, Literature, Dance, Architecture, Art, Photography, Movies, History, Gadgets, Sports, Illustrations, Humor, Eroticism, and more.