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Jef Verheyen (ENG)
2024 || Hardcover || Hannibal Books
Major oeuvre overview of the conceptual painter Jef Verheyen
As a driving force of the international avant garde, Jef Verheyen (1932–1984) occupies an important position in the European art world. In the late 1950s the art of painting arrives at a “zero point” in part thanks to his vision.
Verheyen developed an inimitable monochrome painting technique by layering such thin layers of paint over each other that they seem to be misted onto the canvas. And so the painting became a contempla...
Europe Trail
Encounter with a Continent
2024 || Hardcover || Hannibal Books
Today's Europe seen through the eyes of photographer Lieve Blancquaert
The fall of the Berlin Wall motivated photographer and journalist Lieve Blancquaert to set off on an epic tour of Europe in her campervan. She visited all twenty-seven member states of the European Union in search of the origins of this identity. She wanted to hear and feel what holds us together and what divides us.
Her many personal encounters reveal time and again that our own language, history, concerns, desires and dr...
Sanja Marusic – The Engless Coloured Ways
2023 || Hardcover || Hannibal Books
The majestic fantasy world of photographer-artist Sanja Marušić
Intriguing self-portraits, desolate landscapes and vibrant colours: the Dutch-Croatian artist Sanja Marušić (°1991) creates new worlds with her images. She travels to the four corners of the globe, but just as easily she uses her own living room as a backdrop. Recurring themes are escapism, the relationship between man and nature, motherhood, and finding the balance in human relationships.
Marušić’s artistic practice is ...
Raphael Gold & Silk
The Revolution of Tapestry Design
2023 || Hardcover || Katja Schmitz-von Ledebur || Hannibal Books
Omschrijving
In 1515, Pope Leo X commissioned the Italian
painter Raffaello Sanzio (1483–1520), now
generally known as Raphael in English, to make
the cartoons for a series of ten tapestries with
scenes from the lives of Saints Peter and Paul.
This commission played an instrumental part
in the stylistic development of the Flemish
tapestries, a marvellous illustration of princely
splendour in the sixteenth century. Under
Habsburg rule, Brussels soon emerged as a
leading manufactory for exqui...