Voorjaar 2014 zal bij Jap Sam books een omvangrijke monografie verschijnen van de Amerikaanse kunstenaar Richard Saxton. Het boek, vormgegeven door Peter de Kan heeft 560 pagina's en is getiteld 'A Decade of Country Hits - Art on the Rural Frontier'. Het boek presenteert een overzicht van werk geïnitieerd en gerealiseerd door Richard Saxton in landelijke gebieden.

'A Decade of Country Hits - Art on the Rural Frontier' omvat onder meer een selectie van foto's uit Saxton's 'Rural Research Arc...

Batia Suter’s work intuitively situates found images in new contexts to provoke surprising reactions and significative possibilities. ‘Parallel Encyclopedia’, which she conceived between 2004 and 2007, contains a precise composition of numerous images taken solely from other books. Significant underlying themes expressed in the Amsterdam-based, Swiss artist’s practice are the “iconification” and “immunogenicity” of old images, and the circumstances by which they assume or beco...

Contemporary British artist Ian Berry (1984, Huddersfield UK) has been making virtuous figurative paintings and installations of denim for over 15 years. This eponymous publication accompanies the first solo-exhibition of Berry in the Netherlands. Ian Berry. Splendid Isolation, Museum Rijswijk, December 1, 2020 – April 5, 2021.

Illustrated with numerous images that aim to convey the depth and texture of Berry’s work, which explores our urban environment and examines community issues, or t...

This Naked Incident is a deep dive in search of the place that 'masculinity' holds in the lives of young people today. Alexander van der Heide and Sander Coers spoke with five peers; all assigned male at birth and all with very different experiences of masculinity and equally different gender expressions. Because what is masculinity? Where it sometimes seems that we have no more than stereotypes to resort to in our efforts to make this tangible, it turns out there are specific moments, charge...

DIVA will be inviting renowned designers and curators for a contemporary interpretation of the Wunderkammer, a chamber exhibiting a collection of art and curiosities, objects from every corner of the globe. The Wunderkammer stems from Antwerp’s illustrious past, for until the middle of the seventeenth century the city led the way in the production and distribution of art and luxury goods. Silverware, jewellery, precious stones and exotic curiosities like coconuts, shells and coral were high...

In praise of folly: on the fool and the jester in Flemish art

According to medieval theologians, faith is a deadly serious business. Humour and virtue are irreconcilable, because laughter is uncontrollable and escapes the control of reason. A modest smile is permitted. But laughing loudly, grinning and grimacing: these are the playing field of the devil – just as pernicious as other uncontrollable urges, such as physical love or the addiction of the gambler. That is the domain of the peasan...

De artistieke praktijk van Rafaël Rozendaal bestaat uit websites, installaties, prints en teksten. Zijn werk tekent zich af binnen en serie transformaties-van beweging naar abstractie, van virtuele naar fysieke ruimte, en van website naar print-die met elkaar in verband staan. Al zijn werken hebben een ding gemeen: ze ontstaan vanuit een fascinatie voor bewegend beeld en interactiviteit in de meest basale vorm. Everything, Always, Everywhere staat stil bij de veranderingen die Rozendaal's we...