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Zeng Fanzhi | Van Gogh
Paperback || Hans den Hartog Jager || Van Gogh Museum
The Van Gogh Museum invited the celebrated Chinese artist Zeng Fanzhi to present recent work inspired by Vincent van Gogh. Although the two artists differ greatly in historical period and place of origin, their art is very similar in substance. This similarity is apparent in the themes that Van Gogh and Zeng both perpetually explore, such as style, identity and personality, and the question of self-control and the outside world's degree of control over the individual. It is evident too in the...
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Tsars and Knights
The Romanovs’ Love Affair with the Middle Ages
2020 || Paperback || Michail Piotrovsky || Uitgeverij WBOOKS
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Health-related votive tablets from Japan
Ema for healing and well-being
2017 || Paperback || Peter A.G.M. de Smet e.a. || Leiden Publications
Many Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples in Japan sell small wooden votive tablets (ema) which are meant to be left on a rack at the sanctuary. The reverse of these tablets offers space to send a self-written wish or personal thank you message to the enshrined deity or buddha. Their front usually has a pre-printed or hand-painted design that is indicative of the intended purpose.
In this book hundreds of contemporary ema designs for health-related purposes are reproduced and placed into thei...
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Celluloid
Tacita Dean, João Maria Gusmão & Pedro Paiva, Rosa Barba, Luis Recoder & Sandra Gibson
2016 || Paperback || Marente Bloemheuvel e.a. || nai010 uitgevers publishers
For English see belowIn een tijd van snelle en bijna totale digitalisering van het bewegend beeld vestigt EYE Filmmuseum de aandacht op de bijzondere kwaliteiten van 16mm of 35mm celluloid film en de unieke wijze waarop dit materiaal geprojecteerd wordt. EYE brengt vier kunstenaars(duo's) samen die in hun werk, in veellagige complexe en bijzondere films en installaties, de eigenheden van het celluloid en de filmapparatuur incorporeren.De rijk geïllustreerde publicatie Celluloid presenteert h...
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Raining Stories
Netherlands Pavilion, Dubai World Expo
2021 || Paperback || Marie-Thérèse van Toor e.a. || nai010 uitgevers publishers
The Netherlands pavilion for the World Expo in Dubai, a spectacular design by V8 Architects, embodies the connections this country manages to establish between renewable energy, water management, agriculture and circularity. The 4,000-m2 building is designed as a circular climate system, a biotope: water is produced from bone-dry desert air, energy is generated and food is harvested.
Raining Stories portrays the Dutch contribution to the World Expo. It presents the story behind V8’s design ...
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Women in Revolt!
Art and Activism in the UK 1970-90
2023 || Paperback || Linsey Young || Exhibitions International
A crucial exploration of the wealth and diversity of work by women artists working in the 1970s and 1980s during a period of seismic social and political change.
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Ars Botanica
Paper Gardens in the Miramare Library
2022 || Paperback || Andreina Contessa || Exhibitions International
The library of the Miramare Castle reveals for the first time its treasure chest of books on botany, flowers, plants and gardens. Text in English and Italian.
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Russian Avant-garde
Revolution in the Arts
Paperback || Nieuwe Kerk Hermitage Amsterdam, De
Russische avant-gardisten zoals Kazimir Malevitsj en Wassily
Kandinsky maakten naam met hun radicale vernieuwingen in
de schilderkunst. Maar zij stortten zich ook op het ontwerp van
interieurs en theaterdecors, gebruiksvoorwerpen en boeken.
De meest verrassende drager voor de nieuwe artistieke
beeldtaal was porselein, nota bene het favoriete materiaal van
de tsaren.
Na de Russische revolutie werd de Keizerlijke Porseleinfabriek
in handen gegeven van de avant-gardisten. De fabriek werd
een bro...
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Zlatko Kopljar. Luc Tuymans. MERCY (Politics)
2022 || Paperback || Zlatko Kopljar e.a. || Mer
Mercy (Politics) derives from Zlatko Kopljar and Luc Tuymans’ two-person exhibition titled Mercy (December 22-February 23, Galerija Vartai, Vilnius, Lithuania). The book revolves around the politics in the artists’ work, as well as their political views. It consists of an extensive interview with each of the artists and a curatorial statement by Ory Dessau, the editor of the book and the curator of the exhibition mentioned above.