Jap Sam Books (14)
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Jan van de Pavert. Collected Works
2023 || Paperback || Jan van de Pavert e.a. || Jap Sam Books
A comprehensive illustrated monograph on the work of Dutch visual artist Jan van de Pavert, with texts by the artist and art critic Mark Kremer.
Jan van de Pavert. Collected Works is a richly illustrated body of work covering the artist’s oeuvre of the past years. Initially, Van de Pavert became known for his sculptures, his early works referred to architecture and resembled parts from buildings, such as windows and doors. An example is the 1987 work Inversion: the work is a door and doorp...
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A Black Collage
2023 || Paperback || Rob Perrée || Jap Sam Books
In this book, Rob Perrée tells the story of his involvement in African-American art through a chronological collage of new texts, linking texts, previously published articles, essays, interviews, reviews, columns and short stories from 1990 to 2023. Together, they show the development of African-American art and demonstrate how its appreciation and perception have changed over time, in the US, but above all in the Netherlands as well, among the public and art institutions. It is a look behin...
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OUT SIDE IN SIDE OUT. Linda Molenaar
2023 || Paperback || Linda Molenaar e.a. || Jap Sam Books
Out Side In Side Out is an overview of 25 years of work by Dutch visual artist and performer Linda Molenaar, linking animal aspects in humans with human aspects in animals.
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Hannah van Bart
2023 || Paperback || Bart Rutten e.a. || Jap Sam Books
The monograph Hannah van Bart contains over more than 100 art works (paintings and drawings) and gives an intriguing look at the work of Dutch artist Hannah van Bart (1963). The publication is published in collaboration with the Centraal Museum Utrecht on the occasion of the solo exhibition of Hannah van Bart at Oud Amelisweerd country house. Hannah van Bart is represented by Marianne Boesky Gallery New York & Aspen, and Vielmetter Los Angeles. With a foreword by Artistic director of Centraal...
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ACT OF ALIGNMENT. Hee-Seung Choi
ACT OF ALIGNMENT
2023 || Paperback || Hee-Seung Choi || Jap Sam Books
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Exercises in Root System Domestication
2023 || Paperback || Eleonoor Jap Sam e.a. || Jap Sam Books
Visual artist Diana Scherer is one of the pioneers in biotech art. At the core of her botanical installations and textiles lies a great curiosity about what neurobiologists call ‘the brain of plants’. Scherer studies plants and root systems and applies the intelligence of plants in her work. She employs a unique technique with which, using natural growth processes, she creates mesmerising and seemingly fragile tissues of plant roots with various structures. Scherer’s work is thought-pro...
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TOUCH. Caren van Herwaarden
2023 || Paperback || Merel Bem e.a. || Jap Sam Books
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Displace. Elena Khurtova
2023 || Paperback || Elena Khurtova e.a. || Jap Sam Books
Displace explores the process of entering into a dialogue with soil as a living entity. It offers an intimate insight into Elena Khurtova's artistic research and process during her residency at 3bisF, on the site of Montperrin Psychiatric hospital in Aix-en-Provence, and delves into her personal connection with displaced soils.
Extending the sensitive experience of touching red and yellow soils into the materiality of the book, Elena Khurtova and graphic designer Tariq Heijboer experiment wit...
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AgriValley
2023 || Paperback || Mirte van Duppen || Jap Sam Books
AgriValley is a long-term poetic study of Dutch agriculture. In her cinematographic representations, video artist Mirte van Duppen brings together various production landscapes as a social construct: here, humans and machines live and work side by side. The futuristic, almost dreamlike images give an insight into the enormous impact of technological innovation in the agricultural sector.
Van Duppen shows the contemporary landscape in associative analyses, using visual rhyme and essayistic cam...
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Anton Rooskens
Beyond Cobra / Voorbij Cobra
2023 || Hardcover || Marguerite Tuijn e.a. || Jap Sam Books
Anton Rooskens (1906–1976) made a significant contribution to modern art in the Netherlands as an artist affiliated with the Cobra group, but also afterwards. His paintings are included in leading museum collections in the Netherlands and abroad. It is time for a new, comprehensive publication on this important Dutch twentieth-century painter. Over the past years, art historians Marguerite Tuijn and Eliane Odding have delved into his oeuvre and life. Based on previously unused sources from ...