A celebration of amateurism by Erik Kessels, one of the most original figures in today’s art and design scene, 'Complete Amateur' explains how to let go of everything you know and embrace things you know nothing about. Full of brilliant masterpieces by absolute beginners (and also by artists who have kept experimenting with a beginner’s approach), this photographic guide invites you to exercise your amateur muscle and escape the traps of professionalism.

‘100MJ’ concerns an intuitive and personal drawing project about identity by Dutch artist Bas Kosters. The book shows a series of a hundred full page drawings based on the image of Michael Jackson. It is about how people are shaped trough the eyes of others, the reach of recognizability and identity. It plays with the ideas about visual culture and recognizability. In hundred portraits drawn on ephemera Kosters shows, in a poetic manner, man in all their strength.

A magnificent introduction to the Cobra art movement

With French as its working language, Cobra was pretty much the last truly European movement within Modernism. The group’s anarchic story is not just an important strand in art history — it remains as lively as ever and has inspired all sorts of artists who were never directly involved with Cobra. The work bequeathed to us by Karel Appel, Pierre Alechinsky, Constant, Corneille and other kindred spirits is as fascinating as ever, both raw...

Over the course of 202-2021, during the pandemic, Kara Walker has produced series of drawings in the style of a medieval 'Book of Hours'. Enigmatic images appear to traverse a range of time periods, from scenes of biblical and mythological origins, to images of historical violence, to others that suggest more recent political strife. The highly personal nature of these images capture Walker's own response to the intersection of past and present as a way to understand our contemporary politica...

Op 11 september 2001 was Keiko Sato in New York toen Amerika getroffen werd door een van de meest schokkendse terroristische aanslagen. De zelfmoordcommando's die met hun vliegtuigen de Twin Towers binnenvlogen, en uiteindelijk deze iconen van de Westerse wereld volledig ten onder lieten gaan, herinnerden Sato aan haar eigen vader, die als Japanse kamikaze piloot de Tweede Wereldoorlog overleefde.How to tell a story of my father is een bijzonder document met teksten, interviews en kunstbijdra...

Een van Londens gekende maar toch vrij obscure geschiedenissen betreft het feit dat in de periode tussen de vroege jaren 1800 tot de jaren 1950, ruim 250.000 Londenaren uit de arbeidersklasse - vooral vrouwen en kinderen - uit het East End vertrokken om de late zomerweken op het platteland in Kent door te brengen. Wat in de volkstaal omschreven werd als 'to go picking', cre

Effigy hanging and burning, a specific theatrical form of political protest, has become increasingly visible in the news media, particularly in protests against United States military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, in US domestic politics, and in the Arab Spring. Taking these events as points of departure, Göttke investigates the conditions of this visual genre of protest, its roots and genealogies in a number of countries, its aesthetics and politics.

Effigy protests communicate comm...

"De Onderstroom / The Undercurrent" is published by Jap Sam Books i.c.w. Museum Rijswijk, on the occasion of the exhibition Robbie Cornelissen & Karin van Dam. The Undercurrent in Museum Rijswijk (March 26th - June 11th, 2023) in which the artists combine drawings, objects, and animations. "De Onderstroom / The Undercurrent" gives an insight into the distinctive and long-standing collaboration between two artists, who, in addition to their own artistic practice, find each other in shared fasc...