BOEKFICHE The Bold and the Beautiful - In Flemish Portraits

Men in stately black, women with huge ruffs, children with golden rattles, old women with wizened faces, and self-satisfied artists… These are the main players in just about every portrait ever painted in the Southern Netherlands. From the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries, the tract of land that we today call Flanders was the economic, cultural, intellectual and financial heart of Europe. And money flows – with everyone who ...

Tami Amit’s self-titled monograph compiles reproductions of her recent work on paper and canvas. Amit’s practice is a particular mode of action painting which processes childhood memories and issues of self identity and expression. This is her first monograph as a painter.

Phoebus Focus XXXIII

Deze Phoebus Focus vertelt het bijzondere verhaal van de man die voor het eerst weer geïdentificeerd kan worden als Johannes I Gansacker (1592-1664) en de opmerkelijke geschiedenis van zijn portret. Het laat toe Gansacker te duiden als een van de vele jonge, ambitieuze ondernemers in het zeventiende-eeuwse Antwerpen. Een self-made social climber die zich maar al te graag aan het begin van die klim liet portretteren door een schilder met precies dezelfde ambities als hij,...

A contemporary view of the masterly works of Dieric Bouts

Dieric Bouts (ca. 1410/20-75) is one of the most elusive figures in the history of Western art. Flemish primitive of the second generation, painter of silence – such are the labels that are usually attributed to him. But was the Master of Brabant not more than that?

This book, published in association with the exhibition, DIERIC BOUTS. Creator of Images, at M Leuven, attempts to get closer to this enigmatic figure. Dieric Bouts had b...

A new look at Constant Permeke

Although the work of Belgian artist Constant Permeke (1886–1952) is generally classified as Expressionism, he explored a multitude of registers. From the very beginning of his career, Permeke gained widespread international recognition with recurring subjects such as domestic scenes and people engaged in everyday activities. His landscapes and seascapes exude a hushed, sometimes sublime warmth.

For Permeke, art and life were closely linked. His oeuvre shimmers...

"Daily Spins. Thomas Trum" shows almost 600 powerful artworks in the clearly recognizable, colorful, abstract-geometric visual language of the artist, and is designed by Team Thursday. Each cover is hand sprayed with two colours by Team Thomas Trum, making every edition of this monograph unique.

Thomas Trum (1989) works on the intersection of art and design. Most of his work evolves around a material research of paint and techniques to apply this. Using the studio as a place for experiment, h...

De schilderijen zijn ijl en teder, de sculpturen krachtig en stoer. Transparant en concreet. Intiem en monumentaal. De tegenstellingen zijn groot in het oeuvre van Piet Warffemius (Den Haag, 1956). Toch liggen schilderijen en sculpturen dichter bij elkaar dan op het eerste gezicht lijkt.

De schilderijen beginnen bij observaties in de tuin, een park, altijd buiten in de natuur. Wat hem interesseert is het kleine. Dat enkele takje, met een blaadje, een knop, een vruchtbeginsel. Warffemius: ‘...