29 April 2009

Lizan Freijsen

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Lizan Freijsen is fascinated by stains, mostly caused by unwelcome humidity in buildings. After a photographic and digital process she transforms the original forms into huge shaped wallpapers which she adheres in corners, rims and edges of exhibition spaces.




28 April 2009

Lisa Couwenbergh - Olphaert den Otter

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Work of Lisa Couwenbergh and Olphaert den Otter on the pillars, specially made for the exhibition 'Friendly Fire, courtesy Rotterdam'. Enjoy more of their work at their sites.



















Lisa Couwenbergh




























Olphaert den Otter

27 April 2009

Friendly Fire

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Frienfly Fire, courtesy Rotterdam with work of 8 independent artists from Rotterdam, that show work they made 'in situ' at the old and beautiful NRC building on the Witte de With street. With one of the nicest invitations i've received lately. More about the individual artists later this week. More infomation for now at trendbeheer.com




21 April 2009

Apologies with a view

Mexico City:

From my studio a view of the Ajusco Mountain.

A sunset from my studio.

One of the more than monumental flags around the city as seen from my studio.

A church atrium in Coyoacan.

A policeman organizing the morning traffic in front of a school.

Children enjoying themselves on Sunday at the Centro Nacional de las Artes.

Part of my Mexico routine.

Cocoyoc, Morelos:

A new house covering it's view of the magnificent Tepozteco.

Field with the Popocatepetl at a distance.

A sensous nopal of opuntia plant with fruit.

After two months in Mexico and having visited plenty of beautiful places, taking lots of photographs and having many stories to tell on the blog I had been just nearly unable to do it. My laptop is old and slow, the internet connection I 'borrow' from a neighbour I don't know is really slow (terribly slow!) and I stayed the last two weeks at a great place but with not internet at all. I feel like being censored at a 100% rate.
On the other hand all the drawing and reading I had been doing makes me feel really satisfied.
I am very thankful to Maria Ikonomopoulou to keep the blog-fire alive with art from The Netherlands, Greece and others.
All my regards, Marisa

19 April 2009

Windmill

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The windmill in my neighborhood where I buy the wheat for my bread.




16 April 2009

Spring

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i was just thinking how difficult it is to think about something else than spring at the moment, when i got these images by mail from Nikos Triantaphyllou.

















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Nikos Triantafyllou

13 April 2009

Water

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Zwervende Tentoonstellingen is the idea of Maartje Berendsen and Tamar de Kemp who curate and organize visual shows in unexpected places since 2005. Water, is a short presentation of art pieces related to this concept, hosted at the Netherlands Architecture Institute in Rotterdam.















Carla Klein















Tonio de Roover















Karin van Dam














Zeger Reyers















Sylvie Zijlmans

07 April 2009

Being the partner of...


How does it feel to be 'the wife of'?
I certainly do not feel as such but it makes a good series of interviews by Gwen van Loon in the Financiele Dagblad of The Netherlands. My interview was published today.
Photo by Mirjam van der Hoek.

My 5 favorite blogs

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The diary - blog of Swedisch illustrator Lena Sjöberg.
The art - blog of artists Jeroen Bosch and Niels Post from Rotterdam.
The design - blog of designer Costas Voyatzis from Athens.
The contemporary art, sculptural aesthetics, arcitecture, modernities, poetry, domestic issues, folk, tales, politics - blog of  Greek artist Kostis Velonis.
The book, illustrations, science, history, visual materia obscura, eclectic book art of peacay from Australia.



































































02 April 2009

From all my heart

De todo Corazon, group exhibition.
Casa Frissac in the center of Tlapan, Mexico City.

Juan Vazquez

Oscar Ojeda,

Gilberto Aceves Navarro,

Oscar Bachtold

Monica Polin

Carlos Gutierrez Angulo

Rene Espino

Behind one of the visitors the work of Alberto Castro Leñero.