Interview at Hoeksten Live!

Covered.

You can see the Interview at Hoeksten Live!
(From Friday 24 March 2010 at 23:02 hours.)
Rob Zwetsloot interviewing Sandra Stevens and myself on the exhibition at Galerie Stevens, Maastricht.

Ahmet Polat

Ahmet Polat. The Netherlands-Turkey.

Staged or real nakedness?

Reality of a Brazilian jail or an Spencer Tunick's naked fantasy?

Blue is not the color for art

When I saw the mail that was sent to me by the Dutch gallery Torch I thought it was a pharmaceutical ad .
First the logo and the general impression. Blue is always used by companies who want to look formal and trustworthy and the sky photo gave me on a first impression as if it had just been taken from a bank image. Sorry, I really didn't think it had anything to do with art.
The photo is by Kahn & Selesnick from the serie "Eisbergfreistadt, 1923" & other panoramic fictions. Here you can see another example of their work.

Past with present

The painting Golgotha of Mihaly Munkcasy being moved to Pecs.
A beautiful photo uniting past and present in a new composition. Picked from the Volkskrant.

Astrid Voss

Astrid Voss. The Netherlands

Gerwald Rockenschaub

Gerwald Rockenschaub. Ropac. Austria

What is it about portraits?

Is there something special about portraits now in The Netherlands? Are they "socially acceptable" again?

In any case we must notice that there has been, between February and March 2010, 4 openings of contemporary portrait exhibitions in Dutch museums by Dutch artists. Two solo and two group exhibitions.
The two solo exhibitions may be a bit confusing as both artists Kiki Lamers (1964) and Katinka Lampe (1964) not only have the same initials, have nearly the same age, the openings were within a week of difference but more important, they are both portraying children with this mysterious halo in a pastel like palette.
The exhibition at Museum the Fundatie has been so successful that it had been extended and the book is sold out with the 2nd edition being ready the coming days.
I missed the exhibition in Gorcum, but I think there the concept of portrait has been used in a broad sense, including faces that are not necessary portraits.

Katinka Lampe at Kunsthal Rotterdam 13 March - 30 May 2010
also RONMANDOS gallery Amsterdam - Amsterdam 17/4/2010 - 29/5/2010 :



Kiki Lamers at Centraal Museum in Utrecht 6 March - 22 August 2010
also at Annet Gelink Gallery / The Bakery - Amsterdam 13/3/2010 - 17/4/2010:



Portraits Now (Portrettisten Nu) at Museum de Fundatie in Zwolle at their annex Kasteel Het Nijenhuis in Heino extended until 24 May 2010:
Sam Drukker

Bianca Berends

Marisa Polin

and
Marike Bok / Piet van den Boog / Erik Bosma /Annemarie Busschers / Dora Carpentier / Daan van Doorn / Jacque Gregoire / Ellen de Groot / Jurriaan van Hall / Annelies Hoek / Erik de Jong / Matt Kissingh / Judith Krebbekx / Dorine Kuiper / Judith Lansink / Urban Larsson / Frank Leenhouts / Marjolein Menke / Ab de Nijs Bik / Eva Ooms / Stijn Rietman / Joop Rubens / Roderik van Schaardenburg / Ans Schumacher / Dick Stapel / Janneke Viegers / Robert Vorstman

Portretten van de 21e eeuw in Gorkums Museum, The Netherlands.
Already closed on 11 April with works of:
Philip Akkerman

Bas Meerman

Wouter van Riessen

Paul van Dongen

and

Silvia B. / Loréne Bourguignon / Hendrik Elings / Ruud van Empel / Gert Germeraad / Anouk Griffioen / Wim Hardeman / Yin Jun / Anja Kok / Bastienne Kramer / Katinka Lampe / Hans Meertens / / Lique Schoot / Petra Slager / Joost van den Toorn / Marli Turion / Levi van Veluw / Barbara Wijnveld / Efrat Zehavi

See also

Fransje Killaars

Fransje Killaars. Galerie de Expeditie. The Netherlands.

Kevin Welslau

Kevin Welslau. Galerie Zink

Umbrella art

Johannes Vogl also

Simone Hooijmans

Picked

At the Museum of Modern Art, Mexico.
Photo Alejandra Peña
Take a closer look!

Ien Lucas

Ien Lucas. Galerie Ramakers. The Netherlands.

Gert Germeraad

Gert Germeraad. The Netherlands-Sweden

Jorge Mendez Blake

Jorge Mendez Blake. OMR. Mexico.

Pieter Pander

Pieter Pander. The Netherlands.

Famous beds

Hester Scheurwater


Tracey Emin

Thomas Zipp. Germany
via Trendbeheer

Frida Kahlo

Happy tuesday

The cover of Liberace: Your Personal Fashion Consultant.
Snap it.

Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse. France.

Alex van Warmerdam's world

The Dutch seen by the Dutch.
Alex van Warmerdam has his first (ever?) exhibition in Schiedam Museum. I was very curious to see this show being a fan of his work since I saw his film De Noordelingen (People from the North(?). As far as I can remember the best magical realist, surrealist, absurd Dutch film I have ever seen. This film made me love The Netherlands, such creative crazy people must be loved.


I went very enthusiast to see the art exhibition of this film maker, actor, illustrator, stage designer and musician.

Maybe it was my problem that I was expecting too much that I was a little disappointed. I would have liked to be more surprised and taken by the paintings. No, I was not amazed, but it was a great biographical show of a very very creative artist.


I was also one week to early at the museum. Just before the show for the Volkskrant art prize (Volkskrant Beeldede kunst Prijs) was open. I have to see it digitally here.

Simone Hooijmans

Simone Hooijmans / Bolletje Plu