Geen categorie – Page 23

Posted on 19.12.202015.12.2020 by ftnbooks — Leave a comment

Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg (8)

Recognised for developing the first American style to depart from Abstract Expressionism, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg came together as collaborators and lovers in the mid ’50s. Though the two are widely considered as the founding fathers of the pop art movement, their relationship was ignored due to the rampant homophobia during this time. With many believing the two to be just friends, their intense partnership is often overlooked as being a pivotal factor in their art-making. After a passionate six years, Johns and Rauschenberg broke up. The distraught revolutionaries both left New York City, changed their pictorial styles and cut off all contact with each other for over ten years. A nice selection of both artists is available at www.ftn-books.com

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Posted on 18.12.202027.08.2020 by ftnbooks — Leave a comment

Dorothea Tanning and Max Ernst (7)

Following a relationship with art patron Peggy Guggenheim, Max Ernst went on to marry his fourth wife, Dorothea Tanning. The couple – who famously fell in love over a game of chess – is credited as pioneering the Surrealist movement. Despite this successful accomplishment, Manning insisted that the two “Never, never talked art. Never.” Married in a double ceremony in Hollywood with Man Ray and Juliet Browner, the pair enjoyed surrounding themselves with other artists. Often, they would entertain the likes of Henri Cartier-Bresson in their home in France, seemingly thriving among fellow creatives. Dipping between Surrealism, Dadaism and everything in between, the pair continued their separate artistic practices and maintained a healthy marriage until Ernst’s death in 1976.

There are several Max Ernst publications available at www.ftn-books.com

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Posted on 16.12.202030.11.2020 by ftnbooks — Leave a comment

Posters by Willem Sandberg and Wim Crouwel…part 3

In this blog it is time to show the combination of the 1973 Tinguely poster and the Wim Crouwel designed catalogue which he designed for this 1973 exhibition.

The poster is an original design by Jean Tingeuly, where as the catalogue, which was published for this exhibition, was designed by Wim Crouwel. It is just functional where the poster is full of life and design elements . I like both very much but these are worlds apart from each other. It is up to you which is the better graphic design.

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Both publications are available at www.ftn-books.com

Posted on 13.12.202025.08.2020 by ftnbooks — Leave a comment

Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O’Keeffe (4)

Alfred Stieglitz met Georgia O’Keeffe at a time when he was already at the top of his game. Twenty years her senior, the photographer and gallerist was more than just a partner for the younger artist – he also served as her mentor. He was the first to exhibit her abstract drawings and helped nurture her into the respected painter she would grow to become. O’Keeffe’s talents eventually led her to New Mexico, and the couple’s relationship consisted of little more than love letters sent back and forth until his death. The ultimate testament to the power of long distance relationships, each of the 20,000 letters has since been collected for the book “My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O’Keefe and Alfred Stieglitz”. Maybe it’s just us, but Noah’s 365 letters to Allie in The Notebook suddenly seem a lot less romantic.

These and other Stieglitz /O’Keeffe titles are available at www.ftn-books.com

Posted on 12.12.202024.08.2020 by ftnbooks — Leave a comment

Gilbert & George (3)

Gilbert Proesch and George Passmore

Just like a scene from your favourite rom-com, Gilbert and George first locked eyes in the halls of Central Saint Martins in 1967, where the two studied sculpture. Dubbing the encounter as love at first sight, the duo collaborated on both 3D as well as 2D works – although they would continue to refer to all artworks as sculpture. Exploring themes of religion, sexuality and identity across a wide range of media, Gilbert and George have stayed relevant beyond the confines of the elitist art. They married in 2008, having spent over 4 decades together in the art world that they collectively rebel against.

www.ftn-books.com has many Gilbert & George titles available

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Posted on 11.12.202024.08.2020 by ftnbooks — Leave a comment

Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo (2)

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With a love story as colourful as their shared aesthetic, Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo’s relationship began as a teacher-student romance. Drawn together by a common interest in communist politics, a love of painting and an utmost respect for one another’s work, the pair married in 1929. Ten years later, they divorced after it was revealed that Rivera had an affair with Kahlo’s sister, Cristina. True love never fails, though, and the dynamic duo rekindled their marriage one year later. Despite being lauded as Mexico’s greatest living artist, Rivera always viewed his wife as more talented than himself. Their relationship lasted until Kahlo’s death in 1954, an event which her partner described as the most tragic moment of his life. several titles of both artists are available at www.ftn-books.com

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Posted on 08.12.202008.12.2020 by ftnbooks — Leave a comment

Felix Bracquemond (1833-1914)

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Bracquemond just died start of WW I. Had he lived through these war years i am sure he would have made series on the war like Goya and Dix did, but since he never witnessed the true horrors of the “GREAT WAR” he was stuck in semi impressionist and art nouveau art. Still, such a description does not do justice to the artist that Bracquemond was. His technique is flawless and his art can be recognized immediately. Of course, he was a contemporary of Vincent van Gogh and this must be the reason the van Gogh Museum devoted an exhibition to Bracquemond in 1994. This was the 3rd exhibition in their series of 19th Century Masters. The catalogue is well worth collecting and now available at www.ftn-books.com

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Posted on 03.12.202002.12.2020 by ftnbooks — Leave a comment

Ossip ( continued) …Twee Heren, 1989

Last week..the chance to add to the FTN art collection an early Ossip. It is the 1989, TWEE HEREN. A large photoprint of 2 Gentleman. One clearly visible, standing proud, enhanced with many drops of wax and the other, the same figure less confident ….just a shadow, filled in with black sand and a thin contoured line done in pencil. The borders….newspaper clippings and red tiled paper. A great and classic large OSSIP ( 166 x 107 cm.). which is now available at www.ftn-blg.com (the FTN art section).

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Posted on 02.12.202001.12.2020 by ftnbooks — Leave a comment

Jan Wawrzyniak (1971)

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To be homnest, …..i did not know of Jan Wawrzyniak, but because of a recent auction i searched for his name, because i was very much attracted to a black/white/grey painting by this artist. It appeared that he always uses these three colors and combines these into abstract constructivist paintings. Sometinmes vague, sometimes hard edged, but always a sense of organic too. Great art and happy to have bought this.

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Jan Wawrzyniak lives in Berlin

Solo Exhibitions

Forms of Aporia. Kajetan Berlin

2018

Drawn by the other. Galerie m Bochum

2017

last day … of may. M6 Annette Tietenberg Braunschweig

2016

Niche. Galerie m Bochum

2015

Unfinished. Curated by Erich Franz. Kunstverein Lippstadt

2014

Broken and Lost | Drawing. Curated by Alexander Klar. Museum Wiesbaden

Continued Drawing. Galerie m Bochum

2012

Zeichnerische Aporien. Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern

2010

New pictorial spaces. Galerie m Bochum

2009

Jan Wawrzyniak. Lippische Gesellschaft für Kunst Detmold

Gezeichnete Bilder. Kunstmuseum Ahlen

2008

Gezeichnete Bilder. Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern
Zeichnerische Aporien. Curated by Carmen Schliebe. Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus

2007

Gezeichnete Bilder. Curated by Kai Uwe Schierz. Kunsthalle Erfurt
2006

Fragil. Galerie m Bochum

2002

Stille Räume. Morat-Institut für Kunst und Kulturwissenschaft Freiburg
Stille Räume. Brühler Kunstverein
2000

Ebenen + Pfade. Kunstraum MI Posselt Bonn

Group Exhibitions

2019

Galerie m 3. Mai 1969 – 3. Mai 2019. Galerie m Bochum

2018

Form follows Fiction. Kajetan Berlin

No More Books! Intersexualitat Textual. Curated by Vicente da Palma. Art i Pensament Contemporani L’Hospitalet Barcelona

Ansichtssache. Curated by Eveline Weber. Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle Freiburg

Kunst und Kohle: Schwarz. Curated by Friederike Wappler. Kunstsammlungen der Ruhr-Univeristät – Museum unter Tage Bochum

2017

The Flying Field. Autowerkstatt Wilhelmsaue Berlin

2015

Weltsichten. 400 Jahre Landschaft in der Kunst. Kunsthalle Rostock

Land in Sicht. Weserburg | Museum für moderne Kunst Bremen

2014

Blank_Space. Galerie m Bochum

Entgrenzung. Positionen zur Zeichnung. Curated by Kornelia Röder. Künstlerhaus Schloss Plüschow

Weltsichten. Het landschap verbeeld in zees eeuwen kunst. Bonnenfantenmuseum Maastricht

2013

We fragment, collect and narrate. Curated by Sayoko Nakahara. Cultuurcentrum Mechelen

Noch nie gesehen. Neue Schenkungen und Ankäufe für die grafische Sammlung. Kunstmuseum Bonn

2012

Weltsichten. Landschaft in der Kunst seit dem 17. Jahrhundert. Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus

Weltsichten. Landschaft in der Kunst seit dem 17. Jahrhundert. Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz

Aufbruch. Malerei und realer Raum. Kunsthalle Rostock

Aufbruch. Malerei und realer Raum. Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg

Aufbruch. Malerei und realer Raum. Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern

Aufbruch. Malerei und realer Raum. Akademie der Künste Berlin

Junge Akademie. Akademie der Künste Berlin
2011

Aufbruch. Malerei und realer Raum. Stiftung Situation Kunst Bochum

Saxonia Paper. Kunsthalle Leipzig
Shelter: Art Against Trafficking Women and Sexual Exploitation. Peter Freeman Inc. New York

Shelter: Art Against Trafficking Women and Sexual Exploitation. Galerie Urs Meile Luzern

Shelter: Art Against Trafficking Women and Sexual Exploitation. Künstlerhaus Schloss Plüschow

Weltsichten. Landschaft in der Kunst seit dem 17. Jahrhundert. Museum Wiesbaden

Weltsichten. Landschaft in der Kunst seit dem 17. Jahrhundert. Kunsthalle Kiel

2010

Weltsichten. Landschaft in der Kunst seit dem 17. Jahrhundert. Stiftung Situation Kunst Bochum
2009

Blattgold. Zeitgenössische Grafik. Ausstellung des Kunstfonds im Sächsischen Staatsministerium der Finanzen. Dresden
2008

Nur der Schein trügt nicht. Das Sehen als interaktiver Prozess. Stiftung Situation Kunst Bochum

2004

Bochum sammelt II: Landschaftsbilder. Museum Bochum
1996

Von Schlachten – vom Schlachten. Kunstsammlung der Städtischen Museen Jena

1993

Goethe-Institut Tel Aviv

1992

Frontiera. Forum junger Kunst in Europa. Curated by Matthias Flügge. Bolzano

Public Collections

Kunstmuseum Ahlen

Lindenau-Museum Altenburg

Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (nbk)

Stiftung Situation Kunst Bochum

Kunstmuseum Bonn

Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern

Kolumba Kunstmuseum des Erzbistums Köln

Museum Morsbroich Leverkusen

Muzeum Sztuki Lodz

Kunstsammlung des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt Magdeburg

Westfälisches Landesmuseum Münster

Kunstsammlungen Neubrandenburg

Museum Wiesbaden

Posted on 29.11.202012.08.2020 by ftnbooks — Leave a comment

Gracia Lebbink (1963)

This blog is long time overdue. I met Gracia for the first time when she was designing the artist book LA STANZA VEDE by Kounellis for the Haags Gemeentemuseum in 1990. She was introduced to the Haags Gemeentemuseum by Rudi Fuchs who was the director at that time and because trusted her skills after being introduced to Rudi by Walter Nikkels some time before.

Since, she designed for the Gemeentemuseum many publications and posters and build a prestigious agency on the way, “designing” for many cultural institutions and museums. Always recognizable, simple , beautiful designs and with a typography that invites reading the texts.

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I mentioned Nikkels and Lebbink in the same sentence and that is not without a reason … I consider both to be the very best from the generations to follow Sandberg and Crouwel and because I have known Gracia professionally, she is placed on the no. 1 spot, followed at some distance by Walter Nikkels. It proves Rudi Fuchs had a nose to pick not only the best artists, but also the right choice in commissioning a designer with a project. Gracia had to stop her professional career in 2003, leaving us some very beautiful and appealing designs.

Because of my personal interest in her works I have collected many of Gracia’s designs for FTN-books. Many are available at www.ftn-books.com…..just search for Lebbink and you will encounter over 30 Gracia Lebbink designed publications available.