If you are interested in art by young artists here is a list you can look it and compare it with your own findings. According to Artsy these are the young emerging and established artists of 2019.
https://www.artsy.net/series/artsy-vanguard-2019
There is one favorite in the chapter
Zilia Sanchez ise my personal favorites and her work is represented by galerie Lelong
Only two Piet Dirkx weekly’s to go. But 2 very special ones.
This one was made for the 2003 New Years wish. A drawing in watercolor and signed by Piet .
“La Creation” is a beautiful smal artwork . measuring 14,8 x 10, 4 cm.
I thought i had, but i just discovered that i had not written a blog on Oey Tjeng Sit before and there is now every reason to write a blog on this self taught artist, because i recently added a wonderful multiple to the collection of www.ftn-books.com. It is the Loerakker multiple on the occasion of the presentation of the monograph on the artist.
Amsterdam based pharmacist-artist Oey Tjeng Sit (1917-1987) invited visitors of an art fair to throw paper balls toward tin cans, decided to set fire to cages filled with balls of newspapers, or to fill warehouses with the same second hand paper material. He liked to add bizar titles to his works such as ‘Bicycling against the wind one might forget the invention of the wheel’, ‘An artist who is fashionable is a victim of good taste’ or ‘The only thing I know is that I trust blindly a feeling that promises me secrets.’
Oey Tjeng Sit, whose name means Yellow Clear Solid was born in Purwokerto (Java) at the foot of the Klud Volcano, that erupted just at the time of Oey’s birth. Born in the Year of the Dragon he found himself released of the duty to take care of his parents; that is why – after visiting high school in Bandung – he traveled to the Netherlands in 1938 in order to study pharmacy. Twenty years later he opened Apotheek Oey (Oey Pharmacy) at the Prinsengracht opposite the Anne Frank House. He took away the pills and potions out of the window display and started a small art gallery there. One of his nicknames was a ‘Dragon Man with a Dada Passion’ who showed the art work of colleagues and friends which gave him another epitheton: ‘the nestor of Amsterdam window art’. Oey’s work as an autodidact is characterized by a wide artistic range of disciplines: after a period of surrealistic drawings and paintings he started making wood and linoleum cuts, collages, assemblages and editing books through his own editorial ‘The Finger Press’.
In his collages, often together with Chinese ink and brush, as well as in his installations he used frequently news papers, of which he wanted to extend their short life, tied as they are to daily actuality. The newspaper was a source for many questions for Oey ‘Can we measure the weight of printed news?’ and ‘What contains more wood than newspaper letters?’ ‘If there is an order, then is it a temporary one.’
Oeys oeuvre – light-hearted, playful with a subtle feeling for the hidden esthetic quality of daily life – can be a long lasting confirmation of these words.
Beside the multiple i have more collectable books by the artist in my inventory
Allen Ruppersberg and the Netherlands is a combination which feels natural. It is a little bit the same like with Lawrence Weiner. Both were supported by Willem Sandberg and had their first major exhibitions outside the US in the Stedelijk Museum and after?……they kept a strong link with the Netherlands since both were represented by the Art & Project gallery who published with both important Bulletins within their series of Bulletins. Both these artists are considered by many as the next worldwide greatest, since Conceptual Art is becoming more and more important in time and admiration for these two is growing significantly.
I like both , but perhaps i more have a weakness for Weiner since his work at the Gemeentemuseum was present all the time i was working there and it never stopped impressing me. But Ruppersberg….. certainly a close second and perhaps in the long run i will like him even more. www.ftn-books.com has soem of the mentioned Ruppersberg items still available.
ERGENS KLOPT ER HIER IETS NIET .
This is another new years wish for 2010 by Piet Dirkx
At one time , many years ago, i was living in Wassenaar. Me and my ex wife had a small apartment in a newly build apartment building and just around the corner there was a “classic” dutch house. I learned that Paul Citroen , the dutch Bauhaus artist lived there. I know the drawings by Citroen, because i had seen them at Pulchri Studio, but what i learned many years later was that he was influenced by Bauhaus and was one of the great collage artists. I
t was an aspect of his work that i had never known before but was very appealing to me. It was the extra layer i was looking for in his art. Where his drawinsg and photographs were very personal and recognizable, his collages were inspired by his fellow artists at the Bauhaus. Since i i always remember Paul Citroen when i pass his old house and remember the great art he stands for.
I recently added an intriguing book from 1957 in which drawings and photographs by and on Paul Citroen are depicted.
Since my latest blog on Julia Ventura i took a personal interest in her works and acquired some more nice publications for my personal library. Among them there is the Museu Serralves publication which was published in cooperation with the Kroller Muller Museum. It is a true Retrospective p book which covers works from 1982 until 2003. I have put it on my shelf until i recently discovered another copy on my local bookmarket. I bought this too and concluded once again that Ventura her art is very personal indeed and of the highest quality. From now on i will be on the look out for any of her works that will appear at auction. From this moment i will offer this second copy at www.ftn-books.com. I truly can recommend this one.
Another Arti Capelli invitation is this one for the A MUSEUM FOR JAN DEBBAUT exhibition ( ca. 1991).
Last week I acquired a large collection of catalogues from the LEFEBRE GALLERY. The collection contains 63 different exhibition catalogues all fro the period that this famous gallery was open between 1960 and 1986. A great collection which I will share in the coming 7 days….today day 1
from top to bottom /left to right:
L. Alechinsky cover card, 1985
Cobra 1960, 1960
Castel, 1966
Juan Martinez, 1980
Antonio Segui, 1981
Antonio Segui, 1983
Antonio Segui, 1972
Antonio Segui, 1975
Antonio Segui, 1979
The series i have available at www.ftn-books.com contains 62 different titles. These publications will be listed in the upcoming 4 weeks. If there is a publication you would like to buy, please sent an email to ftnbooksandart@gmail.com and i will quote you your best preview price.
Last week I acquired a large collection of catalogues from the LEFEBRE GALLERY. The collection contains 63 different exhibition catalogues all fro the period that this famous gallery was open between 1960 and 1986. A great collection which I will share in the coming 7 days….today day 1
from top to bottom /left to right:
Cobra artists of the Lefebre gallery, 1983
Double Exposure, John Lefebre photographs, 1981
Juan Martinez, 1984
Georges Noel, 1962
Jan Voss, 1966
Jean Messagier, 1964
Jean Dewasne, 1972
Cobra Graphic, Jorn cover, 1965
This is the Lefebre gallery, 1969
The series i have available at www.ftn-books.com contains 62 different titles. These publications will be listed in the upcoming 4 weeks. If there is a publication you would like to buy, please sent an email to ftnbooksandart@gmail.com and i will quote you your best preview price.
