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In her work, Lili Dujourie expresses an imagery that delves into the beauty of art history to touch on the themes of vanity, transience, presence and absence, and melancholy. Her work is full of cultural references drawn from literature, music, film and painting. With her first sculptures from the 1960s, Lili Dujourie entered into a critical dialogue with the minimal and conceptual art that was predominant in the art scene at the time, and in the following decade she turned to photography and video. In her black-and-white videos especially, which are without sound and often feature the naked female body as the subject, Lili Dujourie explores the themes of identity and gender that animate the contemporary feminist debate. The dichotomy between movement and stillness, between two and three-dimensionality, between figuration and abstraction, has underpinned all her artistic research to date. In a constant oscillation between painting and sculpture, Lili Dujourie has used different materials in her works, such as paper, velvet, marble, plaster, lead, clay and iron, revealing their internal contradictions.

These materials can be understood as soft and hard, malleable and rigid, fluid and solid, sensual yet inert: this depends on the extent to which the viewer’s perception of them is modified by the “poetry” that results from their manipulation. “I choose materials for their meaning and they are always both matter and medium”.

www.ftn-books.com has one publication with a contribution by Lili Dujourie available

Two reasons for me to write a blog on Graffin. the first….. i like his almost minimalistic work, mostly executed in deep blue they always impress me.

Daniel Graffin was an artist.

Daniel Graffin was an artist. Daniel Graffin was born in 1938 and died in 1996. Artists born in the same year and of the same generation are Bao Naiyong, Royston Ecroyd, Ernesto Fontecilla, Christian Dumoulin, and Robert Bibler.

Daniel Graffin’s creative work was primarily inspired by the 1950s. It can be said that the 1950s were dominated by Abstract Expressionism, a form of painting that prioritised dramatic brushstrokes and expressed ideas about organic nature, spirituality and the sublime. Much of the focus was on the formal techniques of painting, and ideas of action painting were unified with the political freedom of the United States society as opposed to the strict nature of the Soviet bloc. Influential artists of the Abstract Expressionist Generation included Jackson Pollock (who innovated his famed drip, splatter and pour painting techniques), Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Frank Kline, Barnett Newman, Clyfford Still and Adolph Gottlieb. It was a male dominated environment, though necessary revisionism of this period has highlighted the contributions of female artists such as Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, and Louise Bourgeois, amongst others.

The secon reason is that Wim Crouwel designed the publication for the Daniel Graffin exhibition in the Stedelijk Museum in 1977. Impressive in the deep blue color he used one side for the promotion of the exhibition (poster side) and the other for the artist information. This poster is now available at www.ftn-books.com

The multi-artist Flemming Quist Møller, who made a reputation for himself as an illustrator, youngsters’s guide writer, musician, movie screenwriter and even actor, is very identified for his standard works.

These embody the debut guide ‘Cykelmyggen Egon’ from 1967, ‘Benny’s bathtub’ from 1969, ‘Snuden’ from 1980 and ‘Jungleader Hugo’ from 1989, which he collaborated on along with his son Carl Quist-Møller.

A number of of Flemming Quist Møller’s works have been printed each as youngsters’s books and cartoons.

ao the now at www.ftn-books.com available EN LYSTREJSE

In 2005, Flemming Quist Møller adopted up on the debut guide with ‘Cykelmyggen og Dansemyggen’, which was additionally printed as a cartoon in 2007.

Flemming Quist Møller was born on 19 Might 1942 and grew up in Taarbæk north of Copenhagen.

After a brief training on the Copenhagen animated movie firm Bent Barfod Movie between 1960 and 1961, he later turned a self-taught multi-artist, the place it was particularly as a author, illustrator, musician and movie director that he later turned nationally identified.

Gained a number of awards
Throughout his a few years of labor, Flemming Quist Møller obtained quite a lot of awards and accolades.

Amongst different issues, he obtained the Gyldendal Kids’s Ebook Prize in 2006 and the Ministry of Tradition’s Illustrator Prize in 1983, whereas he was additionally awarded an Honorary Bodil in 1994 for his animated movies.

In 2019, Quist Møller was awarded the Statens Kunstfond’s lifelong honor.

Mary Shaffer first explored slumped glass in the early 1970s, combining it with found materials. A recurring theme is one in which she marries the glass with discarded metal tools selected from a pile in her studio. Sheets of glass are heated into a plastic state, then allowed to slump, or sag, over sections of the tools or minimal geometric forms. The hot glass is cooled, arresting the fluidity, producing a folded or gracefully draped state more akin to fabric. Shaffer’s work in every medium reveals a fascination with the effects and manipulation of viscosity, leverage, balance, inertia, mass, and space.

Shaffer’s work is in collections at the American Craft Museum, New York City, NY; Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY; and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY; The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI; The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio; plus prestigious art institutions in France, Switzerland, Japan, Germany, Denmark. During her career Shaffer’s works have been exhibited at numerous galleries and museums. At present, Shaffer divides her time between New York and New Mexico.

www.ftn-books.com has one Bellerive publication on this artist available.

Tim Threlfall was born in 1940 and was predominantly influenced creatively by the 1950s. In the Post-War period the lens of modernism was focused, in terms of internationally, on developments in New York City. The Second World War had brought many leading artists to the city in exile from Europe, leading to a substantial pooling of talent and ideas. Influential Europeans that came to New York and provided inspiration for American artists included Piet Mondrian, Josef Albers and Hans Hoffmann, who between them set the foundations for much of the United States’ significant cultural growth in the decades thereafter. It can be said that the 1950s were dominated by Abstract Expressionism, a form of painting that prioritised dramatic brushstrokes and expressed ideas about organic nature, spirituality and the sublime. Much of the focus was on the formal techniques of painting, and ideas of action painting were conflated with the political freedom of the United States society as opposed to the strictures nature of the Soviet bloc. Important artists of the Abstract Expressionist Generation included Jackson Pollock (who innovated his famed drip, splatter and pour painting techniques), Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Frank Kline, Barnett Newman, Clyfford Still and Adolph Gottlieb. It was a male dominated environment, though necessary reassessment of this period has underlined the contributions of female artists such as Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, and Louise Bourgeois, amongst others.

www.ftn-books.com has added yesterday the scarce 1967 Haags Gemeentemuseum catalogue to its inventory.

I just added 2 Sixties Haags Gemeentemuseum catalogues and what struck me immediately is the design that is far better than the designs of the late Seventies. It got better in the mid eighties and by the beginning of the Nineties it was up to par with the other dutch museums. Biggest improvement were the designs by Donald Janssen and later Gracia Lebbibk who made designs that stood out from the rest….. but these two….great designs…. . both by Hans Walkate .

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

Writer and painter. Swiss born. I do not know any of his writings but i have admired his paintings as loong as i had first seen them.

For me they have the same qualities as the paintings and drawings i know of Frank van Hemert. In many paintings you can find parts of the human body or human figures, In no way realistic, but always recognisable as human.

He is associated with the Neue Wilde painting style.

Born to a family of gardeners, he was expelled from school in 1968 for disciplinary reasons. He was married to fellow artists Agnes Barmettler and later Irene Grundel. In the 1970s and 1980s, Disler worked extensively in Europe and in the US, gaining international attention alongside artists such as Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente and Georg Baselitz. In 1982, he exhibited works at the Documenta 7. His awards include the Bremer Kunstpreis (1985), the Preis für junge Schweizer Kunst der Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft (1987) and the Kunstpreis des Kantons Solothurn (1988).

www.ftn-books.com has several Disler titles available.

Braco Dimitrijević was born in Sarajevo (formerly Yugoslavia) in 1948 and currently lives and works in Paris, France. He graduated from the Zagreb Academy in 1971 and completed his post graduate studies at Saint Martin’s School of Art in London in 1973. Solo museum exhibitions have taken place at The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg and Musée d’Orsay, Paris (2005); the Slought Foundation, Philadelphia (2007); Ludwig Museum, Budapest (2008), Musee d’Art Moderne de Saint Etienne (2009), Musee d”Art et d’Histoire Luxemburg (2011). He has participated in Documenta in 1972, 1976, and 1993 as well as the Venice Biennale in 1976, 1982, 1990, 1993, and 2009. His work can be found in approximately 70 public collections, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate, London; Musee National d’Art Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; and The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, among others.

Dimitrijević has still a loyal following, but the large museums seem to have forgotten him. Maybe it is time to re discover him since his work is still fascinating.

www.ftn-books.com has one publication currently available

The architect, urbanist and artist Luc Deleu sees architecture as a form of visual, sculptural and political thinking concerning the relationship between public and private space. In 1970 he founded ‘T.O.P. office’: a firm for the study of urban development and architecture. The firm’s motivation and goal were to question architecture and urban design and their position and function in society. Deleu soon became convinced that in many respects our cities would be improved if we built less. In his view, the rapid evolution of communication and mobility should make it possible to lead a more nomadic life again. His initial projects therefore emphasised the wealth of potential of mobility as against the rigid immobility of physical buildings. They argued against the privilege that immovable property enjoys as places to live and work. Together with his wife Laurette Gillemot (1946) and a few members of staff, Deleu is still generating visionary ideas on urbanisation, sometimes with a utopian tendency, which respond inventively to the ecological, economic, cultural, social, geographic and administrative-political reality and future.

www.ftn-books.com has two publications available on this artist

De Andrea is an artistic representative of Hyperrealism and the Hyperrealism school of art, and specializes in nudes, frequently lovers, which he makes from plastic, polyester, glass fiber with natural hair and painted after naturalistic gypsum castings. His work is often associated with that of Duane Hanson and George Segal.^[5][6]

In documenta 5 in Kassel 1972,^[7] he presented Arden Andersen and Nora Murphy, a hyper-realistic sculpture of a couple in the act of love-making, made from bodycasts rendered in polyester resin.^[8][9]

This alienation between the lovers and their incurable misfortune becomes even clearer with his 1978 work on display in Aachen, entitled The Couple. The man is not only fully dressed and the woman naked, but she clings to him, while he touches her only minimally, in order to not induce an open rejection.^[10]

De Andrea’s works based on the sculptor and his model are characterized by a sober, professional relationship between the man and the woman; the artist concentrates on his work or rather is shown in situations, where he withdraws within himself to a meditative posture, and retreats into himself, in order to collect his energy and concentration for further work.

While looking for info on this fascinationg artist i encountered a post by Voorlinden about the De Andrea in the Caldic collection. A great combination with the leather Barcelona chairs by Mies van der Rohe.

www.ftn-books.com has some books on Hyperrealist artists available.