A few weeks ago i started to persent the combination of catalogue and poster published with an exhibition. The initial blogs were on publications designed by Wim Crouwel, but to day and tomorrw i will show you 2 combinations by another great…WILLEM SANDBERG
The first is for the Andre Bauchant ehibition in 1949.
This is almost 1 on 1. You of color and background are the same. The fonts however are different.
Both are available at www.ftn-books.com
A few years ago i encountered at auction a box , designed and painted by Joe Tilson. I searched for the artist but beside the usual Wikipedia page, not much information was found. Hardly any auction history and only a few presentations in the Netherlands. One of these at the Boymans van Beuningen in 1973 ( catalogue now available at www.ftn-books.com), but the name remained present in my memory and i am still looking for an affordable multiple by this artist , since he represents Britisch Pop Art in a way i appreciate very much. Colorful , typical Pop Art themes come along and make his works desirable .
During the 1960s Tilson became one of the leading figures associated with the British Pop Art movement. Making use of his previous experience as a carpenter and joiner, Tilson produced wooden reliefs and constructions as well as prints and paintings.As a student at the RCA Tilson associated with Frank Auerbach, Leon Kossoff, R. B. Kitaj, Peter Blake, Allen Jones, Patrick Caulfield and David Hockney.[citation needed]
His first one-man show was held at the Marlborough Gallery, London in 1962.[4] In 1977 he joined the Waddington Galleries and also exhibited at the Alan Cristea Gallery and the Giò Marconi Galleries in Milan. Tilson’s work gained an international reputation when shown at the XXXII Venice Biennale in 1964,[ which led to a retrospective at the Boyman’s Museum, Rotterdam in 1964. Further retrospective exhibitions followed at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 1979 and the Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol in 1984.
Growing disillusionment with the consumer society led to a change in Tilson work in the 1970s.After moving to Wiltshire in 1972, Tilson began to use a wider variety of materials, including stone, straw and rope in an effort to transcend time and culture by drawing on the motifs of pre-Classical mythology. This body of work was called Alchera.
Tilson’s work has been exhibited regularly in solo shows throughout the world: Cortona Centro Culturale Fontanella Borghese, Rome (1990), Plymouth City Museum (1991), Palazzo Pubblico, Siena (1995), Mestna Gallery, Ljubljana (1996) and Galleria Comunale d’Arte, Cesena (2000). Recently a major retrospective was held at the Royal Academy of Arts, London (2002). Among Tilson’s awards are the Gulbenkian Foundation Prize (1960) and the Grand Prix d’Honneur, Biennale of Ljubljana (1996). He is a Royal Academician and his career was celebrated with a retrospective exhibition in 2002 at the Royal Academy ‘Joe Tilson: Pop to Present’ (Sackler Galleries) from April 2002. He was also invited to paint the banner for the “Palio”, Siena in 1996. In 2019, he was commissioned make an installation for the Swatch Pavilion at the Venice Biennial inspired by his ‘Stones of Venice’ works. He also designed a limited edition watch as part of the project.
The following text comes from Wikipedia. I did not know the artist but i was impressed with a publication that was published in the Sixties with the van Abbemuseum exhibition. This publication is now availabel at www.ftn-books.com
From 1945 to 1950 Heerich studied fine arts at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Ewald Mataré. From 1950 to 1954, he belonged, together with Joseph Beuys, to the master class of his professor. At that time, he chiefly produced sculptures representing animals and drawings of plants. In 1954, he left the Düsseldorf academy and worked as an artist and art teacher. Since 1959, he used cardboard as his artistic material. He presented 10 of these “Kartonplastiken” at the documenta IV (1968) in Kassel.
Heerich emphasized that for him, “cardboard, like polystyrene, had no specifically aesthetic or historical connotations, the materials are value-neutral to the largest possible extent.” Furthermore, the artist was not primarily “concerned with the manifestation of an art object, but with making an idea material in terms of a specific problem: how space can be presented and formed.”
From 1969 to 1988 he was a professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. In 1974 he became also a member of the Academy of Arts, Berlin.
From 1982 to 1994 he created eleven exhibition pavilions for the Museum Insel Hombroich, which were called “chapels in the landscape”. His elemental sculptures became the design base for these gallery pavilions.
In 1978 Heerich received the Will Grohmann Prize in Berlin. In 1987 he received the Max Beckmann Prize in Frankfurt am Main and in 1995 the Anton Stankowski Prize in Stuttgart.
Containing over 300 chairs collected for teaching purposes since 1957, the collection is currently under the supervision of the Chair History of Architecture and Urban Planning (Van Wijk). It is acknowledged as one of the most important furniture collections in the Netherlands and is a source of knowledge about materials, construction and typologies for students and designers alike. In the past, the chairs were used as examples during lectures and as models during drawing lesson, but we now also use them as point of departure for research and design courses. Preliminary evaluations show that the close engagement with these unique objects improves students’ design processes and products.
Therre is an excellent article on thsi important collection to be found here:
JoDH_artikel_def.pdf (stoelencollectiedelft.nl)
and of course www.ftn-books.com has the first impostant publication from 1980 on this collection available.
This is still possibel, since 2 year after his death the Groninger Museum used one of Keith Haring Subway drawings as the leading image for all the publications that were published around the theme of Subway graffiti art. An exhibition which was held at the Groninger Museumin 1992.
Swip Stolk interpreted in his own special way this drawing and transformed into a spectacular exhibition poster. A few years earlier Stolk took an interest in graffiti art and integrated this art form into a poster devoted to the collection of the Groninger Museum. Both poster are now available at www.ftn-books.com
This will be the first of a series blogs devoted to the poster art for the Groninger Museum by Swip Stolk
The year 1969. The exhibition ” Bram Bogart”…location de Moriaan in Den Bosch.
This exhibition was held far before Bogart rose to world fame with his thick and impressive colorful paintings. The ineteresting thing is this poster, an original silkscreen probably printed by Bogart himself to save on exhibition costs, shows the direction his work was going in to.
A colorfield in the middle and along the edge another bright color which enhances the composition. I love this poster and since it is an original silkscreen i must recommend this to any serious Bogart collector. The print is now available at www.ftn-books.com
In 1966 , one of the first furniture design exhibitions was being held at the Stedelijk Museum. Wim Crouwel designed both the exhibition catalogue and the poster. On a scale of 1 to 10 , i think the catalogue is an 8, but the exhibition poster is a perfect 10.
both are now available at www.ftn-books.com
As promissed, some of the combinations that were published for the Stedelijk Museum exhibitions. I can show these because i recently acquired a great set of Crouwel designed posters. These combined with the other publications of the Stedelijk Museum that i have for sale at www.ftn-books.com makes some great visual presentations in my blogs. Today the VORMEN VAN DE KLEUR. The first large scale presentation of Colorfield and minimal art in the Netherlands. The catlogue was published in a Crouwel designed portfolio including 4 silkscreen prints of which one by Ellsworth Kelley and the poster has the same great color scheme. Minimal and colorfield combined into a great poster by Wim Crouwel. Both are now available at www.ftn-books.com.
Bengt Karl Erik Lindström was a Swedish artist. Lindström was one of Sweden’s best known contemporary artists with a characteristic style of distinct colors, often including contorted faces.
and this is where the item i now can offer comes in. It is the gallery poster for his 1970 Ariel exhibition. truly a contorted face and now available at www.ftn-books.com
Lindström was born in 1925 at Storsjö kapell, Härjedalen, Sweden. In 1944, he moved to Stockholm to study under the Swedish painter Isaac Grünewald. In 1948, he moved to Paris, where he studied under the French painters André Lhote and Fernand Léger. Lindström was influenced by the paintings of COBRA artist Karel Appel.
He remained in France at Savigny sur Orge for the rest of his artistic career. He had two children Mariana and Alexandre. Lindström died in 2008 in Sundsvall, Sweden.
Lindström is probably best known for his outdoor decorations, such as mural paintings and colorful sculptures. One of his most famous sculptures is the massive Y-sculpture at Midlanda Airport north of Sundsvall, Sweden.
Ajax is a famous dutch soccer team and Paul Huf was one of the society photographers in the Sixties. Huf was commissioned this photograph to portray the most famous of Ajax players from those years. In the picture…..Johan Cruijff, Piet Keizer, Klaas Nuninga and mister Ajax himself Sjaak Swart. This photograph has become iconic and was in 1997 chosen to be the picture for the Paul Huf exhibition at the Groninger Museum. Swip Stolk designed a beautiful , typical Stolk design, poster for this exhibition which is now for sale at www.ftn-books.com
Paul Huf (1924-2002), son of actor Paul Huf Sr., is still the Netherlands’ most famous (portrait) photographer. He portrayed many well-known Dutch people, but was also known for his advertising photography (for example, the beer campaign of Grolsch) and fashion photography. Huf’s photographs are glamorous and have an almost un-Dutch allure. Legendary was his series of sixty record covers in color, for classical music commissioned by Philips in 1954. Huf also made films, including a documentary portrait of painter Carel Willink (1975). He was, together with colleague Eva Besnyö, involved in the foundation of Photomuseum Amsterdam, now known as FOAM.
