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It must have been dozens of times that i passed a sculpture by Henk van Bennekum, but i only realized recently that these sculptures were by van Bennekum since i bought TYPOLOGIE VAN DE REEKS by this artist. The Ablasserdam sculpture i had noticed before when passing it by boat, but the others all were anonymous to me. but….. the cover of Typologie van de reeks struck me as a beautiful Wim Crouwel like cover and i bought the book and studied a little van Bennekum’s earlier works and i love them. They have a minimal quality about them and i would love to add a work to my collection. I will be on the look out for his work from now on and for those interested in his catalogue. It is available at www.ftn-books.com

 

 

A blog on a former pornstar… aren’t there any other subjects? Yes, there are , but since i encountered several works of art by Annie Sprinkle in which she creates art with her female forms, i was strongly reminded of Yves Klein who did this some 50 years ago. The proces is simple color your boobs with ink or paint and make an impression of them on paper. The result…i think at least it is personal and authentic.

In the Netherlands mrs. Sprinkle had a strong fan base who invited her to publish some ( now classic) books of which www.ftn-books.com holds a copy.

Yesterday i announced the sale of the impressive Paul de Kort set ARSIS a series of 12 drawings/ 6 of them graphite and 6 with charcoal and pencil.

It was bought by me last week and I announced its sale for later this year, but because of a request to show more photographs of this set i decided to photograph it right away and put it up for sale at the “ftn art” pages within this blog. Here is just a teaser. For all the photographs and full description visit: https://wordpressstrato-pacfwc5kp0.live-website.com/ftn-art/

I was fortunate to acquire for FTN art an impressive box by Paul de Kort. The box contains 6 graphite ” PULSE” drawings. The counterparts being a drawn spiral in pencil and charcoal framed in lead. All 12 drawings are signed. So far the technique. What makes this box important is that the spiral shape/ maze of the drawings comes back in his projects which are executed on a much much larger scale.

One of his latest projects is the Wassende Maan project which was designed 2005 and executed in 2008. It is situated in the Northern Part of the Biesbosch  (south of Rotterdam/Dordrecht). Search on Google gives great view of the project:

https://www.google.nl/maps/place/De+Wassende+Maan/@51.7907751,4.7833401,933m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x47c6828a5e93de25:0xb1c0ce93edaf0b11!8m2!3d51.7907751!4d4.7855341?hl=nl

If one studies the projects Paul de Kort executed during the last 30 years as an artist you can see why i think the box I acquired is of importance. The shapes, patterns and execution is on this smaller scale a source of inspiration for his later works.. The complete set will become for sale later this year. Here is a preview of the box and 4 drawings.

 

 

As announced last year, after i acquired the Schaamstreken series by Otto Egberts, I am now starting the sale of the first volume within the series… SCHAAMSTREKEN 1.

This book is also bound in original goat leather and contains 15 original drawings by Otto Egberts. The book is signed and dated by the artist on the end page and was sold to the previous owner by galerie Phoebus.

The SCHAAMSTREKEN 1 book measures 39,3 x 10,9 cm. And contains 34 pages, 15 drawings spread over 2 pages and 2 one page drawings. The end paper has the signature and date on it in pencil. These original drawings were done in color on old Danish maps and nautical charts.

for more information see the FTN art pages (above) in this blog. here is the link:

https://wordpressstrato-pacfwc5kp0.live-website.com/ftn-art/