About a month ago i took a small stack of books published in the late 40″s/50′ and was struck by the classic beauty of these designs. Timeless and still contemporary. From Left to right:
Sandberg, Sandberg, Sandebrg and Aldo van Eyck
All titles are now available at www.ftn-books.com
We are relocating!
In the coming weeks we will be occupied with packing and moving our internet store inventory. The entire collection needs to be transferred from Leidschendam to Oegstgeest, and this will take some time.
If all goes according to plan, we will be fully operational again on November 21st, but until then, it may happen that we are unable to immediately assist you with your order. We ask for your understanding, but as soon as possible, your order will be fulfilled with the utmost speed.
Marjolein Bastin-uit den Bogaard (1943) is a Dutch illustrator and artist, renowned for her depictions of nature, including animals and plants. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Arnhem, where she met her husband Gaston Bastin. From 1960-1965, she worked for various advertising agencies and publishers. Marjolein and Gaston Bastin have a daughter, Sanna, born in 1973, and a son, Mischa, born in 1974. She has two granddaughters: Merel and Roos. Marjolein Bastin has lived in various places, such as Missouri, the Cayman Islands, the Veluwe, Ameland, and Switzerland, all of which have been sources of inspiration for her work. She currently resides in Wekerom.
Since 1974, Marjolein Bastin has been working for the weekly magazine Libelle, where she had her own nature page from 1980 onwards, accompanied by her character ‘Vera de Muis.’ She also creates watercolors. Her drawings appear in books and on various products, such as calendars, agendas, cards, pottery, and embroidery kits, among others, for the American company Hallmark. She has also contributed to various nature books. In 1993, her beautiful drawing of lungwort graced the cover of a thesis by her namesake, Marjolein Drent.
She has created drawings of ducklings for the ild care foundation (‘i love ducklings’), which launched a new campaign in 2011. The foundation hopes to gain more recognition with her support.
Her original works have been exhibited, among others, at the Nature Center Ameland and the Noord Brabants Museum in Den Bosch. For the artist, the exhibition was a moment of recognition. ‘The pinnacle of my work. Very touching and unexpected.www.ftn-books.com has a large selection of books by Marjolein Bastin.
We are relocating!
In the coming weeks we will be occupied with packing and moving our internet store inventory. The entire collection needs to be transferred from Leidschendam to Oegstgeest, and this will take some time.
If all goes according to plan, we will be fully operational again on November 21st, but until then, it may happen that we are unable to immediately assist you with your order. We ask for your understanding, but as soon as possible, your order will be fulfilled with the utmost speed.
Inez van Lamsweerde, born on September 25, 1963 in Amsterdam, is a Dutch art photographer, renowned for her digitally manipulated photos. Together with her husband Vinoodh Matadin, she creates numerous art pieces that blend fashion photography and art. The two met at the Akademie Vogue, where they both studied clothing design. However, after two years, Inez van Lamsweerde left the school to pursue further studies at the Rietveld Academie, focusing on photography. But she still had a passion for fashion and incorporated it into her photography. Her photos are razor-sharp and can be described as perfect. Every aspect of the photo is precisely crafted and carefully thought out. Inez van Lamsweerde’s current photos include a combination of fashion and art photography. She works with many well-known brands and photographs models in the traditional style seen in fashion magazines, which is the fashion photography element. However, the use of light and contours in her work makes it appreciated by lovers of art photography as well.
www.ftn-books.com has some Inez van Lamsweerde items available.
In the beginning, Marijke van Warmerdam crafted sculptures encompassing a wide array of mediums: wood, plaster, metal, glass, textiles, and rubber. However, her artistic pursuits have since expanded to a diverse repertoire, incorporating video, photography, audiotape, silkscreen, and even wrapping paper and stickers. Through her commissions and installations, she delves into the realm of intangibility, boldly experimenting with concepts such as time and movement. This is most apparent in her 16-mm films, where she chooses and captures moments from life, setting them into fluid motion.
For instance, in “Handstand” (1992) a girl can be seen repeatedly performing a handstand, while in “Douche” (1995) a man stands under a shower, the actions playing out ad infinitum. The films are presented in a continuous loop, with no discernible beginning or end, seamlessly connecting the two. The duration between the return of the exact image is intentionally ambiguous, creating a mesmerizing rhythm that draws the viewer into the enthralling world of repetition. Observation turns into fixation, as the repetition conjures a sense of enchantment while simultaneously diminishing the significance of the actions being shown. Time simultaneously moves forward and stands still, as there is no overarching narrative to follow. The focus is on the process, not the storytelling.
Despite their close resemblance to reality, these short films exist in the realm of art, specifically in the museum setting. They are projected onto a white wall or screen within the exhibition space, rather than a typical movie theater. The projector is always visible, emphasizing the artifice of the medium. As a viewer, you physically move through the projections, further blurring the line between the art and reality. It’s as though you’re entering a liminal space, but never fully immersing yourself.
www.ftn-books.com has several van Warmerdam titles now available.
It must have been written in the stars since many dutch artist swho became household names in the 80’s and 90’s were born and raised in the city of Eindhoven. There are of course Henk Visch and Piet Dirkx to whome i have devoted multiple blogs and now you can add Peer Veneman to that list. Also born and raised in Eindhoven, but this time with a different career. Where Dirkx and Visch stayed initially in Eindhoven, Veneman moved to Amsterdam and soon became part of the LIVING ROOM art scene. Here he had his first successful exhibitions and later his name would become more familiar and his works more successful resulting in exhibitions at galerie Onrust and at galerie Hafemann.
He became known in the 1980’s with colorful sculptures that somehow filled the space between abstraction and figuration. Ever since he took the liberty to make abstract and figurative works at the same time, denying the traditional gap between the two. One constant factor evident throughout all his work is his apparent refusal, even within a single piece of sculpture, to do the same thing twice. He aims to give new meaning to sculpture (form), painting (the surface) and architecture (spatial construction). Not only are the formal aspects of visual art questioned by Veneman in his work, but his connotative intentions also undergo that process as well.
www.ftn-books.com has some nice Living Room and Veneman publications available.
Born in Willemstad Curacao, Avery Preesman was educated in the Netherlands. He entered the ATELIERS in 1992 without any pre education and because of his exceptional talent he soon received the second price in the Prix de Rome 1998 contest and in the same year the WOLVECAMPPRIJS. He became soon after a galerie artist of the famous ZENO X gallery in Antwerp and received solo exhibitions at the SMAK and Kunstlerhaus in Vienna and to end this lightning career of Preesman a solo exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in 2001. Within a period of 9 years, Preesman had established himself as one of the leading contemporary artists in the Netherland. You can only admire such an artist. During the last 20 years , Preesman has been a regular contributor to the art and museum scene in Europe and beyond.
www.ftn-books.com has the 1999 NAi catalogue available. It is the catalogue which shows why Preesman has become so famous within a period of 10 years. He is a true natural.
“I call myself a haunted house… we all have ghosts and histories.” – John Davies
Davies’ interest in the human presence set him apart from many of his contemporaries in British sculpture at the beginning of his career. Of his early figures, often cast from life and clothed, Davies has said, ‘I wanted to make a figure, not like a piece of sculpture, more like a person…. I wanted my sculpture to be more like life in the street’.
His more recent works are modelled in clay, before being cast in polychrome polyester and fibreglass, or bronze. Davies arranges these figures in carefully choreographed relationships. Animals and inanimate objects such as houses also appear in works whose thematic concerns are always with human experience.
Of The Deerson Series, shown for the first time in this exhibition, John has said: ‘This series of scarecrow-like figures, with their moons, are a kind of self-portrait. I never intended to make these images, having other ideas to the fore, when I had a car crash in 2010. My life always leaks into my work, so inevitably and reluctantly these images emerged. They are works processing my long recovery. Now to me they seem to have a life of their own, independent of my story. Mad dancing ‘scarecrows’ coming to life, a protest against fate and physical frailty, like the figures in the Watersons’ song, ‘The Scarecrow’.’
Drawing, often in series, has always been an important aspect of John Davies’ practice, and the sculpture and drawings are equally important to him. The drawings in this installation demonstrate how the two practices influence each other.
The above text was found in Fuse magazine
www.ftn-books.com has some John Davies catalogues available
Last week i was in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and was very much impressed by the Malevich and “white” rooms with Dekkers and Schoonhoven. White and nothing but white and it reminded me of the current exhibition at de Rijk Fine Art ( Noordeinde 95 /Den Haag).
Excellent, high quality, museum worthy paintings by ao Schoonhoven , Dekkers and Leblanc… in a totally different setting which was more a cosy living room ( including the dog ;-), than a gallery. The simplicity and in the same time complexity of the works, work very well in this setting. They do not need a museum presentation to show their true qualities. This exhibition lasts until the 26th of February so i advise you to take a look at the de Rijk gallery and see for yourself the qualities of this great and important gallery exhibition.
For publications on Schoonhoven, Dekkers and Malevich visit www.ftn-books.com
Since the beautiful WELTACHSE V blue sculpture in the inner garden of the Gemeentemuseum i have been a loyal fan of Jurgen Partenheimer and build a nice collection of books on this fascinating artist. I am not the only one, because a few years ago a managed to acquire a selection of books from another admirer and upon studying them i found some original art work on their title page. One of these books i want to share with you. It is not for sale but shows the quality of Partenheimer’s work. Of course i must make the picture complete and show you the books that are for sale and will do so tomorrow, but for now there is only this very nice small publication. Originally published in an edition of 500, but only 10 were numbered and had a beautiful little drawing on their title pages.
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