Priorities

Since September I've begun studying (partime)Art history.
This takes a lot of time.

Because of this I have set some priorities.
In the foreseeable future I will not contine this blog.

I will however continue my Dutch blog http://kunstverzamelaar.blogspot.com/ after I've updated it.
As native Dutch speaker writing Dutch cosst much less effort than writing in English and translating into Dutch.

My last buy was this picture from Erwin Olaf. It measures 60 x 80 cm.

holiday with internet

I'm really overdue to write about the other graduation exhibitions in Amsterdam and Den Bosch. The last works I purchased and even Art Amsterdam.

But I expect this week some posts from me :-)

Graduation exhibitions Utrecht

Last week I've been to three graduation exhibitions. At first I went to the exhibition in my own city Utrecht. This was divided between two buildings several kilometers apart from each other. The first day and for the first day I had an abundance of time to watch and to speak to the students.
A graduation exhibition usually lasts four days and the student artists are usually around and willing to talk about their art. The first day I talked to a few photography and illustration graduates. Two graduates peaked in my eyes. Natascha Boel made her graduation work around intensiveparenting (she has two childeren)She made beautiful drawings of childeren. You can see them on her website here. (Click on the lower part of the suitcase to see her "eindexamenproject" (graduation project))
In the section photography made her project about a less soft subject.
She photographed machines for slaughtering animals. Very clean stainless steel machines, which seem to have been used in a movie like Terminator.
You can see the pictures here

Soon I will blog about the graduation exhibiom from the Rietveld academy (Amsterdam)and AKV/St Joost (Den Bosch)




As I haven't bought yet from any graduation student this year and I usually only show pictures from works of art I own.

Below two pictures form Martine Derks I bought through an auction site. She graduated in 2008 from the Rietveld Academy.
She made an installation for the Naarden photography festival. This festival is world famous in the Netherlands. You can see yth installation on her site.

She will have her next exhibition in the Amsterdam center of photography.

Holiday

I am on holiday. So for the next week no new posts.

Next pictures are two nice skies from Francine Steegs.

Tinkebell again

I just read that the book "Dearest Tinkebell" has been sold out.
On the internet it is sold for 60 euros, the original price was 25 euros.

In a previous post I wrote I bought a copy. I actually bought more copies. Maybe I will sell one to cover my expenses. I don't know yet. One copy I want to give tot my art society in Utrecht "Kunstliefde" (Love for Art) they wil auction or sell it June 20th. Look here for more details.

I don't know yet what to do with my spare copies. I will keep one and probably give away the other ones.

My First art collection Foam

Most readers know that I'm the student in an art collector's course.
This Saturday we went to FOAM (Photography Museum Amsterdam).

In there Willem Diepraam, a well-known Photographer, photo critic and licensed assessor for photographs showea part of his collection and told us whatever he found useful to know for starting photo collectors.

I remembered and will remember two things from his "speech".
1. The photo market is a buyer's market. Don't rush. There are so many photographs you can always buy good ones. I think this applies to the complete contemporary art world. There is so much art you can choose from you will always find something you like. So don't rush, tomorrow there is art too.

2. Do your homework. He explicitly recommended to "History of Photography" books I cannot remember. I started to collect books about fashion photography. It appears that I like the autonomous works from fashion photographers. So I bought a book with an overview of Duth fashion photography.

I will buy a book from Helmut Newton. He paved the path for many photographers after him.
From one of the I bought two large pictures. These ar from the series "Anonymous"
It shows nude female models in a position like they are sturdy men and with their face covered in such way they represent an action-hero and stay anonymous.

I bought these two pictures from Liselotte Schuppers.
Without Helmut Newton, she couldn't have made what she did. But we can enjoin.

I bought these whith size 120 x 80 cm which make them real impressive.

Hall of Art (Kunsthal)

With my money spent, I need other ways to work on my art collection.
In Rotterdam exits the Kunsthall (Art Hall.) They held there the first day of June two exhibitions for the last day.

One was dedicated to the "Prix de Rome 200 years" the most distinguished award one can get in art in the Netherlands. It used to be a certain amount of money which had to be spent to make a journey to Rome. This started 200 years ago, when the Netherlands were occupied by the French, and the French King from the Netherlands, Lodewijk Napoleon, (a brother form emperor Napoleon) created the award following a French tradition.
Nowadays the award is biannual and the artist can do whatever she likes with it.

Also in the Kunsthal was an exhibition dedicated to the former owner of Torch gallery, who recently died from cancer. He owned the gallery for 25 years. So his artists are a cross section from 25 years contemporary art. He very much liked photography, he was one of the first to bring it into the contemporary art world.

Below some pictures:


This is a photo from Elpseth Diederix. She won the first prize of the Grand Prix de Rome 2002 photography.



This photo is from Inez van Lamsweerde who was supported by Torch gallery.





This is an overview from some Torch painters in which you get an idea from the architectural style the Kunsthall is built in.



These photographs are from Anuschka Blommers and Niels Schumm. If you think these are just pictures upside down. Then try this: click on the picture to enlarge it and turn your monitor 180 degrees. You will be surprised.

After Rotterdam I went to Amsterdam. The Fotoacademie (Photo Academy) had her graduation exhibition. I went there to scout for new talent. I found many of them. One I wll be certainly following, because I did not understand her work at all.

She is Sanne Thunissen. Her website is here
Her Artist's statement was put in a Haiku from Onitsura.
So they blossom,
and so I look, and so,
they drop down and so.

These pictures below are form her.