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Verrukkelijke baby’s – 4

March 19, 2023

Verrukkelijke baby’s – 3

March 17, 2023 – baby’s on the radio:

Saturday 11 March I was a guest of Dolf Jansen, NPO Radio 2, in the programme Spijkers Met Koppen.

Wednesday 15 March I was a guest of Annemieke Bosman, NPO Radio 4, in the programme Opium.

Thursday 16 March I was a guest of Patricia Nagelkerke, NH Radio, in the programme Lunchroom.

Verrukkelijke baby’s – 2

March 12, 2023

Yesterday, newspapers Het Parool and De Standaard dedicated many pages to my book ‘Verrukkelijke baby’s’, which will be published this week.

In the afternoon I was a guest on the radio programme Spijkers Met Koppen (NPO Radio 2), where Dolf Jansen was interviewing me about my book ‘Verrukkelijke Baby’s’.

Verrukkelijke baby’s – 1

January 26 2023

I am finalising my book Verrukkelijke baby’s, de geboorte in kaart gebracht (Delightful babies, birth mapped). The text is finished, the images have been selected, the first proof is imminent.
In 2012, I bought a remarkable postcard on Amsterdam’s Waterlooplein, depicting a flying fish holding a baby in its mouth. The card became the starting point of a miraculous quest.
In Verrukkelijke baby’s, I use old folk tales to unravel the origins of babies. Anyone paying close attention around 1900 could see infants everywhere. Babies were hidden in eggs, cabbages, trees, flowers and wells. And on 1 April, they were delivered to homes.
During the first 20 years of the last century, the postcard was an extremely popular medium of communication. Billions of cards went around the world. The surreal baby cards shown in this book were briefly a very popular subgenre. Verrukkelijke baby’s depicts both the genesis of the baby and that of the postcard and tells the story of their successful extravagant marriage.
The book will be published by Atlas Contact on March 14 and can also be ordered online from the publisher.

Collage Peepshow

November 12 – December 11 2022

Kalbskummer Phantomstute

July 29, 2022

Today I received the collection of poems in which publisher Suhrkamp combined the poems of Kalfsvlies and Fantoommerrie, written by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, into one edition, and for which I made a new cover image. The German translation can be found next to the Dutch original.

Vouch

March 31- April 3 2022

By invitation only, Loods 6, Amsterdam

Participating VOUCH artists:
Aletta Bos, Annegret Kellner, Anook Cléonne, Anya Janssen, Caren van Herwaarden, Charlotte Markus, Charlotte Schrameijer, Cor Litjens, Daniëlle Lemaire, Ellert Haitjema, Erna Anema, Izaak Zwartjes, Jans Muskee Jacobien de Rooij, Martijn Schuppers, Paul Nassenstein, Rinke Nijburg, Rob Bouwman, Seet van Hout, Tammo Schuringa, Tom Heerschop, Toon Berghahn, Wim Bosch, Wouter van Riessen

collages – assemblages

January 21, 2022

Rob de Vries curated an exhibition of collages and assemblages.
With works of ARMAN, Armando, Carel Blotkamp, Guillaume Bijl, Eugène Brands, Sjoerd Buisman, Luciano Fabro,
Risk Hazekamp, Henk Peeters, Tammo Schuringa, Piet Tuytel, Carel Visser, Kees Visser, Luuk Wilmering
and Frans Zwartjes.

Xmas and 2022

January 3, 2022

de Volkskrant published a series of Father Christmas photos from my collection online on 23 December 2021, Olaf Tempelman wrote an accompanying text.

The Belgian newspaper De Standaard published 31 December 2021 a number of my New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day cards from over 100 years ago.

Collega nekklap

October 21, 2021

Tomorrow the exhibition Collega nekklap opens in Galerie KRUIS-WEG68. I am showing 60 collages from the past years, from pin-up arrangements to Islamophobia collages, from expressionist sculptures to images to poems from the publication Etalagegeluk.
Renée Borgonjen, artistic coordinator of the Vishal, will open the exhibition at 1 pm, the gallery is open from 11 am to 6 pm.

Marcella Kuiper (Cella Vie Filmproducties) made a short film about my work especially for this exhibition, see below and on youtube.

Collega nekklap, from October 22 to November 20 2021
Galerie KRUIS-WEG68, Kruisweg 68, 2011 LE Haarlem
Opening hours: Thurs. – Sat. 11 am -6 pm and by appointment