De presentatie met speciale edities in de AkzoNobel Artspace
De toonaangevende AkzoNobel Art Foundation bestaat 25 jaar, dat moet gevierd worden. Op 28 oktober aanstaande zal in de Art Space van het hoofdkantoor op de Amsterdamse Zuidas een speciale tentoonstelling te zien zijn met hoogtepunten van de jubilerende bedrijfscollectie. ALL EYES, We Are The Collection. Je bent hierbij alvast van harte uitgenodigd om te komen kijken!
Om het feestvreugde te vergroten ontwikkelde de Art Foundation samen met We Like Art een aantal scherp geprijsde jubileum-edities van geliefde kunstenaars uit de collectie. Deze werken in oplage worden aangeboden aan de medewerkers van AkzoNobel. Om zo thuis te kunnen genieten van een stukje van de collectie.
Een beperkt aantal exemplaren is beschikbaar voor de volgers van We Like Art. Hieronder een overzicht van de edities, een aantal exemplaren per editie is nu ook via onze eigen webshop te koop.
Per kunstenaar word je met een link doorgeleid naar de speciale website Collect The Collection. Je leest daar interviews met de kunstenaars: Koen Vermeule, Malin Persson, Jacco Olivier, Katrin Korfmann, Pere Llobera, Kim van Norren, Elspeth Diederix, Sebastiaan Bremer en Thomas Trum. Alle edities staan onderaan deze pagina in de webshop, even scrollen dus. 🙂
Koen Vermeule
Over Mirror: “I went on a walk in Neerijen, a floodplain landscape at the foot of the Martinus Nijhoff bridge. The weather was dramatic all the way there, but when we arrived at the dike the sun broke through theatrically.
The sky reflected beautifully in a rain puddle, which inspired me to make this work. The place is not important, rather it’s a free way of looking at reality, micro and macro view in one. It can be anywhere.”
Lees hier meer over Koen Vermeule
Koen Vermeule, Mirror (2020), 51 x 78 cm, piezografie op Hahnemühle White Velvet papier, oplage 50
Malin Persson
Over Tidig Morgon: “Early Morning is a mirror image of a memory from the past. The work emphasizes the relationship between man and nature. Light from two different sources; the sunlight and artificial light. I don’t know what happens in the house, but I take you to a place where people just wake up and the animal nightlife falls asleep.”
Lees hier meer over Malin Persson
Malin Persson, Tidig Morgon / Early Morning (2020), 32 x 23cm, piezografie op Hahnemühle White Velvet papier, met toevoegingen in inkt, oplage 50
Jacco Olivier
Over de editie: “With ‘Terra Incognita’ I wanted not to worry about brushstrokes or handwriting, with the sole aim of creating a bright color composition. When that is done, the canvas no longer has a top or bottom, which means it could also hang upside down.
By inserting a figure, in this case a dog, the painting is grounded and it becomes even more spatial. Now it looks like a landscape.”
Lees hier meer over Jacco Olivier
Jacco Olivier, Terra Incognita (2019), 27 x 42 cm, piezografie op Hahnemühle White Velvet papier, oplage 50
Katrin Korfmann
“Chouara is a 11th-century tannery in Morocco. Family run cooperatives have been tanning leather in Chouara for the best part of 1000 years. Located in the old town of Fez and still fully functioning, this ancient industry has become a popular tourist destination.
The basins depicted are filled with the dyes used by the workers. Although the site and its surroundings are beautiful, the smells coming from it are repugnant. The strong odor is caused by pigeon droppings that are being used to unhair the hides. The basins in which the skins are dyed are quite large, with some pots 1.50 meters in diameter.
Once a week, all the dyes in the pots are renewed which results in color combinations that constantly changing. All the colors are made with natural materials such as poppy seeds and saffron.”
Lees hier meer over Katrin Korfmann.
Katrin Korfmann, Chouara Little (2020), 65 x 50 cm, piezografie op Hahnemühle White Velvet papier, oplage 50
Pere Llobera
Over Ruined Party: “At the time that the AkzoNobel Art Foundation asked me for a special edition, I was participating in a group show of my Barcelona Gallery (Bombon). For that show, I created a real cake that had to be destroyed with an umbrella. The idea was to practice my performance art a little while paying tribute to the 70’s performers.
After the photo, it felt like the cake was looking at me. The funny thing is that I was acting as a performer but at the very end it was impossible to avoid being intrigued by the act of painting: the painter inside me took the upper hand.”
Pere Llobera, Ruined Party (2020), 51 x 64 cm, piezografie op Hahnemühle White Velvet papier, oplage 30
Kim van Norren
Over “May you stay forever young”: “The original work from 2013 that is in the AkzoNobel Art Collection came about when my father passed away. I listened to Bob Dylan’s song and thought that was exactly what I wanted for my father. Memories do have that special quality to fixate people in a certain phase. My painting captures the memory of him as a monument.
In the spring of 2020, I made a new version: a work on paper. I had immersed myself again in Bob Dylan’s music. “May you stay forever young” was created alongside “The times They are a-changin”, this combination did justice to the passage of time for me. Time that is precious, time in which you have experienced beautiful, lively moments.”
Kim van Norren, May You Stay Forever Young (2020), 65 x 45 cm, piezografie op Hahnemühle White Velvet papier, oplage 50
Elspeth Diederix met vrijwilligers in haar Miracle Garden in het Erasmuspark in West Amsterdam.
Elspeth Diederix
Over de editie: “Pink Echinops is related to my Miracle Series in which I photographed the wonder of the flower. In the first series mainly due to an “analog” intervention. With Pink Echinops, I turned on the backlight by painting one side of the flower in a fluorescent pink, which creates the effect of bright pink sunlight coming from behind the flowers.”
Lees hier meer over Elspeth Diederix
Elspeth Diederix, Pink Echinops (2020), 42 x 29 cm, oplage 50, piezografie, UITVERKOCHT
Sebastiaan Bremer
Over Narcissus: “Just before I moved to New York in 1992 I purchased a book, Bloemen (flowers). The book was made during the occupation of the Netherlands as an undercover patriotic gesture – and finished in the years immediately following the war. It was presented to Queen Wilhelmina in 1948, a showcase of some of the best the Netherlands had to offer: printing, flower cultivation and graphic design.
There is something still and melancholic about the images of these flowers, perhaps a result of the time in which they were created. I wanted to work on them and shake them loose, like you do to dormant seeds; you water them and slowly breathe life into them.”
Sebastiaan Bremer, Narcissus Incomparabilis Fortune (2021), 30cm x 25cm, piezografie op Hahnemühle White Velvet papier, met handmatige toevoegingen met acrylverf, vernis en mylar, oplage 40
Thomas Trum
Over Two Curved Lines (2020):
“This is a series of works consisting of a continuous line that changes color, where one line passes over the surface twice.
I make a lot of works with squiggly lines that create circles, which I make with felt-tip pens. This series of works uses a modern airless spray-paint mounted on a tripod. The surface then rotates while the spray-paint remains in the same place. This is how these perfect curves are created on paper.”
Lees hier meer over Thomas Trum
Thomas Trum, special edition
Thomas Trum, Two Curved Lines (2020), een serie van 75 unieke werken, 72 x 51 cm, hoog gepigmenteerde spraypaint op papier
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