Category: Dutch
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Kimsooja: To Breathe – Mokum
In her new site-specific installation To Breathe – Mokum, acclaimed Korean artist Kimsooja transforms Amsterdam’s oldest building into a contemplative space exploring themes of migration, displacement, belonging, and identity. Presented during Amsterdam’s 750th anniversary, the installation reflects deeply on the city’s long and complex migration history, in a time in which in Europe and the…
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Grillo Meets Toorop: Painting, Stained Glass and Religion as a Symbiotic Relationship
Contemporary Nigerian artist Yusuf Grillo is a highly influential figure in Nigerian art history. Born in Lagos in 1934, he is celebrated for his inventive use of color, especially his signature shades of deep blue (a reference to adire and resist-dye textiles used in Nigeria), and for his expressive interpretations of Yoruba culture. His iconic…
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Roemer Visscher, l’art de l’emblème et la tulipomanie dans l’Âge d’or des Provinces-Unies
Roemer Visscher était un négociant néerlandais prospère, mais aussi une figure éminente de la vie intellectuelle et culturelle des Provinces-Unies. Homme cultivé et passionné de littérature, il s’illustra notamment dans l’art des emblèmes, un genre à mi-chemin entre image, devise et interprétation morale. Il appartenait au cercle des rhétoriqueurs In liefde bloeiende (« En amour…
プロテオドラ Theodora Poulot 