‘Innocence is precisely: never to avoid the worst.’ This final sentence of Lettre au nègre , written in 2003 by Belgian artist Philippe Vandenberg (1952-2009), has become the title of an exhibition…
The Marlene Dumas exhibition Name no Names has been organized by the Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne and is being shown in Tilburg following presentations in Paris and New York. It…
Four large drawings from the past two years comprise the basis of an exhibition of work by Johan Kuipers (Sneek 1960) in the project space at De Pont Museum. Their dimensions far exceed those of an…
For the expressive, at times almost violent-looking paintings of the Austrian artist Arnulf Rainer (Baden, 1929), an existing depiction has almost always served as the point of departure up to now.…
A twenty-four page newspaper constitutes the main part of an exhibition of work by Luuk Wilmering (Haarlem, 1957) in De Pont's project space. Not only in terms of appearance, but also as far as…
A visit to Batavia Stad gave rise to the initial impulse for the recent photographic project of Korrie Besems (Den Hout, 1961). This outlet shopping center in Lelystad has the appearance of an…
Amami-Oshima is an island at the southernmost tip of Japan. At the invitation of a Japanese organization, photographer Cuny Janssen (Nijmegen, 1975) went there in 2007 in order to portray the…
Early in 1996, De Pont purchased a four-part work by the German painter Sigmar Polke (Oels, 1941). This acquisition, Hermes Trismegistus 1-4 (1995) was first shown at the 1995 Carnegie International…
Matter may be living, nonliving, or dead – you might expect the distinctions to be explained in an elementary biology lesson. But are those distinctions really as clearcut as they may seem? Dutch…
Peer Veneman (Eindhoven 1952) has been a strong representative of Dutch sculpture since the early 1980s. By that time, modernist sculpture was no longer 'in the picture'. Even the pedestals were gone.…