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Affaire buttplug
From the decision to purchase in February 2003 and placing of teh sculpture later, ‘Santa Claus’ kept minds and media occupied.
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Essay: Santa Claus
Editor’s note: The following essay by Pol van Dinsbergen was written at the time that the sketch design was known, and when the intention was to use a red Santa with a green ‘Christmas tree’…
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The projects and proposals for Rotterdam South
In cooperation with the Hart van Zuid organisation, SIR is realising projects with the artists Erik van Lieshout, Hendrik-Jan Hunneman, Ai Weiwei and Ken Lum. Commission, a film by Erik van Lieshout…
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How far off is the avenue?
essay Dirk van Weelden Take a walk along the Coolsingel with the idea that it could be an avenue. A metropolitan grand boulevard. The city’s flagship. A stage upon which the city can regard itself…
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Cosima von Bonin
Cosima von Bonin is one of the biggest enigmas in contemporary art. Her most important objective, it would appear, is to remain as indefinable as possible; as a result, it is difficult to establish the…
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Atelier Van Lieshout
Atelier Van Lieshout was founded in 1995 by Joep van Lieshout (1963). AVL receives international recognition for the handmade polyester sculptures and installations that are a cross between art, architecture and design. The artworks embody…
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Franz West
Franz West (1947 – 2012) was born in Vienna. Over the last thirty years he has built up an extensive oeuvre. Even before he began his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in…
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John Körmeling
John Körmeling was born in 1951 and studied Civil Engineering at the Technische Universiteit in Eindhoven, where he is still based today. His work, a cross-over of sculpture, architecture, urban planning and design, consists of…
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Job Koelewijn
Job Koelewijn was born in Spakenburg in 1962 and studied painting at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. His graduation project in 1992 represented a radical break with painting and the beginning of a search…
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Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooning was born in Rotterdam in 1904. His career began in 1916 as an apprentice painter with the Gidding firm, where he produced decorative paintwork. In 1920 he became a decorator at a…
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Karel Appel
Karel Appel was born in 1921 in the Dapperstraat in Amsterdam. He wanted to be an artist from the age of fifteen. He studied painting at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam from 1942…
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David Bade
David Bade was born in Willemstad, Curaçao in 1970. The drawings, sculptures and installations he has made since the early 1990s contain references to a range of images from the visual arts and popular culture.
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Phillip King
British sculptor Phillip King (Tunis, Tunisia, 1934 – London, 2021) studied in London in the late 1950s under Anthony Caro. He would develop himself into an important abstract artist. In the 1960s he exhibited sculptures…
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