Jacques van Griethuysen - Curiorama
The story behind the collages collected in Curiorama is itself curious. As recounted in an introduction to the volume by Geert Verbeke and in an afterword by René van der Voort, the background facts are these: from an office in The Hague, Jacques van Griethuysen earned his living as a broker and an...
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Kemzeke
Verbeke Foundation
2021
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| Schriftenreihe: | Verbeke Foundation artists' books
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | The story behind the collages collected in Curiorama is itself curious. As recounted in an introduction to the volume by Geert Verbeke and in an afterword by René van der Voort, the background facts are these: from an office in The Hague, Jacques van Griethuysen earned his living as a broker and an appraiser of real estate. At home, during the evening hours, working contentedly and carefully at his dinner table, he created collages, spontaneously assembling compositions from his extensive file of pre-cut images selected from among 19th century steel engravings, using pieces of cardboard as supporting surfaces. When finished to his satisfaction, the collages were then stored by van Griethuysen in cardboard boxes. A secret, solitary surrealist, he sought neither attention nor recognition for his creations, which came to number more than a thousand. Van Greithuysen also experimented with photo collages (examples of which are included in this collection). On only one occasion—persuaded to do so by a friend—did he consent to show his work in an exhibition held at the Galerie Pierre Vanderborght in Brussels in 1966. After his death in 1995, van Greithuysen's covert oeuvre might have been forever lost but for the efforts his son, Patrick van Greithuysen, who brought his father's work to the attention of Geert Verbeke and René van der Voort both of whom responded with enthusiasm and admiration for the vitality, variety and skillful renderings of this unknown artist's vision. An extensive collection of van Griethuysen's collages, comprising almost his entire body of work, has found a home at The Verbeke Foundation—a unique museum of contemporary art situated on 35 acres of open and enclosed space in Kemzeke, Belgium—which in 2014 organized a retrospective of the artist's work, and which has also published this handsome, richly illustrated hardbound volume |
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| Beschreibung: | Oplage: 1000 |
| Beschreibung: | 287 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9789464000078 978-94-6400-007-8 9464000074 94-6400-007-4 |