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Now or Never #2

text and image roberto voorbij For the Now or Never #2 exhibit at the GEM director Benno Tempel selected eighteen talents of the KABK. All graduated in 2011 or 2012. Diverse work, but certainly with a high average level. Like the … Continue reading

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dOCUMENTA (13)

text and image roberto voorbij This Monday starts the final week of dOCUMENTA (13). The still urgent and internationally, still most authoritative art event. Many of the works in this by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev curated edition combined engagement with poetry. As … Continue reading

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Sticker Magazine – KLEBSTOFF IV

text and image roberto voorbij Last month has the latest Klebstoff Magazine been published, the fourth edition of a magazine consisting entirely of stickers. For this purpose 24 international creatives were selected, which resulted in a wonderful collection of street art, illustrations, graphic design and … Continue reading

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City of Abstracts

text and image roberto voorbij As part of the Holland Festival is currently in the central hall of the Amsterdam Central Station the projection City of Abstracts by William Forsythe presented. As the description already suggests, in the beautiful designed … Continue reading

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FREEDOM? PRIVACY?

text roberto voorbij Today, on International Workers’ Day opens the exhibition FREEDOM? PRIVACY? at the Gallery Decumanus, Krk – Croatia. The Art and Culture Laboratory [KUL•] organizes this group exhibition, which is part of Labor Incubator (Prvomajski Inkubator) festival. A … Continue reading

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Arnold Böcklin – Isle of the Dead

text roberto voorbij Last month during my short stay in Brussels when I (finally) visited the Victor Horta museum, I had already in one of the rooms of Horta’s former home encountered a slightly kitsch but definitely hypnotizing painting. Title … Continue reading

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Oh Crisis!

text and image roberto voorbij The financial crises seem to follow one another in an ever faster pace. This calls for a different way of thinking, for alternatives. The exhibition Oh Crisis! in the luxurious mansion, on the luxurious estate … Continue reading

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RESISTANCE IS FERTILE / RESISTANCE IS FUTILE

text and image roberto voorbij A standard formula in physics is R = P / I ². Or resistance equals power divided by (current times current). That this scientific formula can also be interpreted in a more moralistic way was … Continue reading

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Politics in Print 2011

text roberto voorbij This week is the last chance to see the inspiring exhibit Politics in Print 2011 at the Dutch Press Museum. An overview of the past political year summarized in cartoons and caricatures. 28 illustrators / cartoonists offer … Continue reading

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Big drama, small price

text roberto voorbij Beautiful edited pictures by photographer Krijn van Noordwijk. In the center of Amsterdam do these hallucinatory images currently attract attention as a poster campaign for the Last Minute Ticket Shop. With the accompanying slogan ‘Big drama / music / … Continue reading

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