Aankoop #40 Boukje Janssen

Soms moet het toeval een beetje geholpen worden. Afgelopen vrijdag ging ik naar het atelier van Boukje Janssen om te kijken naar de installatie Ensemble. Ik had hem op haar website gezien en ik was serieus geïnteresseerd om hem te kopen.

helaas was de installatie te kwetsbaar naar mijn smaak. Ik heb een kat ronddwalen in mijn huis die graag met touwtjes speelt en plekjes onderzoekt om te kunnen liggen. Het enige wat ik kon doen was het kopen en onmiddellijk laten opslaan. Ik koop kunst om naar te kijken niet om op te slaan.

Maar naast de installatie had Boukje een schilderij gehangen dat net klaar was. Het had een gelijk thema en zelf een gelijk figuur als "Ensemble".
Gisteren kocht ik het. Aflevering vindt natuurlijk later plaats erg gebruikelijk in de kunstwereld.
Er staat me nog een verrassing te wachten. Het schilderij heeft nog geen naam...
Jawel, zo vers is het.

Beneden een plaatje:


en een detail:


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Nog een algemene opmerking over min blog: Ja deze blog houdt even zijn achterstand in vertaling.
En ik moet voor mijn beide blogs nog een stuk maken over ArtAmsterdam. En de oplettende lezer heeft gezien dat ik bij mijn aankopen flink wat getallen heb overgeslagen.
Ik kan ook nog diverse aankopen behandelen.

Budget en verzamelen 2

Feit: in mei ga ik het restant van mijn budget opmaken.

Ik ben u bezig om te preciseren welke kansen ik wil grijpen.

1. Carla van de Puttelaar Eigenlijk heb ik al besloten om een foto van haar te kopen, maar zolang ik hem nog niet heb gekocht zijn alle mogelijkheden open.
2. Liselotte Schuppers. Maandag heb ik haar thuis bezocht en twee foto's geselcteerd uit serie Anoniem. (Superman en Gladiator) Ze heeft me een goed aanbod gedaan.
3. Nicky Onderwater: Ik heb haar gemeeld voor een prijsopgave. De prijzen zijn stevig maar niet onredelijk, ze ad korting voor afdrukken die ze al gemaakt voor een tentonstelling. Het is moelijk kiezen uit haar werk.
4.Boukje Janssen: zij heeft een groepstentoonstelling "...Expectations" tijdens ArtAnsterdam met onbekend werk.
5. Enige andere kunstenaar op ArtAmsterdam die ik mogelijk tegenkom
6. Janneke Sprenkels: zij zal aanwezig zijn tijdens de Art & design sale in het Tac. Zij weet het niet, maar ze heeft een troef, één van haar werken staat op mijn want list.
7. Marleen v/d Heuvel and Liselotte de Groot zullen ook op de Art & design sale in het TAC zijn Maar geen troeven hier.
8. Andere kunstaars op de Art & design sale.
9. Merel van Beukering zal niet aanwezig zijn in het Tac maar ik heb contact met haar over een paar werken.
10. Afgelopen vrijdag heb ik nog meer mogelijkheden gevonden die ik domderdag nog niet kende. Om verwarring te vermijden laat ik deze even zitten.

Ik zal nog heel wat moeten trechteren.. .

Om de puzzel iets interessanter te maken :
elke kunstenaar heb ik het porijsberiek geven van het werk dat ik goed vind. Alle prijzen zijn in euro's. De rangorde is niet geheel random. Met een beetke kennis kan je de code kraken en decijfers met de letters verbinden.

a 2250 tot 4950 (ik wil er één)
b 850 tot 1500 (Ik wil er twee)
c 550 tot 975 (Ik wil er twee)
d schatting 300 tot 4000 (ik wil er minimaal één)
e schatting 200 tot 100000 (ik wil er minimaal één)
f 55 tot 425 (ik wil er minimaal één
g 100 to 200 (schatting)(ik wil er minimaal één
h onbekend normaal onder 100 (ik wil er minimaal één
i schatting 750 (Ik wil er twee)
j 85 tot 495 (Ik wil er twee)

Totaal is dit ongeveer 16000 euro. (Ik heb de vrijheid genomen om onwaarschijnlijk aankopen te verwijderen om een realistische som te verkrijgen.)

Van dat bedrag kan ik de betaling voor ongeveer 6000 euro uitstellen naar later jaren.(Ik weet dat er iets te regelen valt met galerieën) Dus dan houd ik 10000 euro over voor dit jaar. Mijn resterend budget is ongeveer 3000 euro.

Ik zal dus nog heel wat moeten trechteren.. .

Hoe ga ik kiezen: ten eerste ga ik naar ArtAmsterdan het Tac en de tentoonstelling Expectations. Dan zal ik beslissen.

Ik heb de neiging om meer high end en duurder werk te kopen (bijv. #1,2,4) Maar dat gaat wel ten kostte van vele goedkopere werken.
Niemand weet wat het wordt.

Ik beëindig dit bericht met de eerste foto die ik van Marije Arends kocht in 2005. In het vorige bericht liet ik de drie werken zien die ik als laatste van haar kocht.

budget and collecting

Collecting is choosing. Every budget is limited, so is mine. May is the month I usually spend the most money on art. This has two main reasons. The second is ArtAmsterdam, that is the biggest art fair in the Netherlands. It's mainly Dutch but it has a sturdy international component. Quality is high, some art is within my budget. The last two times I bought art and I never intended too when I went.

The first reason is the art and design sale in the Tac in Eindhoven. That's the place I started to buy art in such quantities I started collecting. Since the first time year it's kept I go and buy. This year won't be different.
Janneke Sprenkels will be there and probably Marleen v/d Heuvel or Matthijs v/d Kerkhof. Merel van Beukering and Liselotte de Groot (both on my watch list) might be there as well.
Tac is short for Temporary Art Centre. It's situated in an old Philips building. (For the Football fans: the Philips stadium, home base for PSV,is right across the street. Philips was founded in Eindhoven.) Tac is meant for creating art. There are dozens of ateliers in the building and a small dozen of multi purpose spaces. Exhibitions parties, workshops and the Art and design sale are held here. Many artists from my buy or watch list will be there so I will leave Eindhoven with a trunk full of art and ann empty wallet.

That's the easy part. There are however artists who are high on my watch list, but I'm sure I won't meet on ArtAmsterdam or in the Tac. So I'm helping faith a little bit. I e-mailed Liselotte Schuppers for a price query on the photography and I will go tomorrow to an exhibition from Liesje Reijskens in Amsterdam. Next to this I received lists from gallery Aeroplastics for Amanda Besl and Shadi Ghadirian.

The problem gets obvious far too many artists and works and not enough budget. To make things worse I've already decided to buy one large work from Carla van de Puttelaar. My biggest buy ever considering size (205 x 78 cm) and price (twice the amount from my second largest buy.) Although I will pay this in 36 months it still creates a gap in my budget.

I alomst forgot the works from Boukje Janssen which came back from New York but are stuck now at customs.

So this month it's decision time.

The least likely to buy this year is the work from Amanda Besl.
She makes paintings on small panels depicting adolescent girls.
To compensate here her picture "a beautiful moustache"



Artist's Statement of Amanda Besl:

In my recent work I try to evoke an open-ended fiction while speaking of the documentary quality of photography, the language of fashion photography, the viscosity of oil paint, and the transient nature of memory. My paintings emerge from a cultural feminine perspective, exploring the complexities of an aesthetic that fetishizes youth. The images are a string of metaphors that build series of events. The paintings are small in size in order to allow a more intimate viewing experience and to recall their history as photographic images. They pop from the wall off beveled edges to create a staccato rhythm of frozen suggestive moments. My pieces are cinematic in nature. I link seemingly unrelated sensory images which inform each other as narrative moments. The subject matter balances on the fine line between the mundane and the obscure. To view these paintings is to partake in a visual eavesdropping on the secretive world that engulfs today's girl.

I focus upon metaphors of the transient nature of adolescence. Horses act as a suggestive counterpart in paintings which are mostly devoid of human males. The fetishistic quality of these pocket-sized worlds emphasizes the idea of obsessive crushes. I am interested in heroic transformations of ordinary events which exist both as dark psychological secrets and as adult fairy tales supplanting their predecessors. These paintings are not nostalgic, except as personal nostalgia. They are not apologetic or hedonistic and have any number of possible endings or possibly no ending—just a pause, a breath.

More housekeeping.

Yesterday I installed my last piece of art I bought at ArtRotterdam. It's very fragile and really 3-d. So I had to find a spot. Where know one comes I don't know about, my cat cannot come, where there is no wind or draught.
So I placed it in my bedroom on eye level.
It consists of two small mirrors in an angle of 90 degrees and in between a transparent sheet with the text from a sermon on it, with as a subject: when does one actually exist.
The object is between two photographs, one from Isolde Woudstra on the left and one from Mery on the right.

again housekeeping, with pictures

In a previous post about housekeeping I promised pictures from the almost 3d-objects from Boukje Janssen.

Here they are. You really need to enlarge the to see the needles in the eye and the needle which keeps the "u" in place from. "Is there anything we..."
The last picture is the photograph on a standardized spot in my living room. usually the works of art which are hanging here are larger.

just another day at the office

So what does a collector do on a quiet Wednesday. Due to circumstances I was early away from work. So I went to the inner city of Utrecht.
At first I bought the book Puur (pure) from Mery dedicated to her project of photographing Teenage mothers.
Next I bought some white gloves to handle my art more cautiously. Some works form Boukje Janssen I recently bought, require more subtlety on handling.
After that I went to Flatland gallery to see their exhibition. It was a nice exhibition in a very nice building. I'd actually never been to that gallery. They focus on photography which I like but their aim is a little bit too high for my budget. After that I went to a second hand bookshop and bought an old catalogue from Sotheby's "photographs from the Bert Hartkamp collection" It gives a nice overview for the contemporary photography.
Finally I got home and found a letter from gallery Smarius. They sent me a special guest badge for the fair Art Amsterdam, so I can enter the preview and enter during this fair whenever I like for free.

House keeping or After Sales 2

So Easter is almost over. I used some time to add labels, probably too many, to all my posts. To the right you can see them all and search posts which have the label.

Next to housekeeping of my blog I did some house keeping of my works of art too. I hung two works of Boukje Janssen. These are some out of the ordinary. So I couldn't use my usual arrangements. One is a necklace with the text "is there something we should know" in mirror image. It is very light and very vulnerable. It needs three pins to hang it on the wall. So I put it on a place out of the way of draught. And a place I could hammer three pins in the wall. One letter the "u" turned 90 degrees so I had to keep it in place by a broken off pin.

The other one is mostly black velvet with black pins pointing outwards. It's almost impossible to see the pins because of the same color. So this one I had to put on a quiet spot where now one accidentally could be hurt. After all art belongs on eye height. And eyes and pins don't mix together. I put it in place by hammering 8 black pins around it. So now a a work of art mainly consisting of black velvet and black pins is kept in place by black pins.

The battery from my mobile phone is empty so I cannot take pictures. They will come later.

After sales

I have said earlier on this blog that most artists don't think commercially. So if anything happens that contradicts this believe I blog it.

Like I said earlier I bought 4 works from Boukje Janssen. I tried to hang one of them on my wall. But I missed the means to hang it from.
I had seen it hanging in Rotterdam and I saw no traces that anything was removed from the back. So I wrote an e-mail. Which said in short "Help I'm confused." Boukje replied that black pins had kept it in place and she offered to send some.

Below you see the intermediate results.

Nice feature. These same pins are also in the piece of art I want to hang on my wall. However in this case some are pointing out... Ouch!


PS I added Lilith and Liesje Reyskens to my watch list and removed Hellen van Meene like I feared I would.

Delivered Boukje Janssen

In law school one learns that there is a huge difference between sale and delivery. In the art world it happens all the time. It seldom happens that the moment I buy a work, I instantly can take it away.

This Friday and Saturday I got 6 works delivered. Friday morning I went to the atelier from Boukje Janssen. I had a nice chat saw some interesting work and collected 4 works of art I had bought earlier during ArtRotterdam.

I have two pictures which do some justice to the works.



As the title says: both works ar from Boukje Janssen