It's been quite some time since my last newsletter, but now it is here. Enjoy!

Arco Artfair Madrid (with over 160 galleries present) will have several of my latest photoworks on show at the Galeria CasadoSantapau. This fair with around 200.000 visitors, will give special attention to The Netherlands, with an extensive presence of Dutch galleries. It will take place at the Feria de Madrid, starting february 15 with a customary professional preview and will run until and including february 19, 2012. More information have a look at the website of ARCO

For more details visit the website of the gallery by clicking here

Galeria CasadoSantapau
Conde de Xiquena 5
28004 Madrid Spain

Monday february 13 the exhibition ‘Zoet & Zout (Sweet & Salt): Water and the Dutch’ at the Kunsthal Rotterdam will be opened by His Royal Highness Prince of Orange Willem Alexander.

Five themes (batttle, bond, profit, entertainment and myth) make up this very strong presentation that combines historical masterpieces and contemporary art, including photography, video, installations, etc.. Artists include Willem Maris, Salomon van Ruysdael, Theo van Doesburg, Co Westerik, Emmy Andriesse, Bill Viola, Danielle Kwaaitaal, L.A. Raeven and myself, among many others. Both Passage (2007) and Flood (2009) will be on display. It runs from february 14 until June 10, 2012.

This large exhibition is a co-production of the Kunsthal with the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Kröller-Müller Museum Otterlo, Special Collections department of Leiden University and the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands. With this exhibition a catalogue will be published by Tracy Metz and Maartje van den Heuvel and NAi Publishers. Available in Dutch and English. 

You'll find more information on the events surrounding this exhibition at Kunsthal Rotterdam

This spring will see the start of the realisation of the 1.7:1 100% glass farm by famous Dutch architects MVRDV. Situated in the center of the small town of Schijndel (NL), all 1800m2 of glass panels that make up this large ‘markethall’ will have realistic photographic prints, with over 3Tb of pixeldetail.

The ‘collage’ of images are based upon the average farm of over 120 farms in the Schijndel area, for which all photography has been done by me over the last couple of months, an exciting coöperation. The final stages of this large commission are in sight and the building is scheduled to open by the end of 2012.

I'll keep you posted.

This project, financially supported by the Mondriaan Foundation, I started in the summer of 2011. It deals with Re-Photography and The Familiar Image among other things, but aware of social and commercial structures in the present. It took me to Benidorm (Spain) and Seoul/Busan (South Korea) for a start.
First results of the former locations are very promising and show further diversification in both approach and presentation, including video and installations. Right now I'm finishing these new works. The project will soon take me to Asia once again, visiting Tokyo/Yokohama for a month this spring.

More information about this project? Send a request by filling in the form on my contact page here.

Over the next few weeks these my website will feature these new pieces, and a strong selection of these new pieces will feature in my next solo exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam (NL), see below.

For a first glimpse, see the preview (detail) with this text on the right side...

Opening sunday may 13, 2012, a solo exhibition titled 'Timeport'* will open at the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam.
A selection of recent, first-on-show photoworks in two large spaces of the museum will be accompanied by some new videoworks / installations, which will be a first. This new approach within my Project on Image will add an exciting new chapter to my body of works. Together with the curatorial team of the museum, led by Colin Huizing, we're now in the fase of designing the exhibition, and it's looking very good.

One of the pieces that will definitely be in the show is shown on the right (detail). The exhibition will run until september 2, 2012, and I hope to meet you there!

*) working title

- In the meantime I’m working on a new monograph together with award winning Irma Boom, the much acclaimed graphic designer. Her designs are amazing! Publication is scheduled for autumn 2012. Details will follow.

- A leporello I did on commission for Interpolis back in 2006 is now on a short list for a new publication about the 120 most important Dutch photography books from 1945 - 2010, to be published soon. Details will follow.