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André de Jong: Limited Editions

Tree Study
Dry print, 2020, on Hahnemühle Photorag (308 g)
24 x 18 cm
Edition of 25
€300

Dave Clarke
Charcoal Eyes, 2017
LP and CD
Cover artwork by André de Jong
€30 LP / €15 CD

This first edition of De Jong’s Tree Studyis sourced from his immense nature photography archive. The haunting drawing on the Charcoal Eyes LP, selected by DJ and composer Dave Clarke, is from De Jong’s fascinating portrait series.

Elsa Tomkowiak

Kelvin,No. 1 and No. 11, 2020
Acrylic on biodegradable plastic
27 x 27 cm
Artist’s frame. Unique works
€750 each

Artworks with a double-life: in these vibrant multimedia works Tomkowiak recycles the materials of her earlier in-situ installations with astonishing results.

Craigie Horsfield: Signed Monograph

Of the Deep Presentby Craigie Horsfield
(Arte Libro, 2018)
Linen binding. Signed copy
€85

This rare monograph designed by Horsfield himself includes his important writings and is printed by an exemplary art book printer in Ghent—Cultura.

Carolee Schneemann: Signed Catalogue from her TMH Exhibition

Carolee Schneemann: Infinity Kisses
(TMH Books, 2015)
Signed copy
€40

Developed in collaboration with Carolee Schneemann (1939-2019), this TMH catalogue highlights some of the most ingenious selfies in contemporary art and traces the artist’s special interest in our love of animals.

Mary Sue

Usual Tools, No. 3and No. 5, 2017
C-print, 29 x 19 cm
Edition 1/5
€1,250 each

A one-of-kind take on a rubber glove: Mary Sue’s stunning contribution to TMH’s young artist project Making Things Happenspeaks to us anew.

TMH Catalogues/Artist’s Books

The Merchant House is known for the quality and uniqueness of its publications. These catalogues/artist’s books are both informative and designed with great care. Available online and to purchase at TMH.

The Artists

Craigie Horsfield (1949, UK) is a protean artist working in photography, film, sound, drawing, performance, and installation. His singular visual language and work in social communities have been a part of shaping the practice of art in recent years. Horsfield was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1996. He participated in Documenta X and XI (Kassel), Carnegie International 1995, and the Whitney Biennale 2003. His work continues to be featured by leading museums, which have included MHKA (Antwerp), Jeu de Paume (Paris), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), Kunsthalle (Zurich), Reina Sofia (Madrid), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), and the National Gallery and Tate Galleries (London), to name just a few. 

André de Jong (1945, NL) has been pushing the limits of drawing in his magisterial oeuvre for over five decades. And he is also a performance artist, a photographer, and a master of sculptural form and transient land art. Rooted in poetically captured trajectories of the body, of our ambivalent, gender-stretching sense of self, de Jong’s art is uniquely intersubjective and socially formative. De Jong’s prescient oeuvre remained virtually unseen for four decades—he has been living and working away from art centers in the countryside of Friesland—until Museum Belvédère, NL, mounted a retrospective in 2010. Since then de Jong’s work has met with critical and public acclaim when exhibited by TMH in Amsterdam and New York.

Carolee Schneemann (1939-2019, US) was a multidisciplinary artist famous for innovation, provocation, and canonical contributions to Postwar Art. She has always felt that she was “a painter who had in effect enlarged her canvas” to the third dimension and new materials. A pioneer of feminist performance with a sixty-year career, Schneemann has transformed the very definition of art by creating work based on re-search in archaic visual traditions, pleasure wrested from taboos, and the body of the artist in relation to the social body. She was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 57th Venice Biennale (2017). Her major retrospective, Carolee Schneemann: Kinetic Painting, was recently seen at MoMA PS1, New York, following other museum presentations. Schneemann lives and works in upstate New York

Mary Sue (established between 1979 and now) uses color to a poignant effect in performances rendered as videos, photographs, art objects, and drawings. Under her sobriquet adopted while at ENSA Dijon, she has had exhibitions in France, Belgium, and Italy and participated in Art Basel, FIAC, and Art Brussels. Mary Sue’s working method, deploying the most advanced digital means, involves a critical reading of real places and situations through the prism of her cartoonish alter ego. Her vast project on childhood and loss, La Flotte, gained attention at the Art, villes et paysage festival (2017) in Amiens, France. Mary Sue was part of Making Things Happen: Young Artists in Dialogue at TMH, Amsterdam, 2017-18, and was TMH’s artist in focus at Independent Brussels, 2019.

Elsa Tomkowiak (FR, 1981) is a painter working with idiosyncratic colors in large-scale installations. Since her graduation from ENSA Dijon (2005), she has had ongoing public commissions: an opera house (Nantes), two bridges (Quebec, CA), a glasshouse (Pougues-les-Eaux), festival participations (Amiens, Varengeville-sur-Mer), a permanent multi-painting installation for a hospital in Angers, a museum-wide intervention at the Château-Musée de Tournon-sur-Rhône, and most recently, in 2020, a sculptural interpretation of Basilique Saint-Vincent de Metz in France. In 2019, she won and completed the commission for a park sculpture in Lyon and was invited to participate in the biennale in Sweden. Following her participation in Making Things Happen: Young Artists in Dialogue at TMH, 2017-18, Tomkowiak was selected for the ARTZUID 2019 sculpture biennale in Amsterdam.