The Merchant House, Amsterdam, Friday 10 May, 18:00-20:00 - NLMagazine/Amsterdam, Art & Culture - Please join us for a special screening and the finissage of André de Jong: To See Seeing—in the presence of the artist.
18:00 – Doors open
18:30 – Screening and open conversation
19:30 – Spring reception at our bar
Last chance to see this remarkable solo show of André de Jong. The title, To See Seeing, captures the extraordinary nature of De Jong’s photographic archive—so large that it would be impossible to exhibit. The show includes a printed selection from De Jong’s New York (2005) and nature diaries (continuous). These diaries have historically complemented De Jong’s performative photography in the studio, with some images created as standalone artworks and others as photographic “sketches” for drawings and other works. Browse through a selection of the works below.
Admission free. Limited seats. Please register your attendance:
New York Diary, No. 9, 2015
Dry print on Hahnemühle Rag White (250 g)
40 x 53.3 cm
Ed. of 3
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| New York Diary, No. 4, 2015 Dry print on Hahnemühle Rag White (250 g) 53.3 x 40 cm Ed. of 3 |
New York Diary, No. 5, 2015 Dry print on Hahnemühle Rag White (250 g) 53.3 x 40 cm Ed. of 3 |
New York Diary, No. 8, 2015
Dry print on Hahnemühle Rag White (250 g)
40 x 53.3 cm
Ed. of 3
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| Barrage Gileppe (B), 2022/22 Dry print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag (310 g) 45 x 34 cm Ed. of 3 |
Overtuin Oranjewoud, 2022/23 Dry print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag (310 g) 45 x 34 cm Ed. of 3 |
Lauwersoog Friesland, 2021/23
Dry print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag (310 g)
34 x 45 cm
Ed. of 3
André de Jong
(1945, NL) has been pushing the limits of drawing in his magisterial oeuvre for over five decades. 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. His 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.
His work met with critical and public acclaim when exhibited by TMH in Amsterdam and New York. In 2021, the monograph André de Jong: Acts of Drawing was published by TMH with the support of the Mondrian Fund. The monograph is a “book about” and a haptic art object, arranged into thematic chapters that bear the titles of his series, and provides a unique introduction to his vast photographic output.
The Merchant House
Herengracht 254
Amsterdam, 1016 BV
Netherlands
