Jeroen de Rijke Livres

Small books, big ideas. Cutting-edge publisher Lukas & Sternberg's pocket-book series spotlights some of the most intriguing international artists emerging today, with critical essays in English and German exploring the theoretical basis of their works. A growing series now featuring five titles. These Dutch artists received international recognition for their seemingly luxurious and self-reflexive 35mm films. This first comprehensive monograph discusses how Dutch painting, Minimal Art and film conventions become the backdrop for a "cinema in its decontextualized form". Essays by Vanessa J. Müller and Veit Loers. Interview by Nicolaus Schafhausen. In English and German text, 43/8 x 63/4, includes 5 color reproductions.

"Since commencing their collaboration in 1994, Jeroen de Rijke and Willem de Rooij's select corpus of film and slide installations, photoworks, objects and printed matter has opened up an arena in which images are characterized by a curious kind of detachment. De Rijke/De Rooij's images are polyvalent, sometimes appropriated but disengaged from their prevailing aesthetic, social, economic and political definitions. For De Rijke/De Rooij, art is a locus from which to reflect upon the artistic image itself and to engage in a dialogue with many other arenas where images are produced and acquire meaning, ranging from the reserved approach to imagery in some Islamic cultures to the West’s obsessions with the visual and the resulting image overload generated by its media industry." (Martijn van Nieuwenhuyzen)