Maandag 15 Mei 2017

This exhibition is initiated by Studio Kurtycz. Studio Kurtycz was created in Paris in 2002 by the artists Anna Kurtycz (Mexico-Poland) and RUDEK (The Netherlands) as a creative space using graphic art in a very open and unconventional way. Ttraditional printing techniques are combined with other ways of artistic expression as painting, installation, street art and photography, often with a social engagement. From 2008 until 2015, Studio Kurtycz was located in West-Africa (first in Ghana and then in Benin) developing projects in interaction with the local population and local artists.

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Het Rijksmuseum presenteert de eerste grote tentoonstelling over de relatie Zuid-Afrika en Nederland. 400 jaar bewogen geschiedenis in 300 objecten, vooral afkomstig uit Zuid-Afrika. “De tentoonstelling 'Goede Hoop' laat een belangrijk deel van onze koloniale geschiedenis zien in al zijn nuances. Een zowel pijnlijk als indrukwekkend, maar vooral onrustbarend en herkenbaar verhaal.” Adriaan van Dis, schrijver, Afrika-kenner en verteller bij de tentoonstelling.

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In Lamu, the island on the east coast of Kenya, everybody is building. All this I tried to paint: the self-built houses, men using abandoned houses as a gathering place in the afternoon, the strange heaps of chalk, trees that grow inside a house, the stairs and pilars in old Swahili houses, the sewer-system in the street, bachelor huts that look like tree-houses, attempts of finding the right niru colour on an ancient wall, bare greyish walls build with blocks of coral stone. In the library I will show drawings about the Maktaba ya Sanaa, the attempts I did so far to gather books for an Arts library in Lamu. The exhibition can be seen during office hours in the corridors on the third floor and in the library (ground floor) of the Pieter de la Court building.

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