NAME: Jeroen Evertz (1973)Born: Trintelen (NL)Lives in: Maastricht (NL) Artist’s statement – ‘I like to remember things my way, not necessarily the way they happened’ – Fred Madison Because of often contradictory interests, it is hard to decide what is real and who decides what is real nowadays: advertisements, politics, technology, nature or we? I […]
Tag: The Netherlands
Homa Taj In Conversation with Dutch Art Dealer: Robbert van Ham of Jaski Art Gallery
I first met Robbert van Ham at TEFAF Maastricht, late in March 2011. One of the leading international dealers of CoBrA art movement, the 36 year-old gallerist has been an active participant in the Amsterdam art scene, for the past two decades. My next meeting with van Ham was in his Jaski Art Gallery on Nieuwe Spiegelstraat, one […]
Homa Taj In Conversation with Dutch Artist Rik Meijers
Rik Meijers’ paintings are unforgettable. Love them or hate them, it is not possible to mistake his spirited compositions and untamed style with any other painter’s work. I first met the Dutch artist, early last month, at the opening of his joint exhibition with Jeroen van Bergen at the Bonnefanten Museum, in Maastricht… Meijers is represented […]
TEFAF – The Fairest of All Fairs
All the art world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. And one man or woman in his or her time plays many parts, …say: a historian, a dealer, a connoisseur, an auctioneer, a publisher, a banker, even an (art) insurance provider and/or a collector. These collectors are, of course, to be […]
Homa Taj In Conversation with De Nieuwe Kerk’s Marlies Kleiterp on the Khalili Collection
Marlies Kleiterp is Director of Exhibitions at De Nieuwe Kerk and the Hermitage Amsterdam. After graduating from Leiden University as a classical archaeologist in 1988, she worked at the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden for 15 years, eventually as Director of Exhibitions. She joined the management team of the Nieuwe Kerk/ Hermitage Amsterdam in […]
Homa Taj In Conversation with The Frick Collections’ Inge Reist on Collectors & Merchant Princes
The Frick Collection’s Center for the History of Collecting in America Symposium, A Market for Merchant Princes: Collecting Italian Renaissance Paintings in America, November 12-13, 2010 Founded in 1913, The Frick Collection is a gem of an institution; it is America’s answer to The Wallace Collection that was established by The 3rd Marquess of Hertford, in 1897. Not […]