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'Lothar Wolleh sees Jan Schoonhoven. Masters in Rhythm and Light',
Museum Prinsenhof Delft, 6 July 2023–7 January 2024. Exhibition design: Koehorst in 't Veld, Rotterdam Visit: Museum Prinsenhof Delft |
This exhibition, curated by Antoon Melissen, focusses on the artistic exchange between Jan Schoonhoven (1914-1994) and German photographer Lothar Wolleh (1930-1979). Few artists are so inextricably tied to their native soil as Jan Schoonhoven. In the early 1960s, the born and bred man of Delft achieved international renown with his white reliefs of paper and cardboard, yet he always remained loyal to ‘his’ Delft. The German photographer admired Schoonhoven’s work and visited Delft for the first time in 1968. The exhibition introduces photographer Wolleh for the first time to a Dutch audience. His photographs offer a new perspective on Jan Schoonhoven's oeuvre, in particular on the relationship between the autonomous work of art and the observable reality – in this case, the historic center of Delft. An installation by Jan Schoonhoven from 1965 is executed for the first time at this exhibition, based on original sketches, and in close cooperation with the Jan Schoonhoven Foundation. |
Design: Stephan Holitschke, Büro für Visuelle Identitäten, München | bilingual edition (Dutch/English) | Swiss binding with embossed print on the cover, 120 pages | Waanders Uitgevers (Zwolle), in conjunction with the Lothar Wolleh Estate, Berlin.
July 2023 |
Few artists are so inextricably tied to their native soil as Jan Schoonhoven (1914–1994). In the early 1960s, the born and bred man of Delft achieved international renown with his white reliefs of paper and cardboard, yet he always remained loyal to ‘his’ Delft. The German photographer Lothar Wolleh (1930–1979) admired Schoonhoven’s work and visited Delft for the first time in 1968.
Jan Schoonhoven and Lothar Wolleh intended their 1971 artists’ book to be a calling card of their artistry. It was a project which often brought the photographer back to Delft. Schoonhoven showed Wolleh how the rhythms of the city recur in drawings and reliefs as ‘isolated realities’. Jan Schoonhoven’s work is abstract and autonomous, but ‘breathes’ Delft nevertheless. The first part of this publication consists of Jan Schoonhoven’s and Lothar Wolleh’s artists’ book, which now, after more than fifty years, has been published for the first time. The second part, printed on grey paper, recounts the story of the two artists and their collaborative projects – and above all, too, of their unconditional love of the arts. |
ISBN 978-94-6208-248-9 December 2015 | hardcover 24 x 30 cm | 192 pp. Design Studio Joost Grootens Published in conjunction with the Jan Schoonhoven Foundation Awarded Best Designed Books, the Netherlands, 2015 |
Jan Schoonhoven
Antoon Melissen nai010 Publishers, Rotterdam The central theme of this monograph is the development op Schoonhoven's oeuvre, from the earliest gouaches in the late 1930s to the last signed relief, made in the early 1990s. This publication places Schoonhoven in an international context, as an influential member of the postwar European avant-garde. This monograph includes a thorough discussion of Schoonhoven's significance in the international ZERO movement. Attention to the contexts in which he made his drawings and reliefs also offers a new perspective on Schoonhovens live and artistic career. A selection of Schoonhoven's writings on art from the years 1958-1975 convey an intimate sense of the artist's ideas and methods. |
ISBN 9781 94 1701 0 41 Spring 2015 | hardcover 20.3 x 25.4 cm | 126 pp. Design Laura Lindgren Published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Jan Schoonhoven' at David Zwirner Gallery, New York, Jan-March 2015 Photo cover: Aad in 't Veld, Delft |
Jan Schoonhoven
David Leiber (ed.), with an essay by Antoon Melissen Zwirner Books, New York This catalogue was published in conjunction with the first significant presentation of Schoonhoven’s work in New York, if not the United States, in over a decade, held at David Zwirner in New York in 2015. Serving as an important contribution to English-language literature on the artist, this extensive exhibition catalogue is anchored by richly detailed plates of his sculptural reliefs and works on paper made primarily between the mid-1950s and early 1970s. Featuring new scholarship by Antoon Melissen, as well as archival photographs and an illustrated chronology, this publication offers an invaluable introduction to the work of this pioneering champion of the proto-Minimalist tendencies that sprang up in Europe and the United States in the early 1960s. |