Art & Trauma
07.12.2014 News PublicationsArt & Trauma / Kunst & Trauma
Read moreHalle Saint Pierre, Sous le vent de l’art brut 2. Collection De Stadshof. 17 September 2014 – 4 January 2015
Read moreAuthor: Frans Smolders, Johnson Weree (b. 1970 in Liberia) draws every single day, from early morning until late at night—usually heads of middle-aged men and women (very occasionally with a child’s head in front of their chests), and sometimes trucks and SUVs. He draws them in “mixed media”—specifically, ballpoint pens in various colours, gel pens, […]
Read moreIn ‘Willem van Genk. Chronicles of a collaboration’ gallery owner and author Nico van der Endt writes about his long, intense and complicated collaboration with the schizophrene artist Willem van Genk (1927-2005). Business facts are interspersed with quotations, anecdotes and personal memories, partly from shared travel experiences. On the occasion of this edition Gallery Hamer […]
Read more‘Grand Seigneur’ Jaber in Out of Art, jg 8, nr 1. Thema: Street art.
Read moreOut of Art, 14, dec.2012, pp. 4-7. Johnson Weree (1970) is a refugee from Liberia who has been living in the Netherlands for many years. Not being allowed paid employment, he spends up to eleven hours a day in the public library, drawing faces he has seen before. His portraits are busts of sombre-looking men […]
Read moreAll About Drawing. 100 Dutch Artists 23 April – 28 August 2011 ‘All About Drawing. 100 Dutch Artists’ provides insight into the development of drawing in the Netherlands from the 1960s up to the present day. Diana Wind, director of the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam and artist/curator Arno Kramer selected a hundred artists for whom drawing […]
Read moreSign up for the Newsletter A new initiative of Stichting Collectie De Stadshof is the editing of a Newsletter, two or three times a year. You will find the latest news about exhibitions of outsider art, (naive art, art brut, visionary art, art singulier, self-taught art, folk art) and items about Collection De Stadshof like […]
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