Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was a short story writer and novelist who is generally regarded as one of the leading representatives of American ‘Dark Romanticism’. Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts and descended from a family of Puritan settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, one of the earliest and largest New England colonies. His ancestor John Hathorne was a harsh and unrepentant…
Georg Trakl (1887-1914) grew up as the sixth of seven children in a well-to-do protestant family in Salzburg, where his father made a living as a hardware dealer. His mother was addicted to opium and had a disturbed relationship with her children. The upbringing of Georg and his younger sister Grete, with whom he developed an intimate relationship, were left to a young Alsatian woman. The governess, Marie…
Ben Schot’s edition ‘The Nothing Door’ consists of 5 small and (partly) hand coloured prints on Fabriano Accademia 200 gr paper. The water coloured prints of drawings by Schot and older engravings by others measure 147 x 100 mm each and are wrapped in black Japanese hand dipped paper. Once unwrapped, the prints can be displayed side by side on the black paper. For each of the 5 sets of this very limited edition Schot cut and folded a jacket, also from Fabriano…
Ectojizzed is a new compilation of drawings and photos by Ben Schot. Each copy of this limited edition (60) is hand-numbered and is given a personal inscription. Ectojizzed: 23.8 x 16.8 cm, 22 full colour pages. Get Ectojizzed! It’s love from beyond!
In 2001 Michael Tedja (Rotterdam, 1971) won the Charlotte Köhler Award for his paintings and his work has been on show at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam several times. During his education at the Rietveld Academy and the Sandberg Institute Tedja started the construction of a coherent system of ideas about life and art. In that period Tedja wrote his first short…