Hans Aarsman

LOT 115 HANS AARSMAN DUTCH, B. 1951 CHILDHOOD TOY ROCKET, GIVEN AWAY ON 1 JULY 2008 1,000—1,500 EUR measurements sheet: 100 x 70 cm / 39.37 x 27.56"; image: 90 x 60 cm / 35.43 x23.62" Description 2010 inkjet, pigment ink on paperedition 1/1 + AP PROVENANCE donated by the artist EXHIBITED Some recent solo exhibitions Vlaams Cultuurhuis deBrakke Grond, Amsterdam 2008, 'Hans Aarsman: Niemand kan het'Photographers' Gallery, London 2008, 'Photography AgainstConsumerism'Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam 2003, 'Hans Aarsman: Vrrooom!Vrrooomm! Autofotografie' Some recent group exhibitions George Eastman HouseInternational Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester 2009,'Nature as Artifice: New Dutch Landscape in Photography and VideoArt'The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago 2005, 'In Sight: ContemporaryDutch Photography'Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels 2002, 'Proposed by Rineke Dijkstra' (withJohannes Schwarts and Arno Nollen) LITERATURE AND REFERENCES Selected publications Flip Bool [et al.], Dutcheyes: nieuwe geschiedenis van de fotografie in Nederland, Zwolle: Waanders 2007Hans Aarsman: invisible Ghent: photos and diagrammes of thecity , Ghent: Gent Cultuurstad 2004Marloes Krijnen (ed.), FOAM 'dutch delight' , Amsterdam: foam2002 Selected public and corporate collections NederlandsFotomuseum, Rotterdam, NL • Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, NL CATALOGUE NOTE In 1980, Hans Aarsman turned his attention first to photography,both photo-journalism and unique work (including commissions fromthe Rijksmuseum and Holland Festival). After touring theNetherlands in a camper van, Aarsman published his first book,Hollandse Taferelen (1988), containing photos and notes of histrip. Once back in Amsterdam, he wrote and photographed AarsmansAmsterdam (1993). In 1994 he gave up photography, sold his camerasand started writing publishing a novel and a number of plays. Nowhe writes a weekly column on photography in newspaper de Volkskrantand on www.photoq.nl, he is also the editor of and contributor toUseful Photography, a magazine presenting photography withoutpretentions. While clearing out his house, Aarsman discovered itwas easier to detach from matter once you'd taken a photo of it. 'Ihad this toy rocket at home. And felt an emotional attachment toit. I gave it to a little boy who was overjoyed with it. I thought – I'll take a photo, and that'll be that.' Now the photo is hangingon a bare wall in his flat. Hans Aarsman is advisor at the Rijksakademie and studiedthere between 1978-1981.

Hans Aarsman (DUTCH, B. 1951) Waterhuizen, from the series 'Hollandse Taferelen' C-print mounted on aluminium 810 x 1025 mm.

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c-print, framed, signed, titled and dated 1995, printed 2001