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Every week an inspiring person shares their favourite artwork…

This week: Floor Haverkamp, the art curator for the fabulous CitizenM Hotels. Apart from exploring contemporary art for the hotel chain, she is also the assistant curator for the KRC art collection. We are very curious to see what this arty lady would choose for her own wall.

Keep reading to see which artwork Floor chose and why…

Unfold, 2015 by Sjoerd Knibbeler C-print € 680 Courtesy of Foam Editions

Floor: Sjoerd’s scientific approach fascinates me. He asks himself complicated questions like: What does a shooting star looks like, can I simulate a tornado and how can I represent wind? Before he starts making photographs, Sjoerd acts like a researcher, visiting universities and consulting specialists in the field of science and - in this case - aviation. ‘Unfold’ from the Paper Planes series is based on airplane designs that have never been put into production or have never made it into the air. “Every time I look at this series, I have to think of all these inventor’s dreams. To me it represents our drive to innovate and discover. Besides, I love the ’trompe l’ oeil’ effect in his work: this photograph really looks like a folded piece of paper”, says Floor. Until the 27th of May a new series by Sjoerd is on view at LhGWR in The Hague. This time he photographs models of objects designed to travel to the Moon. About the artist:  Moving air, wind, a tornado; the work of Sjoerd Knibbeler (1981) concentrates on visualising invisible natural phenomena through photography. Knibbeler creates and simulates inside his studio environment and follows his almost boyish curiosity in carrying out his mostly fragile ephemeral constructions with simple materials like paper and plastic. Knibbeler is a master of creating suggestive images that have an ultimate aesthetical presence and create substantial tension which makes you doubt the realness of his images. However, everything that he photographs is real. Using the illusionistic, or as he puts it, “the magical” qualities of the camera, is what Knibbeler finds most intriguing in the medium. Both through the materials he uses for his constructions and the conditions he tries to visualise, he explores the paradoxical relation between the still, two-dimensional character of photography and his often transparent, moving, voluminous subjects. The photographer won the Grand Prix du jury Photographie at the Hyères International Festival of Fashion and Photography, published his first book Paper Planes, was selected as one of the Foam Talents 2015, to name a few highlights.  Purchase or preview the artwork on your own wall here Show us your favourite by using #fraemdcuratedby to become our next Inspirator.

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Every week an inspiring person shares their favourite artwork…

This week: Laura Rooseboom, co-founder and managing partner of a sustainable venture capitalist company, StartGreen Capital. In the Netherlands, Laura was one of the first investors in sustainable business and she supported many of the early “green’ companies in their growth. Her personal belief is that we can only continue to live on this planet with so many people if we adapt our way of living and that in order to do this, we need innovative companies to lead the way.

Keep reading to see which artwork Laura chose as her favourite…

Untitled (RedBlueYellowTokyo)  By Bart Benschop    Courtesy of Galerie Helder

Laura:  I like the works of Bart Benschop because it is a wonderful mix of abstract and figurative. I like the changing perspective in that if you glimpse at the work, you see some sort of pattern but if you take a closer look you see recognisable images, as if behind a veil.

About the artist: Bart Benschop (1965, Amsterdam) creates his photographs while driving at speed along highways. After thorough inspection of the roadside area, he shoots the film in double or triple exposures, producing a rhythm of transparent frames. These fragments of layered landscapes deliver a cinematographic experience in your mind. They bring about faintly recollected memories of glimpses in the near past. His photographs make you wander in the process of perception.

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Every week an inspiring person shares their favourite artwork…

This week: Emily de Valk, founder and inspirator for AimArtArt. With a Master of Photographic Studies at Leiden University, she co-founded this company in order to inspire and share the value of art with other people. AimAtArt assists businesses and individuals to train the right side of the brain, giving people the ability to think and solve problems like artists would. Emily says that art always makes her look again and again until she sees things differently. It stimulates her creativity, broadens her horizons and creates space to think clearly. 

Keep reading to see which artwork Emily chose as her favourite…

‘Orange and Blue’ #5, 2013 by Lorenzo Vitturi courtesy of Foam Editions

Emily: "Lorenzo Vitturi forces the viewer to look at their environment in a different way. This photo is part of a series where the artist visually represents ‘his’ London near the district of Dalston. Using a variety of found objects from the Dalston multicultural market, he gives a totally new perspective on his experience of the neighbourhood. The photograph encourages me to also look at my own neighbourhood and environment in a different way, thinking about which colours and objects would best represent it”.

About the artist:  Lorenzo Vitturi (b. 1980, Italy) is a photographer living and working between London, Milan and Venice. After graduating in photography and graphic design at the European Design Institute in Rome he received a scholarship at Fabrica, Italy. He started out as a cinema set-painter in the movie industry in Rome and has brought this experience into his photographic projects, which revolve around site-specific installations using space, light and matter.

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Every week an inspiring person shares their favourite artwork…

This week: Stefanie van Rootselaar from Sotheby’s, working in the modern & contemporary art department. She is currently involved with the consignment of objects for auction- mainly for the modern and impressionist art and contemporary art departments, while also for photographs, prints & multiples, Asian art and design.

Keep reading to see which artwork Stefanie chose as her favourite…

Windows – VII Tilburg by Jan Dibbets Courtesy of Livingstone Gallery 

Stefanie: “It is Dibbets’ approach to photography that continues to fascinate me. An established and internationally acclaimed artist, Jan Dibbets (born 1941) is known for his photography series like ‘Cupolas’, ‘Colour Studies’ and ‘Windows’. In this work, bright daylight from outside is juxtaposed with an interior devoid of light. This striking contrast is connected (or arguably broken) by the only gradient light quality that the image contains. It is this soft and subtle, almost golden, light resting in the circular window ledge that gives the image a somewhat transcendental sense. This is strengthened by the low viewpoint as well as the angle that the artist chose, whilst the brickwork brings the work back to the now. The interplay between the geometric forms and lines – i.e. the circular profile of the window and the grid formed by the delicate glazing beads and wall behind, though equally the square shape of the work itself – keeps me drawn into this picture”.

About the artist: Dutch artist Jan Dibbets (1941) is one of the most distinguished and influential figures in the international art world. Dibbets’ work explores questions relating to light, the mechanisms of perception, perspective and space. 

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