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Vincent Fournier''s Kosmic Memories (pictured above: Tjentište #3, 2020) reveals the extraordinary totems of an imagined future civilization. It is not by chance that this science fiction universe was born between the end of the 1950''s and the beginning of the 1980''s in the non-aligned countries of the former Russia.
Fournier''s works can be found in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) New York, the Centre Pompidou Paris, MAST Foundation Bologna, the Vontobel Art Collection Zürich, Baccarat Art Collection New-York, Domaine des Etangs Massignac, the LVMH Contemporary Art collection Paris (with Le Bon Marché) or Fondation Bullukian Lyon among others.
He has been participating in major exhibitions such as « the Universe and Art » at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo and the Art Science Museum in Singapore or solo shows at the Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna (MAMbo) during Foto Industria 2018 or les Rencontres d’Arles in 2014.

To see all available works of Kosmic Memories please click the image!

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Visiting address:
Westerdok 824 / 1013 BV Amsterdam / The Netherlands
T +31 20 530 6005 / info@theravestijngallery.com

Opening hours:
Monday to Saturday 12:00 - 17:00

The Ravestijn Gallery presents The Nursery, an exhibition with new works by Ruth van Beek. In 2018 van Beek published How To Do The Flowers, an absurdist manual of strange instructions and unfinished collages in which the building of a body was a persistent thought. Since then, the physicality and animation of lifeless matter has played an increasingly important role in her work. Using How To Do The Flowers as a guide, The Nursery continues this fascination with the transformation of forms into bodies and the possibilities of photographs as both representations and objects.

Ruth van Beek’s work has been shown internationally at FOMU (BE); ETAL Gallery (US); Les Rencontres d’Arles (FR); Flowers Gallery (UK) and Fraenkel Gallery (US) amongst others. Her work has been featured in magazines such as Centrefold Magazine, Foam Magazine, IMA Magazine, The British Journal of Photography, The Aperture Photobook Review, Financial Times, Elephant Magazine and The New York Times. She has published numerous artist books including The Arrangement (2013) which was shortlisted for the Aperture Photobook of the Year Award in 2014 and How To Do The Flowers (2018), co-published by Art Paper Editions (BE) and Dashwood Books (US) to widespread acclaim.

The artist will be present during the opening weekend. We will allow a maximum of 10 people at a time inside the gallery to be completely safe, we all keep our distance. Masks and disinfecting handlotion will be available. If you would like to see the show in private please don''t hesitate to make an appointment. We are happy to show you around.

Copyright © 2020 The Ravestijn Gallery, All rights reserved.

Visiting address:
Westerdok 824 / 1013 BV Amsterdam / The Netherlands
T +31 20 530 6005 / info@theravestijngallery.com

Opening hours:
Monday to Saturday 12:00 - 17:00

The Ravestijn Gallery presents The Nursery, an exhibition with new works by Ruth van Beek. In 2018 van Beek published How To Do The Flowers, an absurdist manual of strange instructions and unfinished collages in which the building of a body was a persistent thought. Since then, the physicality and animation of lifeless matter has played an increasingly important role in her work. Using How To Do The Flowers as a guide, The Nursery continues this fascination with the transformation of forms into bodies and the possibilities of photographs as both representations and objects.

Ruth van Beek will be present during the opening weekend. If you are not able to visit this weekend and you would like to see the show a different moment or date please don''t hesitate to make an appointment or come by without appointment, we are open Monday to Saturday from 12:00 – 17:00.

From 26 - 29 November 2020 the Amsterdam Art Gallery weekend will take place. The Ravestijn Gallery will be open during this weekend:

Thursday 26 November, 12:00 - 20:00
Friday 27 November, 12:00 - 18:00
Saturday 28 November, 12:00 - 18:00
Sunday 29 November, 12:00 - 17:00

In order to keep each other safe during your visit we will allow a maximum of 10 people at a time inside the gallery, we all keep our distance. Masks and disinfecting handlotion is available.

Copyright © 2020 The Ravestijn Gallery, All rights reserved.

Visiting address:
Westerdok 824 / 1013 BV Amsterdam / The Netherlands
T +31 20 530 6005 / info@theravestijngallery.com

Opening hours:
Monday to Saturday 12:00 - 17:00

The Ravestijn Gallery is proud to present exclusively the first gallery exhibition of Patrick Waterhouse''s acclaimed series ''Restricted Images'', made with the Warlpiri of Central Australia.

The Restricted Images series is a collaboration between Waterhouse and the Warlukurlangu Art Centre. The works were made in the communities of Yuendumu and Nyirripi which are remote desert aboriginal communities in Central Australia.

In 1899, the book The Native Tribes of Central Australia caused a sensation in Europe. Francis J. Gillen and W. Baldwin Spencer wrote about Aboriginal groups living near Alice Springs and illustrated their texts with 119 photographs. Whilst the images set a new standard for anthropological photography, the authors were oblivious to their local impact. The images infringed upon Aboriginal cultural beliefs by showing sacred sites and the dead, revealing the gap in knowledge between the authors, whose goal was showing ‘exotic natives in their natural state’, and the Aboriginals who were unaware of the medium’s invasive potential.

Attitudes have since changed, and institutions strive to ensure cultural sensitivity whilst photography within Aboriginal communities is limited and historical images often restricted. In response to these ideas, Patrick Waterhouse lived and made photographs over five years in the Warlpiri communities of Yuendumu and Nyirripi. After making prints back in England, he returned to Central Australia and invited local artist to restrict his images using traditional dot painting, handing back the control of representation to those who have been denied it in the past. This resulted in a body of work consisting of all unique pieces from hand painted photographs, lithographs and flags.

Patrick Waterhouse (b. 1981, England) explores our understanding of the past and the construction of history.He has exhibited at FotoMuseum (Antwerp), The Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao) and National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C) amongst others. His work is held in collections such as The Guggenheim Museum (New York), SFMOMA (San Francisco) and Centre Pompidou (Paris). Awards include The Rencontres d''Arles Discovery Award and the Deutsche Borse Photography Prize with Mikhael Subotzky.

For more information or to receive an exposé of the works please don''t hesitate to contact the gallery at info@theravestijngallery.com.

Copyright © 2020 The Ravestijn Gallery, All rights reserved.

Visiting address:
Westerdok 824 / 1013 BV Amsterdam / The Netherlands
T +31 20 530 6005 / info@theravestijngallery.com

Opening hours:
Monday to Saturday 12:00 - 17:00