Boijmans TV episode 3. Reproduction prohibited

Pole dancing Academy

In this episode, museum guide Bregje van der Laar shows round a group of students from the Pole Dancing Academy on the Schieweg in Rotterdam.

Flirting with reality

Ewoud van Rijn (The Hague, 1967) lives and works in Rotterdam. His drawings are combinations of recognisable elements and fantasies. He also often makes combinations of image and language. In meticulous detail and in one colour tone, Van Rijn draws a fairy-tale image of the future of visual arts. Inspirational muses, in the shape of a triumphant nymph, artists as deceased; if you are not careful, you will lose your way in this rich world of fantasy, where new details continue to reveal themselves. In 2008, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen presented an exhibition with the work of Van Rijn under the title ‘Through Hell & High Water’.

Dick Matena

Dick Matena (The Hague 1943) is a Dutch illustrator who, via the Toonder Studio (Tom Poes) and the Dutch comic books Pep and Eppo (The Argonauts, Knight Roodhart, Storm) became involved in an ambitious project: turning well-known novels from the history of literature into illustrated strip cartoons. Matena made strip cartoon versions of Dick Trom, Pietje Bell and Dickens’ Christmas Carol, but also of The Evenings by Gerard Reve and Short American by Jan Wolkers. In 2009, he made a strip cartoon of De Komiek [The Comedian], a one-man show by Freek de Jonge.

Lo Hartog van Banda

Lo Hartog van Banda (1916-2006) stood, together with Marten Toonder, at the cradle of Dutch strip cartoons. From 1952 to 1965, he worked at the Toonder Studio (on projects such as Baron van Tast and Bommel) and then joined the youth comic book Pep. For NOS television (national television), he made Ti Ta Tovenaar and the Berenboot.

Robert Combas

Robert Combas (Lyon 1957) lives and works in Paris.
He has his own site and many illustrations of his work can be found on the Internet together with several videos about Combas.

The collection of Museum Boijmans van Beuningen contains 6 paintings and 1 collage by Robert Combas:
1. Portrait du Marc Durand, 1981
2. Frutaliba Navelinas, 1981
3. Bataille, 1982
4. Catherine ma choune, 1982
5. L’homme au casque casquette, 1982
6. Portrait de tuer, 1982
7. Fernand Zop, 1982

Keith Haring

Keith Haring (1958-1990) was, in the early eighties, one of the driving forces behind the alternative art circuit in New York. Together with other artists - graffiti artists, musicians and performance artists - Haring brought art out of the somewhat closed circuit of museums and galleries onto the streets and into night life. Haring’s main claim to fame are the subway drawings, which he drew between 1980 and 1985 in white chalk on the disused black advertising hoardings in the New York metro system. That he exhibited at prestigious exhibitions such as Dokumenta 7 did not prevent him from opening a Pop Shop in Soho, where he sold T-shirts, buttons and other knick-knacks printed with his drawings. Haring participated in all sorts of collaborative projects and gave workshops for children; one of these he gave in 1986 at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
Amsterdam still has a wall painting by Keith Haring in the public area.

A reflection says more than a 1000 words

Reproduction forbidden. This title incites curiosity. The surrealist painter Magritte (Lessen, 1898 – Schaarbeek, 1967) searched for the unexpected in daily life and thus manipulated the expectations of the spectator. The painter has not painted an unimaginable dream world, but a picture that places question marks against what is real - and what seems real. This mirror image continues to fascinate. What is it all about exactly? We see an eccentric rich Englishman Edward James. But he is looking in the mirror, or is he standing in front of a painting? The refection of the book on the mantelpiece suggests the former. At the same time, the man is doubled instead of mirrored, so the thing can’t be a mirror. But it isn’t really a mirror anyway, because it is a painted mirror, a painting. And a painting is something that shows the world in the way that the painter wishes it to be seen.

Edward James

Edward James (1907-1984) was born on the West Dean estate in Sussex. He was the youngest of Evelyn Forbes’s five children and her only son. Evelyn Forbes was the illegitimate daughter of the Prince of Wales and a society beauty who, according to her son, didn’t really like children very much. The father of Edward James, William Dodge James, earned fortunes in the wood industry and the American railway, but was always away travelling.
From a young age, Edward wanted to be a writer. His grave stone states: ‘poet’. James collected and supported the surrealists in the thirties. He spent his whole life in a fantasy world, created partly by himself, partly by others. A documentary has been made about his life’s work, the sculpture garden Las Pozas in Mexico entitled: Edward James. Builder of Dreams.

Hieronymus Bosch

Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450-1516) was a celebrated artist during his life - a creator of devils. His works were called ‘fantasy’, but Bosch had a sharp and critical eye for the reality around him. Bosch exposed and questioned abuses and the associated hellish punishments in an unusually direct way. Nevertheless, the small sculptures of such barbaric scenes on his paintings are somewhat in demand. In March 2007, the Hieronymus Bosch Art Center was founded in his birth-place Den Bosch.

Mike Redman

Mike Redman (1978) is a multidisciplinary artist and autodidact. He is responsible for the music on Boijmans TV and also assists in editing. Redman was recently also involved with the special make-up for singer Anouk on the front of her album For Bitter or Worse.
Redman knew what he wanted from an early age. At school, he was unable to find an outlet for his creativity and so he experimented with music and video during the school holidays. His first video, which he made when he was fourteen, gained him considerable publicity and a job at the renowned Rotterdam special effects studio Atelier Didden.
Following this important period, Redman concentrated on the production of video clips, television programmes and documentaries. His style is simple and direct. In 2002 he made Walkmen, the first Dutch documentary about the development of Hip Hop in the Netherlands.
Redman also developed in the field of music. He made dozens of international products and founded an independent record label: Redrum Recordz. He now travels the world with various musical projects. He recently made Anagram, a documentary about the visual artist Diet Wiegman, in which he combined all his talents. In Los Angeles, Anagram was awarded the prize for best art documentary.