Frido Troost, An Educational Archive of 3000 slides / Special Edition new

Frido Troost, An Educational Archive of 3000 slides / Special Edition newThis publication is composed of all the slides Frido Troost (1960 2013) used for his classes at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Troost, art historian by trade, was a pioneer in collecting photography of all sorts. In his store Institute for Concrete Matter many types of photography were represented, varying from daguerreotypes to albumin prints, stereo photos to family albums. The images in this book come from all kinds of sources: paintings,

This has already resulted in a fashion show at Amsterdam Fashion Week (a show in Cape Town in still on the wish list) and a photo exhibition in Foam Amsterdam

Over the span of 10 chapters

and in part undoing

discussing and allowing the artist into your house changes your position as a buyer: the patron is no longer a consumer but an accomplice

designers and the like—we had all turned into scenographers

While still exploring themes of intimacy

in the seductive colours and unsettling luminosity

Kooiker has travelled the dual track of image abstraction and obsessive repetition of a single digital cliché

Braquenier debunks the publication

and connection (connection

For viewers well-versed in twentieth-century art it is almost impossible not to be reminded of movements in art such as constructivism

we’re in this together