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Independent Dutch publisher
publishes books that explore developments in architecture, art, urbanism, design, landscape and theory. Jap Sam Books has been established to reflect, connect and respond to developments in these fields, by bringing out a range of critical and reflective books for an international audience.
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Prix de Rome 2019 & 2021 set
€25.00
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Special offer
Jap Sam Books & Mondriaan Fund just published the new Prix de Rome 2021 publication. To celebrate this new 2021 publication and the last 2019 publication we have a special set offer. Only at Jap Sam Books you can get both of the two last Prix de Rome editions for the special price of 25 euros. For all the information on the books:
Go to the product page of Prix de Rome 2019
Go to the product page of Prix de Rome 2021
The Prix de Rome is the oldest and most generous award in the Netherlands for visual artists below the age of 40.The purpose of the award is to identify talented visual artists and to encourage them to develop and increase their visibility.Since 2012, the award has been organized and funded by the Mondriaan Fund.
€25.00
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vRemy Jungerman. Where the River Runs & Behind the Forest set
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Jap Sam Books & Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam just published artist Remy Jungerman's new publication Remy Jungerman. Behind the Forest. To celebrate his new book and the artists last book Remy Jungerman. Where the River Runs in 2019 published by Jap Sam Books we have special set offer. Only at Jap Sam Books you can get both of Jungerman's publications for the special price of 50 euros. For all the information on the books:
Go to the product page of Remy Jungerman. Behind the Forest
Go to the product page of Remy Jungerman. Where the River Runs
Remy Jungerman lives and works in Amsterdam. He attended the Academy for Higher Arts and Cultural Studies, Paramaribo, Suriname, before moving to Amsterdam where he studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. He has exhibited works at 58th Venice Biennial, Dutch Pavilion, Fridman Gallery (New York), Galerie Ron Mandos, (Amsterdam), Prospect3 (New Orleans), Brooklyn Museum (New York), El Museo del Barrio (New York), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), Kunstmuseum The Hague, Centraal Museum (Utrecht), Afrika Museum (Berg en Dal), Museum De Domeinen (Sittard), Museum Arnhem, Rennie Museum (Vancouver), Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin), Malba (Buenos Aires), Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon, Havana Biennale (Cuba) and Museum Bamako (Mali), among others. His work has been featured in numerous publications and acquired by various institutions and private collectors worldwide.
€50.00
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This Naked Incident
€30.00
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ISBN978-94-92852-50-2
Graphic designerHOAX (Bram Buijs)
Number of pages124
Book size22.5 x 26 cm
BindingSoftcover
English | Dutch
Release date: December 2021
This book is published by Jap Sam Books in collaboration with MAMA and research centre Willem de Kooning Academy.
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This Naked Incident is a deep dive in search of the place that 'masculinity' holds in the lives of young people today.
"In the conversations we had with our friends in their spaces of comfort, it became even more apparent to us that gender, following Judith Butler, and therefore masculinity, is performative."
Alexander van der Heide and Sander Coers spoke with five peers; all assigned male at birth and all with very different experiences of masculinity and equally different gender expressions. Because what is masculinity? Where it sometimes seems that we have no more than stereotypes to resort to in our efforts to make this tangible, it turns out there are specific moments, charged by the people around you, and the places where you are, that suddenly allow for room to modify the way you express yourself.
The book is designed as an exploration in image and text. Through this journey Alexander van der Heide and Sander Coers come to the conclusion that if masculinity is anything at all, it is fluid. and ultimately they cannot avoid to reveal their own masculinity.
"How much room is there, in society, to be masculine in different ways than the masculine construct dictates?"
The images were shot over a period of three months, in which the makers successively asked their peers to bring an object they associate with masculinity to the shoot, take them along to places where the interviewees feel most at ease, and finally resulting into a portrait that captures the subjects experience of fluidity of their masculinity.
"Masculinity, the customer argues, mostly defines itself in posture and grandness of body. It is a thing you can measure in people. Some people are more masculine than others. They even, on the spot, compare each other and their respective masculinity levels."
After finishing his bachelor in Art & Design, Alexander van der Heide continued to work as agency curator for VISIONARY Agency in Amsterdam, Whilst starting up his own practice as creative producer and makeup artist, specializing in fashion photography. He has thus far worked with and for a.o. Mirror Mirror Magazine, De Bijenkorf, G-star, de Volkskrant Magazine, and Vogue China.
Sander Coers is a photographer based in Rotterdam. The influence of nature in his work is strong, evoked by nostalgic memories of sultry summer days form his youth in Zeeland. While working between his studio and on location, he offers a view into a dreamlike world through intimate portraits and sensual details. By coming up close to his subjects, he allows himself to capture their auras in a dreamy and romantic manner.
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vCelebrating Patterns. Christie van der Haak
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ISBN978-94-92852-52-6
Graphic designerStudio Renate Boere
Number of pages288
Book size31,2 x 24,3 cm
BindingSoftcover
TranslationMarie Louise Schoondergang
TextsArthur Crucq, Jeannine Hövelings, Yvonne Oordijk & Philip Peters
Copy editingRonja Driessen, Eleonoor Jap Sam, Marie Louise Schoondergang
Final editorEleonoor Jap Sam
PrintGraphius Group Ghent, (BE)
Release date: January 2022
English DutchThis publication is published by Jap Sam Books and made possible by Jaap Harten fonds, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds/Elisabeth Vermaat Müller, Stimuleringsfonds Creative Industrie & Stedelijk Museum Kampen.
For more information about the artist/designer: www.christievanderhaak.nl
Currently her exhibition Christie van der Haak Nouveau Deco. Every Pattern Has a Meaning is on show until January 30th 2022 at Stedelijk Museum Kampen: www.stedelijkmuseumkampen.nl
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"I want the work to simultaneously dazzle and be insightful. In the final instance I think if ut as a multidimensional celebration of human existence and the infinite possibilities it offers, prompted by the motto 'Everything has a soul.'"
- Christie van der Haak
Celebrating patterns. Christie van der Haak is a sequel to the award-winning publication Sproken | Fairy Tales. Christie van der Haak published by Jap Sam Books and Stroom Den Haag and contains over 200 original patterns.
Celebrating Patterns. Christie van der Haak contains a collection of patterns by Dutch designer and visual artist Christie van der Haak. Van der Haak started her career as a painter and later began designing fabrics that can function as autonomous artworks, but can also be used as upholstery, wall coverings and tablecloths. This publication includes an overview of her recent commissions, installations, and exhibitions, such as Stedelijk Museum Kampen (NL), Kunstmuseum Den Haag (NL), Museum De Lakenhal (NL), Kasteel Helmond (NL), The Wolfsonian Museum (US), and many more.
"My patterns are nothing more than a representation, a reflection of the entire world in the broadest sense of the word. Each pattern is a particle of a particle of the infinite whole that cannot be depicted, but van be further contemplated."
- Christie van der Haak
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