16 Dec 2011: The asocial gesture at the Poets House Foundation Perdu
1911 - Venice - a child is born and the midwifes bring it to the city administration. His mother cannot take care of him. She wants him to be called Michele. In the orphanage S. Maria della Pietà they baptize the child Michele Stinelli.
1987 Rome - a poor old homeless dies in the street, he carries an identity card: Michele Lombardi Toscanini.
Roman people knew him well, as he always wandered fighting windmills blades like Don Quichot, with his umbrella.
He was the well known television actor. His artist name was Ele d'Artagnan, Fellini loved him. A friendly personality full of wisdom, lectured and very creative. Actor, trumpet player, painter.

At the poets House Foundation Perdu in Amsterdam we will celebrate his hundredth centenary. On this same day centenary events will take place in Limburg (Lahn Artists), New York (KS art Gallery), Chicago (University of Fine Arts) and Salvador (ICBIE).

The works of Ele d'Artagnan are included in the collection of MOMA, Andy Warholl Foundation and spread around the world in several collections.

Ella Arps will give a lecture on the meaning of these works. Lucas Hüsgen tells more about Art Brut.

Two well known poets and painters will present their inspiration on the works of d'Artagnan: Martijn den Ouden and Anne Vegter.

The evening will be concluded with the marvellous film portrait by Alberto Felicetti.

Wine and snacks to celebrate.
Links: ; make a reservation, don't miss it

12 Nov 2011: Franco Fontana new work VITA NOVA
Arps&Co on show at FOTOFEVER with the theme: New life, a timeless inspiration on the feminine
The Gallery brings together Fontana, Kleinveld and Damen.Three free and independent talents that have one thing in common: they made a mayor swift in their carreer to dedicate to photography. The other thing is the endless admiration towards the feminine beauty as an inspiration to new life.
Links: ; to know more about FOTOFEVER click here

11 Nov 2011: Flower Reflections Series Elizabeth Kleinveld at Paris FOTOFEVER
Art for me is about creative self-expression and storytelling. Whether I weave my tale with words, on canvas, mixed media or through the lens, I am always telling a story.
An observer of the world around me, art allows me to respond to what I’m taking in.
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10 Nov 2011: Annelies Damen in Paris show in l'espace Pierre Cardinn
2011 November Month of Paris Photo and Arps&Co is at FOTOFEVER. Any body who intends to visit our stand, please mail us and we will send you an invitation card with a free ticket
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01 Sep 2011: New Online platform for culture card holders in the Netherlands
Arpsgalleries are proud to introduce a new online platform for culture card holders. The first fine art author
Angèle Etoundi Essamba is added to our collection. The card holder can choose from all the other artists on this site.
Links: ; OVERDEKUNST

20 May 2011: Arps&Co present Floris Andréa at Milan Image Art Fair
With great success we participated at the Milan Image Art Fair. The work of Floris was admired a lot. We got a great review by Juliana Scimmé in the Corriere della Sera of Milan.

The fair was a wonderful tribute to the world of art photography in Italy, thanks to his organizer Fabio Castelli and his scientific staff, among whom Enrica Viganó we are especially grateful.

"Photography allows me to exchange intimacy with a woman that is not mine" says Floris Andréa

It is still possible to buy these works.It will be shipped from Amsterdam. Prices run from 590 to 950 euro.Limited editions up to 5.
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03 Mar 2010: The Inconceivable City
Photographer Ewout Huibers well known in the field of publicity, here shows his spectacular free work.
Using his rich experience with interiors and architecture photography this time he beats the Capital to unimmaginairy reality. Show is prolonged till April 30th.
Links: ; see more on the site of the artist

08 Oct 2009: KEES TABAK Double Portraits
Famous Dutch Pop photographer challenges himself to make a selection of the double portraits he made of well known Dutch.The show will be on at Dikker& Thijs from 8.10 till 8.12 2009
Opening hours from 6 till 10 p.m. Right in the center of Amsterdam. Prinsengracht 438!
Links: ; http://www.keestabak.nl

15 Jun 2007: Festival Who was Ele d'Artagnan big success!!
Over thousands of visitors in 4 days.
The catwalk and fotoshoot - show pictures are made by the professional photographer Diana Snabilie, look for more information on her company site www.circleoflife.nu She is the best choice!
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01 Dec 2006: Franco Fontana Surprised by the Americain Light
Arps & Co are delighted to be able to celebrate the launch of their online catalogue with Franco Fontana's renowned collection 'Light of American Sundays'. Fontana's use of light and sense of place - so reminiscent of Edward Hopper - haunt these extraordinary photographs. A wide and diverse selection of Fontana's remarkable back catalogue - including his famous landscapes - are available from Arps & Co.
Links: ; Surprised by the Americain Light

03 Nov 2006: Vernissage FACING FAITH
Photo Exposition by Eddy van Wessel.Facing Faith of families in war and disasterzones.on show until 2 January 2007.
All invites are welcomed between 4 and 8. The opening is at 5 p.m.
See also the site of the photographer www.eddyvanwessel.nl
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03 Oct 2006: Vernissages 2006/2007: vernissage Robert Rizzo
at the Dikker&Thijs Fenice Hotel, Prinsengracht 444, Amsterdam. On Show till November 12th.
All photographes are taken by Diana Snabilie.
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20 Aug 2006: History Arps & Co
Bernardus Arps ( 1813-1896) was typesetter,printer, founder of Arps&Son Printers, Royal Purveyers in Rottterdam. He started in 1860 in Culemborg, the next step was to move to Rotterdam in 1871 to the Great Market Square.
Typsesetter was a very humble profession at the time. The beginning of the profession he learned in Haarlem at the famous Johan Enschede & Sons Printers company.
The fascinating fact is that he had developped his own learning process as a co-working trainee, at first in Bruxelles and later in Paris. That were Christian bookprinters. There is a European workpermit from this episode with his name and accompanied with an invitation letter from the printer in Paris stating he should come to France and work with them, on the condition that he would be a good and Christian young man. Already in those days there was a political hesitation in allowing working class people travel to other countries, as they might lose their job and decay to begging and would need the social care of the hosting country. (one can notice that there is not much changed in the last two centuries).
Bernardus 1 married at the age of 22 with Elisabeth Zweeres (28)and first settled in Haarlem.Their only son, also named Bernardus (2) was born in 1836. He married with Catherina Pardij. See:
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardus_Arps
My great grand parents got 7 children.They all lived in Rotterdam.
My grandfather William Arps started an Art-Gallery, annex Printers in the Nobelstraat 4 in The Hague togehter with his sister, Jet Arps. The grand opening was in 9 november 1902. This was the reason to name the gallery Arps&Co.They also became Royal Purveyers.
Jet Arps was a talented painter and designer. She finished the Royal Academy of Arts in 1900, she never married.The artgallery brought many equisit articles on the market, and also the oil-paintings of their famous brother Bernardus Arps (3), member of the Dutch School. Bernardus Arps has studied at the Academy of Rotterdam, where he was assigned a silver medal for drawing. Later he studied in Delft, with the master A.le Comte. After a long working period as a typesetter at his fathers printíng company, he left the city of Rotterdam to live in Arnhem in 1893 where he stayed till 1898. Het lived 15 years in The Hague. He became a member of the Pulchri Studio.
My grandfather married in 1910 at the age of 31 with Frederica Hoekstra.(24), a referend’s daughter from Friesland who had gone through a terrible period of loosing both her parents and three brothers.

The gallery Arps&Co offered them an extreme interesting period of life, in the middle of the The Haugue establishment. Though financially they didn’t do very well in the crisis episode (the 30th) and 3 of their children went to the Indies to try to earn their own living, none of them comming back from the second world war. That is how my father took over the Arpsgallery in 1953, by that time changed into a stationary shop, annex printer, still Royal Purveyers.
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27 Dec 2004: Searching for Sophie, Roderick and Hakan
A joint commission from the Rijks Museum in Amsterdam and the Dutch NRC newspaper to document young people in the Netherlands. The photo essays follow three youngsters around 16-years-old and raise the question: what is important for them -- teachers, friends or parents? The work is currently exhibited in FOAM, Amsterdam.
Justin Jin, a young chinese photographer, received several awards.

Don´t hesitate to ask us for more information.
Links: ; see his personalised site