26 May 2013: ART PARTY AT TIERRAFINO
WOMAN-AS-ISLAND - WATER CONNECTING ALL
PARTICIPATING ALLEGRA BETTI VAN DER NOOT, BAUKJE SPALTRO, CARLA RUMP, BIANCA HOLST, KARIN VROMEN, WILLEMIJN KEMP, CARL GISKES, WALDO BIEN, JOSEPHINE MOONS MOONWALK
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24 May 2013: Allegra Betti van der Noot from Milano
We are so proud to launch Allegra Betti van der Noot at the Tierrafino Art Gallery in Amsterdam. The title of the exhibition is WOMEN AS ISLANDS. The opening festivity will be an event with a fine crowd of artists. Only on invitation. About this we will inform you soon.
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01 May 2013: Ryuji Taira is going on tour in Europe: next stop Munich
We discovered Ryuji Taira at the Fotofever Artfair in Paris in september 2011. The opening of his first European solo-show was in September with us in Amsterdam.Now the body of works is going on. We are so proud of him!
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21 Apr 2013: Last delicate pieces on show at arpsgallery
The Korean ceramic artist LEE Kyu Hyung (1952) studied ceramics and sculpture at the Dankook and Hongik Universities in Seoul and at present is a professor of Sangji University in Wonju. As many of his Korean colleagues he initially made wares for practical use inspired by the celebrated celadon stoneware of the Koryo period (935-1392) and the untrammelled freedom of the punch’ong (or mishima) wares of the early Choson dynasty (1392-1910), which are widely appreciated as the acme of Korea’s rich ceramic history. Very soon, however, he found this too limiting for his creativity and began to experiment in all kinds of ways. He still finds inspiration in Korean tradition (in time-honoured techniques as well as in old myths and legends), but he reinterprets this to create something novel and original.
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30 Sep 2012: The Sexy Dolls
Starting end of September, Gallery Hooffzaak in Amsterdam exhibits The Sexy Dolls collection by Italian artist Cristina Ghelfi (1969). With a background in advertising and graphic design Ghelfi has started designing a digital collection of dolls from her studio Chicca Fine Art in Modena.

About The Sexy Dolls
This unique collection features dozens of digitally painted illustrations derived from the artist’s innovative imagination. They represent her vision of an ideal world and visualise her outrage about the doubtful intentions of people and their insensitivity, of which animals are often the victims.

To date, The Sexy Dolls collection is represented by the sisters Nina, Lola and Lucy. They were born to protect the utopian world of their creator, to seduce us to step into this same world. Therefore they are also being called ‘ammaliatrici’. At a first glance The Sexy Dolls might seem quite superficial, however in reality they are much more complex. They offer a volatile escape from our human world, a world that they disapprove and don’t understand – since themselves they don’t care about stereotypes and human convictions. Free from taboos they live from their pure animal innocence.

The variations on the three sisters that the artist has succeeded to create are stunning. What makes them exciting is the contrast between their provoking erotic expression and their divergent masks of innocent charm, sadness, grace and softness. With their almost childlike expression they confuse us, they swing us from perversion to pureness and back and thereby speak to our imagination.
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05 May 2012: E2 EKleinveld&EJulien
Kleinveld & Julien’s E2 concept

While working together on the Before During After project (Louisiana Photographer’s Respond to Hurricane Katrina), photographers Kleinveld & Julien decided to embark on a new body of work in response to the inequalities which were exposed during Hurricane Katrina but have yet to be fully addressed. Kleinveld & Julien, both from New Orleans and working under the artist name (E2), aim to bring about a discussion on the consequences of stereotypes and how they can lead to prejudice and discrimination.
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04 May 2012: Seæ Inside new work by Fernando Nocco
‘Water is dead.’
That sounds like a joke: here we have clean water coming out of our taps 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Worldwide, the question really is: how long does water still have?
‘Water is life.’
Don’t close your eyes! Also here, it won’t take long before that will be the joke.

The sea was the womb for life on our planet. We still carry that sea within us, we consist of water.
With this serie I reminisce the still lifes of the old Dutch masters, who used strong compositions of colourful flowers, light and symbols to refer to life and death ‒ I would like to invite you to turn your look inside, to see inside, and reflect on the importance that water should have in our time.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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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20 Feb 2007: An extreme cup of tea
Lee Kyu Hyung is a professor in 'Ceramic Studies' . His continuous search for new glazes has made him one of the most versatile Korean ceramic artists. Apart from ceramic paintings and sculptures he has designed ingenious sets for the drinking of pu erh tea in Chinese style and other tea utensils. He has exhibited his work in Korea, Japan, China, the USA, New Zealand, Mongolia, Uzbekistan and Egypt and Arps&Co at Amsterdam.
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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.
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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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21 Mar 2005: Pat Andrea
Men and women in provocative situations are playing the main part in the work of Pat Andrea. He is connected as a professor at the Paris University of Fine Arts Paris and lives both in Buenos Aires and The Hague. He exposed in over 80 galleries all over the world.
His work is to define as magic realism that sprouts from a group of Dutch artists in the sixties.
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