For many years the artist’s late father, a retired roofer, read several thrillers per week, when the artist was asked to get rid of all these volumes he decided to leaf through them in search for references to art, it became clear that these references were mostly rather derogatory, such as when some paintings are said to resemble pools of vomit; this book is the result of parsing through these many art-critical thrillers and features many reproduced quotes and an index,
Bilingual edition with English printed recto and Dutch (upside down) verso, loosely inserted is a colour photograph of (presumably) the artist’s father reading a book.
Soft cover, 15 x 10 cm, 144 pages, 1st ed/500, Apeldoorn 2025
