Getekend — Anne Verhoijsen

Getekend
Anne Verhoijsen
New release!
ISBN 978-90-79962-12-9
35,00 Euro (incl. shipping costs in Germany)
24 x 34 cm, 96 pages, softcover
Texts Dutch and English
Release Friday 20th of September, 17 o'clock at the Green Room Galerie Madé van Krimpen Prinsengracht 645 in Amsterdam
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Getekend Anne Verhoijsen is a flexible volume in landscape format that has the appearance of a large sketchbook in which Anne Verhoijsen's drawings are collected. It can almost be rolled up. The uncoated volume paper lends materiality to the pages and tactility to the entire book. The reader can leaf through the book and stroke the pages with the idea of drawing something of their own. Through combinations of drawings and their arrangement in the layout, Jos Houweling and Anne Verhoijsen have created a rhythm in the colours and lines that brings together drawings created over the course of two years. There is space for them on the large pages. Even if they are not shown in their original size, the book functions as an exhibition you can bring with you in your bag.
This book contains drawings made by Anne Verhoijsen in 2023 and 2024. The first series consists of cheerful color drawings of women, men, animals, androgynous figures and the occasional child, in groups of two, three or four together, surrounded by green, blue or pink dots. The drawing style is childishly naive, the way adolescent girls draw: charmingly awkward, with great attention to style and appearance and with a clumsiness that reflects that life is not yet completely under control.
Children don‘t wonder if they can draw well. They just do. Big, crooked eyes, pig noses, hair lying on top of the head like a bad wig, fingers like rakes. The result is often peerlessly pure and authentic. Most people lose this talent for drawing over the years. Anne Verhoijsen still has it. Although it took some time before she dared to believe that herself.
(Nina Folkersma)
Drawings and objects: Anne Verhoijsen
Photography: Paul Glazier
Texts: Kees Keijer, Nina Folkersma, Jos Houweling
Translation: Paul Glazier
Image editing: Jos Houweling
Lithography: Mariska Bijl
Design: Svea Gustavs
Production: Tim Beijer Producties
Print: Wilco BV Amersfoort
Binding: Agia Amsterdam