Reisgenoten, an artist book (Travel companions)
On the journey of life sometimes books make the best companions. With Reisgenoten Anne Verhoijsen pays tribute to the voices that comforted her in her childhood and encouraged her all through her youth. The intimate space between the reader and the page allows infinite worlds and selves to unfold. Leo Vroman wrote a poem in Dutch and in English, special for Reisgenoten. Reisgenoten is a handmade book and will be released in a limited edition of 150. It is already in the collection of the Meermanno Museum, the Caldic collection and De Nederlandsche Bank.
Reisgenoten has recently been acquired by MoMA New York and the NY Public Liberary.
More information:
- Nanne op ‘t Ende review in Dutch
- Mister Motley – Reisgenoten, disgenoten
- Radio1 – Beeldend kunstenaar Anne Verhoijsen over Reisgenoten
- Sjarel Ex, director of Museum Boijmans about Reisgenoten: What a beautiful book, very melancholia and ‘different’.
- Books avaible by the Artist and Printed Matter Store in NY
KLEINE EEUWIGHEID
Tussen mijn eind en mijn begin
daar ligt mijn kleine eeuwigheid.
Daar leef ik lekker binnenin.
Daar buiten bestaat geen tijd.
Leo Vroman
Fort Worth, 22 september 2011
A SMALL ETERNITY
Between my ending and my birth
there lives a small eternity
that hugs me and that cuddles me.
No time exists elsewhere on earth.
Leo Vroman
Fort Worth, 22 september 2011
Reisgenoten ( Travel company) as a permanent installation in School 7 in Den Helder
School 7 in Den Helder has been transformed into a modern Public Library.
My work Reisgenoten has definitive found her place there. May 2016
OBA Public Liberary Amsterdam Mars-April 2014
Photos Margareta Svensson
OBA Amsterdam Oost Oktober 2014
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Reisgenoten an artis book (Travel companions)
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