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RUSTIQUE

Artist book, 2022

17,5 x 24 cm, 64 pages

Offset, hardcover

English

Edition: 250

Published by Ness Books


In bookshops

Amsterdam: Boekie Woekie, San Serriffe

Brussels: Rile Books

Malmö: Malmö Konsthall's Bookshop

Paris: Espace Ness

Rotterdam: KIOSK Rotterdam

Stockholm: Index Foundation, Konst-ig

Ystad: Ystad Art Museum

Visby: Coop records, The Gotland Museum

RUSTIQUE is an artist book that revisits the life and work of French painter Jean-François Millet (1814-1875) through the lens of Swedish-Canadian visual artist Nicola Godman (1989- ). The project is sprung out of a residency at Hôtel Chevillon, a former Scandinavian artist colony in Grez-sur-Loing, France. Barbizon, the village Millet lived and died, is located 20 km away from there. The book interweaves the life and work of Millet with Godman’s photographs, drawings and personal anecdotes. RUSTIQUE wishes to put forward the artistic gaze towards rural life by artists who themselves are born peasants. Included as an appendix is a facsimile of the article “CITY VS. COUNTRY: The Rural Image in French Painting from Millet to Gauguin” written by American art historian Robert L. Herbert and published in Artforum 1970.


Graphic design: Émilie Ferrat - Espace Ness


Photo documentation: ©The Book Photographer

photo: Justina Nekrašaitė
photo: Justina Nekrašaitė
photo: Justina Nekrašaitė
photo: Justina Nekrašaitė
photo: Justina Nekrašaitė
photo: Justina Nekrašaitė
photo: Justina Nekrašaitė

TEMPORARY COUNTRY LIFE

Project 2018-2019

10 day performance

21 x 30 cm, 20 pages

Offset

English

Performance and publication made in relation to the pop-up park Zomerpark in Amsterdam's business district the Zuidas. For the duration of ten days, the character Zuidas Cowboy investigated country culture in and around Zomerpark.


The publication tells the story of Zuidas Cowboy's sejour in image/text diary form, with essays by feminist art critic Sietske Roorda (Performing Gender as a Cowboy on the Zuidas) and historian Maarten Zwiers (The Contested Frontier and the Cowboy Myth). Design by Bram van den Berg.


Photo documentation: ©The Book Photographer