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Christie van der Haak
DISCIPLINES
Editorial, Print
Turn an oeuvre into a contemporary fairytale
DISCIPLINES
Editorial, Print
About the book
This book documents 35 years of works by artist Christie van der Haak, who was awarded with the 2015 Ouborg Award. Originally a painter, Van der Haak moved on to designing fabrics deployed both as autonomous artworks and upholstery, wall coverings, table-cloths and the like. While operating in the field of tension between art and design these categories carry little meaning to her.
‘Everything has structure’, she says, as well as ‘Everything has a soul’. Recently she has been transforming spaces such as museum rooms into places with a different meaning, always employing her characteristic vocabulary of exuberant, dazzling colours and complex ever changing patterns in a multitude of both two and three dimensional objects.
Her work is like a fairy tale, charming, seductive, beautiful even, but never without more profound hidden layers of meaning, drawing on (art) history, mythology, contemporary social issues and generally everything she encounters in life.
About the Design
This extensive oeuvre book was designed by Studio Renate Boere for the Hague artist Christie van de Haak in the context of the Ouborg Prize. The book takes you into the colorful world of the artist. This was translated by Studio Renate Boere into a contemporary fairytale book in which you wander through palace halls, made from patterns never seen before. The 416-page visual fairytale shows a world with endless possibilities through virtual spaces.
At the back of the book, Christie van der Haak’s oeuvre is shown in chronological order per series, more than 500 works provide a beautiful overview of the artist to date: from painter to installation artist.
“Her work is like a fairy tale, charming, seductive, beautiful even, but never without more profound hidden layers of meaning, drawing on (art) history, mythology, contemporary social issues and generally everything she encounters in life.”
“The book takes you into the colorful world of the artist. This was translated by Studio Renate Boere into a contemporary fairytale book in which you wander through palace halls, made from patterns never seen before.”
Colophon
Editorial: Jane Huldman (Stroom Den Haag) & Philip Peters
Concept & Organization: Christie van der Haak & Studio Renate Boere
Text: Christie van der Haak, Eline van der Haak, Philip Peters, Anke Roder, Nicole Roepers, Arno van Roosmalen & Wilma Sütö
Publisher: Stroom Den Haag & Jap Sam Books
Year of publication: 2015
Translations: Willem Kramer, Marie Louise Schoondergang & Ulrica Yland
Image editing & design: Studio Renate Boere: Renate Boere Boere, Nikos ten Hoedt, Niels Vrijdag, Leon Baauw, Evelien Broersen, Caroline Langendoen & Emilio Veendorp
Photography: CMU/DEA Rijper Museum Utrecht, Ernst Bergmans, Peter Cox, Tom Haartsen, Koen Hauser, Rob Kollaard, Peter Slabbers, Studio Renate Boere, Fernando van Teylingen, Eric de Vries, Jan Zweerts
Lithography: Marc Gijzen
Print: Drukkerij Roelofs (Art Libro Trudy Dorrepaal), Enschede
Font: Akkurat & Quadraat
Foil printing: Kuiper Donse, Utrecht
Bindery: Abbringh, Groningen
Finish: sewn bound in cold glue.
Printing: full color + fluorescent green + primer
Extra: foil printing in gold in 8 places + white 2x + embossed text
Paper: cover: wibalin buckram white, endpapers and interior part 1: munken polar 150 grs, printing spotless 5 (= staccato raster in 5 colors full colour) Interior part 2: maxi gloss 135 grs, spotless printing 5
Supplier of paper: munken polar: Antalis (Arctic paper) in Almere, maxi gloss: Igepa in Tiel, Wibalin buckram white: Winter & Company in Culemborg