Staff Reviews
A beautiful monograph of the works of the Dutch artist Jacqueline de Jong. Her early Accidental Paintings are hued with a bright chaos, while her later works confront the violence of the Gulf War, World War I, and the current denial of asylum to refugees. Jacqueline’s paintings are as absurd as they are graceful, beautiful as they are painful.
— From
Yves
Description
A fresh look at the multidimensional career of the Dutch avant-garde artist Dutch avant-garde artist Jacqueline de Jong (b. 1939) is best known for her involvement in the Situationist International and for her lively, monumental paintings. Her varied, six-decade-long career has encompassed drawing, graphic design, sculpture, jewelry, printmaking, and books, as well as the magazine
The Situationist Times, which she edited from 1962–1967. This volume features large-scale reproductions of her works, much of it newly photographed, allowing the reader to appreciate de Jong’s keen attention to color and the values of opacity and transparency of paint. An international team of writers and curators offer a panoply of perspectives on the artist’s remarkable work and long career.
Distributed for Mercatorfonds
Exhibition Schedule:
WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels (May–June 2021)
MOSTYN, Wales (9 October–6 February 2022)
Kunstmuseum Ravensburg, Germany (March 2022)
