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Marian Plug, Sasla Place Jussieu, Paris, 1966. Oil on canvas, 70 x 90 cm.
© Photograph by Tom Haartsen.
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Posted 30 Apr 2012

Joost Meuwissen, ‘Abstract affairs’. Translated from the Dutch by Mark Speer, Marian Plug vijftig jaar olieverf op doek 50 years of oil on canvas. Edited by Joost Meuwissen, with a foreword by Rudi Fuchs, translated from the Dutch by Beverley Jackson, Michael Latcham, Beth O´Brien, and Mark Speer (Heerjansdam: Bergarde Galleries, 2012), 66-72.

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Abstract affairs

Joost Meuwissen

Marian Plug sees her work as abstract. The image only “aids the perception of the painterly activities going on in [...] the painting.”
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Posted 01 Mar 1995

Joost Meuwissen, ´Preface´, Sculpture City. The electronic fusion of art & architecture. Edited by Ilona Lénárd, Kas Oosterhuis, Menno Rubbens, translated by John Kirkpatrick (Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 1995), 0203.

 

Preface

 

Joost Meuwissen

 

Sculpture City, the name of this exhibition, is not about sculpture in the city, not about art in public space, nor about architecture in public space. Rather it concerns public space in art, ...


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Sweet red pepper, December 27, 2010.
© Courtesy of Albert Hein, Europaplein, Amsterdam.
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Posted 07 Sep 1991

Joost Meuwissen, ‘The Synthetic Dimension’, Opening words at the exhibition of the same name at De Zonnehof in Amersfoort, September 7, 1991.

The Synthetic Dimension

Joost Meuwissen

Ladies and Gentlemen, twenty years ago, when a green pepper was exhibited in a museum, we were told that this change of context had made the pepper into something completely different. It had not only attained a different meaning. It had become a different kind of object. It was no longer meant to be eaten. People ...


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Posted 08 Oct 1988

Joost Meuwissen, Kunst en bouwkunst. Voorwoord bij de tentoonstelling BeeldendeBouw van Carry Blase, Ton van Dalen, Henk Dicke, Peter v.d. Eijnden, Arthur v.d. Hoek, Karla Kaper, Rob Maingay en Pascale Robers op 8 oktober 1988 in de Academie van Bouwkunst Amsterdam.

Kunst en bouwkunst

Joost Meuwissen

Ik mag opmerken dat de vergelijking van beeldende kunst en bouwkunst meestal ten koste van de laatste gaat. In veel klassieke esthetica, die een rangorde van de kunsten bepaalde, kwam de bouwkunst niet zelden onderaan de lijst te prijken. ...


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Marian Plug, Sea IV, 1985. Oil on canvas, 160 x 160 cm. Bouwfonds Nederlandse Gemeenten, Hoevelaken.
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Posted 03 Jun 1988

Joost Meuwissen, Vertelbaarheid. Voordracht ter opening van de tentoonstelling van werken van Marian Plug op 3 juni 1988 in Bouwfonds Nederlandse Gemeenten te Hoevelaken.

Vertelbaarheid

Joost Meuwissen

Dames en heren, zelden worden kunsttentoonstellingen zoals hier wel gehouden onder zo´n mooi plafond, onder deze prachtige rij velums, of zeg je vela, van Loes van der Horst. Let u niet op de vochtplekken in het bovenste doek, die er nog eens aan herinneren dat goede architectuur bijna altijd lekt. ...


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