Rob Scholte: How to star

by Rob Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen; Scholte

Museum Boymans-van Beuningen [Published 1988]. Soft cover, 112 pp. One of 1500 unnumbered copies. Text in Dutch, with some English and German text as well (but NOT parallel text or translations). Color and black and white illustrations throughout. Rob Scholte (b. 1955 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch painter, sculptor, and graphic designer. His work is often characterized by its use of appropriation, irony, and paradox. He has exhibited his work internationally, and his work is in the collections of many major museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. This is the exhibition catalog that accompanied Scholte's 1988 retrospective exhibition at the Museum Boymans-van Beuningen in Rotterdam. The exhibition, titled How to Star, was a survey of Scholte's work from the early 1980s to the late 1980s. The catalog includes essays by a number of art historians and critics. One of the most well-known works in the exhibition was Olympia, a copy of Édouard Manet's Olympia in which the naked woman is replaced with a wooden puppet. The work is a commentary on the role of women in art and society. Scholte's use of a wooden puppet is a way of suggesting that women are often seen as objects rather than as individuals. The exhibition also included a number of other important works by Scholte, including Faites vos jeux (Make your bets), a series of paintings that are based on the game of chance, and Triniteit. Contents Forward by Wim Crouwel; ABC; Betekeniskubisme; Bluf; Chambre d'amie; Encyclopedie; Eye catcher; F.I.P.; Freezes; Kun

112 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1988