Gazette Drouot - C apencheres

THE MAGAZINE EVENT
arising from the collaboration between Paris Photo and
the Aperture Foundation. Six specialists have selected
30 books in two categories: "best book" and "first photo
book", and all the candidates will be exhibited.
The Europe
of private collections
The spotlight is on British, Dutch and Swiss collections
in the "Recent acquisitions" and "Private collection"
sections of Paris Photo.
Huis Marseille, Amsterdam
With its dynamic photography scene, Amsterdam
boasts two exhibition spaces exclusively dedicated to
photography: Foam, the better-known, and Huis
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Marseille. Foam, a public institution, is first and foremost
a place of distribution, with a magazine and a
publishing house. Huis Marseille is a private museum
set up by the Jan De Pont Foundation. It was inaugurated
in1999 in the former house of a Marseille dealer
who settled in Amsterdam – the façade still displays a
stone plaque with a plan of the city –, and has been run
since its creation by Els Barents, formerly curator at the
Stedelijk Museum. The collection, consisting of several
hundred original works, is mainly focused on European
art photography, but also contains some Japanese and
South African works. In December, the museum is
opening an exhibition devoted to Vivian Sassen,
"Doubling Presence", which will be proposed to Paris
Photo. The theme is repetition, and the exhibition
features around twenty prints.
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Huis Marseille
www.huismarseille.nl
Nils Nova, "Vera/Liz, 1998, excerpt from Memory Confronted", two ink jet prints, each 40 x 30 cm, Fotomuseum Winterthur collection.
© Nils Nova