Finally, here’s the long expected monograph on the work of Madelon Hooykaas. A beautiful edition. What’s more: it is an interactive publication with QR codes giving access to a selection of her works.

Dutch artist Madelon Hooykaas (1942) is one of the first visual artists to start using video as an artistic medium. From 1972, she worked intensively with the Scottish visual artist Elsa Stansfield (1945-2004). Under the name Hooykaas/Stansfield, they built an impressive oeuvre that is also known for the ecological issues they wove into their work early on. Hooykaas’ works are included in important collections of Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Centraal Museum Utrecht, Museum of Modern Art New York and Tate Britain London.

Madelon Hooykaas has spent the past sixty years exploring new lands, cultures, aesthetics, and experimenting with multimedia. Her practice is shaped by contemplation, reflection, and a curiosity for and connection with different cultures and beliefs. Moreover, her strong convictions surrounding Nature and humanity’s stewardship role in preserving it, as well as pertaining to certain non-Western philosophies which support a balance between the human experience and the natural world, underlie her creative oeuvre.

‘The works make visible and palpable that which is present, but not always tangible. It is in this way that her art deepens our experience of the world. Time itself is investigated, real and experienced time, or energy as being at the basis of everything.’- Kitty Zijlman (Professor Emeritus Contemporary Art History and Theory/World Art Sudies at Leiden University)

Concept & idea: Madelon Hooykaas
Texts by Lauren Dyer Amazeen, Jan Bor, Malcolm Dickson, Dorothea Franck, Jacqueline Grandjean, Madelon Hooykaas, Chris Meigh-Andrews. Design by Inedition

Softcover (partly Japanese binding), large format (21×27.5 cm), 272 pages.

Look inside the book here (thanks to Jap Sam) :