UitZicht

Gwen Stok (1983) asks several Rotterdammers to send pictures of the  view from their windows. She combines these photos with impressions she  gains herself during her walks and with what she hears in the news every  day. This has been elaborated in a cartoon of separate drawings and a  comic strip-like leporello, a zigzag folded drawing. The leporello  symbolizes the grind of the hard lockdown and the days that merge into  each other.

Rotterdam City Artists

Even before the bombing of 14 May 1940, but especially during the  reconstruction, draftsmen recorded the changes in the city. Until the  end of the eighties of the last century, the City Archives of Rotterdam  annually commission draughtsmen. Due to the rapid changes, Rotterdam is  an ideal source of inspiration. Since 80, this tradition has been  reinstated in collaboration with CBK Rotterdam, and city artists are  further adding to the collection of the Rotterdam City Archives.

The three city artists for 2021, Gwen Stok, Funs ‘Funzig’ Janssen and  Gemma Plum, have been selected by a jury consisting of: Hugo Borst  (Rotterdam writer, art lover and collector), Hedy Tjin (artist), Shehera  Grot (Kunsthal), Ove Lucas (CBK Rotterdam) and Jantje Steenhuis and  Wanda Waanders (Rotterdam City Archives).

Exhibition: DRAWN: ROTTERDAM! ONE AND A HALF METER SOCIETY at Kunsthal Rotterdam.

23 October 2021 – 16 Januar 2022

Leporello is sold out!!!

Made it possible by: CBK Rotterdam & Stadsarchief Rotterdam

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