KITSCH UNEDITED

Jan Andriesse

The Dutch artist Jan Andriesse once said that making a painting is, and always will be, the only rational exercise in futility. For his retrospective exhibition, 30 Years of Drawing, at the De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art in Tilburg, The Netherlands, the artist asked his colleagues and friends to record their thoughts on kitsch, a theme he often explores. This small volume, in English and Dutch, forms a fascinating image of an idea that can evidently be seen in many ways, some highly personal. As Michel Denee writes, “We love kitsch because it makes you feel so tolerant, so smart, so second degree, so above it yet so democratic.”

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