Ad Petersen - Portretten van Roland Topor - Sold

Ad Petersen's photo. Portraits of Roland Topoor. Tabletop dimensions: H40 x W30cm. Dimensions per photo: H16.5 x W13cm. The work is numbered on the back (85/100) and signed by the artist. The original folder containing the photo is included. The authenticity of the work offered is fully guaranteed. A certificate of authenticity can be emailed upon request.

When purchasing, the work can be picked up in 's-Gravenzande (near The Hague (Scheveningen), Rotterdam and Delft and 5 minutes from the beach). The term for collection, if paid in advance, is very long, in other words, the buyer can collect the work weeks or even months later and, if possible, combine it with a visit to one of the aforementioned cities or the beach. We can also ship the work. Our shipping days are Tuesday and Thursday.
Ad Petersen was curator at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam from 1960 to 1990. Almost from the start of his career, he took photos of artists in their studios and at home with their families and friends, during the preparation of exhibitions, at openings, at parties afterwards and when travelling. He photographed exclusively for pleasure and out of a personal need to visually record his relationships with artists, to extract moments that he considered important from time and transience. Petersen's photographs are, above all, a record of an era. A strictly personal account because Petersen did not strive for completeness and artists with whom he did not feel a direct connection are missing from his archive. One of the artists with whom he certainly had a connection was Jean Tinguely.
Tinguely is a trendsetter and knows how to surprise, even provoke, the public. In Milan, he burns a huge golden phallus ("La Vittoria") in front of the cathedral, during the ten-year festival "Nouveaux Réalistes". It is 1970 and a few thousand people have gathered in Piazza del Duomo in Milan to see a work of art by Tinguely. On the square (Piazza del Duomo) is one of the largest Roman Catholic cathedrals in the world, the Duomo Santa Maria Nascente. The city council thought he was going to build a machine, but it remained a surprise until the end because he hid his artwork under a large sheet. When he unveiled his artwork, the phallus began to explode, all kinds of fireworks flew into the sky, until the entire phallus literally went up in smoke and ashes. During this performance, Petersen took beautiful pictures. An artist's book has been made of this: La Vittoria (Serial Amsterdam 1971 leporello 11 photos).