Henk Hannemann is a Dutch artist who constantly works on his collages and assemblages. Even during his travels he brings a pair of scissors, glue and paper. He picks up his vintage leaflets, magazines, books etc. along the way.
In his hometown Leiden in The Netherlands he works in an old classroom both on his collages and assemblages. Regularly he has exhibitions. You can also find him on Facebook. Since summer 2014 he works on his art in the former mental hospital Schakenbosch on the border of Leidschendam.
The books and magazines he uses for his collages are often half a century old or even older. The assemblages (boxes) are made from objects found on the streets or on flea markets and second hand shops.
Hannemann got selected in 2014 for Kunstwerkt in Belgium with a collage about the First World War. His work was exposed in Muzee in Oostende. In 2015 his collage Great Balls of Fire was selected for the Zomerexpo in Haags Gemeentemuseum. In January 2016 Henk Hannemann was accepted as a member by Ars in Leiden, the oldest Art society in The Netherlands. In 2017 Hannemann was rejected for the Zomerexpo but selected for the Salon des Refusés in Stedelijk Museum Schiedam.
Update. On the first of May 2016 Henk Hannemann moved to a new studio in Hazerswoude-Rijndijk. And guess what? He got asked back to Schakenbosch-Leidschendam. So at the moment there are two studio's. One for the collages and another one for the assemblages.
Contact: henkhannemann@yahoo.nl. Or mail or phone: rikhasselbach@yahoo.com-(0031)638023923
On the first of January there was an article in the newspaper about a man in Norfolk-England who offered his goldfish a life saving operation of € 387,–. Many people had a laugh about it. Probably it is more normal to spend that amount of money on jeans or a diner in a fancy restaurant. As a pet lover I can understand the man.
So when a goldfish of a friend died I asked him to preserve him in the freezer. Then I did the little fellow in a glass jar containing some blue stones and 70% alcohol. His last resting place. 25x25x6cm – 10x10x2,5inch.
€ 150,–
Images of Australia, Mexico and America blended together with a background from a sixties atlas and pieces of the book Astronomie voor Iedereen and mushrooms from the book Paddenstoelen from Thijsse. Handmade collage. Passe-partout 30x40cm and 19x29cm cut out.
€ 125,–
Handmade collage. 40x50cm with 29x44cm cut out. With around 25 pieces from books like Beautiful Moths, fifties book of the city Lvov, Paddenstoelen from Thijsse, Birds of the World, Hungarian Sports Magazine 1958 and English Atlas of the sixties.
€ 195,–
Worked a long time on this collage (40x40cm). All the collages shown are handmade. For this collage I used around 50 pieces out of 8 books/magazines.
€ 245,–
In my hometown there was a big hall where they sold live stock once a week. They also used it for sports and concerts. Then a disease affecting live stock broke out. The market stopped and the last years of the Groenoordhallen there were big flea markets. That’s where I bought a few sheets of stamps from Czechoslovakia. I worked on it with stamps and blockprint. Just for fun.
€ 150,–
Assemblage. 40x20x10cm. Title is Schakenbosch. “Schaken” means chess in Dutch and “bosch” is the old Dutch spelling for wood. Schakenbosch is the name for the ground where my studio (a former mental hospital) is situated.
Made in a fifties wooden box from a carpenter studio, inlay of scrapwood from De Zaanstreek, pieces of wood and old furniture and chess pieces.
€ 195,–
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