THE NETHERLANDS
Piet Clement's Printworkshop
- The Netherlands. . Amsterdam. 5/10/83. Clement has perhaps
Amsterdam's oldest gallery and publishing house This videotape
shows the workshops for intaglio, lithography, and screen printing.
Piet helps Bill Ritchie locate video facilities in Amsterdam,
and he tells also of the only computer artist he knows of in Holland,
Peter Struyker.
- Again and again one finds only the mere beginnings of awareness
between graphic artists and electronic media artists; sometimes
the publishers have more insight into the media's relatedness
due to their familiarity with the art community and the art market.
13:00 Min. SA830511
Rene Coelho: Montevideo
- The Netherlands. . Amsterdam. 5/10/83. Montevideo is a video
art gallery which sponsors once-a-month showings of videotapes
and features visits by video artists. Rene Coelho is its director,
and in this recording he explains his hopes for a profitable distribution
of artists' tapes. After five years of trying, he has published
an innovative catalog of the work he has available. Montevideo
is mainly a producing studio when there is no showing going on.
- The old method of involving the artist in high tech through
non-profit, charitable means is slowly giving way to entrepreneurship;
independents are finding the methods to create audiences for the
new arts. 23:00 Min. SA830512
Inkt Grafikwinkel
- The Netherlands. . The Hague. 5/14/83. Inkt Grafiekwinkel
is a collective workshop in The Hague. It is loosely attached
to a collective of painters, sculptors, and performance artists
and serves as a means to publish and exhibit original prints.
The guide for this recording was Ruud Aarbodem; he talks nonstop,
praising the artist group which has succeeded, in a short span
of time, in rallying for cultural development and for the community
and economic gains for its artists.
- It is so common now to find government subsidy going to the
establishment artists, but seldom does an example emerge where
new or younger artists find the combination of actions to thwart
its deteriorating effects on cultural vitality. The artist collective
is still the only way that this still works. 24:00 Min. SA830514