23 Feb - 30 Mar 2019 TORCH gallery We are pleased to announce ‘Day In, Day Out’, the new solo exhibition of Teun Hocks at TORCH gallery. Opening on Saturday 23 February, it consists of ten new photo-paintings that Hocks made during the last two years. He is known for his humorous self-portraits, where he uses oil paint to hand colour the black and white photos he made with an analogue camera. Since the 1980s his working method has been consistent, and this new series proves that Hocks fantasy is as lively as ever. An overview of his work since the early beginnings to his latest work can be seen at the exhibition ‘Early to Late’ at Stedelijk Museum Breda, coinciding with the show at our gallery. Together with the museum, we published a new catalogue, available in the gallery and the museum. |
19 Jan - 16 Feb 2019 TORCH gallery Works by Nobuyoshi Araki, Henry Boyd, Edward Burtynksy, Slim Aarons, Larry Clark, Anton Corbijn, Patrick Demarchelier, Wouter Deruytter, Bob Grunen, Horst P. Horst, Paul Huf, Seb Janiak, Paula Klaw, Alberto Korda, Justine Kurland, David LaChapelle, Loretta Lux, Emiel van Moerkerken, Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Helmut Newton, Herb Ritts, Martin Roemers, Melvin Sokolsky, Starns Brothers, Yuk-Lin Tang, among others.
We are pleased to invite you to our photography exhibition ‘Through the Looking Glass’, showing a fine selection of photos, taken from the 1940s until now. Opening on the 19th of January, the exhibition gives an overview of photography throughout the years. TORCH gallery has a long history with photography, being one of the first to present this medium as an art form in the Netherlands, back in the eighties. The photographed world is a strange place, like a looking glass world. While it is resembling our own world, things seem different than when they appear. To this day, this mystery remains the source of the mediums greatest power.
Photography was only accepted as art since the eighties, the same time TORCH gallery was established. Before this, papers like The New York Times would not list photography exhibitions because they thought it is not an art. Things changed and suddenly it was like a garden blooming with things all over. It started when teenagers, who grew up looking at picture magazines, grew older and graduated from buying reproductions of their favourite photographs to collecting the real thing. Photos that had been taken decades ago, were seen in a different light.
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12 Aug - 02 Sep 2017 Grayscale, a group exhibition featuring three contemporary photographers working in black and white, will open on Saturday the 12th of August between 5 and 7 pm at TORCH gallery in Amsterdam. Although the methods of arriving at an image differ wildly for each of the three participating artists, they all blend classic sensibilities with a contemporary temperament. They take idyllic themes like still lives, pastoral family bliss and the wondrous nature of the Indonesian islands and give them an intelligent twist using photographic techniques, unexpected vantage points and their personal engagement with the subject matter. |
08 Jul - 05 Aug 2017 TORCH In its 33 years of existence, TORCH has collected and helped produce a very broad variety of editions and multiples. This includes works by renowned, emerging and obscure artists from the Netherlands and abroad. This summer the gallery will make a selection from the archives, ranging from early works by Jan Worst and A.R. Penck to very recent works by Thijs Zweers and TINKEBELL. Opening Saturday the 8th of July from 5-7pm
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18 Feb - 25 Mar 2017 TORCH Gallery On Saturday the 18th of February Rapid Repulsion, Line Gulsett's second solo-exhibition at TORCH gallery will open between 5-7 pm. After this festive event the exhibition will run through Saturday the 25th of March. TORCH is open from Thursday to Saturday from 12-6pm, and by appointment. For further information and images please contact the gallery via the contact information listed below, or visit the website of the artist: linegulsett.com. The exhibition will feature a selection of recent large and small scale canvasses in addition to drawings with oil pastel on black paper. |