Henk Schiffmacher, the head of this unique center, had a tattoo parlor in the center of Amsterdam's Red Light district for the last 16 years and also organizes an tattoo convention. The museum exhibitions cover tattoo history and exhibits hundreds of tools used for the art, thousands of drawings, photographs and graphics and even a few pieces of preserved tattooed skin. Including the first display of some works on paper by this famous Russian artist, creator of the black square on white background, white square on white and Charge of the Red Cavalry. There are also water-colors, a booklet containing 22 lost papers and two lithographs. An object has no meaning and I am not interested in anything from the real world.
Ideas stemming from the conscious mind are worthless.
In memory of the time and revolutionaries, Lajos Kossuth and Sandor Petofi have organized an exhibition of notes and letters. It is ironic that the fighters for Hungarian national rights sometimes wrote in German and Latin, the then-official languages. A majority of the documents are in Hungarian, a change that began during that time of revolution. Displayed are some of his best works from that phase. Picasso, before he symbolized 20th century art, attended the Llotja art school in Barcelona at the turn of the century.