Inge Meijer
Subtitle: the plant collection
By: Inge Meijer
Contributors: Barnas, Maria, interviewer
Series: Roma Publication 362; ROMA publication -- 362.
Publisher: Stichting Roma Publications
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9789492811530
Subjects: Photography of plants; 20.30 history of art: general; Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stedelijk Museum; Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Other titles: Plant collection
Description: When Willem Sandberg, the newly appointed director of Amsterdam?s Stedelijk Museum, held an exhibition in 1946 in honour of Piet Mondrian, he did something quite remarkable. He placed a Swiss cheese plant next to Mondrian?s paintings. For Sandberg, the aesthetic placement of a plant in the museum made a statement. No longer would the Stedelijk be an elite temple for art; rather, he wanted the public to become accustomed to contemporary art in a familiar, domestic environment. Artist Inge Meijer investigated the vanished and subsequently forgotten vegetation in the museum during the 1945?1983 period for this book, rendering its history once again visible.
Notes: "... the artist Inge Meijrer has very systematically investigated the vanished -- and forgotten -- vegetation in the museum druing the 1945-1983 period and made it visible. Delving into the museum archives, she tracked down a total of 272 photographs containing plants (253 in het Stedelijk and 19 in Museum Fodor)"--Page 4.

Includes an interview with Inge Meijer, conducted by Maria Barnas.

Text in Dutch with English translation.