Raquel van Haver
Subtitle: spirits of the soil
By: editor: Raquel van Haver, Martijn van Nieuwenhuyzen
Contributors: Nwagbogu, Azu, author of essay; Nieuwenhuyzen, Martijn van, curator, editor, contributor
Publisher: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 39
ISBN-13: 9789050062046
Subjects: Exhibitions; Colombian Art; Colombian Painting
Other titles: Spirits of the soil
Description: Raquel van Haver was born in 1989 in Bogotá, Colombia. In 2012 she received her degree of Fine Arts at HKU (University of the Arts Utrecht). Van Haver is interested in cultural and ethnic backgrounds, identity, and values and standards. Her work is raw and overwhelming. Van Haver's loud visual language confronts the contemporary public and makes sure that the spectator finds a new emphatic way of looking. All kinds of impressions merge into paintings and spatial works full of stories, images, reality and fantasy. The exhibition 'Spirits of the Soil' is accompanied by an attractive publication, designed by Vinger.nl, a creative studio in the Bijlmermeer in Amsterdam. The publication contains seven new works and nine collages, all made in 2018. Furthermore it holds a preface written by curator Martijn van Nieuwenhuyzen and an essay by Azu Nwagbogu, founder of the African Artists' Foundation and director/chief curator of Zeitz MOCAA in Kaapstad. Exhibition: Stedelijk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (25.11.208-07.04.2019)
Notes: This catalog is published on the occasion of the exhibition "Raquel van Haver - Spirits of the soil", held in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, November 25, 2018 - April 7, 2019

In English, preface in English and Dutch