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Jap Sam Books & Marien Schouten have the pleasure of inviting you to the festive book launch of Ground & Figure, Figure & Ground on Saturday 25 October at 2PM, auditorium Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

Booklaunch and small exhibition
July 11th, from 15h

Bradwolff & Partners
Lijnbaansgracht 314
Amsterdam

Private View brings together encounters, documentation, and conversations. Visual artist Simon Wald-Lasowski explored the apartment and captured it in a photo series filled with tender compositions and personal vistas. In a two-part essay, writer Maurits de Bruijn examines not only the boundaries of what it means to be an artist, but also themes of queerness, visibility, care, and the transience of things and memories.

The Atlas of Textscapes offers an overview of text drawings from a forty-year period by Tanja Smit, created directly on magazine articles and newspaper pages. The result is a collection of surprising patterns and a broad investigation into layout, words, language, and content. A critical investigation that is simultaneously an ode to language, slowness and the rapidly disappearing printed matter from our society.

This publication is published parallel and on the occasion of the exhibition herman de vries. 70 years nature as art at Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede (24 Mau - 9 November, 2025)

'An overview of almost 25 years on my ladder and between the weeds in the city'

CON ANIMA by artist Hans van der Ham

Currently we are working on the first monograph, CON ANIMA, by Dutch artist Hans van der Ham, which will be published by Jap Sam Books and designed by PutGootink.