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Art & Project (1968-2001) was a leading contemporary art gallery in Amsterdam and Slootdorp, the Netherlands, as well as an influential art magazine published by the gallery between 1968 and 1989. ==The gallery== The Amsterdam gallery ''Art & Project'', led by Geert van Beijeren & Adriaan van Ravesteijn, opened in September 1968 in Van Beijeren's parental home in Richard Wagnerstraat in Amsterdam-Zuid. The first exhibition was with German sculptress Charlotte Posenenske, which drew little attention. Early exhibitors included Jan Slothouber & William Pars Graatsma, Gruppe X, Paul Schuitema and Aldo van den Nieuwelaar.〔Cf. Dippel, page 29.〕 Initially the gallery was open only during evening hours and weekends; later also in the afternoon. No invitations were sent; there were no vernissages. Also in 1968, the first issue of ''Art & Project Bulletin'' appeared, a magazine through which the gallery built an artistic network and enabled artists to have "exhibitions by mail". From May 1969 onward, the gallery focused on conceptual artists, such as Douglas Huebler, Lawrence Weiner, Stanley Brouwn and Jan Dibbets. In March 1970, Gilbert & George repeated in Van Beijeren and Van Ravesteijn's gallery their famous ''Posing on Stairs'' performance as living statues at the Stedelijk Museum a few months earlier. In 1971 the gallery moved to Van Breestraat 18, close to the Stedelijk Museum and right opposite Riekje Swart's gallery, the other contemporary art gallery in Amsterdam with an international outlook. In 1973, ''Art & Project'' moved to nearby Willemsparkweg 36, where it would stay for the next six years. In 1973 also, the gallery opened an art space in Antwerp in cooperation with the Brussels gallery MTL (led by Fernand Spillemaeckers). In this gallery, named ''Art & Project / MTL'', eleven solo exhibitions were staged in 1973 and 1974. Other galleries that Van Beijeren and Van Ravesteijn were in close contact with, included Konrad Fischer in Düsseldorf, Yvonne Lambert in Paris, Sperone in Turin, Jack Wendler in London and Claire Copley in Los Angeles.〔Cf. Cherix, page 18.〕 From 1979 until 1989 the gallery was based at Prinsengracht 785, after which it moved to Slootdorp, a remote village in the North of the Netherlands. The gallery closed in December 2001. Geert van Beijeren died a few years later. For more than 30 years, ''Art & Project'' was one of the Netherlands' major platforms of contemporary art. From the start of the gallery, it supported an international group of artists that was mostly associated with Minimal Art, Conceptual Art and Land Art. The following artists were involved with the gallery (and the bulletin): Barry Flanagan, Douglas Huebler, Lawrence Weiner, Sol LeWitt, Robert Barry, Carl Andre, Joseph Kosuth, Richard Long, Andrew Lord, Stanley Brouwn, Gilbert & George, Alighiero Boetti, Francesco Clemente, Allen Ruppersberg, Marcel Broodthaers, John Baldessari, Hamish Fulton, Jan Dibbets, Ian Wilson, Bas Jan Ader, Han Schuil and Daniel Buren. Among the gallery's clients were important art collectors in the Netherlands and Belgium such as Edy de Wilde (director Stedelijk Museum, 1963-1985), Benno Premsela, Martin and Mia Visser, Frits and Agnes Becht, Herman and Nicole Daled, and Anton and Annick Herbert.〔Cf. Dippel, page 32.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Art & Project」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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