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Robbie Cornelissen
The Capacious Memory

Design: Lesley Moore, Paperback, 128 pages, Illustrated (colour), 24 x 33 cm
English / Dutch edition, ISBN 978-90-5662-811-6, € 30.00
March 2011

In association with the Centraal Museum in Utrecht and the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague

With contributions by the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture (Fonds BKVB), Rabobank Utrecht and the K.F. Hein Foundation.

Exhibitions at the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague from 19 February to 22 May 2011, the Centraal Museum in Utrecht from 10 March to 29 May 2011, and the Stedelijk Museum in Schiedam, from 24 April to 29 August 2011

Elected as Best Dutch Book Design 2011!

Robbie CornelissenRobbie Cornelissen (b. 1954) is one of the leading contemporary draughtsmen in the Netherlands. This publication presents an overview of the art he has produced since 2003. Cornelissen has established a reputation for the monumental, architectural drawings that he has been creating since the early 1990s. In these detailed pencil drawings of libraries, waiting rooms, factory buildings, circus arenas and shopping centres he plays with transitions and connections between indoor and outdoor space. The large format of the drawings, sometimes four metres wide, almost invites the beholder to ‘enter into’ the work. This book’s large format makes the monumental context of the works palpable and allows space for the enthralling details.

Various exhibitions of his work are planned for the spring of 2011: at the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, Cornelissen is creating a pencil drawing that measures more than 13 metres across in situ; while at the Centraal Museum in Utrecht he is realizing Studio Vertigo, a large-scale, thematic installation that will transport the public into his world.

In recent years Cornelissen’s work has been shown in many exhibitions in the Netherlands and beyond, and has been acquired by institutions including the Centraal Museum in Utrecht, the Teylers Museum in Haarlem, the Stedelijk Museum in Schiedam and the Museum Jan Cunen in Oss.

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