Felice Varini (born in Locarno in 1952) is a Paris-based, Swiss artist who was nominated for the 2000/2001 Marcel Duchamp Prize. Mostly known for his geometric perspective-localized paintings in rooms and other spaces, using projector-stencil techniques.
dolfpauw
Some design and more from me and friends
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Felice Varini
Felice Varini (born in Locarno in 1952) is a Paris-based, Swiss artist who was nominated for the 2000/2001 Marcel Duchamp Prize. Mostly known for his geometric perspective-localized paintings in rooms and other spaces, using projector-stencil techniques.
Saturday, May 10, 2025
Stef Bos, Daarom zijn wij vrij
Image by Omroep MAX
Stef Bos is bekroond zanger en liedschrijver, in Nederland vooral groot geworden door Papa en Is dit nu later. Samen met zijn gezin woont hij een deel van de tijd in België en een deel in Zuid-Afrika.
Stef Bos is an award-winning singer and songwriter, who became famous in the Netherlands mainly through Papa and Is dit nu later. Together with his family he lives part of the time in Belgium and part in South Africa.
De afgelopen dagen werden overal in de wereld het einde van de Tweede wereldoorlog herdacht. De toenmalige heersers hadden hun krachten gebundeld om het kwade te verslaan. Dat kwade, ontstaan tussen de jaren twintig en veertig in de vorige eeuw resulteerde in onderdrukking, vrijheid beroving en geweld. Door een uitzonderlijke inspanning van Oost en West werd dat kwade verslagen. Er kwam democratie maar ook autocratie! Het lijkt er op dat men vandaag weinig heeft geleerd van dat kwade. Landen die de democratie hoog hadden staan, vervallen nu helaas naar dat kwade zoals in de vorige eeuw. De mensen die waarschuwden zoals Carl van Ossietsky, Jan Campert, Victor Jara, Steve Biko, Anne frank, Ken Saro Wiwa, de soldaten op het strand van Juno, Gold en Utah, de soldaten rond Berlijn, Max van der Stoel en meerdere journalisten, schrijvers en kunstenaars hebben hun best gedaan. Hopelijk komt dat aan bij de stemmers (zeg massa) om het tij te keren. Dolf Pauw
The past few days, the end of the Second World War was commemorated all over the world. The rulers of the time had joined forces to defeat evil. That evil, which originated between the twenties and forties of the previous century, resulted in oppression, deprivation of freedom and violence. Through an exceptional effort by East and West, that evil was defeated. Democracy came, but also autocracy! It seems that people today have learned little from that evil. Countries that valued democracy are now unfortunately falling back into that evil as in the previous century. The people who warned, such as Carl van Ossietsky, Jan Campert, Victor Jara, Steve Biko, Anne Frank, Ken Saro Wiwa, the soldiers on the beach of Juno, Gold and Utah, the soldiers around Berlin, Max van der Stoel and several journalists, writers and artists have done their best. Hopefully that will reach the voters (say mass) to turn the tide. Dolf Pauw
Daarom zijn wij vrij (In Dutch)
omdat er ooit een man was
die een luchtkasteel wou bouwen
in een land waar het verboden was te dromen
en toch voorbij de wolken is gevlogen
omdat er ooit een vrouw was
die de wereld om zich heen zag
in een tijd van oorlog en van waanzin
en haar ogen niet kon sluiten
voor geweld en onderdrukking
daarom zijn wij vrij
vrij om te bewegen
vrij om zelf te kiezen
waarvoor wij willen leven
vrij om weg te gaan
vrij om hier te blijven
vrij om wat dan ook
te zeggen of te schrijven
Door mensen zoals zij
Daarom zijn wij vrij
En omdat er ooit een tijd was
waarin een kind door naam en kleur en ras
zijn leven niet meer zeker was
en omdat er mensen waren
die op gevaar van eigen leven
toch niet hebben gezwegen
daarom zijn wij vrij
vrij om te bewegen
vrij om zelf te kiezen
waarvoor wij willen leven
vrij om weg te gaan
vrij om hier te blijven
vrij om wat dan ook
te zeggen of te schrijven
Door mensen zoals zij
Daarom zijn wij vrij
Carl van Ossietsky
Jan Campert
Victor Jara
Steve Biko
Anne frank
Ken Saro Wiwa
de soldaten op het strand
vn Juno, Gold en Utah
door mensen zoals zij
daarom zijn wij vrij
vrij om te bewegen
vrij om zelf te kiezen
waarvoor wij willen leven
vrij om weg te gaan
vrij om hier te blijven
vrij om wat dan ook
te zeggen of te schrijven
vrij om weg te dromen
naar kastelen in de lucht
waar de vrijheid van de een
niet de ander onderdrukt
vrij om te geloven
vrij om te vertrouwen
dat je ooit op de ruines weer
een nieuwe stad kunt bouwen
door mensen zoals zij
Daarom zijn wij vrij
Daarom zijn wij vrij
Monday, March 31, 2025
Banksy missing work in New York
Saturday, January 18, 2025
Mosse-lezing by Lisa Weeda
Op een dag stuurde ik een bestand naar Lisa, over mijn vader Jilles Pauw. Ik noemde het: familie geheim. Ik wist niet dat zij bezig was met de voorbereiding voor een lezing.
Saturday, October 12, 2024
Gordon Matta-Clark
Tuesday, August 27, 2024
Panayot Panayotov PANETO
Monday, May 06, 2024
Dans Dans Revolutie
In de installatie Dans Dans Revolutie stap je in het fictieve land Besulia. Waar een eeuwenoude traditie van de bevolking om te dansen en zo het kwaad te verdrijven gloort. De jonge Vlogger Anna pakt haar telefoon erbij en roept de wereld op: dans met ons de svaboda samoverzjenja en stop het gevaar! In een wereld waar bijna iedereen met mobieltjes verbonden is toont zij het leven in het dorp, daar spreekt Anna. Samen met haar baba Yara, maakt ze Vlogs van de traditionele Notsjnik, beschermer tussen leven en dood. De volgers horen dat de vijand steeds dichterbij komt. Vaak is de verbinding slecht en zie je storingsgewijs andere beelden of niets. Via telefoons van de makers, (je eigen telefoon is in beslag genomen) verteld Anna over de mythologische Notsjnik. Vlak bij het dorp waar Anna en baba Yara Vloggen hoor je in de verte dreigende geluiden. De Notsjnik danst uit alle macht en als er verbinding is zie je het eens zo vrolijke gezicht van Anna veranderen. De klappen en onheil komen steeds dichterbij. Wij happen naar adem het gestommel is dreigend Anna Vlogt niet meer, baba Yara probeert nog de hulp van Notsjnik op het allerlaatste moment te roepen. Het kwaad oorlog heeft gewonnen. Dans Dans Revolutie is een modern sprookje met een harde werkelijkheid. Mogelijk gemaakt door mijn zus Marie als cadeau voor mijn verjaardag (70).
Saturday, March 02, 2024
Panayot Panayotov Paneto
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
BrotherTill and Lisa Weeda / Theater Bellevue
Monday, January 22, 2024
Lisa Weeda
Wednesday, December 27, 2023
Hidden Museum
The collection of the Nimeto Museum can be found in the basement of the building. The collection includes old painting tools and attributes. Nimeto once started as a painting school. This is clearly reflected in our historical collection. The museum has a furnished workshop from the year 1900. The collection was created by donations from former teachers and companies. The school has been around for 100 years, and the collection in this area is perhaps the largest in the Netherlands.
Monday, September 25, 2023
Reinbert de Leeuw and Erik Satie
In the 1960s, pianist and composer Reinbert de Leeuw stood up for the then almost forgotten French composer Erik Satie. A man who composed completely against the spirit of the times around the turn of the last century. Satie wrote short, stripped-down music. In the hands of Reinbert de Leeuw, every change of pace and turn in Satie's work became unprecedentedly expressive.
Friday, September 01, 2023
Aleksandra today 99
A woman of thousands! Strong and through a lot in her life. My mother, she turned 99 today. Do you readers of this post want to know more about my mother? Go to the bookstore and buy the book written by Lisa Weeda named Aleksandra. Lisa Weeda travels to Luhansk on behalf of her ninety-four-year-old grandmother Aleksandra, in search of the grave of her uncle Kolya, who has disappeared since 2015. Lisa manages to brave the border post of the war zone and in her flight she tumbles back in time. She ends up in the palace of the Soviets, where her great-grandfather Nikolaj has been waiting for Aleksandra since his own death in 1953. After Aleksandra's deportation to Germany in 1942, he never saw her again. Together with Nikolaj, Lisa wanders through the palace, this limbo where Kolja is also hiding, and brings the history of her Don Cossack family to life.
Monday, August 28, 2023
Russians performed by Sting
Now during the war in Ukraine, this clip of Sting is going on today again!
Thursday, July 13, 2023
Mauritshuis
In 1631, John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen, a cousin of stadtholder Frederick Henry, bought a plot bordering the Binnenhof and the adjacent Hofvijver pond in The Hague, at that time the political centre of the Dutch Republic. On the plot, the Mauritshuis was built as a home between 1636 and 1641, during John Maurice's governorship of Dutch Brazil. The Dutch Classicist building was designed by the Dutch architects Jacob van Campen and Pieter Post. The two-storey building is strictly symmetrical and contained four apartments and a great hall. Each apartment was designed with an antechamber, a chamber, a cabinet, and a cloakroom. Originally, the building had a cupola, which was destroyed in a fire in 1704. After the death of Prince John Maurice in 1679, the house was owned by the Maes family, who leased the house to the Dutch government. In 1704, most of the interior of the Mauritshuis was destroyed by fire. The building was restored between 1708 and 1718. In 1774, an art gallery open to the public was formed in what is now the Prince William V Gallery. That collection was seized by the French in 1795 and only partially recovered in 1808. The small gallery space soon proved to be too small, however, and in 1820, the Mauritshuis was bought by the Dutch state for the purpose of housing the Royal Cabinet of Paintings. In 1822, the Mauritshuis was opened to the public and housed the Royal Cabinet of Paintings and the Royal Cabinet of Rarities. In 1875, the entire museum became available for paintings. Link mauritshuis.nl
Saturday, May 20, 2023
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (born 1940) is a Native American visual artist and curator. She is an enrolled member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and is also of Métis and Shoshone descent. She is also an art educator, art advocate, and political activist. She has been prolific in her long career, and her work draws from a Native worldview and comments on American Indian identity, histories of oppression, and environmental issues. In the mid-1970s, Smith gained prominence as a painter and printmaker, and later she advanced her style and technique with collage, drawing, and mixed media. Her works have been widely exhibited and many are in the permanent collections of prominent art museums including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Denver Art Museum, and the Walker Art Center as well as the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Museum of Women in the Arts. Her work has also been collected by New Mexico Museum of Art (Santa Fe) and Albuquerque Museum, both located in a landscape that has continually served as one of her greatest sources of inspiration. In 2020 the National Gallery of Art announced it had bought her painting I See Red: Target (1992), which thus became the first painting on canvas by a Native American artist in the gallery.
Sunday, March 19, 2023
Josef Sudek
During a legendary career that spanned almost six decades, Czech photographer Josef Sudek, the ‘poet of Prague,’ developed a craftsmanship and technical virtuosity that was unparalleled among his contemporaries. Early in his career, though the prevailing art movements of the 1920s and ’30s included cubism, surrealism, and the Czech avant-garde, Sudek sought his own approach characterized by a striking mastery of light. Working in Prague all his life, Sudek devoted himself to creating poetic still life images taken from his studio. His magical orchestration of rich, dark tones and the ethereal luminescence of his highlights render Sudek’s world in a spiritual and dream-like tone, where light is substance. The difficulties in Sudek’s life, the loss of his right arm during World War I and the hardships suffered during the Nazi and Soviet occupations of Prague, color his evocative and emotional work. Despite his handicap, he used large view cameras, including a 12 x 20 panoramic format that he wielded both horizontally and vertically, photographing without the help of an assistant. He compiled seven books of Prague photographs, working in the streets until old age and his physical limitations made it too difficult to haul his cameras around. LINK icp.org






















































