{"title":"Hans Eijkelboom","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"een-project-voor-gammagazine-6","title":"Een project voor gammagazine 6","description":"","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54580312113491,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/DSC4377.png?v=1786630773"},{"product_id":"in-de-krant","title":"In de krant","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLoosely translated from the Dutch as “in the newspaper”, this publication is at once conceptual, witty, and performative. The work consists of reproductions of newspaper articles in which Hans Eijkelboom managed to have himself photographed over ten consecutive days in 1976. Sometimes appearing in the centre of the picture, sometimes in the background, he was always present at the scene of a news event that would ultimately find its way into the pages of the local newspapers. Described by Federica Ciochetti as “a photobomber avant la lettre”, Eijkelboom explains in an interview with the curator for \u003cem\u003ePalm\u003c\/em\u003e, the magazine of the Jeu de Paume:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Nowadays, it would be very problematic, but at that time it was not so difficult. Every day in the newspaper there was an agenda of what was going to happen the next day: a list of important events, between eight and ten. I would go to all eight\/ten events, and one of them would work. Also, I listened to the police radio and, as soon as they reported an accident, I would rush to the place with my bike to stand among the public near the accident.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePrinted in a small edition of 150 copies, the publication gathers relevant newspaper pages reproduced in their entirety. A quintessential volume in which the artist’s book transcends its material limits, extending into the gestural and the performative.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54649686294867,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/DSC4496.png?v=1787316713"},{"product_id":"96-alternatives","title":"96 Alternatives","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eConceived during an experimental programme called Behaviour Workshop, held in Arnhem in 1978, this performative artist’s book distills Hans Eijkelboom’s interest in photography and the cult of the self to their essence. The artist invited visitors to choose garments they thought would suit him, which he then wore for a photograph taken with the person who had made the choice. The resulting 96 photographic vignettes document the process, turning the fitting room into a stage where identity is defined by the choices of others. The script for this performance is printed on the cover:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“In a room there are 200 different articles of clothing among which also hats, shawls, some pairs of shoes and other things. I stand, dressed in white shorts in the middle of the room. When a visitor enters the room, I invite him to look at me and to choose from the clothes that he or she thinks will suit me best. When the choice has been made I put on those clothes. Then a photograph is taken of me together with the person who has selected the clothes.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSelf-published, the book wittily probes the fundamental motivations behind clothing, examining dress as an intricate tool for individual expression and social integration. By submitting himself to the sartorial choices of others, Eijkelboom embodies their tastes and, in turn, the other, decentring his own identity to become another “I”.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThree decades later, Eijkelboom extended his exploration of the complex relationship between human behaviour and the clothes we wear into a more observational and anthropological study of street life. This developed into a prolific body of “anti-sartorial” photographs, culminating in \u003cem\u003ePeople of the Twenty-First Century\u003c\/em\u003e, published on a large scale by Phaidon.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54916076372307,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/DSC4576.png?v=1789114354"}],"url":"https:\/\/metabooks.art\/collections\/hans-eijkelboom.oembed","provider":"Metabooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}