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In the project On My Doorstep, photographs range in technique from photogravures (toyobo) to handprinted silver gelatine and platinum-palladium prints. With these traditional 19th-century methods and a poetic approach to stillness and movement, Bol’s romantic aesthetics reveal through landscapes and scenes of nature. His work seeks, and finds, intimacy and tranquillity in the natural landscape of the Ooijpolder where the artist has been based for 30 years. On My Doorstep explores the notion of home and reveals the artist’s immediate surroundings. The title was inspired by the work of the American photographer Paul Strand, The World On My Doorstep (1994). His doorstep was literally the world at large. Bol’s doorstep – between 2020 and 2022 – was limited by necessity to a few kilometres around the artist’s house.
Hans Bol is recognised for his depiction of birds as messengers of eternity. The crow, one of Bol’s favourite species, is also a metaphor for something rather universal. Not only death, an interpretation that dates back to pagan times, but also an omen of happiness according to some cultures and mythologies. For White Crow, Bol uses platinum-palladium printing that results in warm-toned and slightly velvety prints. This technique, which stems from around 1870, is known for its long and subtle tonal scale which gives the prints a timeless quality. Making these prints is a true craft; when done properly, platinum-palladium prints can last for many hundreds of years.
In his series God’s Allies revisited, Hans Bol reinterprets and re-prints negatives from his archive. The original project was published as a booklet God’s Allies (2018, designed by Willem van Zoetendaal). In the revisited series, Bol exclusively makes small, intimate, silver gelatine prints. He searches for a different palette, a more gloomy tone and a more mysterious/mystifying interpretation of the raven. The prints are at times unpredictable and unpremeditated as Bol uses pre-exposure, toning and solarisation. In post-production, by adding a gold leaf or gold dust to certain prints, the more mysterious and perhaps even divine element that is so often attributed to these birds is intensified.
Hans Bol is recognised for his depiction of birds as messengers of eternity. The crow, one of Bol’s favourite species, is also a metaphor for something rather universal. Not only death, an interpretation that dates back to pagan times, but also an omen of happiness according to some cultures and mythologies. For White Crow, Bol uses platinum-palladium printing that results in warm-toned and slightly velvety prints. This technique, which stems from around 1870, is known for its long and subtle tonal scale which gives the prints a timeless quality. Making these prints is a true craft; when done properly, platinum-palladium prints can last for many hundreds of years.
In his series God’s Allies revisited, Hans Bol reinterprets and re-prints negatives from his archive. The original project was published as a booklet God’s Allies (2018, designed by Willem van Zoetendaal). In the revisited series, Bol exclusively makes small, intimate, silver gelatine prints. He searches for a different palette, a more gloomy tone and a more mysterious/mystifying interpretation of the raven. The prints are at times unpredictable and unpremeditated as Bol uses pre-exposure, toning and solarisation. In post-production, by adding a gold leaf or gold dust to certain prints, the more mysterious and perhaps even divine element that is so often attributed to these birds is intensified.
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Oeuvres de Hans Bol
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Hans Bol – ‘On My Doorstep’ & Lucas Leffler – ‘Silver Creek’ | Galerie Caroline O'Breen
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God's Allies revisited
With God's Allies revisited he trusts his own intuition. In addition, he welcomes a chance while printing. Sometimes he briefly switches on the light in the laboratory, or uses an ink printer to make a negative.
God's Allies revised — essentially a homage to analog photography. And the testimony of the playful ease of a master. (quote translated from German)
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ARTIBOOKS recommends God’s Allies revis
This book is about freedom, strength and resilience of beautiful crows and graceful ravens. This is a type of book that will teach you how to live today, how to enjoy precious moments, how to connect with nature and become a part of something bigger and more important than itself.
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White Crow in Het Parool
These are so-called platinum palladium prints (a nineteenth-century technique), which make the tranquil and intimate images look almost like Japanese drawings.
Het Parool
expositions
Dans la collection du musée:
Fotomuseum Den Haag
Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam
Museum Beelden aan Zee
Rijksmuseum
Fotomuseum Antwerpen
Dans la collection corporative:
KU Leuven (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Position sur le marché
Hans Bol is a self-educated photographer, specialised in black and white photography. He has been the regular printer of the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam for more than 20 years. In that capacity, all the big names in Dutch photographic history went through his hands: Oorthuys, van der Elsken, Klein, Rotgans, Wessing, etc. The skills needed to thoroughly print the work of these photographers he obviously also uses when making his own work.
Previous exhibition venues include FOAM, Fotomuseum Den Haag, Museum Beelden aan Zee, Unseen and Haute Photographie. In 2020, Bol’s oeuvre was on view at a group show at Museum IJsselstein. His work is included in the collections of such museums as Rijksmuseum, Fotomuseum Den Haag, Het Nederlands Fotomuseum, Museum Beelden aan Zee and Fotomuseum Antwerpen.
Previous exhibition venues include FOAM, Fotomuseum Den Haag, Museum Beelden aan Zee, Unseen and Haute Photographie. In 2020, Bol’s oeuvre was on view at a group show at Museum IJsselstein. His work is included in the collections of such museums as Rijksmuseum, Fotomuseum Den Haag, Het Nederlands Fotomuseum, Museum Beelden aan Zee and Fotomuseum Antwerpen.
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Hans Bol
Born in 1957, Amsterdam, NL | Lives and works in Amsterdam, NL
Education
Self-educated
Exhibitions
2023
The Best Dutch Book Designs 2022 | Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam | Amsterdam (NL)
2022
On My Doorstep & Silver Creek | with Lucas Leffler| Galerie Caroline O’Breen | Amsterdam (NL)
On My Doorstep | book presentation at Polycopies photobook fair | Paris (FR)
2021
Ici, le temps s’étire (here, where time stretches) | group exhibition with Victoire Eouzan and Alexander Sporre | Galerie Caroline O’Breen | Amsterdam (NL)
2020
Empathie, geen mens is een eiland | group exhibition | Museum IJsselstein | IJsselstein (NL)
Corvo | HAUTE Photographie | Galerie Caroline O’Breen | Rotterdam (NL)
2019
God’s Allies Revisited | UNSEEN | Galerie Caroline O’Breen | Amsterdam (NL)
2018
God’s Allies | Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen | Amsterdam (NL)
CAVA | exhibition by ARKAD Foundation | Seravezza (IT)
Noorderlicht Photofestival 2018 - IN VIVO | Leeuwarden (NL)
2016
Boeren, avonturen op het land | group exhibition | Fotomuseum Den Haag | The Hague (NL)
2011
Paradise City | solo exhibition | curator Hans Rooseboom | Museum Beelden aan Zee | Scheveningen (NL)
2003
Panorama Amsterdam, 1862-2003 | group exhibition | FOAM | Amsterdam (NL)
Document van het moment: Gelderland Gefotografeerd | group exhibition | Museum Valkhof | Nijmegen (NL)
Books
2020 White Crow | Recto Verso Publications
2019 God’s Allies Revisited | Recto Verso Publications
2018 God’s Allies | Recto Verso Publications
2018 CAVA | Recto Verso Publications
2011 Paradise City | Recto Verso Publications
2007 The Studios of Pietrasanta | Lodima Press, USA
2004 Het Formaat van Waterland
Awards & Nominations
2023
On My Doorstep | nominee The Best Dutch Books Designs 2022
2016
I Shall Use My Time | concept and editing by Hans Bol, Koos Breukel and Rose Ieneke van Kalsbeek | nominee Best Dutch Books Designs 2016
2011
Paradise City | nominee Best Dutch Books Designs 2011
Commissioned work
2021
The city of Antwerp | together with Georges Charlier and Pieter Uyttenhove
1993
Antwerpen 93, Culturele Hoofdstad van Europa | together with Georges Charlier and Pieter Uyttenhove
Collections
Nederlands Fotomuseum Collection
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Collection
Fotomuseum Den Haag Collection
Museum Beelden aan Zee Collection
FOMU (Fotomuseum Antwerpen) Collection
Leids Prentenkabinet
Various private Collections
Born in 1957, Amsterdam, NL | Lives and works in Amsterdam, NL
Education
Self-educated
Exhibitions
2023
The Best Dutch Book Designs 2022 | Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam | Amsterdam (NL)
2022
On My Doorstep & Silver Creek | with Lucas Leffler| Galerie Caroline O’Breen | Amsterdam (NL)
On My Doorstep | book presentation at Polycopies photobook fair | Paris (FR)
2021
Ici, le temps s’étire (here, where time stretches) | group exhibition with Victoire Eouzan and Alexander Sporre | Galerie Caroline O’Breen | Amsterdam (NL)
2020
Empathie, geen mens is een eiland | group exhibition | Museum IJsselstein | IJsselstein (NL)
Corvo | HAUTE Photographie | Galerie Caroline O’Breen | Rotterdam (NL)
2019
God’s Allies Revisited | UNSEEN | Galerie Caroline O’Breen | Amsterdam (NL)
2018
God’s Allies | Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen | Amsterdam (NL)
CAVA | exhibition by ARKAD Foundation | Seravezza (IT)
Noorderlicht Photofestival 2018 - IN VIVO | Leeuwarden (NL)
2016
Boeren, avonturen op het land | group exhibition | Fotomuseum Den Haag | The Hague (NL)
2011
Paradise City | solo exhibition | curator Hans Rooseboom | Museum Beelden aan Zee | Scheveningen (NL)
2003
Panorama Amsterdam, 1862-2003 | group exhibition | FOAM | Amsterdam (NL)
Document van het moment: Gelderland Gefotografeerd | group exhibition | Museum Valkhof | Nijmegen (NL)
Books
2020 White Crow | Recto Verso Publications
2019 God’s Allies Revisited | Recto Verso Publications
2018 God’s Allies | Recto Verso Publications
2018 CAVA | Recto Verso Publications
2011 Paradise City | Recto Verso Publications
2007 The Studios of Pietrasanta | Lodima Press, USA
2004 Het Formaat van Waterland
Awards & Nominations
2023
On My Doorstep | nominee The Best Dutch Books Designs 2022
2016
I Shall Use My Time | concept and editing by Hans Bol, Koos Breukel and Rose Ieneke van Kalsbeek | nominee Best Dutch Books Designs 2016
2011
Paradise City | nominee Best Dutch Books Designs 2011
Commissioned work
2021
The city of Antwerp | together with Georges Charlier and Pieter Uyttenhove
1993
Antwerpen 93, Culturele Hoofdstad van Europa | together with Georges Charlier and Pieter Uyttenhove
Collections
Nederlands Fotomuseum Collection
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Collection
Fotomuseum Den Haag Collection
Museum Beelden aan Zee Collection
FOMU (Fotomuseum Antwerpen) Collection
Leids Prentenkabinet
Various private Collections
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