|  Fluxus
concert on the occasion of the exhibition "Happening
& Fluxus", on the left next to the banderole Harald
Szeemann, Cologne Kunstverein, 1970
© photo: Ad Petersen, Amsterdam
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We are in charge
of the press relations in France for the Museum Tinguely,
Basel, Switzerland.
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Les mille lieux de l'art.
Photographies by Ad Petersen
Museum Tinguely is showing a selection of extraordinary photographs
of artists by Ad
Petersen. Born in 1931 in Zaandam, the
Netherlands, he organized numerous exhibitions
from 1960 until 1990 as a conservator at the
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Petersen, museum man and self-taught
photographer, is driven by fascination and passion for art
and artists. During his 30 years’ activity at the Museum
he used his camera to portray and document the work of famous
artists of Tinguely’s generation, among them Joseph
Beuys, John Cage, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Lucio Fontana,
Niki de Saint Phalle, Edward Kienholz, Claes Oldenburg, Markus
Raetz, Robert Rauschenberg, Martial Raysse, Jesús Rafael
Soto, Daniel Spoerri, Roland Topor, and many others. Drawings,
letters and documents, bearing witness to Ad Petersen’s
often life-long, friendly ties with the artists, complete
the exhibition.
|
 Niki
de Saint Phalle at work in front of her studio, nearby Soisy-sur-Ecole,
1967
(c) photo: Ad Petersen, Amsterdam
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 Martial
Raysse during the preparations of the exhibition „Dylaby“
at the entrance of the Stedelijk Museums, Amsterdam, 1962
© photo: Ad Petersen, Amsterdam
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