In the 1950s the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam amassed a very extensive collection of art by the Dutch members of CoBrA, with early work by Karel Appel, Eugène Brands, Constant, Corneille, Jan Nieuwenhuijs, Anton Rooskens and Theo Wolvecamp. The collection also includes work by the experimental poets/artists Lucebert and Jan Elburg, Lotti van der Gaag, and various non-Dutch members of CoBrA. The book offers an attractive, wideranging and colourful overview of this collection. Various articles look into the recent discussions about the difficulties of restoring this art, and consider the question of how a museum, in this case relatively small, handles such a prestigious collection. The individual works, related anecdotes and the acquisition of the various parts of the collection are discussed in shorter texts. The generous amount of illustrative material and the book's comprehensive approach makes it an exceptional introduction to work by members of CoBra in the Netherlands that has thus far remained largely unknown. For the more specialized reader the book offers a great deal of art-historical information on conservation, restoration and art policy.
Exhibition in the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, March 29 to September 28, 2003
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